/: Hrvatski hip hop - Rokane rime 2

Croatian hip hop - Rokane rime 2

Dear hip hop artists and admirers, we're back! The sequel to the book CROATIAN HIP HOP... ROKANE RIME has been released with the logical title CROATIAN HIP HOP... ROKANE RIME 2! The first edition covered the period from 1997 to 2001, and now we continue where we left off until 2006. We introduced some artists in the first book, and we are glad to draw your attention to a lot of new names and their ROCK RHYMES in the sequel. There are 16 artists, in alphabetical order: BOLESNA BRAĆA, CONNECT, DOPPLER EFEKT, EDO MAAJKA, ELEMENTAL, GENERAL WOO, KRIVIČNO DLEVOVANJE, NERED, PROMILI, PUNK ROCK CROATIA, SHORTY, STOKA, TARGET, TBF, TRAM 11 and TREMENS. you can read it in its entirety in the book, and here we transfer part of it:
... Hip hop has gone through a thousand and one phases from its first studio days until today, some 25 years later (subtract and add a few years...), and from the last "Rock Rhymes" to this sequel, there have been changes everywhere, from American regional competitions to Croatian ups and downs. Like a vampire that sucks other people's fresh blood wherever it can, in order not to stay young forever, hip hop has remained a vital phenomenon both through the past decades and through the past years - some have been listening to a lot of electronica in Atlanta's strip clubs since 2001, some have brought soul back into the game and along the way have become legends; some devoted themselves to ego, introspection and self-irony, some to philosophy, some to politics, and many to rims, chains and small and large caliber pipes and butts; some ended up underground, some at the top, and some in oblivion...
In Croatia, the situation was definitely not as exciting as in the American South, East or West Coast (as, luckily, money and stupidity were never so big that guns ruined the scene), but we weren't bored either. Hip hop, from the music that some black people listen to there, at the end of the ballad (or at least its "first chapter") became a phenomenon that broke through the boundaries and simply settled in, as something completely normal, as an equal part of the domestic music sphere, alongside guitars, tambourines, tuc-tuc dancers, klapas and folk songs. To that extent, whining about a defunct star of "old" fame is pointless, because every new trend has its breakthrough peak and a moment when it simply continues to coexist, producing equal amounts of pearls and shit, both by veterans and some new kids. Croatian hip hop reached its peak, media and business, when it had to, and now it remains to allow the most capable to learn to live in and from the whole story in peace. After all, five years is an eternity for hip hop, and even if there are those who like to call local hip hop dead...