Eastern bloc rocking: is Jesteś Bogiem the 8 Mile of Poland?

A new film about an early Polish rap crew is a hit in its home country, but misses its chance to make a real statement about the importance of post-communist hip-hopThe trenchant clatter of breakbeats was one way you could tell Poland had rejoined the slipstream of global culture in the 1990s. That was when the country first got its own hip-hop scene – not the most likely thing under the previous communist regime. Adopting another favourite byproduct of western culture, nostalgia, the Polish a...

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