Rap and rice paddies: Thai hip hop creates unlikely new stars | Malay Mail

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BANGKOK, Jan 19 — In geography and in culture, the rice paddies of northeastern Thailand are thousands of miles away from the birthplace of hip hop in New York City’s Bronx, but for Thai rapper RachYo, the language of hip hop is universal. A recent video features the 18-year-old artist rapping...

Rapper Prinya ‘DaBoyWay’ Intachai at a concert in Bangkok September 11, 2019. — Def Jam Recording/Universal Music Thailand/Handout via Reuters

“I rap about things that really happened to me,” says RachYo, based in Nakhon Ratchasima province in northeastern Thailand, whose full name is Rachayothin Pengjunta. He says he mostly sings about girls. One of the first artists it signed was Thai rapper DaBoyWay, who has 1 million Instagram followers and is releasing a new album tomorrow. It has also signed five others from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.

 

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