Nuuk Posse

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Nuuk Posse is the first and most famous hip hop group from Greenland. The group, whose members are Inuit, formed in 1985 under a different name, finally taking the name Nuuk Posse in 1991. Nuuk Posse is multilingual, rapping in Greenlandic, English, and Danish.

The group's members include Andreas Hojgaard (human beatbox), Lars Sørensen (rap), Peter Motzfeldt (rap, music), Henrik Pedersen (rap), Thomas Hansen (rap), and John Olsen (rap, lyrics). They released their first single, "SUSSA APPINNAGU" (Ulo-cd 81) in 1992. They released their album NP (Ulo-cd 105) in 1995. In 1996 they released their "international-album" KAATAQ, through the Belgian label Subrosa (www.subrosa.net).

Nuuk Posse has toured in various countries, including Sweden, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Canada, etc. but never in Denmark. Nuuk Posse gained the cultural-prize of Greenland in 1995, and they got nominated as "Messengers of True" by the United Nations in 2004.^{[citation needed]}