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When hip-hop appeared three decades ago, Nepali listeners frowned upon the new genre and termed it the “music of drug addicts and weed smokers.”

After all, for decades, shadowed by India, its giant southern neighbor, Nepal had banked on its rich traditional cultural heritage or imports from the Hindi film industry for entertainment.

It took almost 30 years for hip-hop to firmly establish its roots in the country, following its beginnings in the early s with cheesy tracks and sleazy music videos released under the heavy influence of American hip-hop music.

Nepal dances to the growing beat of hip-hop - Asia Times

Local entries were restricted to a handful of pioneers.

The negative narrative and longtime negative reality, however, didn’t stop young Nepalis from taking up the mantle. And now they boast that, since the dawn of the millennium, Nepali hip-hop has removed itself from the shackles of mediocrity and unleashed its power to society.

A nascent market

The hip-hop industry has witnessed revolutionary change.

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