Gambian hip hop

The Gambian hip hop scene is a relatively new scene in African hip hop which developed in the mid-1990s and was heavily influenced by American hip hop and Senegalese hip hop. Gambian hip-hop has been heavily influenced by international music scene including worldbeat, Senegalese wolof music, and American hip hop, as well as traditional Gambian mbalax and n'daga music.^[1] Dominican merengue and Jamaican reggae, ragga, and dancehall have also influenced the development of Gambian hip-hop.^[2]