In 2003, underground rapper Aroz, based in New York City, spearheaded the Nepalese underground hip hop movement through his now-defunct website nephop.com.
The term Nephop was coined by producer DJ AJ, and soon gained worldwide popularity and is accepted as a portmanteau of Nepalese hip In 2004, Aroz released his first underground single "Chudaina", produced by DJ AJ on nephop.com. In 2005, Nepsydaz, a rap group, had commercial success for releasing their version of the same song. Aroz then became "the most controversial"rapper, experimenting with dirty rap in his next single "Matt Khep Vannu." This single had great success in the underground, after which he quickly released his next, "Killin' Terraces" which the New Urban Music Blog considered one of the best Nepalese political raps.Aroz received some mainstream exposure after being featured in Nurbu Sherpa's single "Baby Gurl", from Nurbu's second album, Save Nepal. According to fursad.com, "Baby Gurl" was voted one of the top ten songs of 2008. Nurbu also featured Aroz and other underground rappers in his next single, "When I'm around" from his third album.Another well known rapper in the underground NepHop scenario is Mc Flo. His lyrics are generally patriotic, and day-to-day issues which are associated with the current generation. "Maile Hasna Sikay" is an example.
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