"In the Name of the Father", "Stop the War", "A Piece of Tape", "Music Saves the World", "The Second Half of the Ninth Game", "Convergence Water", "No One Cheers", "Hero", "Running to You", "Particles".

Chinese rap:

The first generation: "I move forward against the wind"

Representative figures: Soft and Hard Master, Pig Scalp

The first generation of Chinese rap occupied the entire decade of the 1990s. Although the first generation was a bit lonely, the result of fighting alone only cleared the roadblock for the second generation of rap that gathered new people in 2000.

But as rappers who record folk forms of survival in an era of constant openness, they bear the same pressure as a revolutionary. Full of melancholy and anger. As Cui Jian sang: "I move forward against the wind...".

The second generation: "I am a hippie, I exist"

Representative figures: The Pug Gang, Bruce Lee, LMF, Kindergarten Killer

The difference between the second generation of rap The first generation is its unique view of modern culture, where revolt and anger are deconstructed into hippieism, and the intuition about society has changed from "It's not that I don't understand, the world is changing fast" to "How complicated is the situation? Reality How cruel is that?"

If the previous rap music was just a means of music, then it prides itself as the spokesperson of a new cultural movement. It encompasses all the new things you can feel. It is A new force that is not limited to music and rhythm. Words are the soul of rap. If you follow them, it's like reading a manifesto for a new era.

Social Significance

Rap music from the mid-1980s has greatly influenced black and white culture in North America. Many beat and chanted musical cultural idioms, including such terms as dis, fly, def, chill, and wack, have become the vocabulary of a significant number of young people of various ethnic origins Standard section.

Many rap enthusiasts assert that rap functions as a voice for a community without access to mainstream media. According to advocates, rebuke serves to create a sense of pride, self-help, and self-improvement, communicate positivity, and fulfill a sense of black history that is largely absent from other American institutions.

The political rap artist has spurred interest in the black Islamic movement following statements made by Minister Louis Farrakhan, drawing criticism from those who view Farrakhan as a racist. Gangsta was denounced harshly and criticized for being interpreted by many as praising the most violent and misogynistic lyrical (women-hating) imagery in the history of pop music.

The popularity of style with middle-class whiteness was attacked as vicarious excitement sought out the most insidious sort. Critics have noted that violence is more than a common theme for rap lyrics; Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were shot down in separate gang-style killings in 1996 and 1997.

Defenders of gangsta rebuke argue that music is a legitimate form of artistic expression and accurately portrays life in ghetto America. What someone's stance on these issues, rap music inarguably carved out a space beyond the ghetto for a representation of black culture that was unprecedented in American history.