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Greek hip hop refers to hip hop music originating in Greece, either in Greek or English.

The earliest Greek hip hop groups date back to 1987, though native language albums did not appear until the mid-1990s.

1 History
2 A New Breed
3 Underground Hip Hop Scene
4 External links
- 4.1 Album covers of the most influential Greek hip-hop CDs
5 References

[edit] History

Some of the most important early hip-hop groups in Greece were Terror-X-Crew (members: Αρτέμης, Ευθύμης, DJ ALX), FFC (members: Ρυθμοδαμαστής, DJ Everlast, Πετσούκης, plus many guests) and Active Member.

This differentiation caused a lot of tension among the Greek hip-hop fans. Between the years of 1995-2000, there was a lot of conflict, relatively speaking. Things escalated from there when the Battle rap era in Greece begun with the group ZN (Ζωντανοί Νεκροί - The Living Dead) that started dissing Active Member and other hip hop groups. ZN was composed of 5 members. They followed the Wu-Tang model and have been accused of biting the Wu-Tang Clan. They first released an EP and then a group album, followed by releasing solo albums. Their one and only album (due to feuding) as a group was "O Protos Tomos" (The First Volume) in 1997.

As American hip hop lyrics became more widely violent, so did international hip hop lyrics, and Greece was no exception. Rapping about guns, drugs, violence and sex became the norm. Hardcore Greek rap had swept the genre, and commercial hip hop followed suit.

Commercial hip-hop in Greece has become hugely successful, with acts like Imiskoumbria, Terror X Crew and Goin' Through blazing the trails. Imiskoumbria and Terror X Crew both were the first to have their records going gold. Goin' Through became a massive success after their last album, La Sagrada Familia, was granted gold status as of 2006. Their follow-up, Vendetta, achieved gold sales within three months of its release.

Goin' Through has also established Greece's big name hip-hop label, Family, where some other acts are signed. Some of the more noted acts of Family are Taraxias, Thirio (Beast), NEVMA, Ominus & DJ S.

It should be noted that the group Imiskoumbria, is widely credited as one of the Greek rap acts that made Greek hip hop a household thing. Before this, Greek hip hop was considered to be a fad or a novelty of sorts.

[edit] List of Greek hip hop groups/artists

Imiskoumbria
B2BK
Tang-Ram
Goin' Through
Ominus & DJ "S"
Taraxias
Sexpyr
Sifu VERSUS
A/E
NEVMA
Vita Pis
Active Member
FF.C
Psixodrama
Antirevisionistis
Terror-X-Crew
Agnosti Gnosti
Zontani Nekri
Skotini Plevra
Moysikoi isovites
Corona virus
Stihima
Aliti Grifi
Professional Sinnerz
Dogmother
Flowjob
Razastarr
Stereo Mike
NTP
Phase 3
Bz Jam
Ypoptos

[edit] Top Greek MCs

Michalis Mitakidis (B.D. Foxmoor)
Dimitris Mentzelos
Mithridatis
Rythmodamastis (member of FF.C)
Phyrosun (member of Tang-Ram)
Asarkos (Member of Vita Pis)
Efthimis (member of A/E [Artemis/Eythimis])
Taki Tsan
Taraxias
Isvoleas (member of Tigre Sporakia, Skoteini Plevra)
Sifu VERSUS
Ominus
Autokratoras (himself at this time)

[edit] Top Greek Producers

DJ ALX (Terror X Crew, Ηχοκρατορία, Σπείρα, Ηχοσπείρα)
DMinds (Βήταπεις)
Sinis (Kamikaze Beats)
Diveno (Beats United)
Kritis (Μουσικοί Ισοβίτες,Ladose)
Mikros Kleftis aka Pil (Βόρεια Αστέρια, Άλυτοι Γρίφοι)
Eversor (Phase3)
Isvoleas (Σκοτεινή Πλευρά)
Strider (Zoltanation Beats)
Prophet Of Noise (Beats United)
Sniper (Real Stuff)
Algorhythm

[edit] Top Greek DJs

DJ Pritanis
DJ Sparky T
DJ Smartie AL
DJ Kid Stretch
DJ S
DJ Vanilla
DJ The Boy (current DMC Hellas champion)
DJ Red
DJ Wester
DJ E
DJ D-Mice
DJ Vias (From Cyprus, currently living and performing and recording in California, USA - www.myspace.com/djvias)

[edit] A New Breed

There is now a new breed of Greek hip-hop artists trying to make a name for themselves, such as [Antiksoes Paragoges], Rodes, Skotini Plevra, Stixima or (Bet).

[edit] Underground Hip Hop Scene

In addition to Commercial, Hard Core, and Low Bap rap music, Greece has an underground rap scene, comparable in style to the New York mixtape scene, that is thriving. Sifu VERSUS, Psychodrama, Vita Pis, Aliti Grifi, Corona Virus, Phase 3 are considered the most influential artists of this new underground circuit.

[edit] External links

[edit] Album covers of the most influential Greek hip-hop CDs

[edit] References

Androutsopoulos, Jannis and Scholz, Arno (January 2002). "Spaghetti funk: Appropriations of hip-hop culture and rap music in Europe"

World hip hop

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