Rap Music in Spanish

This is just a quick reflection, I've enjoyed doing this blog I didn't cover rap from Spain completely, I left out a whole bunch or rappers that are crazy talented but I will cover them on a different blog and hopefully I'll cover other countries that I haven't but I'll do it mostly to learn more about those countries music. So, to anyone who read this, thank you and I hope you've enjoyed this music trip so far. Thank you!

Hip-Hop culture arrived in Spain back in the 80s when the US set up military bases in Spain. Soldiers introduced the clothing, rap music, breakdancing and the Spanish youth felt really attracted to this new thing. There were a few artist that rapped in that decade but weren't completely dedicated to rap, although they did influence rap. One of the first examples of Spanish rap beginnings can be found in the group MC Randy and DJ Jonco, but the only had singles. Not only was Spanish rap the first one I really enjoyed listening to, but was also the one that really made me like rap for what it is and most of the Spanish artists that I listened to are amazing individuals that write amazing lyrics that inspire me to be the best I can be. Spanish rap really developed and consolidated in the 90s, when the first Spanish rap album was published. The responsible for this were the group CPV (Club de los Poetas Violentos) . Consisted of El Meswy (MC), Jota Mayúscula (DJ), Kamikaze (MC)...

Venezuelan rap holds a big part of my heart and my respect. Their lyrics really get to me and I can relate so much to a lot of the rappers I will mention (especially my favorite one), because of how close Venezuela is to Colombia, so we have a lot in common but also because a lot of their struggles and the things they have to fight, we've also fought it and suffered it like them. Now I'm not saying we're the same or that we've went through the same, but a lot of things we share and have in common. The first rapper that rapped in Spanish came from Venezuela, Perucho Conde with his song La Cotorra Criolla, introduced to LatinAmericans the first rap song in Spanish in 1980. Rap didn't get a big following until 1997 with the creation of groups like La Corte, consisting of Bostas Brain, Russo40, Bless Killa and DJ Trece (who is one of the responsibles for making rap grow big in Venezuela), rap in Venezuela started to be a thing, a culture. After that, different artis...

Hip Hop culture and rap arrived in Cuba back in the 80s, but in the 90s is when it gain more following since the youth was starting to be attracted by it. It wasn't easy for rap to get following since the government first saw it as a threat of the revolution. The government felt like the message brought from the US was one of violence, crime and they thought that it might end up being counter-revolutionary. It was only later that the government realized that it was an erroneous idea and they decided to form the Cuban Rap Agency that provides state-run record label, a Hip Hop magazine and they began to support the annual Cuban Hip Hop Festival. A lot of rappers from Cuba decide to turn to regueton, since they felt like they wanted more recognition and it was what was trending. Although most underground rap from Cuba criticizes regueton heavily, because of its lyrics that are empty, that lack of spirit and only talk about trivialities. I will focus more on the underground rap, si...