History
When performers such as Eminem, Nelly and Outkast brought hip hop music into the mainstream in the 1990s, Nepal was still opening its doors to the outside world. As television was limited to working class households and the Internet was completely unknown, radio (playing Nepali folk and pop music and English rock and roll) was the only electronic medium providing mass entertainment. This period also saw an increase in Nepali emigration and the birth or raising of Nepali children overseas, mainly due to the Jana Andolan (the 1990 People’s Movement) and the threat of a Maoist-initiated civil war. By the early 2000s, Nepalese children raised abroad had grown up listening to hip hop music and had used the Internet to collaborate with and express themselves to their families and friends. Aroz, Cyclops, Original Sinz, Merricks, SINIS and many more were members of an online forum, giving rise to Nepalese hip hop.
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