B.U.G Mafia

B.U.G. Mafia (Bucharest Under Ground Mafia, formerly Black Under Ground Mafia ) is a Bucharest based hip hop group (founded in 1993), among the first hip hop acts in Romania, widely recognized as pioneers of gangsta. Though generally categorized as gangsta rap, B.U.G. Mafia proved several times that they can bring political issues in their music, such as the Post-Communist Romanian political class, poverty in Romania's communist-built housing projects or street violence. They were subsequently banned from many mainstream T.V. and radio stations in Romania and even at times prevented from touring, spending a night in jail after their first concert in Turnu Severin in 1997.
In 2003 the group released its 7th full-length studio album on their own record label, Casa Productions. Distributed by Cat Music/Media Services it's named Băieţi Buni (Goodfellas) and it marked a new start for B.U.G. Mafia, both in producing techniques and their lyrics. The album was supported by the hit single Romaneste (In Romanian) which proved once again that the group had much more to say in the Romanian hip hop scene. It`s a Public-Enemy style attack on the Romanian political scene with the video depicting the group's members in police custody verbally attacking the authorities that questioned them.