With Dreadlocks, Rhythm and Flow, China Embraces Hip-Hop

By artappraiser on Fri, 10/27/2017 - 1:22pm |

"Chengdou Journal by Amy Qin for NYTimes.com, Oct. 26

The Higher Brothers performing in Chengdu, China, in September. Hip-hop has gone mainstream in China, and Chengdu is the center of the action. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times

[....] Once an underground subculture, hip-hop — the music, the culture and the fashion — has stormed the Chinese mainstream in recent months. Fans are flocking to nightclubs and music festivals to see their favorite local rappers and D.J.s perform, while English terms like flow, freestyle and even diss have made their way into popular urban parlance.

Perhaps nowhere is that more apparent than here in Chengdu, a sprawling metropolis of nearly 16 million that is best known for its pandas and mouth-numbing spicy food but is quickly becoming a hotbed of hip-hop, particularly rap [.....]

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