The wheel of time rolls forward. After experiencing the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in 2020 and the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, unconsciously, we have coexisted with the new crown epidemic for a long year.
For the rap circle, the impact of the epidemic is more reflected in the fact that offline performances are more likely to encounter "force majeure", but in addition, the positive impact seems to be greater than the negative impact. In the past two years, the increase in the number of rap variety shows and the emergence of various emerging platforms have given Chinese rap more exports and more possibilities.
As we draw to the end of this exciting year, we have launched this "2021 Chinese Rap Memorabilia" as an inventory to take you back to the events of the rap industry that are worth mentioning in the past year.
Last year, we combed through the big events in a timeline, and this year, we will adopt a "sub-theme" approach to express our views more specifically. Due to the length of the full text, we divided into two tweets. If there are any omissions, you are welcome to add them in the comments section.
Looking back on 2020 now, we all say that it was the "year of reconciliation" for Chinese rap. Because in 2020, many labels that have been fighting each other for several years have chosen to shake hands and make peace, and since then Peace has become the mainstream of the rap circle, which has also changed the ecology of the rap circle.
Standing at the end of 2021, if I want to give this year a generalization, I will be embarrassed, but very firm to say: this year Chinese the "scandal" of the rap circle is really quite a lot. No one wants to summarize a year in their favorite circles as a "year of scandal," but when I put together the rap story for the whole year, I came to the conclusion that about half of it was disgraceful news.
What is even more embarrassing is that these scandals are not isolated or accidental, and it is precisely these scandals that can rush to the forefront of Weibo's hot searches and cause bad effects. The so-called "good things don't go out, bad things spread far and wide", some of the good things that rappers really do have no influence.
Nearly half of these scandals are related to sex. The so-called color character head a knife, this year many rapper fell under this knife: Gao Tianzuo was exposed to about the cannon, SM, beating people; Ryugasaki was exposed to split legs, and also sent sexual behavior videos to the label teammates; MC Guangguang was exposed to about the cannon, chatting; Li Erxin was exposed to split legs; small mouth crisp was exposed to domestic violence, cheating; Babe was exposed to cheating, beating people...
Most of them apologized, and Takatenzo and MC Hikari remained silent for a long time after the incident. Relatively tough should be Babe and small puff pastry, one directly opened the live response, the other did not care what was said.
The above rappers who have scandals are still in a state of love, and they can have their own arguments about whether the feelings are good or not, whether they have broken up or not; but the following three are husbands with wives, and there is no room for sophistry when there is a problem - JD was exposed to cheating and about the cannon; Ice Proud Zhang Zihao was exposed to cheating and about the cannon; Ghost Bian was exposed to talk about female fans, suspected of plagiarism.
Among them, Ice Proud Zhang Zihao's "before and after comparison" is worth mentioning. When there were not enough real hammers, he made a big fuss on Weibo, saying that he would pursue the legal responsibility of the rumor-mongers; when all the evidence was released, he began his own "sincere apology."
To paraphrase a line from "Detective Di Renjie", it is, "Before and after, thinking makes people laugh."
Other rapper scandals that belong to "black history" were revealed, in my words, "bullets from the past hit you now". The most deeply affected is GAI, who has twice been on the hot search because of old black materials, another time is that someone exposed the video of the early Ty. in the live broadcast that GAI took drugs, and once someone exposed the chat private messages sent by GAI to female fans in the early years. Gai's company also debunked the rumor twice, and in the end these things failed to affect the development of GAI.
The same as GAI, there are two people who once looked down on him, one is the shell, he was exposed to the video of beating people and throwing money in the early years, and finally the shell studio responded that this is the conflict that occurred in order to protect his wife from harassment; the second is Jiang Yunsheng, who was exposed to the video of Ju Jingyi (opening the yellow cavity) during the early live broadcast, and Jiang Yunsheng also quickly apologized to Ju Jingyi.
The amount of negative news in the rap scene in 2021 also allowed me to name some "awards" out of a bunch of negative news.
The "Most Innocent Award" was awarded to Yang and Su, who were publicly denounced by the operators of their own support associations for unpaid wages, but rather than begging for wages, they were being blackmailed.
The "Biggest Reversal Award" was to be awarded to Capper, who was exposed in a video taken in 2017 in which he slapped Wu Yifan's humanoid standing card with his hand, a move that was collectively exploded by Wu Yifan's fans who were not cold at the time, and finally Capper could only apologize publicly. However, soon after the Wu Yifan East Window Incident, Capper's actions were described by many as "righteous acts" and "well played", and I believe that Capper himself must be laughing.
The "Most Struggling Award" is to be awarded to PG One, who in 2020 performed a bar performance that lasted only 10 minutes and was extremely dissatisfied with himself, but because the bar held the performance without obtaining a business license, he was also criticized in passing when the bar was notified by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Originally, he had the opportunity to appear in the form of an Easter egg at a music festival in Guiyang. But I don't know whether it was a coincidence or providence, and eventually the festival was cancelled due to the epidemic. PG One's originally bright and upright music festival performance failed to take shape in the end.
In order to make a comeback, PG One has done a lot of hard work. He signed a contract with SG Sound and Sound and listed his own works on qq music, but it was not long before the works were reported and removed from the shelves. Try again, and then take it down.
The "Most Unlucky Award" is to be given to Capper's old friend Naiwan, because too many things have happened to her in the past year. She first caused great controversy at the festival because of the statement of "tolerance and understanding of the beloved boy", and suffered considerable attacks;
Then she was photographed in the hospital, rumored to be ectopic pregnancy, and finally the studio had to debunk the rumor that it was gastroenteritis through public privacy; she also publicly apologized for the theft of filmmaking that many people may have made mistakes, such as "shooting the beginning of the movie in the cinema".
The "Most Cerebral Palsy Award" must be given to DrakSun Kid King, after all, a man who can refresh the 29-year-old Pharaoh's understanding of the silly cup.
When everyone in the rap circle offered love, the child king once again refreshed the public's understanding of the limits of rapping with the way of P figure fraud, and successfully caused public outrage.
The winner of the "Most Speechless Award" was Chen Lingtao, who, after being exposed to splitting his legs, meng Meiqi, thought not of responding or apologizing, but leaving a suicide note on Weibo, and also took two sleeping pills and slept beautifully.
The "most outrageous award" needs to be given to the three underage rappers who shouted "8 mile gang gangs", and their multiplayer sports videos spread like a virus. The stereotypical minors have learned the dross of HipHop culture over and over again, which has made people worry about the phenomenon of rappers' young age.
And our annual ultimate scandal award, of course, is to be awarded to Wu Yifan. After Du Meizhu publicly issued the "decisive battle article", Wu Yifan encountered the biggest public relations crisis in history, and at this time, he was full of self-confidence and threw out such harsh words as "otherwise I will go to prison myself".
In early August, the news of Wu Yifan's suspected rape and detention instantly blew up the whole network, and then he was blocked by the whole network, not only Weibo was written off, but all musical works were also removed. In the past three decades, Wu Yifan has not been one of the most banned entertainment stars in China.
After Wu Yifan was approved for arrest, all his related film and television works and variety shows, including the "China Has Hip Hop" series, were completely removed from the shelves, and even their dissemination on the internet disk was to be blocked.
Wu Yifan, who was also on CCTV News Weibo in early May, was thus reduced to a prisoner. All the controversy in the rap circle about Wu Yifan also came to an end with his imprisonment.
After talking about negative news, let's talk about the contradictions and conflicts in the rap circle this year. In fact, after the arrival of the "Year of Reconciliation", these contradictions and conflicts no longer have much of the flavor of the past. Many of the so-called Diss this year have not returned to diss track at all, and some have not even responded, which makes diss become a kind of self-deprecating behavior to some extent.
Such as Yang Xiaochuan Diss Killer And PG One, Daluye Diss Pharaoh, Abbot Diss Ma Siwei and GAI, Deep Blue Kids Diss Ma Siwei and Violent Buckle, Violent Buckle Diss AK Liu Zhang, Kim Hee Woo Diss Buzzy, Coastal Friendly Label Diss Huang Xu, 2Night Night Discs Blow Fever, Captain Liu Yi Diss Tian Mi...
None of this large group of people's active Diss has received a Diss Track, and some are nothing more than the "obscurity" of PG One, the pharaoh's "Who?" And so forth dismissive replies.
Kim Hee-woo is particularly amused about Buzzy's diss: the reason is that Buzzy didn't delete the diss of Kim Hee-woo in the early years on the music platform, which made Kim Hee-woo quite upset, and in an interview, he said that he wanted to beat Buzzy. Since the words are all released, it is difficult to end without Diss, so Kim Hee-woo has released a Diss "Cave Man on the Top".
However, netizens are very unconvinced by his diss, believing that the quality is low. Kim Hee-woo said that it was "casually written" by himself, which was ridiculed by netizens, and eventually he deleted Diss.
There are also conflicts that do not appear in diss, but rather like "public shouting". The identities of the shouter and the callee can be said to be unpredictable. Like Buzzy shouting Fox, it belongs to the shouting between rappers. Buzzy made the contradictions between the two sides public in this way, Fox had to announce the fact that he had withdrawn from the living dead, and the living dead who twisted into a rope in 2019 also became the "tears of the times".
Jiang Siyang accused too handsome of plagiarism, which also belongs to the category of shouting between rappers. Of course, too handsome flower chose to mouth hard to the end. Li Jialong's girlfriend fired a vicious fire on Mustafa, which belongs to the "rapper family VS other rappers".
Laugh at the program group after the broadcast of "Black Afraid Girl" because there is no camera and malicious editing, it is the typical "rapper VS program group" ;P G One was copied by Liang Sen and Lin Mo, publicly shouted Chen Lingtao, and even prepared to engage in Bef, which belongs to the "rapper VS producer".
After iQiyi announced the suspension of "China New Rap", Cai Yi, the producer of PG One, and Chen Lingtao had some verbal battles, which was "producer VS producer". There is also a more special, Mercy's international language Freestyle has caused widespread controversy, this wave can probably be understood as "self-media people vs the world"...
So has there been a decent Beef happening this year? The answer is still there. Guangxi rap label TACE cue to Zhao Chenlong in the song, and also specially sent a song Diss him, Zhao Chenlong chose to send the label survivor alliance in the little brother WTZ to fight back, no matter the quality, the two sides finally have a decent move, it is always a "Beef".
The biggest beef of the year is still the figure of Diss King Buzzy, who and Xi'an OG Li Yanheng quarreled over the "three beats" performance of his company's artist Li Yanxin. Li Yanheng took the lead in attacking, and Buzzy took over the move.
And the living dead who have a very good relationship with Buzzy have also begun to fight back, JarStick, Pharaoh have come down, this Beef has gradually evolved into a contest between the living dead and Xi'an OG, before and after the birth of a lot of quality Diss Track, so that the melon-eating masses dream back to before 2020.
If there's a Diss award of the year, I think it should go to the Joker. The Joker aspires to be the next kindergarten killer, the next Buzzy, so he has put a lot of enthusiasm and effort into Diss.
This year, The Clown Diss has slammed the buckle, the abbot, the president of the Beiwai Rap Club, the child Wang, Li Yanheng and other people, among which Li Yanheng's Diss "Borrowing the East Wind" has received countless praises, and the clown has also taken a solid step towards the goal of the new Diss King.
The above is the last part of our year-end inventory of the Chinese rap circle in 2021. In a year's time, is the rap circle we love really filled with shameful scandals and boring conflicts? The answer, of course, is no. In the next article, we will mention the exciting news, the heart-warming news... Readers, stay tuned!