Dayirman is the first Azeri hip hop

Hip hop

Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

 group. Based in Baku

Baku

Baku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...

, Dayirman was founded in 1996 by four friends. The group's name is the Azeri word for "Windmill". The group is very popular in Azerbaijan for their nationalist lyrics, fusing hip-hop with elements of traditional Meykhana

Meykhana

Meykhana is a distinctive Azerbaijani literary and folk rap tradition, consisting of an unaccompanied song performed by one or more people improvising on a particular subject...

 poetry.

In 2010 Dayirman produced the video "Justice to Khojaly" with Toni Blackman

Toni Blackman

Toni Blackman is an American rapper, actress, writer and State Department Musical Ambassador.The first Hip Hop Cultural Envoy to travel with the State Department, Blackman served in Senegal, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Botswana and Swaziland where she also delivered...

 to commemorate the victims of the Khojaly Massacre

Khojaly Massacre

The Khojaly Massacre was the killing of hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijani civilians from the town of Khojaly on 25–26 February 1992 by the Armenian and Russian armed forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War...

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