I lost the record years later, in a flood. The sleeve disintegrated. The vinyl warped into a useless, black bowl.
“Where did you find this?” I asked, my voice cracking. Ex-Yu Rock- Pop- Hip-Hop The Best Of World Music
When the beat dropped into Gane by Who See (a Montenegrin hip-hop duo I didn’t even know I had on the record), Srđan finally spoke. “You have this?” He grinned, a real grin, the first I’d seen on him. “My cousin is their sound guy.” I lost the record years later, in a flood
The first track was a bootleg of Azra’s Štićenik , but it bled into a raw, demo version of Rambo Amadeus rapping over a stolen Funky Four Plus One beat. Then, without pause, a scratchy recording of Sarajevo’s Bijelo Dugme morphed into a bassline from Beogradski Sindikat . It was a mess. It was perfect. “Where did you find this
“World music?” I scoffed, already trying to sound like the cynical teenager I wasn’t. “This is just our stuff.”