Some of the best Ukrainian rap
Here’s a diverse bunch of upcoming hip-hop artists
Ukrainian music is far from being homogenous — it varies and varies greatly depending on a genre you listen to.
This way, listening to Ukrainian folk and electronic music might feel like discovering a new and vibrant city somewhere in the midst of Western Europe or the US. But once you switch to hip-hop, in an instance you get carried over to a sparsely populated countryside where your dear grandma lives — a place vaguely familiar and warming to your heat, but too depressing to stay in for more than a week.
The above is the most flattering term one could describe whatever was happening to the rap and hip-hop scene throughout the years of Ukrainian independence. The industry just wasn’t there, and acts like VUZV and TNMK were nothing more than a couple of bright spots on the otherwise blank canvas.
But everything changes, and here, in Ukraine, hip-hop music finally breaks into new and exciting heyday after many years of complete drought.
Today, I invite you to have a look at three trends behind the hip-hop revolution in Ukraine.
- Grebz, Kurgan & Agregat and the art of corky rap
There is one defining trait that sets aside Ukrainian rap from anything else you…
