Dejan Metodijeski. THE SECOND WAVE OF BULGARIAN HIP HOP: AN ANALYSIS OF SNIPER AND R'N'B RECORD LABELS

UDC: 784.011.26:316.7(497.2)”1991/2005”

784.011.26:316.7(497.2)”2005/-”

Author: Dejan Metodijeski

Title: THE SECOND WAVE OF BULGARIAN HIP HOP: AN ANALYSIS OF SNIPER AND R'N'B RECORD LABELS

Language of Paper: Macedonian 

Language of Summary: English

Keywords: Hip Hop, Bulgaria, SNIPER, R'N'B

Pages: 57-68

Hip hop culture is a modern phenomenon that began its global spread through hip hop music in the past three decades. The purpose of the paper is to research the hip hop culture in Bulgaria, through the analysis of the activities of the most influential m­usic labels of the beginning of the millennium. For the needs of the paper, se­con­da­ry sources of data were used by consulting relevant literature and the Internet. Ba­sically, the development of Bulgarian hip hop can be divided into three waves. The first wave covers the beginnings of Bulgarian hip hop. The paper covers the se­cond wave of Bulgarian hip hop, shown through the activity of SNIPER and R'N'B Re­cords labels. The results of the research show that in the period from 2000 to 2005, in Bulgaria, these two music labels published 24 albums of different artists. This publishing activity and the production of music albums contribute to the emer­gen­ce of the third wave of Bulgarian hip hop.