6 Underrated K-Hip Hop Artists That Deserve Your Attention

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One of the most popular fields of music at the present time is undoubtedly K-Pop. It would be a disservice to K-Pop to call it a genre, although it has been popularised as such across the world. However, K-Pop can be more correctly referred to as the umbrella term for Korean music that has come to be popular worldwide. That includes genres ranging from soulful ballads to R&B, pop, rock, alt-rock and of course, hip-hop.

The hip-hop sub-section of K-Pop is more commonly known as K-Hip Hop or Korean Hip Hop. While rapping is a distinct part of what we generally know as K-Pop music, it is quite different from the core of Korean Hip Hop. The rap portions or singing rap portions in K-Pop are, for the most part, just that. The genre of the song, however, cannot always be delegated to Hip Hop.

In the case of K-Hip Hop, the overall vibe of the song is predominantly the hip hop that we know to have originated in the African American community in America. However, right from the advent and popularity of Seo TaiJi and Boys in the 90s, American hip hop was reformed and integrated into the Korean music scene. What made this reconstruction possible were mainly the strong influences of Korean soci