Swiss hip hop

Swiss hip-hop is not hip- hop genre, but a term that covers the entire hip- hop music of Switzerland in all its languages ​​and dialects.

As German, French and Italian Swiss Rap Rap began in the early nineties. The first Swiss German rappers wrote their texts in English initially, but after the bilingual song " Murder by Dialect " of P -27 and Black Tiger rappers moving to their local, Swiss German dialects. Rapper from the French speaking part (where the traditional dialects mostly extinct ) and from the Italian-speaking part ( where dialects and standard Italian is usually freely mixed ) rapping in the standard languages ​​.

At least since the Grisons music group Liricas Analas came into existence in 2004, the fourth national language Romansh is now firmly anchored in the Swiss hip-hop. Show your three previously released albums that rap music - can find a wide audience - even in a language understood by only a few Swiss.

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What makes the German Swiss hip-hop is that it is not rapped in a " fixed " language, but in the dialect or the language, says the rapper. This is an advantage for the rapper because he can use his own words that can rhyme better, for example. In the French-speaking Switzerland is usually rap in French ( eg stress ), in Ticino in Italian. Cents in High German is rather uncommon, the Basel pioneers P -27, however, availed themselves beside the English and the dialect and the standard language, and Zora rapped even a whole album in High German.

Some rap in the language of their parents, such as Makale rapping in Turkish; Zako, who raps in Italian or the underclassmen who rap in English.

The report of the European Music Office in Music on Europe meant that the Swiss hip- hop scene "is partly innovative and advanced ", especially Unik Records ( the first European indie rap label).