There are lots of people from the us, uk and aus on here but lets hear from people from other countries.

I want to know if you listen to english speaking hip hop and non english speaking hip hop and what the scene is like in the country you live?, what got you into hip hop etc...

Lets see if we get people from every continent on the planet and let this thread clock up lots of air miles!

ok i'm from Vietnam i'll tell you something bout it. most kids in Vietnam have no knowledge about hip hop. they watch MTV and look at 50 cent or any club banger and say that's hip hop. if you ask them who is nas, who is tupac, they have no idea.
vietnamese rappers usually talk about love like some pop music, or maybe just imitate what they see in 50 cent video clips (talking bout gun, blah blah). only 2 or 3 dudes among the wack vietnamese mcs have skills but too bad they're underground (i'm one of them lol)

i'm from argentina, and hip hop here sucks!!!! i hate every kind of spanish hip hop too....

ok i'm from Vietnam i'll tell you something bout it. most kids in Vietnam have no knowledge about hip hop. they watch MTV and look at 50 cent or any club banger and say that's hip hop. if you ask them who is nas, who is tupac, they have no idea.
vietnamese rappers usually talk about love like some pop music, or maybe just imitate what they see in 50 cent video clips (talking bout gun, blah blah). only 2 or 3 dudes among the wack vietnamese mcs have skills but too bad they're underground (i'm one of them lol)

Good luck to you man. Its good to hear a young guy from a "non-typical" part of the world making hip hop music.

i'm from argentina, and hip hop here sucks!!!! i hate every kind of spanish hip hop too....

I have heard good South American style beats. Ok the beats may not stictly be hip hop but they seem nice anyway. I would say kind of having that latin jazz vibe.

Here in the UK there is a dj called Gilles Peterson who has done a number of albums featuring South American artists/music.

Well...in my country,Romania...hip hop is starting to grow.At first most of the hip hop groups here were tryin' to do gangsta rap,they rapped like N.W.A. and stuff like that,and they got a big fan base.But the underground scene is great round here,some of our MC's shit on lots of US rappers as far as lyrics and message.

Rap started to grow bigger in Finland around '00. I got into it 2002. I heard Eminem's Without Me on a chart and got addicted to the song. So, I ended up buying his 3 major releases and after that I got more introduced to the Shady/Aftermath artists (D12, Obie, Dre..) and associated rappers.

I don't remember exactly when I started to get more into underground/old school rap, but I think it was around '03-'04. And when I got an internet connection, it was rather easy to find more and more alternative rappers and here I am now..

The Finnish rap scene is quite funny. There's a bunch of rappers in Helsinki area who are rapping about getting drunk, problems in the society, politics and such. Then there's of course those who rap about getting bitches and money, but we don't have many "gangsta" rappers. I guess that wouldn't really fit to our culture either. There's few punchline rappers but they're kinda wack. And Finland isn't really a place for hip-hop anyway, we're known as some "heavy metal country" because of bands like HIM, Nightwish.. etc.

Rap started to grow bigger in Finland around '00. I got into it 2002. I heard Eminem's Without Me on a chart and got addicted to the song. So, I ended up buying his 3 major releases and after that I got more introduced to the Shady/Aftermath artists (D12, Obie, Dre..) and associated rappers.

I don't remember exactly when I started to get more into underground/old school rap, but I think it was around '03-'04. And when I got an internet connection, it was rather easy to find more and more alternative rappers and here I am now..

The Finnish rap scene is quite funny. There's a bunch of rappers in Helsinki area who are rapping about getting drunk, problems in the society, politics and such. Then there's of course those who rap about getting bitches and money, but we don't have many "gangsta" rappers. I guess that wouldn't really fit to our culture either. There's few punchline rappers but they're kinda wack. And Finland isn't really a place for hip-hop anyway, we're known as some "heavy metal country" because of bands like HIM, Nightwish.. etc.

Ain't Finland got loads of Black Metal fans or is that just Norway and Sweden?

Ain't Finland got loads of Black Metal fans or is that just Norway and Sweden?

Yeah, I suppose. Metal, heavy metal, black metal.. Something like that..

Haha.

Well...in my country,Romania...hip hop is starting to grow.At first most of the hip hop groups here were tryin' to do gangsta rap,they rapped like N.W.A. and stuff like that,and they got a big fan base.But the underground scene is great round here,some of our MC's shit on lots of US rappers as far as lyrics and message.

Are the lyrics in english?, if so put some links on here so we can all have a listen?

Rap started to grow bigger in Finland around '00. I got into it 2002. I heard Eminem's Without Me on a chart and got addicted to the song. So, I ended up buying his 3 major releases and after that I got more introduced to the Shady/Aftermath artists (D12, Obie, Dre..) and associated rappers.

I don't remember exactly when I started to get more into underground/old school rap, but I think it was around '03-'04. And when I got an internet connection, it was rather easy to find more and more alternative rappers and here I am now..

The Finnish rap scene is quite funny. There's a bunch of rappers in Helsinki area who are rapping about getting drunk, problems in the society, politics and such. Then there's of course those who rap about getting bitches and money, but we don't have many "gangsta" rappers. I guess that wouldn't really fit to our culture either. There's few punchline rappers but they're kinda wack. And Finland isn't really a place for hip-hop anyway, we're known as some "heavy metal country" because of bands like HIM, Nightwish.. etc.

Good to hear.

A bit off topic, but why are Finish drivers so good in motorsport?, sorry but its always baffled me!.....ok very off topic.

Im from russia and we have artists like NTL, Ligalize, Mnogotochie, Varchun, etc... I love the production on russian music, and lyrics are good!

Im from russia and we have artists like NTL, Ligalize, Mnogotochie, Varchun, etc... I love the production on russian music, and lyrics are good!

Do you know Каста? I've heard few of their tracks. Good beats.

^ Nope ill try to see if i can find em

I'm from Sweden, and I only listen to hip hop in english, american, brittish or artist from Sweden.
But the funny thing is that I haven't many people that listen to the same music as I am. And I'm still waiting for that person, not a person that only have heard to hip hop on the radio. But a person that actually know something about 2Pac, ATCQ, Nas and more. Mostly the people I meet says that 50 Cent is the best if they don't they listen to rock.

Aight then I'm from Switzerland!
I used to listen to every musicstyle that was mainstream like in 2001-03 I listened to Eminem to Nickleback to Nirvana all that mainstream stuff. But I got into good German Hip-Hop when my Cousin gave me an Album for my 13th Birthday I got all the Albums of the Group...(Blumentopf) (sort of jazzy type production lyrics are not Gangsta wich I like because they ain't Gangstas). I got into Pac and stuff and since I'm in a higher school (when i turned 15) i started to grow on some less known stuff - Masta Ace and stuff.
Now the Scene in my country is really booming... So many Underground artists nowadays... most of them are complete crap... But also in the Main-Stream we have Rap-Albums in the Charts most succesfull swiss rapper is from Lausanne so he raps French. His new Album went plat in 1 week(100'000 sales I think) and has been on top of the Charts for several Weeks. Rappers are really attackin politics so they respond and It is really the big thing. And we have a lot of cats here that know good stuff. Masta Ace was almost sold-out (not a big arena just a club though but still was bangin).

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Are the lyrics in english?, if so put some links on here so we can all have a listen?

No...not in English sorry.

^ Nope ill try to see if i can find em

Here's a track:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/-track-03-mp3.html

Êàñòà might be the actual artist. I'm not sure..

Aight then I'm from Switzerland!
I used to listen to every musicstyle that was mainstream like in 2001-03 I listened to Eminem to Nickleback to Nirvana all that mainstream stuff. But I got into good German Hip-Hop when my Cousin gave me an Album for my 13th Birthday I got all the Albums of the Group...(Blumentopf) (sort of jazzy type production lyrics are not Gangsta wich I like because they ain't Gangstas). I got into Pac and stuff and since I'm in a higher school (when i turned 15) i started to grow on some less known stuff - Masta Ace and stuff.
Now the Scene in my country is really booming... So many Underground artists nowadays... most of them are complete crap... But also in the Main-Stream we have Rap-Albums in the Charts most succesfull swiss rapper is from Lausanne so he raps French. His new Album went plat in 1 week(100'000 sales I think) and has been on top of the Charts for several Weeks. Rappers are really attackin politics so they respond and It is really the big thing. And we have a lot of cats here that know good stuff. Masta Ace was almost sold-out (not a big arena just a club though but still was bangin).

I use to get a german tv channel called viva, heard of it? it was a music channel and it had a show called "word up"?. It was a hip hop video show. I remember watching it as I flicked on it by accident and I saw Lootpack on there and then I started to watch it when I could. There was a lot of US stuff on it but also alot of German stuff too. Unfortunatley I dont understand german but the beats were really nice. They were kind of like Primo.... very choppy.