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Heads who knows their hip hop history can tell you that the first bi-lingual Latin rap record was laid down by the Bronx band Mean Machine in 1981. The track was called “Disco Dream” and it proves that, since the golden age of hip hop, there’s always been a strong Latino presence. It may have been English-speaking New York kids who invented hip hop, but the vitality of the genre lends itself to every language—part of the universal appeal that eventually broke hip hop into the mainstream. Other early Latin rappers include Spanish Fly & the Terrible 2 (“Spanglish”) and the Puerto Rican rappers Prince Whipper Whip and Rubie Dee from the underground collective The Fantastic Five, Master OC and Devastating Tito from The Fearless Four and DJ Charlie Chase from the legendary Cold Crush Brothers. But once hip hop itself went found favor with the American mainstream, logically the West Coast scene became ground zero for Latin rap. The MC Mellow Man Ace had one of the first Latin rap hits (or even one of the first bilingual rap hits in any two languages) with his 1989 track “Mentirosa.” Mellow Man Ace is generally honored with the title “Godfather of Latin Rap”—meanwhile, his old band Cypress Hill have gone on to find serious success in their own right. A subgenre focusing on the Mexican-American immigrant experience, Chicano rap has been blowing up anywhere there’s a large Mexican immigrant population and artists like Kid Frost and Lil Rob have become platinum success stories while peppering their rhymes with Chicano slang and accenting their beats with traditional accordion flourishes.
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