Edo Maajka - Love Song about Storks

(Edo Maajka - Sevdah o Rodama)
Silvio Mirosnicenko / HR, 2007
Croatian version / Czech and English subtitles, 52 min

Edo Maajka may be the first truly Balkan rapper. A Bosnian Moslem who spent his teen years as a refugee in Croatia, he made his name not by copying American hip-hop or playing up nationalist resentments, but by articulating the shared experiences, fears and frustrations of a generation of Bosniak, Croat and Serb youth, railing against political corruption and postwar division with a sense of outrage and a sense of humor. Now the biggest MC in the former Yugoslavia, he still frequently plays small, impromptu gigs in isolated towns, building a hip-hop community that crosses borders and transcends ethnicity.