Rise of The Underground
In 2003 underground rapper Aroz, based in New York City, spearheaded the Nepalese underground hip hop movement through his website (now defunct) nephop.com. The term "Nephop" soon gained worldwide popularity and is accepted as referring to Nepalese hiphop in general.
In 2004 Aroz released his first underground single "Chudaina", produced by DJ AJ on nephop.com. In 2005 Nepsydaz had a commercial success as a rap group when they released their version of the same song. Aroz became "the most controversial" rapper, experimenting with dirty rap in his next single "Katti Khep Vannu". This had great success in the underground, after which he quickly released his next single, "Killin Terraces", which the New Urban Music Blog considered one of the best Nepalese political raps.
Aroz received some mainstream exposure after being featured in Nurbu Sherpa's single "Baby Gurl", from Nurbu's second album, Save Nepal. According to fursad.com, "Baby Gurl" was voted one of the top ten songs of 2008. Nurbu also featured Aroz and other underground rappers in his next single, "When I'm around", from his third album.
Balen Shah- born in 1990. living in KTM is a neplease Poet, Engaged in music with Lyric writing, music composing, Rap-n-Melo artist.
Due to access to various media and resource and due to many inspiration many Nepalese youth started to find their voice in Hip-Hop. Today Nepalese Hip-hop has taken a great leap. MCs like Yama Buddha, MC Flo and P.o.L (Prince of Leon) released their underground songs which attracted a lot of people towards Hip-hop. Today many much MCs are showing up and many rap battles are also conducted.
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