05/08/2026
🎶 THE BIRTH OF PINOY HIP-HOP IN 7 INCHES!
Original Pilipino Music (OPM) history to the collection. Long before the 90s boom, the blueprint of Pinoy rap was built right here on these 45 RPM records from late 1980!
🎚️ Left: George "Dyords" Javier – "Na-Onseng Delight" (WEA Records, 1980). The absolute genesis. This is widely recognized as the first-ever recorded rap song in the Philippines and Asia—a brilliant comedic Tagalog parody of the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight", directed by the legendary Ading Fernando.
🎚️ Right: Vincent Daffalong – "Mahiwagang Nunal" (Canary Records, December 1980). The track that proved Pinoy hip-hop could be a commercial juggernaut. Produced by Sunny R. Ilacad, it hilariously flipped Lipps Inc.’s global disco anthem "Funkytown" into a localized masterpiece. Note the handwritten "12-22-80" release/radio date on the label!
Absolute pieces of history that laid the foundation for generations of Filipino lyricists to come. 🎧✨
What's the rarest OPM 45 in your collection? Lapag sa comments! 👇