‘Straight Outta Ulaanbaatar’: A portrait of Mongolia’s burgeoning hip-hop scene

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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 … Read more