Mexican hip-hop
{{short description|Form of dance and music in Mexico}}
Mexican hip hop is a form of hip hop music from Mexico, performed by Mexican artists and artists of Mexican descent. The growth of hip hop as a genre has led to various adaptations of it depending on a region and language.{{Cite journal |last=Warner |first=Simon |date=2004 |title=Review of Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop outside the USA |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20184473 |journal=Ethnomusicology Forum |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=162–166 |issn=1741-1912}}
Mexican hip hop is different from Chicano rap. Chicano rap is a subgenre of hip hop and tied more to Chicano and Mexican American experiences.
History
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Hip hop originated from the Bronx, New York {{Cite web |title=The South Bronx: Where Hip-Hop Was Born {{!}} WNYC {{!}} New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News |url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/89709-south-bronx-hip-hop-year-zero/ |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=WNYC |language=en}} and as it become a sensation it grew to other parts of the world. The hip-hop movement reached Mexico around the 1990s with the emergence of the group Control Machete{{Cite web |last=B |first=Davalos |last2=B |first2=Carlos |date=2017-05-04 |title=Studies of hybridity and agency in Mexican hip-hop |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2152/62687 |language=en}} and it has evolved to spanning more artists like Cartel de Santa, [https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gera-mx-mn0003841781 Gera MX], [https://pianity.com/artist/el-pinche-mara El Pinche Mara], Natanael Cano, and many more.
See also
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