Editing Italian hip-hop (section)

===1980s===
In the early 1980s, hip hop spread to Italy through [[posse cut]]s, which were popular in [[Self-managed social centres in Italy|social centers]], alternative centers where several left-wing young people regularly meet, and where the extremely influential [[Italian hardcore]] punk scene was flourishing, from which the Italian posse cut movement inherited its social conscious. The first star to emerge from this scene was [[Jovanotti]], who would [[Rapping|rap]] in otherwise standard [[Italian popular music|Italian pop]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/arts/music/jovanotti-italian-rapper-brings-his-act-to-new-york.html?_r=0 |title=A Roman Rapper Comes to New York, Where He Can Get Real |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=3 October 2012 |access-date=24 February 2014 |last1=Sisario |first1=Ben }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pri.org/stories/2012-08-30/jovanotti-brings-italian-style-hip-hop-us  |title=Jovanotti Brings Italian-Style Hip-Hop to US &#124; Public Radio International |publisher=Pri.org |access-date=24 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Khan |first=Imran |url=http://www.popmatters.com/post/174843-dreadbeat-italian-rapper-luches-chi-non-dimentica/ |title=Dreadbeat: Italian Rapper Luche's "Chi Non Dimentica" |magazine=PopMatters |access-date=24 February 2014}}</ref> While Jovanotti was discovered by the famous producer [[Claudio Cecchetto]] and quickly reached fame, in the underground Radical Stuff published the first Italian hip hop street video Let's Get Dizzy, featuring lo Greco Bros in 1989. Also that year, Marko Von Schoenberg of Stone Castle Records in Italy produced Dre' n OG along with Andre Herring (now known as the King of Art) and Nathaniel Goodwin, with songs such as AK-47, Got Damn, Do Beat, and Spread Your Legs. But DRE and OG never received any payments for recordings.

[[Underground hip hop]] group Assalti Frontali, was founded in [[Rome]] in 1988. They are known for their [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] [[political hip hop|politically]] and [[Political hip hop#Conscious hip hop|socially]] charged lyrics.<ref>{{cite web|language=it|title=Assalti Frontali - Biografia|url=https://www.rockol.it/artista/assalti-frontali/biografia#:~:text=Gli%20Assalti%20Frontali%20si%20formano,suscitano%20grande%20interesse%20negli%20ascoltatori.|website=rockol.it}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> 
[[File:J AX Articolo 31.jpg|left|thumb|278x278px|[[J-Ax]], ex member of the [[Articolo 31]] performing at a concert]]