#rap scene

[everoutoftouch]

If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

chinese rappers write rap songs to cuss out and humiliate female players of chinese otome game

*otome game is story-based romance video game targeted towards women with a female protagonist as the player character

A few chinese rappers who are popular in incel community started picking on female players, and they uploaded the raps on NetEase Music, the largest music platform in China. The game these rappers started out targeting was Love and Deepspace. They mock and humiliate the main characters and players as far as they can. The players were furious, both sides went to war, the incel group joined in, the battle intensified, there were many top trendings on weibo, douyin, xiaohongshu etc. and the rappers achieved their hype and were very pleased with themselves. (Other normal rappers didn't participate.）The war quickly spread to other popular otome games aka yiyou乙游 companies in chinese. All chinese otome games and players are cyber bullied by these rappers and incels.

Then suddenly an official account of a relatively not-so-famous-but-also-has-valid-userbase otome game For all time/Lovebrush Chronicles (时空中的绘旅人, HLR, nickname little conch meat) posted: I accidentally heard the rap, it's too gross, all taken down now.

Then cnetizens found that, NetEase Music, the largest music platform in China, removed all of the above rappers' works lol. Turns out HLR is developed by NetEase Games, the online games division of NetEase, one of China's Internet giants like Tecent. And the rappers legitimately get canceled and blocked forever by NetEase Music.

Cnetizens and players comments:

Most chinese otome games made their attitude clear: protect, support and stand with the players

[righteousgems]

love that when Danny McBride decides he wants to explore a new genre he doesn't start a new project and instead just puts it into his heartwarming bawdy megachurch comedy

a period war piece? hell yeah brother

a full on slasher? why not

[akkivee]

FOOLS GOLD TL IS LIVE!!!! ENJOY THE BAT FLAVOURED ANGST!!!!!!

[t1nyghoul]

Being cringe on tumblr is a natural occurrence in emo mfs

[paymetea]

✣ Rico Nasty (2020) ✣

[makaveli-iimmortalized]

happy go lucky

tupac on set for ‘poetic justice’

[victusinveritas]

How dare Kneecap have the temerity to *checks notes* call for the freedom of an oppressed people being subject to a genocide? The utter gall of some people. It's like they don't want to see thousand upon thousands of families just fucking annihilated or something.

Sharon Osbourne can fuck right off into the sun. Also, she's British. If anyone's going to be calling for American visas to be revoked, it's red-blooded, native-born Muricans.

Also, take this as a reminder to watch Kneecap the movie. It's really well done.

[cutewarlock]

doja cat getting ready for the met gala (2025) with vogue

[srapsodia]

man i cant believe goofy is fucking dead

[littlepeepers]

Happy birthday to my soulmate

[ruanbaijie]

本来是一个杀人之局，尽我北离大内高手之力，杀传说中的天下第一人，自负了呀。 This was supposed to be a murder plot, with top fighters from all over Beili gathered to kill the legendary top martial artist in the world. We have overestimated ourselves.

QIU XINZHI as LI CHANGSHENG DASHING YOUTH 少年白马醉春风 (2024) 1.16

[akkivee]

top five moments from the 2gumi dt lmao:

they’re all watching a movie adaptation of one of gentaro’s books!!!! it was not by choice tho lmao gentaro, in true leader/2gumi twin souls fashion, concocted a web of lies to bring everyone together for it LOL

juto and hifumi went to nab their seats while rosho jyushi and jiro chose the snacks!!!! jyushi and jiro started to get into an argument over which is the best popcorn flavour, jiro’s on team caramel and jyushi’s on team butter lmao

when the movie got started, they let gentaro on stage to give a message as the author of the book and when he took stage, jiro and hifumi immediately began loudly cheering for him lmao 🥹🥹🥹 rosho loudly told him they were being too loud so they needed to shut up, juto told him that he was being too loud too so he should shut up and jyushi tearfully said that everyone was too loud pls be quiet LOL

gentaro:………….may i finish my speech now? 🙂 jyushi: y-yes 😭

actually lmao, the real reason gentaro invited them to this movie was to rope them into advertising it using their popularity as drb contestants LOL. gentaro told them tho, jiro would be able to reach the younger generation, hifumi is popular and that’s his strength, jyushi can reach a lot of people with his music, rosho has the ability to guide the youth and juto (gentaro giggles here) can arrest people LOL

[ohyoubuggin]

Tupac behind the scenes on Hit Em Up (1996)

[soracities]

People are wild lol rap does actually take a certain level of skill to both perform and understand, it takes five seconds of research to see that theres decent lyricism going on there. Lots of rappers are actually great at english, they dont all know the official terms for the things they practice but rapping is like a form of poetry really.

ofc there are subgenres that i personally do not like such as mumble rap (a conversation for another time i digress) but if you take for example kendrick's latest diss tracks to drake, its something that has to literally be studied and broken down by a bunch of people lol and once you break it down and understand the refrences you see that its not just a bunch of words and a beat. of course white people will think something they dont understand is ghetto trash what else is new lol they're the kings of ostricizing and devaluing what they dont understand. They did it to jazz they did it to metal and alternative music and they do it to rap.

At the end of the day, culture is a thing that will be understood by those who are meant to understand it. You dont have to like rap to acknowledge that its an art, but calling it trash and refusing to see it from any point of view but your own speaks for itself.

And for the record, im not a rap fan lol its a genre i hardly listen to in fact, but what i am is an artist, and i can acknowledge art when i see it.

i'll be honest, i don't think lack of understanding is solely what comes into it, if at all. the genres that get the most aggressive pushback are also ones that threaten a cultural hegdemony in their respective societies (white, male, christian etc) and that's not a coincidence. rap gets the worst of this and ultimately i don't think it has ever boiled down to not knowing what GOAT means and a lot more to do with overt and tacit hostility towards black people making outspoken art on their own terms in a deeply racist society.

but otherwise i completely agree with you! the lyrical complexity, rhyming schemes and dexterity at play in a good rap song is second to none and you could absolutely teach a literature class on it. it is as much a poetic medium as anything else while also encompassing its own deeply layered, complex and distinct sensibilities--just like, literally, every other art form on earth! to pretend otherwise is just ludicrous at this point.