La Fossa is one of the earlier rap

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...

 groups from Italy

Italy

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 and one of the first from the island of Sardinia

Sardinia

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...

. They formed in 1996. Unlike fellow Sardinian rap group Sa Razza

Sa Razza

Sa Razza is one of the first hip hop crews from Sardinia, Italy. Their first track "In sa ia" was the first rap track in Sardinian. On their debut album "Wessisla", they merged influences from G funk, Chicano rap and other Latin styles with their Sardinian and Italian rhymes...

, La Fossa usually does not rap in Sardinian, and uses primarily Italian

Italian language

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 lyrics. Their first full-length CD was nevertheless called Around the Rionez, riones (usually spelled with s) being a 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....

 term for neighbourhood. Some of their main influences are rappers like Kid Frost, N.W.A, and Master P

Master P

Percy Robert Miller , better known by his stage name Master P or his business name P. Miller, is an American rapper, actor, entrepreneur, investor, and producer. He is the founder of the popular label No Limit Records, which went bankrupt and was relaunched as New No Limit Records through Koch...

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Discography

• 1997 self-titled, featuring SR Raza et Concilio VIII (Rhyme Racket)
• 1998 Around the Rionez, featuring Flaminio Maphia + SR Raza (CD Club)
• 2001 Tre (Original Beat Rec.)