Hip hop in China

Hip hop in China | We're a group of multilingual reporters and filmmakers bringing you stories on Asian culture. Follow us now on @GOLDTHREAD2.

News and insight on the music genre, from Communist Party crackdowns to the Rap of China - a reality-show that gains billions of online views.

Music to get you through social isolation, from Chinese jazz to hip-hop

CultureApr 03, 2020

Why we did a series on Chinese hip-hop

CultureDec 24, 2019

The little-known story of how a Chinese-Canadian misfit brought Chinese hip-hop to the world

CultureNov 15, 2019

How a Hong Kong rapper found his way back to fame through mainland China

CultureOct 31, 2019

Meet James Mao, 88rising’s edgy music video director shaking up China’s rap scene

CultureOct 15, 2019

Chinese-American rapper Bohan Phoenix is not selling out

CultureSep 27, 2019

China’s ‘hip-hop poet’ on writing socially conscious rap and how J. Cole inspired him

IdentityAug 08, 2019

The 10-year-old Chinese girl who’s owning the hip-hop scene

CultureJan 17, 2019

Meet the Rihanna of China debuting on 'Crazy Rich Asians'

CultureAug 23, 2018

Inside the Beijing art studio where rifles, hip hop, and Buddhism meet (ft. Huang Yulong)

IdentityAug 01, 2018