Puerto Rican hip-hop

Puerto Rican hip-hop or Puerto Rican rap (also referred to as rap/hip-hop locally or hip-hop en Español in Spanish) is an underground subgenre of hip-hop music and conscious hip-hop that originated in Puerto Rico. At its peak in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was one of the most popular styles of underground music in Puerto Rico sold by the mixtape. Puerto Rican hip-hop during its ascension in the late 1980s, and even during its earliest form, explored and touched on taboo and non-taboo societal themes in Puerto Rico like drug abuse, rising crime, governmental corruption, STDs, and sexual abuse. Due to its local relative niche and factors early on in the 1990s, it did not experience as much commercial success on par as other more popular Latin contemporary music such as reggaeton.