Filip Iveljabetter known in the music world as Phat Phillieis the most prominent regional one
hip-hop activist and DJ who during his thirty-year career, among other things, in
region brought more than 200 rap artists, and now turns a new page in its rich
career. For the first time, as part of the exhibition “Memory Lane – 40 years of hip-hop”, which will be
maintain from 25. february do 21. marta in a beautiful space Institute Liszt (Hungarian
cultural center, European Square), will present its rich collection to the general public
memorabilia and through personal stories to show four decades of this global phenomenon in
Zagreb. In parallel, a similar process is taking place in Budapest, and the audience through the co-authors and
collectors, DJ GYöReMiX and Krisztian Kindler, have a unique opportunity to find out
how this story developed some 350 kilometers to the northeast, about which little is known
these areas.
Last year, the 50th anniversary of this globally most widespread music genre was celebrated around the world, and with this exhibition, Zagreb will show how important it really is in the world’s hip-hop circles. Exactly 40 years ago, the story begins with the screening of the mega-popular films “Breakin'” and “Beat Street”, which focus on breakdancing. In the same year, the show “Electro-Funk Premiere” by the legendary radio presenter Slavin Balen starts on the Zagreb Youth Radio. Before him, the Yugoslav diplomat in New York, Mladen Mladenović, better known as Milton Malden, became the co-founder of the first hip-hop publishing house Sugar Hill, and in 1981, the first records of American rap artists appeared in Yugoslavia. During the nineties, the “Croatian hip-hop spring” comes with the show “Blackout” on Radio 101 and the great success of our most successful local generation, which consisted of Frx and Phat Phillie, TBF, Bolesna Braća, Elemental, El Bahattee, Edo Maajka and others.
Source: balkanrock.com
