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  2. Nov 17, 2019 · Rap first began to take hold in China in the early 1990s, when pop artists around China began experimenting with elements of hip-hop that were popular in the United States at the time. The first Chinese album to gain popularity branded as “rap” was “Stranger” (某某人), released by early pioneers Xie Dong, Yin Xiangjie, and Tu Tu.

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  3. Chinese hip hop (Chinese: 中国嘻哈; pinyin: Zhōngguó xīhā), also known as C-Rap, is a subgenre of Chinese music. Some of the earliest influences of hip-hop in came from films such as Beat Street (1984) which entered China on video tape via embassy workers or foreign businessmen and their families.

  4. Feb 18, 2019 · Some record companies anticipated that new music trends, including rock and hip-hop, would spread from the Western world to China, so they created a new rap group called Yincang (literally “hiding”), which released its first hip-hop album Serve the People on December 1, 2003. However, it did not set off a hip-hop boom in China because the ...

  5. No, it didn't all start with The Rap of China and Kris Wu — far from it. Discover the music and key figures in Chinese hip hop, starting from the '90s.

  6. Feb 23, 2024 · When did rap start in China? 1990s. Rap first began to take hold in China in the early 1990s, when pop artists around China began experimenting with elements of hip-hop that were popular in the United States at the time. Did it all start with the rap of China? No, it didn’t all start with The Rap of China — far from it. In Pt. 1 of a two ...

  7. No, it didn't all start with The Rap of China — far from it. In Pt. 1 of a two-part series, Fan Shuhong traces the history of hip hop in China from the 1990s to 2010

  8. History of Hip-Hop in China. According to AFP: Hip hop is still marginal in China’s music scene, dominated by love songs, imported pop and patriotic tunes dating from the era of Mao Zedong.