Re: Nurse Allison – Actully you're centuries behind us. Get your facts straight. Do you even know anything about Sweden?

The ever-changing music genre, hip-hop, is constantly moving in new exciting directions, locally as well as globally. In 2008, the Swedish hip-hop scene is experiencing a new sound, which has been embraced by an amazingly varied crowd ranging from 5-year-old snot-nosed kids to 65-year-old grandmothers. The person behind this new sound is Adam Tensta. He is the latest in a long line of talented hip-hop entrepreneurs who have put their imprint on Swedish hip-hop music.

Adam Tensta gained national exposure in May 2007 with his debut single They Wanna Know, which enjoyed heavy rotation on all major radio stations as well as music television stations, including ZTV, The Voice TV and MTV. A few months later the big breakthrough came, as Adam Tensta dropped the single My Cool from the album It’s a Tensta Thing. It became an instant hit and parked itself on the Swedish Dance chart for eight consecutive weeks, reaching a fourth place on the Swedish single chart. My Cool has been downloaded nearly 150,000 times from MySpace and had more than 1.2 million views in its first five months on YouTube. Perhaps the biggest sign of appreciation came when the album It’s a Tensta thing was awarded the 2008 Swedish Grammis, Sweden’s equivalent to a Grammy, for best Dance/Hip Hop/Soul album.