Samoan hip hop includes hip-hop music, artists and culture in Samoa.
In Los Angeles, Samoan youth often engage in a style of hip hop dancing called popping-and-locking.
According to April Henderson, young, recently-arrived Samoans in multi-ethnic neighborhoods seek status and respect by mastery of the "physical vocabularies" of dance or sport, aware of the accents that mark them as 'foreign'.
[2] Many hip hop artists and dancers travel back and forth between Samoa and their other homes, creating channels for Samoan hip hop to continue to develop and transform.
In the 2009 novel, South Pacific Survivor: In Samoa, Poly hip-hop is central to the assassin, a troubled character.