The birth of Filipino hip hop music (commonly called "Pinoy Rap" and its emcees "Rapistas") came in the early 1980s, with early records from Dyords Javier ( Na Onseng Delight) and Vincent Dafalong ( Nunal), were both records released in 1980. Several mobile DJ crews of the era included such names as the Rock All Parties Crew which emerged onto the scene only to produce such future Pinoy rap pioneers as Andrew E and Norman B.ฤก980s: Seeds of a movement, from the South Bronx to Metro Manila International, with members consisting primarily from Clark Air Base, The Eclipse (whose former members included Francis Magalona, Dance 10's Darwin Tuason and current Federation Sounds' Glenn "Kico" Lelay), Info-Clash Breakers and Ground Control (members included Rap Master Fordy, later to be known as Andrew E, and Jay "Smooth" MC of Bass Rhyme Posse) became mainstays in local parks and malls in and around the Metro Manila area such as Glorietta Mall, which was an early hotspot for breakers. Groundbreaking hip hop films such as Wild Style (1982), Breakin' (1984) and Krush Groove (1985) were also major influences and as early as 1982 local breakdancing crews like the Angeles City based Whooze Co. The towns and barrios surrounding the numerous American military bases that were scattered throughout that country such as Clark Air Base in Angeles City and Subic Bay Naval Base in Olongapo were among the earliest to be exposed to the culture as contact with African-American, Filipino American and Latino servicemen resulted in some of the earliest exposure the locals had to the new musical genre. Numerous cassette tapes, videos, books and magazines concerning hip hop issues and popular rap artists would be sent out by Filipinos to family members back in the islands. The intimate relationship between hip-hop culture and the large Filipino American community along the United States West Coast naturally resulted in the exportation of rap music back to the Philippines. The future importation of hip hop culture and music, similar to the previous genres mentioned can be credited to the direct contact Filipinos received with both Americans and Filipino Americans, or as they are commonly called "balikbayans", stemming from the root words "balik" meaning to come back and "bayan" loosely translating into hometown or homeland. Bands such as The Commodores, The Gap Band, James Brown, Con Funk Shun, The Bar-Kays and Earth, Wind and Fire among many others received heavy rotation on Manila airwaves. The beginnings of hip-hop culture in the Philippines can be attributed to several main factors the innate of them being the heavy influx of American musical styles in that country as reflected in the widespread popularity during the 1960s of Motown artists The Temptations, The Supremes and The Jackson Five and later in the 1970s of funk, soul and disco music. Origins: The roots of hip-hop in the Islands 6 Rise of the turntablists: Built from scratch.2 1980s: Seeds of a movement, from the South Bronx to Metro Manila. 1 Origins: The roots of hip-hop in the Islands.In the USA, apl.de.ap of The Black Eyed Peas, Chad Hugo of The Neptunes and N.E.R.D, and Hodgy Beats of OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All) and MellowHype are cited as the most successful Filipino-Americans in the music industry. In the Philippines, Francis M and Andrew E are cited as the most influential rappers in the country, being the first to release mainstream rap albums. Rap music released in the Philippines has appeared in different languages or dialects such as Tagalog, Chavacano, Cebuano, Ilocano and English. The Philippines is known to have had the first hip-hop music scene in Asia since the early 1980s, largely due to the country's historical connections with the United States where hip-hop was originated. This article focuses first on Filipino hip-hop in the Philippines, and secondly on that in the USA. Filipino Hiphop or Laguda is hip-hop music performed by musicians of Filipino descent, both in the Philippines, and overseas, especially by Filipino-Americans.
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