Kosovar hip hop is a sub-genre of hip hop music

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 from the south-eastern European country, Kosovo

Kosovo

Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

. Hip hop in Kosovo began to have an impact during the early 1990s as it did in all the Balkans

Balkans

The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...

. Kosovo and Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

 have been noticed in the hip hop scene around the same time. Kosovar hip hop music is written in native languages to Kosovo, including Albanian

Albanian language

Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...

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There are several hip hop MCs

Rapping

Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

 in Kosovo, the most popular being Unikkatil

Unikkatil

Unikkatil, and also known as Rebel a.k.a Unikkatil, is an Albanian-American entertainer, rapper, and record producer from The Bronx, New York and originally from Pristina, Kosovo. Unikkatil is best known as The Albanian Rap Revolution, the one who changed the face of Albanian-Rap, and as the...

 from Pristina

Pristina

Pristina, also spelled Prishtina and Priština is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous municipality and district....

, Kosovo. Presioni

Presioni

Presioni is a rapper from Pristina, Kosovo.- Early life :His early years were spent in Kosovo where the situation was very difficult due to Albanian-Serbian conflicts....

 and The Kid Gashi

The Kid Gashi

Larry Gashi better known by his stage name The Kid Gashi, is an ethnic Albanian rapper and singer originally from Kosovo. He has had success with collaborations with more established artists such as French Montana and Nipsey Hussle...

 are also hip hop MCs from Kosovo, who have performing through the 2000s.

Typically, any genre of hip hop performed in Serbian

Serbian language

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

 from the region is considered Kosovar hip hop. However, any artist from Kosovo performing, regardless of the song's language, is considered Kosovar hip hop. The second most performed language of Kosovar hip hop is Albanian, while the third most performed being English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

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External links

• Kosovar hip hop news on Facebook
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