Swedish hip-hop
Percussionist Per Cussion (of reggae-punk band Dag Vag) and Grandmaster Funk are generally credited with bringing hip hop to Sweden.
In 1984, Jan Fex, from Lund, released an album, "Utanför mitt liv",[2] on Mercury Records[3] with the first contemporary R&B, rap and EDM songs in Swedish, 5 years before JustD's debut.
Fex moved to Copenhagen, Denmark in 1985 and started a Fairlight CMI rental service, thereby becoming one of the first Swedes to work with digital samplers and sequencers.
The international success of rapper/singer Neneh Cherry's crossover album, Raw Like Sushi, made the Swedish media take a closer look at the genre in the context of Sweden's native artists.
Snoopy (aka Quincy Jones III) had moved to the USA to produce acts like Young MC, LL Cool J and Ice Cube.
The collective Infinite Mass won the Swedish qualification finals for the World Rap Competition and released their EP Da Blackmass.
Their 1994 debut album Välkommen till Förorten (Welcome to the suburb), produced by Gordon Cyrus and founder of first the Swedish Hip Hop label Breakin Bread, was a success in the charts and favorite with the critics.
Swedish rappers who have achieved nationwide recognition include: Promoe, Snook, Ayesha, Fjärde Världen, Fattaru, Ison & Fille, Advance Patrol, Lazee, Toftgard, and Adam Tensta.
[9] 2008 is a European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and part of this effort was a hip hop summit in Stockholm called Make it blast!, which took place on 27 May.
Chaired by Timbuktu, the festival featured rappers from Sweden and elsewhere in Europe and aimed to create dialogue between artists as well as audiences of the European urban music scene.
With a few exceptions (Feven, Melinda Wrede, Remedeeh) [11] Acts that have had some international success include LE SINNER,[12][13] Rebstar,[14][15][16] Looptroop[17] Yung Lean, Bladee, Thaiboy Digital, Ecco2K, Max Peezay,[18] and Million Stylez.
The first graffiti artists in the Stockholm area had names such as Disey, Ziggy, Razor, Merley (aka Liam Norberg[20]), Puppet and Zappo.
[21] In 2004, the rapper Promoe had a hit with the track "These Walls Don't Lie", recorded and mixed by Soundism, which dealt with the Swedish graffiti culture, and the dangers of creating illegal art at difficult locations.
