Taiwanese hip hop

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Taiwanese hip hop music started in the early 1990s, popularized by the early hip hop trio L.A. Boyz.^[1] A distinctive style of rap emerged using Taiwanese Hokkien as opposed to the Mandarin Chinese used in Mandopop, which before democratization the regime actively promote the use of Mandarin and suppressing the use of Taigi.