Hip hop in the Dominican Republic
Dominican hip hop has its own style of hip hop music by mixing its native music and rapping to it like in the genres Merenrap or Merenhouse where they just take a blend of their native dance music called Merengue and rap to it. New York Dominican Merenrap group Proyecto Uno is an example of an artist in this genre and is one of the most popular groups in the merengue and merenrap genre. The two popular types of music from the Dominican Republic, Merengue and Bachata are also known for being mixed into another subgenre of hip hop known as Reggaeton where they take their melodies and blend it in with the reggaeton sound called Bachateo. The Luny Tunes are a famous duo of reggaeton producers of Dominican Republic, who are by one of the best and most popular producers in reggaeton, have with worked with almost every one in the genre and are similar to The Neptunes of hip hop are also known a lot for blending Dominican merengue and bachata in reggaeton. A few Domincan artists in reggaeton include Noztra, Don Miguelo, Gemstar and Big Mato, OG Black and La Fabrica.After that have appeared a new generetion of Dominican Hip Hop some of the hip hop singer are Lapiz Conciente, Joa, Toxic Crow, Vakero, Microway, Danny Punto Rojo, Nico Some American rappers come from Dominican descent such as rappers Fabolous, Juelz Santana, J. R. Writer, Triple Seis, Ju Ju of The Beatnuts and Gemstar.
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