Singapore hip hop is a collective of hip hop music, graffiti arts, deejaying/turntablism, break dancing and beatboxing, which are performed by hip hop enthusiasts who are of Singapore descent mainly from the four races of the metropolis; the Chinese, Malays, Indians and the Eurasian. This article and its contents are exact up-to-date, through first-person written documents and oral accounts. This article focuses primarily on Singapore hip hop icons, discography, historical events, DMC World DJ Championship representatives, in and out of Singapore. This article also focuses on how Singapore has its hip hop origins and culture scene in South East Asia in the mid-1980s, largely due to the country's geographically international sea port location for military and worldwide trading connections, one of which is, with the United States where the hip hop culture was originated.

History

Singapore hip - hop is a collective of hip - hop music , graffiti art , DJ / Turntablism , break dancing and beatboxing , which are performed by enthusiasts of hip - hop, which in Singapore origin are mainly of four races in the metropolis ; that the Chinese , Malays , Indians and Eurasian . This article and its contents are accurate to the modern, through the first person written documents and oral stories. This article is mainly devoted to Singapore hip-hop icons, discography., historical events, Championship DMC World DJ representatives, and from Singapore. The article also talks about how Singapore has its hip-hop origin and stage culture in Southeast Asia in the mid-1980s, mainly due to the geographically international position of the country's seaport for military and worldwide trade ties, one of which, from the United States , where hip-hop culture originated.

Rap music is released in Singapore mainly in English and in different languages and dialects such as Chinese , Bahasa Melayu and Tamil . A version of Singaporean English called Singlish surfaced from the earliest hip-hop music liberation of Singapore from a nonexistent band called "Kopi Kat Klan".

In the 1990s, rap duo Construction Sight, consisting of Sheikh Heikel and Ashidiq Ghazali, after winning Asia Bagus Grand Championship, a talent show, was credited as "Singapore's first ever rap group".[1][2] After winning the Grand Championship, they released a few rap albums.

Sheikh was considered the god-father of the Singapore's rap scene.[3]

In Canada, Masiah One of Merdek’s music is cited as the most successful Singapore-born, female rapper in the island’s music industry.

In 2011, there was a year, graffiti got the most brilliance, as AsNo Doink and Clogtwo represented in Taiwan and took the 2nd Asian Wall-Lords finals for Singapore, which was the highest honour any artist graffiti have achieved in Singapore. And in 2014, Asno Doink represented Singapore & Asia in a meeting of the Styles of the World to meet in Wisbeden Germany as part of the Made from Skratch Eurotour. He was awarded the "Best Text Writer" Award for his Javi inspired text. He together Made from Skratch, and his crew #ProjectBurnerz, collaborate with the *scape on a graffiti wall mural in August 2014, so that they would leave a mark on the most prominent wall in Singapore. Negotiations of another mural was planned in 2020.

In 2012, we saw 2 beatboxers representing Singapore at the Beatbox Battle World Championship held in Berlin . They were Zul Mystroe (showcase category) and Dharni (battle category). Dharni, which earlier in 2009, was placed 4th in the Beatbox Battle World Championship and has been crowned World Champion in 2015

References

  1. ↑ Razali Abdullah (4 April 2002). "A hip Sheikh, For Sure". p. 27.
  2. ↑ Chandran, Nyshka. "This Muslim rapper slings halal country fried steak and hip-hop life lessons". CNBC. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  3. ↑ Auto, Hermes (14 November 2021). "S'pore rap trailblazer Sheikh Haikel to retire after three decades of music | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
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