Straight Outta Yangon
Episode #604: “I chose hip hop.”
Born in Yangon in 1979 to parents who were nationally known singers, Anegga grew up in a household where art was both celebrated and watched. His father had helped introduce rock music to Myanmar during an earlier era of military control, and supporting opposition politics carried real risk. He remembers military visits to the family home at night and his mother having to hide because of her involvement with the NLD. Music, in other words, was never insulated from power.
Hip hop entered his life through scarcity. Myanmar at the time was largely cut off from…
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