Turkish Hip Hop

16 MP3 Songs
HIP-HOP/RAP: Hip Hop, WORLD: Turkish contemporary



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What has started as a featuring and as a bonus-track on Dar Beida 04, is now continuing here on their debut-album âKingztanbulâ : unconventional Turkish Hip Hop from Switzerland ! Traditional sounds combined with influences coming from Old School, Electro, Ragga, Dub and Trip Hop.
The only 19 years old lyrics writer Kadir (Casus = the spy) and 20 years old Evren (Cesaret = courage), both grown up in Basel from immigrant parents, have the aim to bring Turkish Rap closer to the western world.
In Turkey as in Germany, there are actually many small underground Hip Hop labels and acts spreading their word for the cause. Its obvious that bands such as âDas Cartelâ, âIslamic Forceâ or âBoulevard Bouâ layed the basics in the early 90s for the typical sound in use today. So its not surprising that many featurings on âKingztanbulâ do come from German Turks:
Microphone Mafia : The crew from Köln has three albums and diverse singles out and did also some work with Jazzkantine.
Murat G : He is the label boss of Drei Finger Records in Frankfurt and since the early 90s involved in the Hip Hop scene. He worked with artists like âKanak Attakâ or âAziza Aâ.
Steryo C.E.M. : he is also from Frankfurt and well present on diverse compilations.
Statik : Is the project from Turbo (Istanbul) and DJ Mahmut (Frankfurt). Turbo is the guru of Turkish Hip Hop in his country. He is producing compilations and is also famous for his graffiti works.
DJ ACE & Def Cut : Both are from Basel and made their names at the âBattle of the Yearâ as at DJ Championships. Def Cut is well respected as the master of Break-beats.
From the Makale Crew, following artists did some vocal featurings: Siddet, Sosyarap, MC Orhan and Randagee, as the scratches of DJ Steel.
The main subject of the lyrics are the daily problems of life, integration, rascism, love, and the relations of two different cultures.