YUGOSPOTTING IN THE REGIONAL HIP-HOP
Text topic: Hip-Hop
Key words:
- identity
- intertextuality
- Yugoslavia
Text author: Драгана Цветановић
Through the concept of ‘Yugospotting’ this article explores how some established post-YU rappers, armed with the rap language and the strong generational knowledge, have constructed common identities in the new supranational social context before their shared rap audiences. What kind of transnational post-Yugoslav rap scene has been constructed by employing inherited ex-Yugo-knowledge and rappers ’hiphopographies’? Could this (mis)sampling of Yugoness and Balkanness be a significant identification base for the future rap generations of the “region”?
