Serbian hip-hop

Serbian hip hop
Stylistic origins	Hip hop
Cultural origins	1984
Typical instruments	Turntable, synthesizer, rapping, drum machine, sampler, guitar

Serbian hip hop refers to all genres of hip hop music in the Serbian language. The term is also sometimes used to refer to any hip hop music made by Serbs, including instrumental hip hop, as well as rap songs by members of the Serbian diaspora, often in languages other than Serbian. Beogradski Sindikat is considered to be the greatest Serbian hip hop group, along with others like VIP, Psihoaktiv Trip, Sunshine, CYA. The most popular solo artists are Skabo, Ikac, Reksona, Juice, Gru, Struka, Ajs Nigrutin, Marchelo, etc.

Serbian hip hop first started in the early 1980s, with the birth of b-boy crews. The first Serbian Hip Hop record release was the Degout EP by The Master Scratch Band, which was released by Jugoton in 1984. But the Hip Hop Scene in Serbia was not open and popularized until the Demo band of teenagers Badvajzer (Budweiser) arrived in 1987 and became extremely popular.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, bands such as CYA, Green Kool Posse (Sunshine crew), Who Is The Best, Robin Hood, Double 1, Bez Kaucije, Crno-Bela Veza, and Jedva Smo Se Skupili came into being, all together starting the first Hip Hop scene in Serbia and the former Yugoslavia.

The music spread slowly until 1995, until Da li imaš pravo? by Gru was released, marking the beginning of the first wave of Serbian hip hop, which reached its peak in 1997-98, when many new groups started to break out from the underground: CYA, Ila, Voodoo Popeye, Sunshine, Bad Copy and the first horror rap underground group in Serbia, Sekcija Mraka. Monteniggers, from Montenegro (at the time in a state union with Serbia), were another popular rap group. Just as the scene was taking off, the flood of new talent slowed to a trickle, probably due to the economic effects of the Kosovo War of 1999, which resulted in only a few hip hop albums released in 1999-2001.

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