The song "Generation" by Xiaopang and the old-school song "Now you know" are really suitable for a duel at the end. The moment when the old man dropped the microphone, his blood was really boiling. Perhaps this is the most original charm of rap.

Let’s talk about Xiaopang’s “Generation” first. I listened to this song early last year and I wasn’t very impressed. I just thought the melody was very nice. Xiaopang abandoned the complicated flow and arrangement, returned to his original nature, and used the most thoughtful way to describe the future of this generation of rappers from the beginning. To be honest, I have never been able to relate to the scene depicted in the song before, but I have never deleted this song from my playlist. Until today, when more than twenty rappers stood together and sang "When we leave, bury all the albums together.", I got it for the first time that this group of rappers who have gone from underground to above ground have experienced The darkness of the past, the so-called "prosperity" and the future that will lead to it.

On the other side, the old school uses the most solid skills to tell you what Hip-hop is. I don’t know much about the history of the rap circle. To borrow a term from the LOL circle, which was the first year of e-sports in 2018, I was just a novice who just started listening to rap in 2017. What's more, rapping has never been the main career of these rappers, and hip-hop has always been just a music style in my listening list. I even feel that this kind of pure hard-core rap is not as attractive to me as melodic rap. But when the old school said those names one by one, I could really feel the weight of their history. This hard-core rap style really hammered the lyrics into my heart word for word. Moreover, I have loved the old-school rap style since 2018. That song "Y" was also my favorite rap song in 2018.

In addition, in this issue, Ai Re's "Thousands of Miles" is a perfect fusion of national music and rap, which is very nice to listen to; TizzyT and Huang Xu's rap skills are still very good; Li Jialong once again contributed Good melodic rap (although I always feel that the songs after using Auto tune are not as good as before). In short, the battle of rappers continues, and we continue to wait for them to contribute better works to us.