Photographer Alex de Mora documents Mongolia's burgeoning hip-hop scene
arts Published 16th March 2021 Written by Oscar Holland, CNN It was 1996 when the young poet Tugsjargal Munkherdene heard American hip-hop for the first time. Four years earlier, Mongolia's Soviet-aligned government had fallen, opening the country to a fresh wave of cultural imports. The easing of state censorship heralded a new era of free expression. It also meant that G-funk, boom bap and gangster rap soon arrived on the airwaves -- including the track that made a lasting impression on the then-teenage Munkherdene: Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's "187 On an Undercover Cop." "I realized I could p...
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