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Encyclopedia > Taiwanese hip hop

Taiwanese hip hop music started in the early 1990s, popularized by early hip hop trio L.A. Boyz. A destinctive style of rap emerged, instead of using Chinese, Taiwanese was used for rap. Since the late 1990s, various underground hip hop groups started gaining mainstream attention. Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... L.A. Boyz was a Taiwanese pop/rap group comprised of brothers Jeff (黃立成, Huang Licheng) and Stanley (黃立行/Huang Lixing) Huang, and their cousin Steven Lin. ... Taiwanese (pe̍h-oē-jī: Tâi-oân-oē or Tâi-gí; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Táiyǔ, Táiwānhuà) is a dialect of Min Nan Chinese spoken by about 70% of Taiwans population. ...


Artists

(The first band mixture the Taiwan traditional music & hip hop style) L.A. Boyz was a Taiwanese pop/rap group comprised of brothers Jeff (黃立成, Huang Licheng) and Stanley (黃立行/Huang Lixing) Huang, and their cousin Steven Lin. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... MC HotDog (born Chung-Jen Yao, Chinese: 姚中仁, Taiwanese: Iâu Tiong-jîn, pinyin: Yáo Zhōngrén) is a Taiwanese rap artist known for his use of explicit lyrics in his songs. ... Machi Machi (sometimes 麻吉) is a popular Taiwanese hip hop group. ... Dog G (Taiwanese: Toā-ki 大支, born Tseng Kuan-jung 曾冠榕, Taiwanese: Chan Koàn-iông, pinyin: Zēng Guànróng, ca. ... Underground Nation (地下國度),is a Taiwanese hip hop group consisting of members of the popular Machi group and Da Zoo. ...

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See also

  • Kou Chou Ching
 Website:[1]http://www.kou.com.tw(Chinese) MySpace:[2]http://www.myspace.com/koucc(English)
World hip hop

African - Albanian - Algerian - American - Angolan - Arabic - Asian - Australian - Azerbaijani - Bahraini - Belgian - Bosnian and Herzegovinan - Botswana - Brazilian - British - Bulgarian - Canadian - Cape Verdean - Chinese - Congolese - Cuban - Czech - Danish - Dominican - Dutch - Egyptian - European - Filipino - Finnish - French - Gambian - German - Ghanaian - Greek - Greenlandic - Guinean - Hong Kong - Hungarian - Icelandic - Indian - Indonesian - Irish - Israeli - Italian - Ivoirian - Japanese - Kenyan - Korean - Latin American - Malagasy - Malaysian - Malian - Mexican - Native American - Nepalese - New Zealand - Nigerian - Nigerien - Norwegian - Polish - Portuguese - Romanian - Russian - Rwandan - Salvadoran - Senegalese - Serbian - Slovak - Slovenian - South African - Spanish - Swedish - Swiss - Taiwanese - Tanzanian - Togolese - Turkish - Ugandan - Ukrainian - Zimbabwean Taiwan is densely-populated and culturally diverse, including a majority of Han Chinese, including the Holo and Hakka peoples and significant quantities of Mainlanders, refugees who arrived with Chiang Kai-shek in the middle of the 20th century, and the minority of aboriginal peoples. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... Hip hop music has been popular in Africa since the early 1980s due to widespread American influence. ... Arabic hip hop is the hip hop music and culture originating in the Arabic-speaking world. ... Asian Hip Hop is a heterogenous musical genre that covers all Hip-Hop music as recorded and produced by artists of Asian origin. ... Hip hop is quite a new style of music for Bosnia and Herzegovina, but it has nevertheless proven very popular. ... The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinsasha, has long been a major home for pan-African styles of popular music like rumba, soukous and kwassa kwassa. ... European hip hop is hip hop music created by European musicians. ... Ivoirian hip hop is a major part of the popular music of Côte dIvoire, and has been fused with many of the countrys native styles, such as zouglou. ... Latin rap is not a homogeneous musical style but rather a term that covers all Hip-Hop music recorded by artists of Latin origin. ... Native American hip hop is popular among Native Americans in the United States and the First Nations of Canada. ... Serbian hip hop started in the early 80s, with the birth of b-boy crews and their battles which have spread over the country in no time. ...


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