Swedish hip hop
Emerging in the first half of the 1980s, Swedish hip hop originated in the cities of Stockholm and Malmö. Early on, most rappers in Sweden performed in English. Funkalics and The Latin Kings, two very different acts united by their innovative ...
artists:
Rappers
Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...
and crews
(in alphabetical order)
* 1.Cuz (Swedish)
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Adaam
Adam Jakobsson (born 7 September 2002), better known as Adaam (stylised in all caps), is a Swedish rapper. At the age of five, he moved to Valsta, Märsta, and grew up on the same estate as fellow rapper VC Barre; the two founded the record label ...
(Swedish)
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Adam Tensta
Adam Tensta (born Adam Momodou Eriksson Taal 1 August 1983) is a Swedish rapper of Gambian descent from his father, and Finnish descent from his mother. His debut album '' It's a Tensta Thing'' was a Swedish chart topper, and was awarded the 2008 ...
(English)
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Addis Black Widow
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Ant Wan
Antwan Afram (born 1 January 1998), known professionally as Ant Wan, is a Swedish rapper of Aramean descent from Västerås. He started rapping in Råby and released his first songs in early 2016. His songs gained popularity in late 2016. He ma ...
(Swedish)
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Bladee
Benjamin Reichwald (born 9 April 1994), known professionally as Bladee (), is a Sweden, Swedish rapper, singer, record producer, designer and member of the artistic collective Drain Gang. Reichwald has released music through the Stockholm record ...
(English)
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Dani M
Daniel Monserrat, better known by his stage name Dani M (born in Gävle on 6 January 1990), is a rapper, reggae and hip hop solo artist from Uppsala, Sweden. Monserrat first gained recognition after being a featured singer in hit songs in 2012 ...
Dree Low
Salah Abdi Abdulle (born 17 September 1994), known professionally as Dree Low, is a former Swedish rapper and songwriter of Somali origin. He lives in Husby in western Stockholm. He broke through in 2019 with his albums ''No hasta mañana'' and ...
(Swedish)
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Ecco2K
Zak Arogundade Gaterud, better known by his stage name Ecco2K, is a British-Swedish singer, designer, model, director and member of Drain Gang from Hornstull, Stockholm. Known for his experimental and innovative songwriting as well as his androgy ...
Fronda
Hans ''Sebastian'' Pasquale Fronda (born November 3, 1981, Hökåsen, Västerås) is a Swedish hip-hop artist. He released his first studio album in 2004, and toured Sweden in summer 2006. He then took a time-out from doing live performances to ...
(Swedish)
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Greekazo
Alexander Cielma Miliarakis (born 30 March 2001), known professionally as Greekazo, is a Swedish rapper.
Greekazo grew up in Hässelby in Stockholm and was born to parents of Polish and Greek background.
Greekazo started his career on 31 July 2 ...
(Swedish)
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Hov1
Hov1 (pronounced Hovet) are a Swedish hip hop group formed in 2015 signed to EMI Sweden / Universal Music Sweden. The group has released four studio albums; '' Hov1'', '' Gudarna på Västerbron'', '' Vindar på Mars'', '' Barn av vår tid'', a ...
Infinite Mass
Infinite Mass is a Swedish hip hop group formed in 1991.
In 1992 the group won the talent show Swedish Championship of Rap. The same year, they achieved fame by participating in the movie '' Sökarna,'' and released the single "Shoot the Racist" ...
(Swedish)
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Just D
JustD ( en, That's right) was a Swedish hip hop trio formed in Stockholm in 1990. The group consisted of Gustave Lund (Gurra G), Wille Crafoord (Doktor C) and Peder Ernerot (Pedda P). They had several chart successes during the early-mid 1990s ...
(Swedish)
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Kartellen
Kartellen (English: ''The Cartel'') was a Swedish gangsta rap hip hop group founded in 2008 by Kinesen and Babyface, who are both serving life sentences in Finland for accessory to murder. Kinesen was also allegedly involved in an infamous airport ...
Kumba
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Lazee
Mawuli Kulego (better known by his stage name Lazee) is a Swedish rapper from the Malmö suburb Lindängen.
Biography
Lazee was born in Malmö, Sweden, to parents of Ghanaian origin. His passion for music grew at a young age and he was heavily i ...
(English)
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Lilla Namo
Lilla Namo, artist name for Namo Marouf (born 25 September 1988) is a Swedish
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Linda Pira
Linda Marie Pira Giraldo, (born 25 August 1985) is a Swedish rapper. She grew up in Hässelby in western Stockholm where she still resides.
Her parents, Kjell, a bar owner and Zulima lived in Colombia. After Linda was born, they all moved to Swe ...
Mange Schmidt
Bo Magnus "Mange" Schmidt (born 17 November 1973), is a Sweden, Swedish Rapping, rapper. He was born and raised in
Stockholm.
Discography Albums
* ''Mange Schmidt, Greatest Hits''
* ''Samtidigt... i Stockholm'' (2006)
* ''Känslan kommer tillba ...
(Swedish)
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Medina
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(Swedish/Arabic)
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Maskinen
Maskinen (, "The Machine") was a Swedish music group consisting of the rapper Herbert Munkhammar who was earlier part of the duo Afasi & Filthy and Frej Larsson, also a member of the band Slagsmålsklubben and duo Far & Son. Oskar "Kihlen" Lin ...
Movits!
Movits! () is a Swedish music group from Luleå. The group plays swing mixed with hip hop. Their debut album ''Äppelknyckarjazz'', literally translated as ''Apple swiper jazz'' or '' scrumping jazz'', was released in November 2008 and has been ...
(Swedish)
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Näääk
Matar Henrikki Samba, better known as Näääk (born 29 March 1983), is a Swedish rapper of Gambian and Finnish ancestry.
Career and early life
Näääk was born and raised in the Stockholm suburb Rinkeby to a Finnish mother and a Gambian father ...
(Swedish/Finnish)
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Newkid
Jhun Alexander Ferrer, also known by his stage name Newkid (born 2 December 1990), is a Swedish–Filipino rapper signed to Sony Music Entertainment.
Career
Jhun Alexander Ferrer was born in Uddevalla, Sweden in 1990 to a Swedish mother and a ...
Papa Dee
David Christopher Daniel Wahlgren (born 13 July 1966), better known by the stage name Papa Dee, is a Sweden, Swedish Rapping, rapper. His most commercially successful track is his version of the Cat Stevens song "The First Cut Is the Deepest#Papa ...
Promoe
Promoe (Mårten Edh, born Nils Mårten Ed; 28 April 1976) is a Swedish rapper, and member of Swedish hip hop group Looptroop Rockers, formed in Västerås, Sweden, 1992. He released his fourth album in 2009 entitled ''Kråksången'', and later the ...
(Swedish)
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Rebstar
Rebin Shah (born 4 October 1988), better known by his stage name Rebstar, is a Swedish recording artist and music entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the entertainment company Today Is Vintage and pro-bono Creative Director for World Child ...
Silvana Imam
Silvana Imam (pronounced , born Plungė, Lithuania 19 September 1986) is a Swedish rapper. She is known for her political songs protesting racism, homophobia, and the Sweden Democrats.
Biography
Early life
Imam's mother is from Lithuania and ...
(Swedish)
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Snook
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Swingfly
Ricardo DaSilva II, better known by his stage name Swingfly, is an American–Swedish naturalised rapper and singer. He is also known by other aliases like Swing-Fly, Richie Pasta and Swing. He started lending his vocal talents to other artists' ...
Thomas Rusiak
Thomas Rusiak (; born Erik Thomas Sihlberg 8 November 1976) is a Swedish rapper, hip hop producer, musician and singer. Rusiak's father was the rather prominent Polish jazz saxophonist, Alfred Banasiak. Rusiak was initially a member of the Stockh ...
(English, Swedish)
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Timbuktu
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(Swedish, English)
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VC Barre
Baran Çelik (born 29 September 2003), better known as VC Barre, is a Swedish rapper of Turkish/Kurdish originYasin (Swedish)
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* Yung Wun, (born James Carlton Anderson in 1982), an American rapper
* Yung Berg, (born Christian Ward in 1985), an American rapper
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Zacke
Zakarias Lekberg, better known as Zacke, is a Swedish rapper from Luleå in northern Sweden.
Early life
Zacke was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His mother is Swedish but his father is from Morocco. After his parents break up he and his mother m ...
(Swedish)
DJs
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at a nightclub or music festival), mobile ...
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Embee
Embee is a Swedish hip hop DJ and producer. He was born Magnus Bergkvist on February 24, 1977 in Badelunda, Västmanland, Sweden. He is best known for his work with Swedish hip-hop group Looptroop Rockers. His first solo album ''Tellings from ...
Producers
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Occupations
*Producer (agriculture), a farm operator
*A stakeholder of economic production
*Film producer, supervises the making of films
**Executive producer, contributes to a film's budget and usually does not ...
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Embee
Embee is a Swedish hip hop DJ and producer. He was born Magnus Bergkvist on February 24, 1977 in Badelunda, Västmanland, Sweden. He is best known for his work with Swedish hip-hop group Looptroop Rockers. His first solo album ''Tellings from ...
Vladi Vargas
Vladi Vargas (born 11 August 1971) is a music producer and sound engineer in Västerås, Sweden. Starting out as a Dj, he was one of the pioneers in the Hip Hop culture in Sweden. During the 1980s he participated in several national DJ competitio ...
Quincy Jones III
Quincy Delight Jones III (born 23 December 1968), better known as QDIII, QD3 and Snoopy, is an English-born Swedish-American music producer and film producer.
Family
Jones was born in Wimbledon, London, the son of Swedish model Ulla Andersson ...
(English)
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Ilya
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Yung Gud
Carl-Mikael Göran "Micke" Berlander (born 29 August 1995), known professionally as Gud (formerly known as Yung Gud), is a Swedish DJ, music producer and rapper best known as a member of rapper Yung Lean's Stockholm-based group Sad Boys. He bega ...
Swedish hip hop
Emerging in the first half of the 1980s, Swedish hip hop originated in the cities of Stockholm and Malmö. Early on, most rappers in Sweden performed in English. Funkalics and The Latin Kings, two very different acts united by their innovative ...
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European hip hop European hip hop is hip hop music created by European musicians. Hip hop is a style of music developed by African American and Caribbean communities in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the ...
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Music of Sweden
The Music of Sweden shares roots with its neighboring countries in Scandinavia, as well as Eastern Europe, including polka, schottische, waltz, polska and mazurka. The Swedish fiddle and nyckelharpa are among the most common Swedish folk instr ...
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List of Swedes in music
This is a list of Swedish composers, musical groups, musicians and singers:
Composers
A–M
* Johan Agrell (1701–1765), full name: Johan Joachim Agrell
* Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960), full name: Hugo Emil Alfvén
* Kurt Atterberg ...
Swedish
Swedish or ' may refer to:
Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...