Pinoy Hip Hop
Pinoy hip hop is rap music from the Philippines, performed in Tagalog, English and other Philippine languages.
Rap reached Philippine records as early as 1980, when Dyords Javier released a parody of Rapper's Delight. Francis Magalona brought the style into the mainstream in 1990 with the album Yo! and patriotic songs such as Mga Kababayan, and Andrew E. and later Gloc-9 followed with comic and socially aware rhymes. The FlipTop battle league, founded in 2010, fuels a large Tagalog battle rap scene.
Artists it is known for: Francis Magalona, Andrew E., Gloc-9, Shanti Dope.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Philippines, 1980s
- Also called
- filipino hip hop, pinoy rap
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have pinoy hip hop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Pinoy Hip Hop artists
Hev Abi
RAPROJECT SIX
Uncle Dags
HELLMERRY
Al James
Parokya Ni Edgar
Shanti Dope
Skusta Clee
Gat Putch
Realest Cram
The pinoy hip hop artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.