# Low bap

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{{Short description|Music genre}}
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| stylistic_origins = [Hip hop music](/source/Hip_hop_music)
| cultural_origins  = 1990s, [Greece](/source/Greece)
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'''Low bap''' is a subgenre of the [Greek](/source/Greece) [hip hop music](/source/hip_hop_music) scene that emerged in the mid-1990s as the sound of the prominent Greek hip hop group [Active Member](/source/Active_Member).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Arnaouti |first=Eirini |date=2021 |title=Greek Teenagers' Cultural Taste and Identity Expression through a Documentary-Making Project |url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1341895 |journal=Film Education Journal |language=en |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=44–57 |doi=10.14324/FEJ.04.1.04 |s2cid=236299135 |issn=2515-7086|doi-access=free }}</ref> It is characterized by slower [tempo](/source/tempo) and [rapping](/source/rapping) than usual, often combined with lyrics with sociopolitical content.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Terkourafi |first=Marina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YoCETlhOPDEC |title=The Languages of Global Hip Hop |date=2010-09-23 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-8264-3160-8 |pages=163–164 |language=en}}</ref> The words "low bap" is derived from the [boom bap](/source/boom_bap) hip hop subgenre from the East Coast of the United States. Cinematic attempts, concerts, and festivals have also taken place in an effort to broaden the scope of the movement, and introduce new bands to the genre's range of followers.

Low bap has its beginnings in [Perama](/source/Perama), an industrial suburb of [Piraeus](/source/Piraeus) in [Athens Urban Area](/source/Athens_Urban_Area).

== Origin ==
In June 1992, during a live performance of [Public Enemy](/source/Public_Enemy_(band)) in [Nikaia](/source/Nikaia_(Athens)%2C_Greece), [B. D. Foxmoor](/source/B._D._Foxmoor) and MCD met each other and created one of the first Greek [hip hop group](/source/hip_hop_group)s, Active Member. In 1995, hip hop music was not well known in Greece. Active Member attracted big discographic companies and signed up with the consortium Warner ([Warner Music Group](/source/Warner_Music_Group)). A few months later, the third album of Active Member was produced, under the name ''To Megalo Kolpo'' (The Great Wangle), and became widely known. On that album, Active Member decided to rename hip hop as they had taken it in, thus naming it "low bap."

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.lowbap.com/ Low bap main site]

{{Subgenres and fusion genres of hip hop music}}

Category:Music of Greece
Category:Hip-hop genres
Category:Greek hip-hop

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