The Underground scene then spread throughout Mexico, with Latin Rap influences such as Kid Frost (East LA). Later the movement was invigorated by the influence of US-Latin acts such as Tha Mexakinz[?] (from Long Beach), Cypress Hill (South Central LA) and Delinquent Habits[?] (LA).
The popularity of these US-based acts, Cypress Hill in particular, led to the emergence in the mid-1990s of crossover (rap-rock) acts such as Control Machete[?] and Molotov.
More than 10 years after appearance of the first rap-like act, the Mexican scene remains to the mainstream an almost undiscovered (yet emerging), large and well-distributed underground movement.
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Some Mexican underground groups, categorized by geographical regions:
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