Finnish hip hop

Finnish hip hop

Finnish hip hop music is an increasingly robust part of the Finnish music scene.Fact|date=April 2008 While some crews based in Finland (Bomfunk MC's, Don Johnson Big Band, Kwan) choose to record their rhymes in English, the majority use Finnish.Fact|date=April 2008 The first recordings were released in the late 1980s but the real boom of Finnish hip hop came in the late 1990s. Since then, the number of crews recording has increased dramatically. The best-selling crew has been Fintelligens,Fact|date=April 2008 with several top 10 albums and singles. The best-selling solo artist is Pikku G,Fact|date=April 2008 who was only 15 years old when he made the album "Räjähdysvaara" (Explosion Danger), which sold more than 120,000 copies in Finland,Fact|date=April 2008 going quadruple platinum.Fact|date=April 2008 Several years after that he made an album called "Suora Lähetys", but it did not sell nearly as well as "Räjähdysvaara".

Some well-known Finnish hip hop crews include:
* Fintelligens
* Bomfunk MCs

Some well-known solo artists:
*Mariska
*Pikku G
*Ruudolf
*Seremoniamestari
*Steen1
*Elastinen
*Asa
*Julma-Henri
*Puukko-Allu

External links

* [http://www.basso.fi/] Finnish hip hop portal based around the "Basso" magazine


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