Sitting here at work thinking about how much I love Chinese rap and R&B. Very underrated works of art man. Check out some these artists 🥰❤️
艾志恒asen
Vava
Vinida Weng
Higher Brothers (Psy.P, Melo, MaSiWei & DZknow)
Lexie Liu
Thomeboydontkill
AnsrJ
Gui Bian
Also, check out The Rap Of China! It's a rap competition show produced by iQiyi (love them). Found a few videos on YouTube and the artists are fire man. No, I am not fluent in Chinese, but I am teaching myself. (Along with like 15 other languages 🙃) Music helps me learn and I get to jam out. Check them out! You won't regret it 😉🤗
Enjoy some screenshots of the Higher Brothers mimicking Sean Evans during their First We Feast video. ETA: Plus a bonus picture that I'd capped just because Psy. P made me laugh with his expression and posture.
Higher Brothers - One Punch Man feat. Ski Mask the Slump God & Denzel Curry
High Brothers the Chinese hip-hop group from Chengdu consisting of members MaSiWei, DZknow, Psy.P, and Melo. teamed up with Ski Mask the Slump God and Denzel Curry on One Punch Man. https://youtu.be/fvRdHaq19qs
Five Stars album out now: https://88rising.lnk.to/HBFiveStars
Higher Brothers official Five Stars capsule collection available now: http://88rising.com/hbfivestars
Directed by Justin Staple
A&R: Don Krez
HIGHER BROTHERS – 2019 WORLD TOUR
Tickets: https://www.higherbrotherstour.com
VIP On-Sale begins Tuesday Feb 26 @ 10am Local Time
General On-Sale begins Friday Mar 1 @ 10am Local Time
Tour Dates
Mar 23 – Chengdu, China – 华熙LIVE·528 M空间
Mar 30 – Shanghai, China – 国家会展中心(上海)虹馆EH
April 6 – Wuhan, China – 武汉文化博览中心D厅
Apr 13 – Shenzhen, China – 吼嘿小镇4H live
Apr 27 – Kunming, China – 871展示中心
Apr 30 – Boston, Massachusetts – House of Blues
May 3 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Theatre of The Living Arts
May 4 – Washington, D.C. – 9:30 Club
May 5 – New York, New York – Irving Plaza
May 7 – Toronto, Ontario – REBEL
May 9 – Detroit, Michigan – Majestic Theatre
May 10 – Chicago, Illinois – Concord Music Hall
May 11 – Miami, Florida – Rolling Loud
May 14 – Atlanta, Georgia – Buckhead Theatre
May 16 – Houston, Texas – House of Blues
May 17 – Dallas, Texas – Canton Hall
May 18 – Austin, Texas – Emo’s
May 21 – Los Angeles, California – The Regent Theater
May 22 – San Francisco, California – The Regency
May 24 – Seattle, Washington – The Showbox
May 25 – Vancouver, British Columbia – The Commodore Ballroom
Sep 6 – Barcelona, Spain – Fuego Club
Sep 8 – Berlin, Germany – Lollapalooza Berlin
Sep 9 – Paris, France – Sacré
Sep 10 – London, United Kingdon – O2 Islington Academy
Sep 12 – Frankfurt, Germany – Zoom
Sep 13 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg Oude Zaal
I was tagged by @excusegoose to list 10 songs I’ve liked lately. Thanku :) for tagging others today I’ll just say anyone who sees this and feels like doing it totally should, and tag me so I can see! cut for length.
Crush On You - MaSiWei (马思唯) ft. step.jad
野狼Disco - 寶石Gem
100 Ways - Jackson Wang
火锅底料 - GAI
Life’s A Struggle - VaVa
Uncomfortable - DZknow (丁震) ft. MaSiWei (马思唯)
R&B All Night - DZknow (丁震)
Into the Storm - Inon Zur ft. Tina Guo & Caroline Campbell
KnowKnow Flexes His Universal Appeal in ‘Mr. Enjoy Da Money’
With a marketing campaign that included a Snoop Dogg mentorship session and teases that simultaneously evoked both late-night R&B infomercials and the sax stylings of the late Michael George, it was easy to dismiss KnowKnow’s Mr. Enjoy Da Money as a lighthearted departure from his work with the Higher Brothers. Yet, a single listen to the solo debut album from the Chinese rapper tells a different story. It is one of opulence, hard-hitting bars, and the universal appeal of hip-hop.
KnowKnow, who is more popularly known as DzKnow, is a pivotal member of the Chinese hip-hop group Higher Brothers. The 88rising-backed group is one of the few, if not the only, high-profile rap groups to avoid Chinese censorship, making them the only Chinese rap act to garner widespread international success. And with Mr. Enjoy Da Money, the growing success of 88rising and Chinese hip-hop rise to a boiling point.
READ: 88rising’s ‘Head In The Clouds II’ Is the Crew Album of the Decade
Delivering bars in both English and a woozy mixture of Mandarin and Sichuanese, the majority of Mr. Enjoy Da Money will likely be unintelligible to foreign audiences but KnowKnow’s effortless flow makes all that an afterthought. Finding inspiration in 50 Cent, Migos, and J. Cole, the references to Maybachs in the Beethoven-inspired “Mr. Bentley” or Blueface in the Jackson Wang-assisted “Face Power” come through clear as day. It is a message of larger-than-life aspirations and luxury delivered over skittering trap rap beats.
The only notable departures from the Higher Brother’s infectious rap formula arrive in the form of “R&B All Night” and “I Love You 3000 III.” The former is a vintage and velvety slow jam that takes inspiration from both shimmering Chinese pop and the likes of R&B heartbreakers. Meanwhile, “I Love You 3000 III,” the album’s closing track, is a reimagining of the Stephanie Poetri breakout track that led to a signing with 88rising told through a lovely array of minimalistic lofi sonics.
Regardless of the language it’s rapped in, Mr. Enjoy Da Money is a testament to the universal language that is hip-hop. And who better to deliver that decree than DzKnow, KnowKnow, Mr. Bentley, Mafia Cashier, or as we now know him, Mr. Enjoy Da Money.
Not too long ago the music video for HIGHER BROTHERS' song 16 hours and Gong Xi Fa Cai came out and on the 22nd of februari their new album was released worldwide, read our review on them! #higherbrothers #chinesehiphop #china
Not too long ago the music video for HIGHER BROTHERS’ song “16 hours” and “Gong Xi Fa Cai” came out and on the 22nd of februari their new album was released worldwide. It’s called Five Stars as we wrote about them before (click here for that introduction) They have just announced an European tour so we couldn’t hold back and HAD to listen to the new album and review it for you guys.