FOW041 – Chengdu Bling: Hip-Hop in China (with Lauren Teixeira) [EN]

Introduction

• Lauren Teixeira (Website / Twitter)

Hip-Hop and Politics

• Yinsaner 阴三儿
  • „Hello Teacher“ (老师你好)
• National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA), formerly known as SAPPRFT, formerly known as SARFT
• 2015 Music Blacklist
• Purple Soul (龙胆紫)
  • 地下通道 (Underpass)
• Higher Brothers
• January 2018: „Four Absolute Don’ts“ (Chinese: 四个坚决不用)
• Rap of China 
• PGone
• GAI
• „China’s Pop Idols Are Too Soft for the Party„

The Rise of Rap in China

• Kris Wu

Chinese Rappers To Know

• EXO
• „The 7 Rappers Turning Chengdu into China’s Unlikely Hip-Hop Hotspot„
• Higher Brothers (Black Cab)
• 88rising
• Boss Shady/Xie Di (谢帝)
  • Daddy isn’t going to work tomorrow/明天不上班
  • Fuck Off Foreigners (瓜老外Gua Laowai)
• TY.
  • „Hooked on drugs“ (2014)
• 顶级玩家A.T.M.
• T$P

Ethnic Minority Rappers and Uighur Representation

• „‚Reeducating‘ Xinjiang’s Muslims„: »The US State Department estimates that between 800,000 and two million Xinjiang Muslims are interned in the camps.«
• Nawukran performing on The Rap of China
• Whostar
  • „[FreeBlock] – 第二期 X CDC WHOSTAR„
• RadiiChina
• Josh Feola
• Jack Newby
• Krish Raghav 
• Adan Kohnhorst