By Van Patrick King Burmese hip-hop artist Ash poses in front of graffiti art in Yangon, Myanmar. Exaltasamba Pagode Do Exalta Rar here. (Van Patrick King/GlobalPost) YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's reforms over the last two years are opening the nation to the wider world, experts say, allowing the once-cloistered nation to experience greater foreign influence as it eases restrictions on its people. But throughout Yangon, from political graffiti tags on walls, to teens breakdancing in clubs, to the throbbing sounds of Burmese rap coming from the open windows of passing cars, cultural exchange in the form of hip-hop culture is already alive and well. In a cafe in downtown Burma, 21-year-old rappers Ash and X-Box explain the challenges that came with creating hip-hop culture in a military dictatorship. Part of an underground scene here in Yangon, their clothing would fit in seamlessly in any hip-hop concert or video in the United States. 'Before there was a censorship people would go through.

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Say if music or videos were offensive there could be real repercussions. So people would watch what they would say.

Underground rappers wouldn't censor themselves, but if a song did get popular the government might talk to you,' Ash says, alluding to the arrest and imprisonment of Zayer Thaw, a popular Burmese rapper-turned-parliamentarian whose pro-democracy lyrics resulted in a three year stint in prison. 'In the beginning I started out writing graffiti, but I've loved hip-hop music since I was a kid,' said Ash.

Page Flip V3 Template. 'I started writing in 2007 and started rapping in 2009. Back then because of the political situation things were really restricted, but I liked that it was something that was part of a small community and that you had to go out and learn on your own.' He said he began to write, becoming a local graffiti artist, after watching graffiti films like the 1983 documentary Style Wars and profiles of graffiti writers like DARE and Cope 2 by streaming them in Internet cafes. Locals decry Burma's online access as slow and unreliable, but this didn't deter Ash. 'It was tough finding stuff,' he said. 'The connection even now is still pretty bad though. You need a lot of patience.