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History
- I lifted Laura Ruberto's excellent review of La Pina's first CD from Ritmo, where you can also find Pasquale Verdicchio's brilliant analysis of Hip Hop Italiano from a Gramscian perspective.
Buy On Line
In the States, you can check out cdcnow.com & amazon.com, etc. but you also want to check out and support these sites with extensive catalogues of rap Italiano recordings.
- Friends in the States say they're finding all the music they desire for low rates at www.jungle.it.
- Dischi Volanti out of Berne, Switzerland is a great source for fresh Rap Italiano. (This is where I grab images of CD covers for the Artists Directory.)
- Magazzini Nannucci provides a full range of Italian pop offerings, including rap Italiano, with a straight forward directory of artist sites. Ask for Paolo.
- Istant is a new site where you can order CDs of live concerts by Italian artists.
- Vibra Records, check 'em out.
General
- www.honiro.it
- StreetBeat (English version), weekly Italian Hip Hop radio show out of Radio Seregno, with the last two shows on line. (Thanks Boris of www.hiphopculture.de.)
- MusicaBlack is a great new site, with interviews in English of Italian rap artists like Almamegretta, A.T.P.C., and Razza Ribelle Posse.
- 3 Linez, on line magazine in Italian and English.
- Out of the ashes of BIZ magazine, comes the new online Black Magazine.
- Relief Records
- www.hotmc.com reviews, a newsletter, chat, & much more! Go there, use it, wear it out.
- Jack the Smoker's (of Spregiudicati-Click) blogg.
- CDP 2001 Entertainment is chuck full of goodies.
- You want to hear Italian rap? Go to Vitaminic right now!
- Wanna know which Hip Hop artists are playing in Italy? Than check out Live Hip Hop.It, with English and Italian versions.
- Cost’Ovest aka Antonio Ventresco has got to be the #1 Italian Hip Hop fan this side of the Atlantic. Check out his new Web site.
- Street Beat offers news in Italian and English, and streaming radio.
- Check out what's happening in and around the city of Bari, Puglia.
- ILRAP.com is an Italian language site about American hip hop.
- The magazine DEFRAG cobers topics such as art, music, urban culture, photography, graphic design and much more.
- The new VideoMusica.It is chuck full of choices from the Italian music scene.
- If you want to see what American hip hop lyrics look like in Italian, then check out JP's THHT site (that's "Testi Hip-Hop Tradotti" you all). Note: make sure you're using Internet Explorer!
- The Hip Hop Directory searchs the Web to bring you a listing of "some of the finest Hip Hop related sites from all over the globe." Including italianrap.com, natch.
- Tribe Magazine covering Milano's Hip Hop scene.
- Zona Kalda Hip Hop Planet, with RealAudio & Mp3s files.
- The label Vibra Records features such artists as Bassi, Club Dogo, Uomini di Mare, and many others.
- www.hiphop.it: check it out!
- AlBaNaTiOn, with lyrics from Articolo 31, La Famiglia, Frankie Hi Nrg, and Neffa, Otierre, La Pina, and Sottotono.
- Hip Hop Italia Roberto Patuelli's Yahoo Club with photos, chat, calender about Italy's Double H.
- Alek's site "Style" has reviews, interviews, graf flicks, & a fanzine delivered to your desktop.
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