Hip hop in the Dominican Republic

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Dominican hip hop has its own style of hip hop music by mixing its native music and rapping to it like in the genres Merenrap or Merenhouse.

[edit] Reggaeton

The two popular types of music from the Dominican Republic, Merengue and Bachata are also known for being mixed into another subgenre of hip hop known as Reggaeton where they take their melodies and blend it in with the reggaeton sound called Bachateo. The Luny Tunes are a famous duo of reggaeton producers from the Dominican Republic, who have with worked with almost every one in the genre. They are similar to The Neptunes of hip hop are also known a lot for blending Dominican merengue and bachata in reggaeton.

[edit] Artists

A few Domincan artists in reggaeton include Noztra, Don Miguelo, Gem Star and Big Mato, Los Dementes Algarete or LDA, Reychesta Secret Weapon of Tres Coronas, High Rollers Family, A&A, OG Black and La Fabrica. Some Puerto Rican reggaeton artists of Dominican descent include Arcangel, De La Ghetto, Miguelito, Nicky Jam, Jomar, Boy Wonder, and Nely "El Arma Secreta". After that have appeared a new generetion of Dominican Hip Hop some of the hip hop singer are Lapiz Conciente, Joa, Toxic Crow, Vakero, Amaurys,[Micro's Way]], Mr.Face, Packer Luther King, Beethoven Villaman, Big K, Monkey Black, Guariboa, El Poeta Callejero, Piddy Pa aka Pablo Piddy, Danny Punto Rojo, Nikko Some American rappers come from Dominican descent such as Fabolous, Cassidy, Juelz Santana, J. R. Writer, Triple Seis, Ju Ju of The Beatnuts,and of the greatest emcees of all time DMC from RUN-DMC

[edit] External links

• BabelRap.com - Rap in every language. Hip-Hop without borders.