If you think hip hop seems to be everywhere nowadays, you’re right — Greenland = “everywhere.” Nuuk Posse billed themselves as the first Greenlandic Rap act, which may have been true; the crew’s members, all Inuit, came together to rap as early as 1985. By 1991 the group had officially become Nuuk Posse. Watch the video for the video for “Qitik,” which the self-proclaimed first Greenlandic rap act puts forth as “the first Greenlandic rap.”
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Greenlandic Rap — Nuuk Posse
When we say hip hop is everywhere, we mean everywhere. “Nuuk Posse” is Greenland’s most accomplished rap group. They formed in 1985, have toured worldwide, and in 2004 were nominated for the distinction of “Messengers of Truth” by the United Nations. As we all do, thep rap in English, Danish and Greenlandic (Kalaallisut.)
