Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
The Canadian hip hop scene was first established in the 1980s. Through a variety of factors it developed much more slowly than Canada’s popular rock music scene and apart from a short-lived burst of mainstream popularity from 1989 to 1991 it remained largely an underground phenomenon until the early 2000s.Canada had hip hop artists right from the early days of the scene — the first known Canadian rap single Singing Fools’ The Bum Rap was released in 1982.