Since the release of "China Has Hip Hop" in 2017, Chinese rap has begun to accelerate the pace of entering the so-called "golden age", as the program has become more and more popular, rap music has also received more people's widespread attention, the most critical of which are rappers who have begun to traffic stars.
If you have been listening to and singing since 2007, then you will be impressed by Takeyu, Hidden, lmf, Jingqi Shen, Yin San'er, Gentian Purple, Big Zoo...
If you've been listening to and singing music since 2017, you might be impressed by gai, pg one, c-block, Yang and Su, Fox, Huang Xu...
When many people who are Chinese rap road begin to squeeze their heads and want to come up, there is such a rapper, willingly polishing excellent music works that can bring you reflection day after day in the underground.
He's Jr Fog.
His original name was Huo Jiajun, but he liked to be called Jr.
Jr can be understood as an abbreviation of junior, and the pronunciation of "Huo" in Cantonese is very similar to "fog", so the name jr fog was born, which can also be understood as young fog.
Born into an ordinary working family, he was exposed to hip-hop music in the background music of the game in elementary school, and then bought his first rap music disc at the age of thirteen.
Jr fog, who is in the embryonic stage of adolescent rebellion, started because of the name of this disc, "foul language song", but his world can be said to have completely changed after listening to this disc.
It was an LMF disc, grounded and freely expressive lyrics that immediately caught the attention of Jr Fog.
Then he embarked on the opportunity to compose rap music because of a composition writing, and at a young age, he began to think: "If I go to write, can I do it?" ”
It is said that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and Jr fog with such ideas is buried in the creation of rap music. If LMF was the initiation teacher of rap music, then when he attended the first hip hop awards ceremony in Shenzhen at the age of 18, Mc Ren became one of the most influential figures on his future development.
Not only that, Jr fog also won the "Most Promising Rapper" at the first China Hip Hop Awards at the age of 18.
Think more and sing something meaningful As a rapper, you must dare to speak up and express Don't sing the flow account, no one else knows what you're singing after the whole song
These are the suggestions that Mc Jen gave to Jr Fog as a senior, and also let Jr Fog learn a lot from Mc Ren's body.
In 2009, Jr Fog released his first mixtape "Southern Barbarian Land", of which the song "Better Days" gave people a glimpse of Jr fog's flow skills.
If Jr Fog's personal style is not particularly prominent in this mixtape, then in the "Arimaru No Pill" mixtape released a year later, you can already feel the musical charm of Jr Fog.
In 2010, in addition to the mixtape of "There are pills without pills", there is also an album that was contracted by Jr fog to compose and arrange and mix the music, "Playlist".
Perhaps such a prolific JR fog has been difficult to see again, so interested friends can still go back and listen to the previous mixtape.
Although Jr fog's rap music enlightenment is "foul language song", because he absorbed the advice and experience of his predecessors in the process of growing up, he also explored his own unique style on his own musical path.
With the drums of the old school sounding, the lyrics that can make you calm down and carefully ponder and taste will explode in your ears, and then turn into a knife and hit your heart.
In the song of Jr fog, you can hear the helpless cries of children who have been bullied and bullied in school; you can see the most heart-wrenching problems in an ordinary family; you can smell the smell of coal when your loved ones die of gas poisoning...
Among them, the most representative song of Jr Fog is "That Woman".
Listeners who know this song should know that this song is written by Jr Fog's mother, but also his own personal story.
The song samples Cai Qin's "Your Eyes" and tells a story of domestic violence, Cai Qin's resentful voice coupled with Jr fog's very graphic lyrics, it is simply a relive of the horror and fear when watching "Don't Talk to Strangers" when I was a child.
How many people were deeply shocked after listening to this song, and how many people remembered the name Jr fog because of this song.
And this song was collected in the album "Feed Me" released in 2016, in this album, except for "A Glass of Wine" and "Um" in collaboration with Lao Dao and Eddie, the rest of the songs are all written by Jr Fog and arranged and mixed.
As mentioned earlier, Jr Fog comes from an ordinary working family in Shenzhen, perhaps there is this layer of influence, on the road of rap music, Jr Fog has always insisted on speaking for the grassroots and speaking out for the bottom of society.
That song "You Say" is exactly like this, Jr Fog saw a teenager in order to buy iPad to sell kidney news, while feeling that the teenager has no brain, Jr Fog also believes that such a social event should get more widespread attention, so there is a song "You Say".
The concept of "from the grassroots, speaking for the grassroots" has led Jr fog farther and farther down the road of rap music, the most noteworthy of which is the album "deal with fog" co-produced by him and his long-time friend Dadiao in 2019.
Speaking of this album, at that time, Jr Fog and Big Eagle originally wanted to make an EP, but they turned into a new album when they did it, in addition to him and Big Eagle, they also invited Vyan, Dough-Boy, Ace Monkey, and YeJi Music to join the album collaboration.
The whole album contains a total of 10 songs, including various types of social events, including "Nibbling Old Heroes" exposing the phenomenon of young people gradually "nibbling aging" in contemporary society; there is "Stand Out" that opposes school violence at the same time, but also calls on victims to be brave and stand up...
When these naked phenomena are revealed and turned into songs, they can make you feel sad and cause you to reflect. This is the uniqueness of Jr Fog and the charm of his personal music.
Although Jr fog has never identified himself as the voicepiece of society, he has also said: "The power of rap is that things that seem to be dismissive may be difficult to climb, but they are related to a living life and family, and it will be interesting and meaningful to pay more attention to what is happening around you." ”
Some people think rap should be angry, some people think rap should be inspirational, but rap should be a combination of the two, and even more.
Although Jr Fog writes a lot of storytelling rap music that reflects social issues, he also has an angry and violent side.
The "Expert Level" included in the 2016 mixtape "Miss Good White" has been hailed as "one of the classic tutorials of Cantonese foul-mouth rap".
Many people will want to know who he is scolding when they hear such a grumpy JR fog, but in fact, the song "Expert" does not specifically refer to a certain person, nor does it specifically refer to a certain group of people, it is purely jr fog that connects various phenomena that he does not like and then sings it through the form of rap music.
Of course, the main thing is that the jr fog sings the addiction, and we listen to it too.
Maybe many people don't know much about JR fog, and even some people haven't heard of Jr fog's name, just because he can be called one of the lowest-key rappers, many fans will say that JR fog is slow to sing, but as long as you pay a little attention, you can know that he is actually a very prolific rap musician.
Since 2009, a total of 3 mixtape, 4 albums, each with a song inclusion of 10 songs, the earliest "Southern Wild Land" mixtape is included in up to 20 tracks.
The reason why everyone thinks he is slow to sing is that he rarely releases singles. Now there are only 6 singles that can be found in the network suppression cloud, compared with other rappers who frequently release singles, jr fog updates the speed and frequency of songs is very slow.
On the road of making music, he can maintain his own life, live more comfortable and happy, so the pursuit of blandness has not participated in variety shows before this year, only this year took that step and participated in "China's New Rap".
Although there is no footage, do you think this will cover up his strength?
In addition to winning the "Most Promising Rapper" at the Age of 18 at the Chinese Hip Hop Awards, he also cooperated with the American game company ea games in an era when there were no Chinese rappers working with American companies.
The reason is that in the "China Hiphop underground" compilation album, jr fog's "talk time", after the release of the compilation album, it attracted the attention of the American game company ea games, and then ea games company included Jr fog's "talk time" into its games.
As mentioned earlier, Jr Fog's rap music initiation is LMF, but Jr Fog is also a rap music initiation teacher for many people, including Theosio.
Theosio also posted a photo of the two on Weibo, and held a wave of lottery to let everyone guess who the person in the picture is.
This also confirms that Jr Fog has always been low-key, and no one knows about him.
Indeed, Jr fog's storytelling rap music style is also more strongly reflected in Theo's body, and while listening to the song, the picture that the song wants to create for you will automatically appear in your mind.
Such a strong narrative ability and musical expression ability have also become the strongest and most powerful blade of JR FOG. If you've just listened to Jr Fog, you may think that his voice is soft and unflinching, but when you listen to it, you will find out how strong Jr fog's song really is and how chilling the picture sense is.
In the face of this year's menacing epidemic, Jr Fog also did what he should do as a rapper, releasing a "heroes" for the heroes who are fighting on the front line, and hoping to win this war without smoke as soon as possible.
In the past few years, due to Jr fog's personal reasons, physical and mental state problems, there was no work, and most of the work was engaged in production and post-production work, so this can also explain the reason why Jr fog is slow to sing, fortunately, it has now been adjusted.
So in August this year, Jr Fog released his new album "mist", so far online 5 songs, belongs to the form of a debut, this new album will continue to update, interested partners can continue to pay attention.
In the new album of "mist", the most representative song is "2020", which not only tells the impact of this magical 2020 on everyone, but also tells the reality that everyone is highly mentally stressed under the huge shadow and gradually begins to deviate.
Interested partners can move to the network cloud search by themselves, and I will not continue to repeat it here.
From the beginning of writing the first lyrics to now, Jr fog has been on the road of rap music for more than sixteen years, but Jr fog has always been a low-key rapper, maybe it is difficult for him to really walk in front of the big screen and enter the public eye, but who knows, this day will not come?
Although I knew before writing this article that the name of Jr fog is unfamiliar to many people compared to rappers who have frequently appeared on the big screen in recent years, many of his works can definitely stay in your player and play it repeatedly.
So I would suggest that listeners who really like hip-hop music can listen to Jr fog's work (what if it catches fire one day?). If you don't listen to it again, you will lose), and I also hope that in the Chinese rap circle, there can be more "jr fog", sing out the things that belong to the world, don't sing those hades rap, can you?
But it is by no means a call for everyone to become the second JR fog, as he himself said: "mc hotdog is very popular, but the world does not need a second mc hotdog, I want to be myself, to be the most Shenzhen rap".
Of course, in the end, I also want to shout at Jr fog, hurry up and update the album! If you don't go on the show, the new album has not been updated since September, what do you want?!