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Benzina's Roman Hip Hop Travelogue

Looking for places to connect with rap Italiano while you're in the Eternal City? Here's Queen B's quide to hot spots in Rome.

Travel guides to general Roman nightlife:

• TimeOut Rome
  
• Metro Index
  
• A Window on Rome
  
• Roman NightLife
  
• Rome Young
  
• Roma Style
  
• Roma C'e

Clubs:

• Black Out, Via Saturnia, 18
  
• Alta Quota via Nuoro, 16/18, Tel. (0338) 2240970
  
• Groove, Via Lo Savelli, 10, Tel. (06) 6872427
  
• B-Side, Via dei Funari, 21A, Tel. (06) 6833232. Circular dance-floor with black music and lots of fans every night. Closed Mondays.
  
• Testaccio Village. Open air, free entrance revelling area in Testaccio with DJs from Radio Centro Suono most nights.

Record stores:

• Goody Music, Via C. Beccaria 2, near Piazza Flaminio
  
• Disfunzioni Musicali, Via degli Etruschi, 4, behind the main train station
  
• Idee Musicali, largo Appio Claudio, 377 - Tel. 06.74.77.632
  
• Music Area, Via Enea, 35 - Tel. 06.78.42.710
  
• Groovin Records, Piazza Fonteiana, 2B, Tel. (06)5884288
  
• Ricordi (national chian) - branches located at Via Cesare Battisti, 120c, Via del Corso, 506, & Viale Giulio Cesare, 88.
  
• Rinascita (national chain) - Via delle Botteghe Oscure.

Black Music Radio Stations

• Radio Centro Suono - 101.300 "You feel like you never left home with this station."
  
• Radio Citta Futura
  
• Radio Deejay - 101.000
  
• Dimensione Suono Roma - 101.900
  
• Dimensione Suono 2 - 105.300

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