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Pupiddhru is one of the most talented emergent singers in the Italian dancehall movement. Born in Salento, he travelled all over Italy following his family and began taking the attention of the people in his first live performance at Acquapotabile, the legendary yard of I-tal Sound. In the summer of 2006 he consolidated his brotherhood with Dj War and followed him during the summer dancehalls in Salento. Between 2006 and 2007, this 20 years old boy makes himself known in the main ragga mc contests, winning the 1st and the 2nd edition of the "mc reggae contest" at Rolling Stone in Milan, and also the recent Microphone Clash in Salento. Together with Wario he founded the sound called Badzooka, which is fastly getting known in the italian movement. Badzooka was founded in 2005 as a result of the encounter between the selecta, Wario, from Milan, and the dj/singer from Lecce, Pupiddhru, both coming up from personal musical experiences and collaborations with other crew in Milan and Lecce. The musical path the crew goes through is constantly evolving and its main guideline is to promote total aspects of reggae music, in order to let the approach be even more conscious about the culture that originated it, his essential messages and traditions; that's why Badzooka does not like that frequently applied pointless censorship, trying better to promote the wish to re-interpretate this reality and contextualize it within our culture. The musical selections of Badzooka range from the roots reggae music, through rub a dub and raggamuffin, to his latest evolutions in new roots and bashment dancehall, trying also to make these genres come closer to other musical languages and to promote only high level musical productions. In 2006 the speaker of the crew Pupiddhru won the 1st edition of the Italian Reggae Mc Contest produced and organized in Milan by I-tal Sound and followed the veteran Dj War through most of all the summer dancehalls in Salento, which also saw the performance of both Wario and Pupiddhru long side Dj War. During its activity the crew had the chance to play by the side of some significant sounds of the italian reggae movement just like I-tal Sound, Kalibandulu, General Palma, Bleizone and also Bushkillah, I-Shence and Full Squad in the well-known Pergola yard of Milan.