Serbia, culture and music: Linguistic "waking" in hip-hop
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- 24 Aug 2022
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Whether "may" or "real", Anđela Ruvidić does the same thing - walks around the city. And she knows what that means.
Although she is from Arandjelovac in Šumadija, in the central part of Serbia where the standard Serbian language is spoken, she has adopted these expressions and uses them every day because she listens to hip-hop groups from Niš and Split.
"Often in the conversation I insert some words that I heard in their songs, even if the interlocutors do not understand them," she tells the BBC in Serbian.
"I like to show off the expressions I pick up from Stereo Banana in front of my friends from Nis, so I regularly end up looking funny," adds the woman from Arandjelov, who has lived in Belgrade for years.
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Stereo Banana from Niš is one of the hip-hop groups that rap in the local language in Serbia.
This duo is not the first hip-hop group from Nis to perform lyrics in the Nis dialect.
Ding Dong, D - Fence are rap bands that had local popularity, while Stereo Banana made a breakthrough to audiences all over the Balkans.
"When I started making music, I wanted to be different from the others who were already on the scene, and since at that time a large number of rappers had engaged and 'intellectual' lyrics, the humorous rap lyrics in the Niš language were interesting to me ", says Marko AnÄ‘elković, a rapper from Stereo Banana, for the BBC in Serbian. Read More…
