Sokół Essentials

It wouldn't be out of place to call Wojciech Sosnowski one of the progenitors of the Polish hip-hop scene. As founder of the incendiary crews Ziomki I Przyjaciele Sklad and W Wyjatkowych Okolicznosciach (as well as the premier rap label Prosto), over the years he's left little question that he's a top curator. The veteran MC can trade bars with the best of them — on "I Żeby Było Normalnie" he shows a stable of fellow rapstars who spits Poland's slickest verse, and on "Zajarany Życiem" he teams up with longtime collaborator PONO to spin poetic gold from lyrics about an ordinary Warsaw morning.