Chinese Jazz Rap: Tang Ren Ti, Straight outta … Kunming?

If you’d like a slice of mellow Jazz beats with Kunming (a chinese dialect – more Mandarin, than Cantonese) vocals, download and check out these four tunes below.

Twenty-two year old Kunming rapper Hu Xuan – rapping under the name Tang Ren Ti (唐人踢) – wrote, rapped on and produced “Jazz-rap is in the city now“, arguably one of the more interesting albums released in China in 2006.

Hu’s lyrics forego the gangsta rap-influenced trash-talking that is growing in popularity in coastal cities in favor of a jazz-infused and thoughtful diary of modern life in urban China.

Here are 4 MP3s to check out:
Diyin Ceshi (’Bass Check’)
Shanliang De Xin (’Good Heart’)
Guangzhou
Tai Duo De Wenti (Ma Xiaoyu remix)

If you only got time for one, Shanliang de Xin is highly recommended!

From GoKunming.com

Technorati Tags: China, Hu Xuan, Jazz-rap is in the city now, music, Tang Ren Ti