Noxxy Dawg

They took the hip-hop rap culture onto the mainstream stage, set on impressing the wider audience.

This underground genre has come a long way – from the times of 3 Kiingz and Sprigga Mek some five to ten years ago, eventually being recognised with an established following.

New school hip-hop through these young voices hope to set that platform where younger hip-hop artists can easily step on.

Taking nothing for granted, Planet Native and Noxxy Dawg gave three different sounds of what this culture has to offer to the music scene.

The Cosmopolitan club is launching RAP-TURE 2017 – Flip the Script competition.

This is its second year which will see the club present 20 young rappers competing over the course of 8 weeks.

Each contestant will introduce themselves with a 5 min freestyle performance tonight that should set the pace and give a sneak-peak into the coming weeks.

The show is hyped to showcase off “the dopest rhymes, hottest lines and sickest flows with rhythm and rhyme”.

Hip-Hop/R&B is still underground music in the country where local competitions continue to push for recognition of these genre and music style.

Noxxy is one product that passed through such competition.

He was the winner of 2016 Rap-ture competition, gained a wider fan base and has gone onto recording his first song with Planet Native’s YansaQ.

The Rap-ture competition kicks off a second season this year.

The hip hop track which features Planet Native’s YansaQ is the first for PNG’s fresh voice on the air – Noxxy Dawg.

Noxxy is not new to the hip hop scene though.

He was the winner of PNG’s first ever recognised rap battle – Rapture 2016.

Speaking to Loop PNG after the win, he announced his plan to record for commercial purpose.

His first track Welcome to Pom City dropped late March on local radio stations 96.3 Nau FM and Hot 97.1 FM.

The track speaks of Port Moresby as the place where the fun is.