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Italian hip hop started in the early 1990s. One of the first hip hop crews to catch the attention of the Italian mainstream was Milan’s Articolo 31 then and still today produced by Franco Godi who had written the soundtrack to the animated TV series Signor Rossi in the 1970s. The European Music Office’s report on Music in Europe claimed that in general hip hop from the south of Italy tends to be harder than that from the north .
