Shanti Dope’s Rolex anchors itself in the long, rich lineage of hip-hop practice rooted in the Philippines, a creative sphere that has contributed some of the most dynamic, uncompromising iterations of the genre to the global hip-hop landscape. Hip-hop, as a form that originated from specific Black and Latinx communities in the Bronx, has always traveled, adapted, and taken on new life as it moves across borders, finding new audiences and new creators who bring their own relationships to the form’s core pillars of storytelling, self-expression, and cultural commentary.