Huang Chongxu
Huang Chongxu, Witness, specializes in lyrics, poetry, DJ and various ball games. I recorded my own demo and went to the record counter to recommend myself. Now a Chinese-American.
Chinese name: Huang Chongxu
Foreign name: Winess
Nationality: United States
Constellation: Libra
Blood type: Type B
Height: 176cm
Weight: 60kg
Occupation: Singer
Representative work: "Witness Huang Chongxu's debut Personal Album" "Anyway"
Personal Profile
Education: UniversityOfTexas
Experts: Lyrics, songwriting, DJ
Interests: Reading, watching movies
First love: 12 years old
Favorite type of girl: cute and sexy
Favorite colors: black, white
Favorite book: "Criminals and Motives"
Favorite animal: Dog
Favorite city: Taipei, Paris
Most A moving song: LookAway/Chicago
Favorite singer: Eminem
Favorite actor: Al Pacino
Favorite food: Fruit
The thing you fear most: amnesia after being drunk
The job you most wanted to do when you were a child: professional singer
Advantages: honesty
Disadvantages: Too many to write
The female artist I most want to know: a girl who is black and knows how to mm
What I am most proud of: completing my own album
What you most want to try: swimming with "her"
Biggest dream: to take care of your family independently
Motive for entering the entertainment industry: touching people with music
Debut Method: Record the demo by yourself and send it to the record counter
Music works
Witness Huang Chongxu’s first album of the same name
Record company: Rolling Stone Records
Release date: October 18, 2005
Album language: Mandarin/Minnan album
Album tracks:
01.Apri17, 2005 message
02.DearMama
03.Birthday (Skit)
04.Happy Birthday
05. Love Relationship
06 .Our Story (Skit)
07. Our Story Iwillmakethiswrongright
08. Mai False Sign
09. Life Goeson
10. Haven
11. Dream Combination
12. ReadyToDie
13. Eyes That Don’t Cry (Demo)
Anyway
Record Company: Rolling Stone Records
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: Mandarin
01.WelcomeBack (Feat.MCHotDog does not follow the word game creation method of ordinary rappers. Witness Huang Chongxu used the most colloquial but most sincere method to write touching lyrics one after another in the album. Witness, the American-style ordering of Chinese characters, creates a flow that is different from Chinese rap. The American southern accent adds a bit of Hakka flavor passed down from my parents, and the non-standard Mandarin sounds like a unique style of accent.
In the preface to the album, there is a paragraph that directly describes Witness’s creative mood: “I wrote these songs completely sincerely, and frankly, this is the only songwriting I know. method.
More than once, the song has exposed the ugliness and darkness that I cannot hide deep in my heart. This is okay, because I believe that by keeping myself sincere and frank, you will be more willing to listen to what I have to say, and I hope you will respond to what I write. Things and who I am are more likely to resonate."
The first newly created single "Paradise" that represents the concept of the entire album
Where is the hope? Everything? Start thinking about a better place
The song "Paradise" begins with describing the source of Witness's spiritual sustenance. The lyrics talk about his personal experience and that of his friends. The belief in life, the deeds witnessed with one's own eyes, and even the 2,791 people whose fate was decided due to the 9/11 incident, all appear in the song one by one.
The words "One love is all we got, let's stand together," are written in the song. "Showme Heavenly Father, showme what is true" directly expresses that only "love" is the only salvation of life. This is also the belief that Witness has always existed in his heart, and it is also the concept of this album; in his eyes, there is nothing that cannot be solved by love. The "Paradise" MV challenges the standards of censorship, using scenes of torture, drug taking, and prostitution that are very common in real life to directly point to the lack of love in the world, but it may be very sensational, and it may be immoral. The love we lack is the culprit. Even if we have to delete some scenes due to social standards, no one can ignore the problem that "love" has gradually ceased to exist.
Looking for "love" and "love". "Hope", Witness wants to pursue heaven with everyone.
Recommended
★Heaven Although "love" and "hope" are old-fashioned, they can make everything in front of you feel like you are in heaven. This is the belief that Witness has always had in his heart, and it is also the concept of this album; in his eyes, there is no problem that cannot be solved by love.
★The emotional world of Witness is about love. Let you find out here; he invites you to be his baby with the purest heart. Just follow the brisk rhythm and enter the sweet atmosphere created by Witness, and have a love relationship together in a romantic atmosphere.
★Our story: We have all fallen in love, and we all make mistakes. We use the pain after love to make up for our lives, and then we will write our stories in a more mature and strong tone, dedicated to every couple who lives happily in love. , lovers who have been sad, failed, confused, turned back, and been strong, I believe you have experienced the story of Witness J.Wu MCHotDog, a big circus. Let’s cheer for the Winess platform with all our strength! Winess’s music is connected with life. It sounds better when you say it than when you sing it. People who come back from abroad will not compare. Let me tell you how Chinese rap should be done. You should listen to Huang Chongxu!
The second studio album "Anyway"
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"IrhymethereforeIam"
Hip-HopPhilosopherWitnessHuang
Maybe by your standards, I am not considered a coffee person,
But, I am really hip-hop.
"Guns N' Roses" guitarist Slash reveals his true feelings!
MCHotDog, A-YueChang, Free9, TriPoets, MJ116, Ma Nianxian, MonkeyPilot, BERIGHT, Dazhi, J.Wu,
MiacaKuan, Charlene Chung
The ruthless characters in Taiwan’s hip-hop circle came together at once, and the rock musicians spoke out and pushed hard.
Change the misunderstanding of eating, drinking, having fun and courting girls
Revealing the true social plot of the true nature of music
The truth of expressing the truth in the face of hip-hop consciousness
Expressing the sincerity of venting one's deep feelings
People and life may be divided into two sides,
No matter which side you turn to, no matter which side you turn to,
p>It all comes back to myself.
Arranged and recorded in Taiwan and Los Angeles and later mixed with Korean master tapes
The purest East Coast hip-hop spirit, the most mellow original melody,
Either gentle or rebellious, it's Huang Chongxu's completely created album.
I don’t define hip-hop, but hip-hop defines my pursuit of telling the truth.
Make no mistake. hip hop.
Not wearing baggy clothes, hunchback or smoking, drinking or partying, picking up girls is called hip hop.
If you have no target direction, don’t know what you are talking about, and just move your head and head along with the music, and can’t even find the rhythm, this is just a blindly obedient attitude towards life. You can say that it is, dissolute or swaying.
That's not hip-hop.
Be cool! That's OK! Because I don't believe that I'm handsome, how can I speak clearly clearly?
But if you don’t have any ego, opinions or values, just save it. Because that's just a way of trying to learn to be a playboy.
That is not an attitude!
I learned about black people from music video, and then used it as basic fashion equipment, but I don’t understand why hip-hop exists? If it were just Sun Wukong's hair or Naruto's shadow clone, it would be an existence without the meaning of life. That's "rude"!
Hip-hop is a kind of social consciousness. It is a life attitude that strives for self and dignity. And,
Please pay attention to me. with my expression.
Witness Recorder=makingHistory
For strangers who come back from a foreign land, no matter which side they are on, they don’t seem to belong to that place.
Bloodline, skin color, appearance, language, and voice do not seem to belong to a certain side. Even the air density was strangely wrong.
It may also be that since childhood, "no one is", so
all the things that are not right have become "yes" habitually.
But the most right thing is that music integrates him.
So many different mutual doubts and mutual rejections in the body are mixed together to form a new world, and in that world, I understand best.
The witness who is not silent, "Huang Chongxu" is his name.
His name is Witness
No matter what the temperature is, he doesn’t care. No definition of right or wrong. I just remember it and record it in my mind. Through music, I write a song and express my vision.
He is an eyewitness, witness, and recorder. The movement of life must evolve to "transmission" and "narration."
He is a narrator.
A wandering musician, a wandering wanderer, a child-like sincere individual
Even, he thinks he is a mystery existing in the real realm of this earth
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Huang Chongxu Witness, a Taiwanese kid from Houston, southeastern Texas, USA, started working as a DJ at the age of 14. He never stopped doing this as an interest until he finished college. Ambition. At that time, he thought that city was his HOMETOWN.
He should now be called Mr. But there is still a child-like soul living in his body. You can call it Mr. Hip-Hop, or more like his own "Hip-Hop Thinker".
After he returned to Taiwan with DEMO in 1999, he said, "Taipei is my HOMETOWN."
The first half of the music story about his arrival is like this,
We use years to describe those days:
_In 1999, he came to Taipei with the demo he had spent three years recording in LA, looking for a dream that no one had supported. In a suite of less than 10 square meters, after 3 years of waiting and suffering.
_In 2002, he finally participated in the "Semi-Adult Advocacy" compilation album and released his first single "Life Will Go On". This single won the "Top 10 Best Singles of the Year Award" from the Chinese Musicians Exchange Association together with outstanding musicians such as Tao_, Stefanie Sun, and Chen Jiannian.
_Huang Chongxu said in poor Mandarin during the award ceremony, "I am very happy. HipHop music, my music, can be recognized in Taiwan"
_2002 In the summer of that year, Huang Chongxu's mother returned to Taiwan for the first time at the "Semi-Adult Advocacy" concert at National Taiwan University. Watch him perform.
_In August 2005, the album that took 3 years was finally completed.
_October 2005_The first solo album "Witness Huang Chongxu" was released.
_Next
_2014. A new beginning.
In this arrangement, there is a lost period of 8 years.
Which one would you choose AND who has been with him the longest?
What kind of album is this?
The spirit of the album is this man and his God.
Not many people want to study him so far. Of course, even his friends and enemies may not want to know him so deeply. Everyone has their own opinions, but those are not final conclusions for him.
Huang Chongxu’s life is just a microcosm of society. It's just that he's a little weirder and more twisted than the others, and his stories that are restricted are a little more childish.
Witness has a good family background. The space of American-style family education also gave him a bigger version of himself and exploration. He played piano in elementary school, but became more interested in the loud music coming from the portable stereo from the house next door. Seeing those American neighbors singing and dancing like they were doing their best, his heart and soul were attracted to them. His love for music took another direction, wandering and struggling unbridled. At the age of 13, he started playing turntables, seeking his release and fulfillment in flipping. So much so that he wanted to pursue more and bigger dreams.
Libra, in addition to the drifting gene in his destiny, he is always writing poetry in his mind. There are always sounds and words flowing, even if you are trapped, whether in a 10-square-meter Taipei apartment, or in a nursing home in the United States, or even in what he considers Hometown(s), in two cities in two cities. Touring the city, he was always moving. Including love and alcohol.
The brain, like the body, cannot stop.
His English writing style is very poetic, while his Chinese lyrics are completely colloquial, with a more conversational tone than many Taiwanese people. The two completely different grammars come from the intricate intertwining of his life.
A kind of dual recognition and disapproval from Houston and Taipei, from the conflict between Libra's wandering and desire for stability, from him, for love and being loved, there are many conflicts between the two. Longing and letting go.
A very brave posture, covering up his lack of bravery in so many rich things.
Before winning the award, he had filmed commercials and even collaborated with diva Zhang Huimei. During the eight years that are missing from the chronology, he continued to perform as a DJ, but did not hand over a real music score. He lived life, especially the unhappy and unhappy years of alcoholism, including the years of sobriety. He then reconnected with God, reentered his album, and let the record serve as a testament to his prodigal return. A hip-hop album full of stories in music and lyrics.
OHMYGOD. It is the exclamation mark of the bizarre things he sees in his eyes, and the various wonderful experiences in social life, love and interpersonal relationships.
Maybe it's unreasonable, maybe it's exaggerated and absurd, but those exclamation marks have become the music, lyrics and stories he writes.
OH~MYGOD. It is his gratitude for getting the chance to experience love again and restart the redemption after experiencing the ups and downs.
You can simply think "that's it anyway", or you can interpret "just" as "close", "close", "become", that is Everything'sGonnaBeAlright
You should How to listen to this album
If you are tempted by the names of ruthless characters in the hip-hop circle such as Hot Dog, Naughty Boy, _噙, Dazhi, and Egg Castle at the beginning, you will think that this is a record of the Hip-Hop Heroes Club. ..If this can attract your attention and induce your desire to buy, it is actually quite good, because at least you know that there are excellent and well-known musicians in Taiwan’s hip-hop industry, and you also have the most basic introduction to hip-hop. Excellent people at knowhow. If you pick up this album, you will be lucky enough to get a good record, which may give you the opportunity to change or upgrade your attitude towards hip-hop.
After you press the PLAY button.
At the beginning, you will feel murderous, because the voices of a group of well-known MCHOTDOG will immediately lead your ears into a MAN-flavored music listening world. Coupled with the brotherly speaking style of J.WU and Huang Chongxu and the text creation from these three hip-hop writers, you will be excited involuntarily, just like in the first scene of a concert, your nerves will be completely aroused .
Just enjoy the next RUN first.
When you listen to the entire album for the first time, you will feel that each song is beating your eardrums in rhythm. If you follow it, the rhythm will change your walking speed, no matter what appears in the song Regardless of the male or female voices, they can make your body unable to stop shaking, including your head, your shoulders, and your constantly shaking fingers. Even if you suddenly hear a chorus similar to GOSPEL and you are right, the musical structure of gospel songs is really used in Huang Chongxu's hip-hop. Moreover, there are many musicians including MCHotDog, J.Wu, A-YueChang, Free9, TriPoets, MJ116, Ma Nianxian, MiacaKuan, Charlene Chung, MonkeyPilot, and BERIGHT.
This is the unique creation and performance of music, not just the genre.
Music can be integrated. No matter what type it is, just like the earth can accommodate multiple species, as long as they are suitable, they can survive wonderfully. Even if Huang Chongxu's music is authentic hip-hop, in his universe, notes can be reborn. Like what you're hearing now.
We're sure you'll want to listen to it a second time. There will also be a third and more times. Not surprisingly, you will find it very pleasant to listen to, and it is suitable for listening to almost any time. Hip-hop music is not just serious talking, but also dynamic rhythms and very nice original melodies.
Next, you will hear the story. Really enter the creative soul of hip-hop Siren.
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Witness new song quick introduction version
WELCOMEBACK (Huang Chongxu feat.MCHotDog) Every little prince also has a rose blooming in a corner of the universe in his heart. And Huang Chongxu praised her directly.
As we all know, Dazhi’s words are direct and powerful, but his heart is full of love, just like Dazhi loves stray animals, so Huang Chongxu thought to ask Dazhi to help. Completing this Chinese lyrics is definitely the most loving decision. Of course, this song is also so sweet.
Love Me Don't Go
The biggest fear in every relationship. , everyone falls in love with us.
Isn’t love supposed to be between two people?
The last thing you need to care about is love. However, hearsay and value judgments are more likely to affect the two parties involved in love.
The story of this song comes from Huang Chongxu’s last love story. When he discovered that the rift in love gradually widened to the point of being irreparable, he realized that those things had really helped a lot. Sentenced to death by both love and friendship at the same time, he wrote this song.
Originally I wanted to sample Zhang Chenyue's famous songs, so that I could get into the familiar feeling more quickly but helplessly. However, after producer John Lee made another change and edit, only the song title was retained. This also became another new creative love song.
MyRide
It came from an encounter on the MRT with a heart-throb beauty. However, like many girls with good conditions, she chose the love option of filling the empty space of love with brand-name goods, thinking that this would be enough.
Even with this pleasant chat, even with the phone number. But Huang Chongxu wisely gave up the burden, because other people's girlfriends are troublesome. However, Huang Chongxu put everything he wanted to say to her in this song.
This song is dedicated to all girls with good conditions.
I hope that after listening to this, you can rediscover or redefine the value of your love.
MyLife (Huang Chongxu feat. TriPoets)
The most important thing is to talk. In this song, Huang Chongxu examines this period of his life. Not just the eight lost years, but a testimony to myself. Also bring this song out as a testimony. The point is, it's still alive. Glorious and brave.
Please ask Lao Mo of Shenbi to Chinese-language lyrics and generate more text inspiration. It not only completes the expression in Huang Chongxu's original English lyrics, but also makes the lyrics richer.
The chanting and singing rhythm of this song also has a particularly lively atmosphere. It may be because the personal characteristics of Lao Mo and Xiao Gao who are participating in the song are so strong, which makes this song sound not only positive but also uplifting. , and also has more rhythmic traction instinct.
LetMeLettheRhythmHit`Em
For Huang Chongxu, music is a weapon. Each of us will have our own opinions about everything we have seen, about any stranger, about the earth, the universe, society, and emotions. For Huang Chongxu, music is his outlet.
Because he has seen and experienced bad life, he wants the world to be better and wants to tell everyone that they should be better to themselves and others.
This song is his prayer.
Using the power of East Coast hip-hop, which is calm and full of warmth, he raps about his opinions on the world and hopes to exert a more profound power.
Can’t wait any longer for ForYourLove
Love is usually the most popular creative motivation. Ninety percent of the songs celebrate love. But 90% of love songs talk about the pain of losing love.
Not this one.
Because this is the only thing Huang Chongxu can do when he desperately wants to love a girl, is to write a love song for her.
Although, Huang Chongxu's love did not end like a fairy tale in the end. However, some people successfully courted because of this song and eventually got married.
This is the only song in this album in which Huang Chongxu performs and "sings" completely alone.
Being placed as the last song in the album, in addition to having a settling effect, it actually reminds the listeners to remember that "love must be timely."
Personal experience
Only the most authentic stories can touch the depths of the soul
Rapping, very familiar yet strange, coming from the back alleys of the east and west coasts of the United States The voices of poor children lack the empathy of cultural background, and we are unfamiliar with the spirit conveyed under the voice; and in the Chinese music scene, the rap we hear is only used to enhance the rhythm of pop singers' personalities, and the spirit behind the shape is sweetened. It is buried under gratification and more important market considerations. We seem to be very familiar with rap, but it is actually very unfamiliar to us.
In 2002, things started to be a little different. The Chinese Musicians Exchange Association awarded the top 10 singles of the year, "flesh and blood, restrained and introspective, rare to see", and a simple 12-word description of "life must continue" The reason why this Chinese rap song won the award is that from the day the award was announced, Witness Huang Chongxu wrote a new definition for Chinese rap.
In 2005, Witness will finally release a solo album. His music and stories can be easily understood without explaining them in words. Just like the lyrics Witness wrote in "Heaven", "People always Ask me where the lyrics come from, it’s just what I saw and heard.” Only by listening to Witness can you realize the power of interpreting music with life. It has nothing to do with distant cynicism, nor is it a show of pathos, it is just a narration of real life.
Chinese rap must be touching. Only the most authentic stories can touch the depths of the soul.
Every once in a while, there will always be several artists who return to Taiwan from abroad to develop in Taiwan's music market. Taiwanese music fans have mixed reviews about them. It is undeniable that some singers who have returned from overseas are just showing off. Their appearance is just to make money here easily; but there are also some singers who are full of passion for music and hope to bring back foreign music culture and enrich the connotation of Taiwanese pop music. Because of their passion and ideals, their stories are very exciting.
Children who have loved lip-syncing since childhood
When Witness was eight years old, MTV appeared in the United States, which brought great changes to popular culture. Witness’s sister, who is four years older, was During his adolescence, he enthusiastically absorbed all kinds of music information. Of course, Witness followed suit and followed his neighbor's lead in laying out cardboard at the door of the garage to practice hip-hop. When there is an event at school, a few classmates form a band to perform on stage. "The guitars and keyboards are not plugged in. I am the lead singer, and I also lip-sync. Except for the drummer, the rest are all fake!" Witness said with a shy smile. .
After going to college, Witness came back to Taiwan once. Some people said that his rap was not bad. Such encouragement made the introverted him actively participate in school performances after returning to the United States. The difference was that he started to try Singing her own compositions with her own voice, she has never spoken to each other again; "100 points", Witness scored points for her courage back then.
Hearing the Voice of God
In the summer of 1999, Witness, who graduated from college, quit her job at the well-known computer company DELL in order to pursue her music dream, recorded two DEMO works, and left her hometown. Houston returned to Taiwan and began to recommend himself to record companies door to door, but no one paid attention to ABC, who had no background, no recommenders, and even couldn't speak Chinese at all.
Rejections from one record company after another almost destroyed her confidence. Witness, who was standing downstairs at Magic Rock Records with a DEMO in hand, began to hesitate whether to continue, when a voice rang in her head. : "Don't give up any hope so easily, kid!" He, a devout believer in God, mustered up his last courage and asked the record company counter to accept his DEMO. He believed that God's favor would help him find a way to music; Witness replied He went to L.A., worked in a museum during the day to support himself, and studied music with Korean producer John Lee at night. In 2001, he returned to Taiwan again with more mature new works. Without giving up hope, he finally got a contract with the Rolling Stones. .
Sing rap with stories, tell stories with rap
In the summer of 2002, in the first collection of emerging singers "Half-Adult Advocacy" co-produced by Ashin and Monster, Witness The single "Life Will Go On" was included for the first time. Witness uses American grammar lyrics and sings in a plain tone her reluctance and helplessness over the death of her ex-girlfriend, and also expresses her own absurdity and helplessness; the true story of Power, without too much pretense, can make people listen to the heart-wrenching pity. This single was lucky enough to win the 2002 Chinese Musicians Exchange Association's Top 10 Best Singles award together with outstanding musicians such as Tao_, Stefanie Sun, and Chen Jiannian. Witness said in broken Mandarin during the award ceremony: "I am very happy that rap music and my works can be recognized in Taiwan."
I am the abc of Taiwan
"I was born and raised in the United States, so of course I am an American, but I have Taiwanese blood in my genes, so of course I am also a proud Taiwanese." The United States bravely walked out of 911. He is proud to be an American. Taiwan won its first Olympic gold medal. He is proud to be Taiwanese. Multiculturalism does not bother him. Instead, Witness believes that this background makes him broader-minded, more humble, and more willing to create music from different cultures. inspiration.
In the past few years in Taiwan, every day has been learning and relearning the culture he missed; rather than saying that Witness is a passerby, it is better to say that he is a relative who has been away from home for a long time, trying hard to adapt to this place again. The land of blood roots. Opening a large bottle of Taiwanese beer passed to him, Witness smiled and said: "I am the ABC of Taiwan!"
I wrote these songs with complete sincerity. Frankly speaking, this is the only one I know. Song writing method.
Opening himself up, Witness Huang Chongxu wants everyone to see the notes he wrote with his life.