Goldie Lookin Chain was one of the first hip hop groups from Wales to chart.
[1][2] The group from Newport, founded in the early noughties to produce songs with "incendiary beats" and "flammable-looking trackie tops".
[2] The Cardiff-based hip hop label Associated Minds was founded in 2004,[3] but it has generally been difficult for Welsh rappers to gain attention outside Wales.
[10]In the summer of 2022, Sage Todz (Toda Ogunbanwo) from Penygroes in Gwynedd, emerged as a bilingual talent.
[13] Much of Welsh hip hop activity occurs in the capital city, Cardiff.