Iranian hip hop
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| Iranian music: Topics | |||||||||
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| Languages | Persian, English, German | ||||||||
| Awards | Tehran Underground Music Festival | ||||||||
| Charts | none | ||||||||
| Festivals | Tehran Underground Music Festival | ||||||||
| Iranian Online Rap Radio Stations | Zirzamin | ||||||||
| Online Media | Tehran Avenue, Zirzamine, Cafe Tehran, RaPersian Freestyle Rapper Community | ||||||||
| Major Iranian bands | |||||||||
| Deev–Eblis–EMZipper–Erfan–Hich Kas–Zedbazi– Salome | |||||||||
Iranian hip hop is hip hop music from Iran.
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[edit] Inception
The first group to release an Iranian hip hop album was the Los Angeles based group Sandy in the early 1990s. The first underground rapper was Deev, who introduced aggressive hip hop to an Iranian audience with his political song "Dasta Bala". This was soon followed by Zedbazi, who introduced Gangster Rap with their song "Mehmooni" (written on top of the 50 Cent anthem "In the Club").
Hich Kas, who wrote about life in Tehran, Erfan, introduced poetic hip hop to Iranians, with his song "Shosteshoo". The Berlin based band, Daad, was the first group to mix rap with reggae, ragga, jazz and other elements. Female rappers started to emerge, with Salome known as the first female rapper in Iran and few others like Pani but there has not been a strong female MC to date.
[edit] History
With the introduction of satellite television in Iran in the early 1990s and world wide recognition of hip hop and its American artists such as 2pac, NWA and Eminem and hip hop found an explosive following among the Iranian youth (mostly born after the Islamic Revolution of 1979). They started paying attention to the beats and rhythmic lyrics present in hip hop and eventually turned to creating this genre of music in Persian. Soon they turned from rap enthusiasts to poets and rap producers, bringing to light how they saw life as Iranians and what they wanted from the world. They used it as a means of self expression.
[edit] Internet
One of the main ways for Iranian rappers to get their music across the world and out to the Iranian community is with the use of internet. There are many Iranian rap websites and weblogs.
