Hip-hop music is alive and doing very well in the Philippines and thanks to nurse-turned-rapper Gloc-9, it is also distinctively Filipino. Hip-hop is an American pop music form that began in the early ...

Twenty years in the industry, celebrated and multi-awarded rapper-songwriter Gloc-9 returns to Universal Records Philippines just in time for his work anniversary in September 2017. He has done Liham ...

If one listens closely to Gloc-9’s most potent sociopolitical songs, from “Upuan” (2009) to “Paliwanag” (2022), the hopefulness in his voice seems to have waned as the years went by. He certainly ...

MANILA, Philippines – It is a story that is part of the amazing journey of Gloc-9 (photo): Star Records’ Enrico Santos had searched for Aristotle Pollisco in Binangonan, Rizal after listening to a ...

As Pinoy rap icon Gloc-9 (real name: Aristotle Pollisco) is not exempted from the consequences of the pandemic-induced lockdown, he has resorted to doing what many others have turned to: online ...

Word up: “Salarin,” Gloc 9’s duet with Bamboo off his 2012 album “Mga Kuwento ng Makata,” is a guttural cry of anguish straight from the Pinoy underbelly: a work of Tagalog poetry as authentic, as ...