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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 put my poems on a beat like them, and I started writing rap music, he recalled in a video interview from his studio in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia s capital.
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