Liberia: Increase in Reference of Marijuana and Abusive Languages Hipco

The reference of drugs (marijuana), as well as the use of abusive languages against women in rap music, has seen a significant rise since the beginning of the Hipco genre in the late 90s in Liberia.

Hipco is a form of rap music that blends Hip-hop beats, samples of street noise and the Liberian 'colloquial language.'

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