Taiwanese hip hop music started in the early 1990s, popularized by the early hip hop trio L.A. Boyz. A distinctive style of rap emerged using Taiwanese as opposed to the Mandarin Chinese used in Mandopop. Since the late 1990s, various underground hip hop groups started gaining mainstream attention.
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