In the 1990s an influx of young Chileans, children of political exiles from Pinochet’s dictatorship, returned to Chile. Exposed to both the budding rap scenes in Europe and their parent’s social activism, they ignited an intensely political hip-hop scene in Santiago. Ana Tijoux rose to become the international wunderkind of this movement. Her music takes on the plight of the indigenous poor, neocolonial exploitation, patriarchal injustice, economic inequality… with nary a mention of gold chains, Maybachs, or trashing an hotel room.
