"China Has Hip Hop" Sun Bayi Farewell Stage The hip hop story continues

After the seventh episode of China's first Hip-Hop cultural promotion program "China Has Hip Hop" was broadcast, the hot dog Zhang Zhenyue's "Far Away" quickly exploded. Although Sun Bayi finally bid farewell to the stage, this song sung by GAI, Evgeni, Huang Xu, Sun Bayi, and Laughter immediately received praise from the audience, of which Sun Bayi sang a story about left-behind children in this song "Far Away", listening carefully as if seeing the swaying hawthorn flower in the lyrics.

Guizhou is located in southwest China, where the living conditions of left-behind children are more like a microcosm of the whole country. Sun Bayi wrote in the lyrics: He was born in Guizhou, a remote mountainous area, his parents left when he was born, and he didn't say a word to him... The mountains are all over the place, all over the hawthorn flowers, although I am five years old this year, I have never seen my parents ... Grandma has gray hair ... Didn't wait until he didn't want to go home.

In a simple lyric, the real life of left-behind children is described, childhood should be a season of flowers, but the hillside of left-behind children is full of sour hawthorn flowers. This year is five years old, but I have not seen my parents, I have not said a word, the lyrics do not explain the end, it is estimated that it is a sad story, my father does not want to go home, but my grandmother has not been able to wait for him...

Sun Bayi was born in Kaili City, Guizhou, although not a left-behind child, but he entered the society too early, he experienced too much human warmth and coldness, but also laid the foundation for his keen insight into the subject matter, these experiences undoubtedly became the main source of subject matter for his future creations. Sun Bayi said that the encounter with hip-hop is very witty, he shared: At that time, I went to KTV with my friends and found that everyone sang very well, so I wanted to sing more avant-garde songs, so I learned a few English songs. But then I found out that the KTV waiter could sing and interact with him. This made him continue to find his own music, until he met hip-hop, he began to try to create, when he was 20 years old, played for three or four years to know that there is a group of Rappers in the outside world who also insist on the same love as him. Before he built a car behind closed doors, he did not have enough hip-hop experience to exchange, but fortunately, Sun Bayi stepped out of his own hip-hop road.

This choice of creative themes and style is precisely the representative of Chinese hip-hop, and listening to his songs will find that there is little English mixed in, and the lyrics rarely involve topics such as social violence. He pays more attention to the current society, the people and things happening around him. He has his own understanding of hip-hop, and he does not deny that many Rappers now deliberately imitate foreign styles, but he believes that since it is Chinese, we should pay more attention to our cultural heritage and make its own hip-hop music that belongs to the Chinese. Indeed, he is also insisting, he looks like a "business Rapper" on the outside, but in his bones he is a completely realistic Rapper. Some people suspect that the business fan is just a person on the stage, but he explains that this is his life.

Sun Bayi's themes are all realistic works about the workplace, refusal to drink and drive, left-behind children, stray animals and so on. He believes that the reason why black Rappers sing "fight the police with guns and ammunition, spend a lot of money when they have money" is because they are living or longing to live in that environment. He said: China is too peaceful and uneventful, and it still shouts violent confrontation every day, which feels not quite in line with the environment. Therefore, his works reflect more of China's current social reality, among which a touching song "Please Don't Hurt Him" with the theme of caring for stray animals, most of the lyrics are describing the current situation of stray animals' lives, which can't help but make people moved, and his songs express their love for life and an appeal to care for vulnerable groups. The emergence of Rappers like Sun Bayi is actually a concrete embodiment of hip-hop taking root and sprouting in China, and it is also a symbol of hip-hop localization in China.

In the show, Sun Bayi's "Pay Back" conquered three groups of producers, and Pan Weibai said bluntly: I can't help but really want to pay him back. There are many contestants like Sun Bayi, who focus on dreams, society and various humanistic feelings. The black part of hip-hop from the other side of the ocean was eliminated, and this group of young people filled in the positive energy content, which gave birth to hip-hop music with Chinese characteristics. Hip-hop can express more themes under the creation of Chinese Rapper, and the social level of the response is broader and more profound than that of popular songs, and the rap form of hip-hop and the length of the long and short are enough for the audience to listen to a story and a small point of view. Hip-hop will also follow rock and roll and set off another wave of craze in the music world.

The birth of "China Has Hip Hop" was not only born at the right time, but also played a role in this era. CCTV made an exclusive interview report on iQIYI's "China Has Hip Hop" program, and the report fully affirmed the cultural promotion of iQIYI's "China Has Hip Hop" and the successful transformation of entertainment variety shows into mass cultural phenomena.

In addition to Sun Bayi, there are many rappers on the stage of "China Has Hip Hop", who express their musical attitudes through their own ways, transmit positive energy, tell various stories, and speak out for the dreamers, questioned and vulnerable groups. "China Has Hip Hop" is popular precisely because it is telling the story of most people's hearts in a new way. This is how Chinese hip-hop has gradually entered the public's field of vision, and has been recognized and loved by the public. Finally, he led the audience step by step into "China Has Hip Hop" and listened to the hip hop stories that belonged to China.