MC Einar
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MC Einar was a Danish
pioneer rap music group from 1987 to 1990, who released the first Danish language
rap album in 1988. They described the Copenhagen
youth culture with humorous texts, and attained mainstraim popularity with Jul, Det' Cool and Arh, Dér!. The group was founded 1987 by DJs Nikolaj Peyk and Jan Kabré, rapper Einar Enemark as MC Einar, and human beatbox Jesper Wildmand.
Based in Sorgenfri
near Copenhagen, Peyk and Kabré had been in the Danish hip hop
environment since its birth in the early 1980s. They made several failed attempts at performing Danish language rap starting in 1986, but would not succeed until the inclusion of Enemark in 1987. Enemark was not previously into hip hop, and part of his success was that he did not try to emulate the style of English-language rappers, but had his own unique Danish style instead. The group then signed a record-deal under the name MC Einar. After internal problems, the band disbanded in 1990.
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
pioneer rap music group from 1987 to 1990, who released the first Danish language
Danish language
Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...
rap album in 1988. They described the Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
youth culture with humorous texts, and attained mainstraim popularity with Jul, Det' Cool and Arh, Dér!. The group was founded 1987 by DJs Nikolaj Peyk and Jan Kabré, rapper Einar Enemark as MC Einar, and human beatbox Jesper Wildmand.
Based in Sorgenfri
Sorgenfri
Sorgenfri is a neighbourhood in Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality in Greater Copenhagen lying just north of Kongens Lyngby. It is the site of Sorgenfri Palace....
near Copenhagen, Peyk and Kabré had been in the Danish 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...
environment since its birth in the early 1980s. They made several failed attempts at performing Danish language rap starting in 1986, but would not succeed until the inclusion of Enemark in 1987. Enemark was not previously into hip hop, and part of his success was that he did not try to emulate the style of English-language rappers, but had his own unique Danish style instead. The group then signed a record-deal under the name MC Einar. After internal problems, the band disbanded in 1990.