6-29-2025 MY FAVES: croatian rap: a genre slept on in the diaspora

 music of the week

lot's of discussion was held this past week, between sib and i, about croatian music and what's listened to in our diaspora community. you've got your classics, in croatia labeled "trash" aka standard mainstream: thompson, severina, magazin, many more. this is entry level croatian music. you were born into the community simply knowing these songs by default. it's to the point that boyfriend (non-croatian) recognizes some songs.

but croatian rap is still slept on. if you don't count the rap songs that are soccer fan songs. and maybe kuku$ - that was briefly popular across the pond. 

my duty is to educate my people. here's some old rap classics  and newer finds from my days of growing up in cro and digging through the more obscure charts. be alert, many of these songs highly misogynistic and still never get skipped when they come on shuffle.

fil tilen - debela

pare di su - 2late

7 ujutro - hiljson mandela

ganga i rera - peki, vojko v

fantastična - tbf

fjaka - dino dvornik (not really a rapper but the song is rap enough. not sure who's featured - it's scrapped from the internet)

telefon faki - bolesna braća

truba - dječaci, kid rađa

esi mi dobar - bad copy

gaber - krankšvester

make sure this genre is not slept on in your summer playlist.

in other, more mainstream news, lorde released her new album virgin and from one zilennial scorpio to another, i am one with lorde and all she preaches. 

books of the week

i finished book #2 of the it girl series, notorious and am beginning reckless, book #3 - which follows jenny humphrey's arrival to the waverly boarding school. it's totally pg but slightly sexist (granted, it was written in 2006), but it's a simple summer read. i have a tendency to read teen books over the summer. not sure why?

movies of the week

every time i'm high, (which is a rarity as i am an alcoholic first), i crave watching studio ghibli movies. so the other night, we were baked and i rented the secret world of arrietty. it was already like 1am and i was barely conscious for the entirety of the film. i can't tell you much about it, but the soundtrack is delightful and parts of the storyline were as magical as one could expect.