99 Posse - Corto circuito (videoclip)

What this video is

99 Posse emerged from Officina 99, a centri sociali in Naples founded in 1991, making them one of the flagship acts of the Italian posse movement — a network of politically radical hip-hop collectives tied to squatted social centres across the country. The 1998 album Corto Circuito deepened the group's stylistic range, absorbing drum 'n' bass and trip-hop influences into their established reggae/rap framework, at a…

Why it matters

A key document of Italian political hip-hop at its commercial-underground crossroads: 99 Posse's third album brought the centri sociali sound to major label distribution without abandoning its activist DNA. The Corto Circuito videoclip represents the visual arm of a movement that fused Neapolitan…