Korean-American Rappers

Started a brief search on a few contemporary Korean-American rappers. In part, prompted by a piece that came out on NPR about 'code switching' and Dumbfoundead - an up and coming underground artist. If you can listen to the NPR episode. But taking up the inclination to see what's been going around - I know some of these artists have gone on to Korea and some are working the industry in the States. Most of these songs are a bit old. But a good listen nonetheless.

The styles definitely range and you can definitely see their influences. They've come out of different geographical areas: Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, etc. I'm positive that there are plenty more Korean-American rappers out there but this is what I could find and knew of at the time of this post. I've also skipped Korean-American rappers who've gone to Korea and put in work on the music scene in the 90s and early 2000s. There is one or two Korean-American rappers in the group 'Far East Movement', who have definitely broken into the mainstream - so I'm going to leave them out as they seem to be well-known.
 

Dumbfoundead



DFD got some recognition on NPR: here



Snacky Chan





Decipher and Manifest





Jupitersciples





FlowSik (from Aziatix)





Jay Park




Shogunna





 Gowe