Blog Tag - Rap
What a week for hip hop! First, Kanye drops his long-awaited Donda, followed quickly by Drake’s release of Certified Lover Boy. But while you were...
Over the past couple of years, hip-hop has unequivocally broken from a lifestyle among China's underground circles through to the country's...
He makes purists instantly turn up their noses, provides snobs with endless fodder, and he even prompted his genre's most famous figure to cast shade...
Oh sure, youuuuuu’ve rolled your eyes, let on you hated it, and sneered whenever it was played for the umpteenth time. But if you try to deny having...
In June of this year, China's soft power machine took to a new medium to dispel any misunderstandings that the world may have about the nation: a rap...
Madlib says little - he's notorious for not giving interviews - but his music speaks volumes. He's been part of some of hip-hop's finest duos (...
Name: NOSKI
AKA: Blackie Chan, Nosa Iginedion
Repping: Beijing (obviously) for the last three years
Background: Born in hip-hop hotspot London, and...
Neither Norway nor China are known as hip-hop hotbeds but Eirik Okkenhaug, aka Xiao Ou (小欧), might yet change that. The brains behind "Nage Nage...
Beijing has a bumpin’ music scene, as I’m sure you all know. But it’s also transient. So the guy who’s tearin’ it up at any one of the city’s music...