Dogge Doggelito
Douglas Léon (born 1975), is a Swedish rapper best known under his stage name Dogge Doggelito. He grew up in Alby, a suburb in Botkyrka, south-west of Stockholm. Léon is the lead rapper in the band The Latin Kings. Two other members of the group are brothers - Salla and Chepe.
They all, together with Dogge, have roots in Latin America (Venezuela and Chile), which is why they took their name from the gang Latin Kings.
The Latin Kings (TLK) were, in 1994, among the first to release a hip hop album with lyrics in Swedish, Swedish rappers had before that time almost always used English.
The debut album was titled Välkommen till förorten (Welcome to the suburb) and many of Dogge’s lyrics promote anti-racism and deal with growing up in the suburbs.
The Latin Kings have become famous for rapping in the local Rinkeby Swedish, a "multi-ethnolect language" that is used in areas with many immigrants. It's basically Swedish with loanwords from Turkish, Aramaic, Spanish, Finnish , Persian, Arabic and a few other languages.
