Today, Spanish-language rappers continue to play a formidable role in the movement’s evolution and expansion. There’s also Buenos Aires’ battle rap competition El Quinto Escalón, which began in 2012, where the likes of Paulo Londra, Duki and Wos rose from the Argentine capital’s underground scene to international notoriety, via viral YouTube videos. Mexican tianguis eventually became a hotbed for battle rap, where batalla heavyweight champ Aczino helped elevate the art form to the next level.Įnter Red Bull’s Batalla de los Gallos - formed in 2005 - which, throughout the years, helped boost the booming scene across Ibero America, snowballing by the years and making stars out of urban kids with lyrical dexterity. Trailblazers began adopting the lyrical style in Spain during the ‘90s, thanks to the likes of Nach, SFDK, El Chojin and more.īy the turn of the new millennium, the blockbuster Eminem-starring film 8 Mile inspired a movement among the youth in pursuit of winning rap battles, as they flexed their freestyling abilities. Through cassettes and bootlegs, the Spanish-language art form traveled far and wide, planting seeds of rap throughout the Hispanophone world. Nuyoricans took the style back to the island, where in the 1990s, it got the tropical treatment in the hands of genre pioneers Vico C, known as the Father of Latin Hip-Hop, streetwise poet Tego Calderón, and her royal reggaetón majesty, Ivy Queen - and later Residente, who revolutionized the style via sardonic wordplay and fearless social commentary. But unbeknownst to many is that the Latin immigrant population dwelling in the Bronx played a fundamental part in the genre’s growth. As a salute to hip-hop’s golden year, with the genre officially turning 50 on Friday (August 11), the Billboard Latin and Billboard Español teams are uniting to compile a list of the most extraordinary, compelling and commanding Spanish-language hip-hop acts of our generation and beyond.Īs any self-respecting rap pundit knows, hip-hop was born in New York, 1973. The most essential Spanish-language rappers, the G.O.A.T.s, and the most riveting Masters of Ceremonies, of yesterday and today: It’s a heavy crown that only a few dozen are worthy of upholding, and of passing on its majestic power.
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