Mexican hip-hop

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.[1]

Mexican hip hop is different from Chicano rap, Mexican rap always have the gangster image since the 90's (not all rappers) but their life styles are completely different from chicanos reality, in México they don't have gang life in the 90's. Mexican rap it's considered as heavy influenced by american gangsta rappers N.W.A., Snoop Dogg, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Ice Cube, 2Pac & Notorious B.I.G since their mainstream success at the time & chicano rap which many mexicans we're identified the most since they have mexican roots or hispanic in general, most rappers are influenced by Cypress Hill, Kid Frost, Delinquent Habits & Tha Mexakinz which many rappers started to imitate till the present.

Chicano rap is a subgenre of hip hop and tied more to Mexican American gangs & street life experiences mostly on California.

Mexican rap are not only rap malandro rappers (gangsta rappers) it includes all types of rap styles such as conscious rap, hardcore rap, rapcore, g-funk, r&b, trap, boom bap, political hip hop, lo-fi, pop rap, cumbia rap, banda rap, narco rap, regional urbano, alternative hip hop & many other variations, Chicano rap is mostly gangsta rap & g-funk.

History

Image of Mexican Hip hop group Cartel De Santa.

The first mexican rap record started since 1979 by the comedian Guillermo Ríos aka Memo Ríos under his stage name MC Aplausos rapping Sugarhill Gang "Rappers Delight" instrumental on his adaptations "El Cotorreo". Memo Ríos wasn't expect that many years later mexicans started to rap & had success, it was a coincidence and a mistake he stated himself on a video in 2023 talking about his story on how it become the first mexican rap song in history. [2]

The background of the first mexican rap song started by what he does in his comedian shows by having topics like the daily life in México, mexicans attitude, mexican pop culture & celebrities with their slangs & sense of humor, there was no inspiration on the hip-hop culture or any other kind.

Memo's friend Elias Cervantes was a director of the radio station Radio Variedades along with Cervantes friends got great relationships with the radio stations borrows the Rappers Delight record to Memo.

Why don't you put lyrics to it Memo, you rhyme, that genre is called rap, it's what you've been doing since 1972 and 1975.

Memo was thinking too much to make his spanish Rappers Delight version, he took 3 days to write his lyrics, he went to record his song on the studio Orbimex which it was a small record studio that make possible to record the first mexican rap song ever made.

After he record his first rap song, Memo continued to record more rap parody songs such as "Pedro Infante Murió", "Muy Delgada" (Vanilla Ice: Ice, Ice Baby parody), "Memotronic" (Technotronic: This Beat is Technotronic parody), "Cosa Loca" (The Troggs: Wild Thing parody) & "Mi Bella Genio" (Dimples D: Sucker DJ (A Witch For Love) parody) in the early 90's.

After 33 years of Mexican Hip Hop, in 2023 Spotify started to make a mural based on their playlist "50 Años de Hip-Hop Mexicano" in Mexico City that locates on Avenida Chapultepec 68 street on the Doctores neighborhood for celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop, curated by Toy Selectah by selecting the best hits from old school rap thru the new school rap. Memo Ríos appears on the mural that is the only one that doesn't have his music catalog on Spotify along with Control Machete, Cartel de Santa, Akwid, Alemán, Gera MX, Santa Fe Klan, MC Davo, Snow Tha Product, Aczino, Lefty SM & among others.[3]

The hip-hop movement started since 1991 by groups as Sindicato del Terror (SDT) & 4to Del Tren both from State of Mexico, in 1996 is the beginning of reached with the emergence of the group from Monterrey, Nuevo León, Control Machete we're the first hip hop group to make rap genre mainstream successful by promoting their music videos on MTV.

Control Machete we're the first hip hop group to earn money with music, to sign masive record deal contract such as Universal Music Group & Polygram, having tours on Latinamerica, United States, Spain & Germany & having the exact rap production formula as the american hip hop industry standards.[4]It has evolved to spanning more artists like Cartel de Santa, Dharius, Akwid, Kinto Sol, Alemán, Gera MX, Dyablo, Aczino, and many more.

See also

References

  1. ^ Warner, Simon (2004). "Review of Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop outside the USA". Ethnomusicology Forum. 13 (1): 162–166. ISSN 1741-1912. JSTOR 20184473.
  2. ^ "Nearly a Quarter of All Streams on Spotify Are Hip-Hop. Spotify's Global Editors Reflect on the Genre's Growth". Newsroom. 2023-08-10.
  3. ^ Valencia, Isabel (2024-09-06). "50 Años del Hip-Hop Mexicano Spotify Realiza Mural Conmemorativo". Milenio (in Spanish).
  4. ^ B, Davalos; B, Carlos (2017-05-04). "Studies of hybridity and agency in Mexican hip-hop".


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