Romanian Hip Hop Groups - B.U.G. Mafia (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: B.U.G. Mafia (Bucharest Under Ground Mafia) is a Bucharest-based hip hop group founded in 1993, among the first hip hop acts in Romania, widely recognized as pioneers of gangsta rap in the country. Though generally placed in the gangsta rap genre, the group proved that they can bring political issues to their music, such as the post-communist Romanian political class, poverty in Romania's communist-built housing projects or social unrest. They were subsequently banned from many mainstream T.V. and radio stations in Romania and even at times prevented from touring, spending a night in jail after their first concert in Turnu Severin in 1997. In 1991 Vlad Irimia, today widely known as Tataee decided to become a musician influenced by hip hop platinum-selling groups Public Enemy and N.W.A. He had no idea where to start or what to do but he managed to record his first track until 1992. In 1993 Tataee met Drago Vlad-Neagu who would become known as Daddy Caddy in Bucharest. They started talking about Vlad-Neagu's Cypress Hill cap and discovered they had a common interest in rap music and they both already tried to make music so they decided to start a group which they named B.U.G. ("Black UnderGround", later changed to "Bucharest UnderGround"). Their first rap aliases were Klax 187 and Doom (later changed to Mr.Juice), showing a heavy influence from the American rap scene, especially gangsta rap. They recorded their first track rapping in English with the help of Adi Niculescu, a then well-known radio personality who produced one of the first hip hop radio shows in Romania called "YO Rap is moving ". The song was influenced by the N.W.A hit single Straight Outta Compton, being significantly named "Straight Outta Da Hell" and it got its first radio ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=409812