Yes, that is right, Chile has a great variety of rap musicians. through the years the chilean rap it had a big evolution since the 90's when the rap music got to Chile. Rock band "LOS PRISIONEROS" between the years 1988-1989 was considered one of the first to break into the rap in the Latin American with the song "The four luchos". The evolution of this music, had been from the dj's, passing trough the producers or beatmakers and of course the increasing level of the mc's and their lirycs. Talking about the lirycs, the main topics are similar with the topics of United States rap, obviously they refer about social problems of Chile like the big inequalities between the rich peolpe and the poor peolpe, problems with the drugs, criticsm against politics and politicians, perosnal problems or every feeling that they want to express. Nowadays the Chilean rap is considerer one of the best on Latin America because of the whole production of the music, from the flow and content of the lirycs to the beats made by producers or beatmakers. Finally the best of all it is the music is for free and concert are cheap or for free.
Here is a video of Chilean rap:
Singer: Portavoz
Song: El otro Chile ft. Staylok (The other Chile)
Album: Escribo Rap con R de Revolución (I wrote Rap with R of Revolution)
I completely agree that rap music have gained more addressees over the years, but this is just known for ones who listens rap music. I do not consider myself a person who knows about rappers but there was one group that was checking the other day and I liked it. The name was “Guerrillero Oculto” and his lyrics were about everything. I would tell to people who would like to know what’s happening in the country, I would advise them to listen to this guy because he creates lyrics, I think, really fast and they do not are like just empty words to fulfill a stanza but they have really meaningful stuff in there related to what is going on. I'm not sure but I believe they were in our University a couple of weeks ago, did they?
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