Sa Razza
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Sa Razza is one of the first hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 crews from Sardinia
Sardinia
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, Italy
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. Their first track "In sa ia" (1992) ("In the street") was the first rap
Hip hop music
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 track in Sardinian
Sardinian language
Sardinian is a Romance language spoken and written on most of the island of Sardinia . It is considered the most conservative of the Romance languages in terms of phonology and is noted for its Paleosardinian substratum....

. On their debut album "Wessisla", they merged influences from G funk, Chicano rap
Chicano rap
Chicano Rap is a subgenre of hip hop music, Latin rap and gangsta rap that embodies aspects of West Coast and Southwest Mexican American culture and is typically performed by American rappers and musicians of Mexican descent.-Early Years:...

 and other Latin styles with their Sardinian and Italian
Italian language
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 rhymes. Their second album, "E.Y.A.A.", was almost exclusively in Sardinian and musically less close to American rap music. Two members of Sa Razza, Micio P and Quilo, also formed a rap duo called Malos Cantores
Malos Cantores
Malos Cantores is a rap duo from Sardinia, Italy. It is composed of Micio P and Quilo, both former members of pioneering Sardinian hip hop group Sa Razza. Their debut album, "Un grande raap sardo" , features performances by many guests, among them Italy's Caparezza, Barcelona's Leur y la Chola,...

, another group dedicated to Sardinian rap.

Members

The original members were Quilo and Ruido.
The current members are Raio, Micio P, and DJ Nike.

Discography

as SR Raza
  • 1996 Wesssisla Undafunk Records

as Sa Razza
  • 2001 E.Y.A.A. Cinenova/W'n'B
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