Almost exactly two years ago my wife and I were married in New Zealand. We spent two weeks there and, because my wife is a social butterfly, we met a lot of Chinese expats. Of course, we know a lot of them here in the US, but most of them are in their twenties and thirties. In New Zealand we met several college students around twenty years old, and in doing so it became immediately obvious to me that, though the US imports a lot of stuff from China, they are importing equal amounts of American culture.
One of the student we met was wearing a Yankees baseball cap, an Allen Iverson jersey and kept going on an on about how much he loved Eminem. Eminem in China?
But my description doesn’t do it justice. Here’s the proof: rap in Shanghai.
It’s actually pretty good. I’ve seen Chinese rap on CCTV, but it’s really watered-down and showbiz-ified, like what you might see on an Up with People special. This is much closer to the real deal.
Via Shanghaist