<P> Black and indigenous people in Latin America and Caribbean islands have been using hip hop for decades to discuss race and class issues in their respective countries . Brazilian hip hop is heavily associated with racial and economic issues in the country, where a lot of Afro - Brazilians live in economically disadvantaged communities, known in Brazil as favelas . São Paulo is where hip hop began in the country, but it soon spread all over Brazil, and today, almost every big Brazilian city, including Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Recife and Brasilia, has a hip hop scene . Some notable artists include Racionais MC's, Thaide, and Marcelo D2 . One of Brazil's most popular rappers, MV Bill, has spent his career advocating for black youth in Rio de Janeiro . </P> <P> Reggaeton, a Puerto Rican style of music, has a lot of similarities with U.S. based hip hop . Both were influenced by Jamaican music, and both incorporate rapping and call and response . Dancehall music and hip from the United States are both popular music in Puerto Rico, and reggaeton is the cumulation of different musical traditions founded by Afro - descended people in the Caribbean and the United States . Some of reggaeton's most popular artists include Don Omar, Tego Calderón, and Daddy Yankee . </P> <P> In Venezuela, social unrest at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s coincided with the rise of gangsta rap in the United States and led to the rise of that music in Venezuela as well . Venezuelan rappers in the 1990s generally modeled their music after gangsta rap, embracing and attempting to redefine negative stereotypes about poor and black youth as dangerous and materialistic and incorporating socially conscious critique of Venezuela's criminalization of young, poor, Afro - descended people into their music . </P> <P> In Haiti, hip hop developed in the early 1980s . Master Dji and his songs "Vakans" and "Politik Pa m" are mostly credited with the rise of Haitian hip hop . What later became known as "Rap Kreyòl" grew in popularity in the late 1990s with King Posse and Original Rap Stuff . Due to cheaper recording technology and flows of equipment to Haiti, more Rap Kreyòl groups are recording songs, even after the January 12 earthquake . Haitian hip hop has recently become a way for artists of Haitian backgrounds in the Haiti and abroad to express their national identity and political opinions about their country of origin . Rappers have embraced the red and blue of the Flag of Haiti and rapping in Haitian Creole to display their national origin . In the Dominican Republic, a recording by Santi Y Sus Duendes and Lisa M became the first single of merenrap, a fusion of hip hop and merengue . </P>

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