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Santa sits within the sprawling, endlessly dynamic landscape of hip-hop that has become one of the most influential and widely consumed creative genres across the Philippines, a body of work that joins thousands of other local hip-hop recordings crafted by creators across the archipelago who have turned the genre into a core vessel for cultural expression. Hip-hop’s spread across the Philippines traces a trajectory that mirrors its growth across much of the global south, moving from an imported cultural form to a locally rooted practice that adapts the foundational building blocks of the genre to the specific social, cultural, and political contexts that shape life across the nation’s thousands of islands.
