The Hip & Hop of Beijing

Checking out what's all real in Asia's Hip-Hop Capital Beijing...got that shine on and going there

It's not as if deejaying and freestyling are easy to come by in the PRC. These kids had to seek it out. There's nothing wrong with them putting their own spin on the culture they identify with: American hip hop.

P.S. - Cool to see Anna Sophie Loewenberg on TV! I really enjoyed her writing in Giant Robot, among other places.

i love Su Fei's Sexy Beijing pods!

but i do have to point out that the girl at the end that the interviewer says is the most beautiful girl at the club kinda looks like a hooker...the other dark (& natural) haired young lady from earlier in the piece that says bling doesn't matter to her is infinitely more gorgeous & generally appealing than fats jay's streetwalker chick.

some of the opinions expressed in the pod do reinforce the wack stereotypes often associated with hip-hop, but that just means the people are being authentic because they don't know any better.
brotha_b makes a good point about the chinese hip hop heads appearing to have limited knowledge of black music outside of rap, but the kids here in th u.s. are just as ignorant even though they have everything at their fingertips.
as usual its all about money...if record executives didn't want to throw money at projects that present american blacks as 'do anything for money coons' artists like dead prez that have substance in their lyrics would be more internationally know than lil wayne & 50 cent.

well turntablism and emceeing are two totally different things, and to see them more embracing the DJ is reaching to it roots, but like the comment above me, all these kids just wanna be black, and the hip hop they see, well to them its the whole entire black community when its not. Most the underground cats that can barely make it here in the u.s. will never get there shit played in Beijing, so what they see in Beijing, is the ignorant fools on TV

I don't mean to take antything away from Beijing's hip-hop scene... I just wonder how many Chinese Hip-hop enthusiasts realize "black music" goes deeper than that?
Sure they know Lil' Wayne, Snoop and EZ E... Who knows about Sam Cooke, Nat King Cole, The Spinners or Kool & the Gang? I pose this because so many 'other' people embrace the rap culture, as if that is the entire black culture.

Dopeness!!