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2007/03/08

Hip Hop China 1 - Gong Fu

zhen gong fu restaurantNo, not that kind of Gongfu (the fighting or the restaurant)...This one:
gongfu album cover
Hip hop China sounds like an oxymoron and, to be honest, it really is. There are a lot of message boards and a ton of people who are talking about hip hop on the web, but very few are actually doing it. Those that are tend to focus on the dancing more than anything, the other 3 elements get tossed by the wayside. Most likely, as with rock music, the Chinese language and hip hop simply don't mix.

Gong Fu, from Tianjin, was one of the first to break out onto the mainstream scene in China with a record called 冲动 (Impulse) a few years back. Yeah, so despite my promises of new music, we're talking about stuff from 2005 or so and not from yesterday. While the state of hip hop in China and my love for hip hop would both make reasonable post topics, those will be saved for another day, let's get right into the music.
功夫 - 日落 : Gongfu - Sunset

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

AFRO AMERICANS ARE EATING ME WITH NO DECENCY, MORALITY, OR REMORSE. PLEASE PROTECT YOUR CULTURE ESPECIALLY YOUR FOOD. AND ITS IS ALL BEING JUSTIFIED BY WHITE RACIST IN THE MEDIA UNDER THE GISE OF POLICAL CORRECTNESS. How many artists are afraid to put there own lives in music these days? This trend is as contagious as sniffing Heist bath towel. These artist, if I may call them that, are the imaginative buffoons in this hemisphere. America is quickly seeing the banality of intellectual property theft so much so that the death penalty is no longer a serious political issue. If an adult music fan spends more time in a crook's mind than pounding the pavement, he really should be in cement with the creators of useless noise. The cult following in urban america is the weakest link in exposing the country to soulful expressions of individuality, as supposed to the mindless congregation of nail polished stained hoodies and water colored rubber shoes. None of these musicians can polish the shoes of the likes of Mental Heist, Bob Marley, Fela kuti, Sunny Ade, Yelloman, and even Maroon Five to say the least. Urban noise is not only dead, it stinks like douche in your key hole, that analogy makes as much sense as the goverment allowing the satanic following of cultish music into schools. Who am I to judge when rights fell on ears deafened by the morons copying cds for adults with the mental development of teenagers with instrumental lacing moronic words and rediculious melodies. Why did art leave music? Could it be that the noise makers don't leave their lies, or maybe its because they ate free lunch from the plates of foreigners? It is definitely because america can not help being a melting pot and the monkey juice has spilled over. Don't call me, I will call you after I take the cell phone with this annoying ringtone and feed it to another eavesdropper. We need more payphone to run from ring freaking tones!