Kosovar Hip Hop

Kosovar hip hop (also called hip hop in Kosovo or Kosovar rap) is a sub-genre of hip hop music from the south-eastern European country, Kosovo. Hip hop in Kosovo began to have an impact during the early 1990s as it did in all the Balkans. Kosovo and Albania have been noticed in the hip hop scene around the same time. Kosovar hip hop music is written in native languages including Albanian.

There are several hip hop MCs in Kosovo, the most popular being Unikkatil from Pristina, Kosovo. Presioni and The Kid Gashi are also hip hop MCs from Kosovo, who have been performing throughout the 2000s. More recently, the group BimBimma have grown in popularity from their politically inspired tracks, other groups such as Abstract and solo artist Elinel have also grown in the Kosovar Rap scene.

Typically, any genre of hip hop performed in Serbian from the region is considered Kosovar hip hop. However, any artist from Kosovo performing, regardless of the song's language, is considered Kosovar hip hop. The second most performed language of Kosovar hip hop is Albanian, while the third most performed being English.

Kosovar Hip-Hop began to gain popularity in mid 90's.Mostly the songs were inspired by the 1998-99 war. Kosovar Hip-Hop is considered to be the top hip hop in the balkan's region.Lyrics are in the albanian language. Kosovar rappers have also started international careers most notably:The kid Gashi,Action kid Bronson etc.