Ukrainian Hip Hop

Ukrainian hip hop, also known as Ukra-hop or Ukr-hop is a major part of the Ukrainian music scene. In Ukraine some bands, like Tartak, Tanok na Maydani Kongo ("Dance on the Congo Square"), or Grafit rap in Ukrainian language and mix hip hop with indigenous Ukrainian elements, while many others do not, preferring instead to rap in Russian. Some of the artists who rap in Ukrainian include DLF Squad, Вхід у змінному взутті (В.У.З.В.), Na Vidminu Vid (На відміну від), МіСТо 44, Hochu Shche! (Хочу ЩЕ!), Highway, RCLAN & Fozzey. Much of Ukrainian hip hop (especially with Ukrainian lyrics) is still in its developing stage and is thus "underground."

Popular Russian-language hip hop acts from Ukraine include U.R.Asquad, Yuzhny Tsentral, Tuman, Schnell Sprechen and Don Drew. Some other Ukrainian rappers who rap in Russian are Lion, SVO, Protest, Fame, and N.P. Gerik Gorilla.

Musically, Ukrainian hip hop is heavily influenced by Jamaican reggae, French hip hop, German hip hop and Ukrainian folk music, resulting a very tuneful and mellow sound, which makes it quite different from both Russian and American counterparts.

In 2005, Ukraine's entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest, GreenJolly's "Together We Are Many", was also the unofficial anthem of the Orange Revolution. Eurovision demanded the lyrics to be changed for the contest (because it did not correspond to contests rules due to political content). Also this song was remade by Polish hip hop artists.

Newer Ukrainophone artists are emerging from Western and Central Ukraine such as VovaZIL’Vova (Volodymyr Parfeniuk, host of a hip hop show on the TV channel M1), МіСТо 44, El Paso and DLF Squad.

Ukrainian Lyrics

  • MC N.E.D aka boomahma
  • DLF Squad a.k.a. Da Lutsk Flava а.б.о. Луцький Аромат (rap group):
Альф (mc, beatmaker, sound)
DJ Roma (scratch)
Ель а.б.о. Дельта (mc)
  • LEZO (rap group):
Рокстеді а.б.о. Рокс (mc, beatmaker)
ЛОМ а.б.о. Сторож (mc)
Тарік а.б.о. Гиря (mc)
Ель а.б.о. Дельта (mc)
  • МіСТо 44 (rap group):
Chipset
Птах
Nixon
  • El Paso
  • CAMO3AXUCT (rap group):
Malysh
Інженер
  • Театр-НО
  • Lemberg Family
Snake G
  • VovaZIL’Vova
  • Brooky
  • DaHok (S.I.R.K.)
  • Максі Кренк a.k.a. Crank
  • Zахідна Коаліція (Zakhidna Koalitsija)
  • Happy Face
  • Enji
  • ЕМЕЙ
  • Flash
  • GGS D.Domani
  • Гаплик (Haplyk)
  • Kozaky Podilja
  • Нестандарт Систем (Nestandart System)
  • NTFreeze
  • RCLAN
  • DJ Shon
  • DUV@k!
  • Гаврик (Guff Rick)
  • Fozzey
  • Вхід у змінному взутті (В.У.З.В.)
  • Інквізиція
  • Ha Відміну Від (Na Vidminu Vid)
  • Хай Йому Грець - X.Y.G
  • СимВоліка
  • Хочу ЩЕ! (Hochu Shche!)

Russian Lyrics

  • U.R.Asquad
  • Yuzhny Tsentral
  • Tuman
  • Schnell Sprechen
  • Don Drew
  • Lion
  • SVO
  • Protest
  • Fame
  • N.P. Gerik Gorilla
  • K9 (Радіо Підземка)
  • TYHEB
  • Lyon
  • Drago
  • SVO
  • Sheksta

Famous quotes containing the words hip and/or hop:

    He’s a man who shoots from the hip. And a man who’s hip when he shoots.
    Jeremy Larner, U.S. screenwriter. Banquet master of ceremonies (Pat Harrington, Jr.)

    I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)