{"id":528,"date":"2007-09-14T17:24:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T06:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatplanet.com.au\/blog\/2007\/09\/14\/tang-ren-ti-china\/"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:14:51","slug":"tang-ren-ti-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/14\/tang-ren-ti-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Tang Ren Ti (China) &#8211; &#039;Zi Nue&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>mp3:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/11282597\/discontent-media\/mp3\/07%20Zi%20Nve.mp3\">TANG REN TI zi nue (self-abuse)<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>mp3:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/11282597\/discontent-media\/mp3\/08%20Shanliang%20De%20Xin.mp3\">TANG REN TI shanliang de xin (good heart)<\/a><br \/>\nafter a long period of hesitation, i finally took the plunge last weekend and once more attempted to delve deep into china&#8217;s alternative music scene. previous attempts have led me down dark alleys of doom metal or coughed up enough bad trance to keep parachute pants in vogue for centuries. fortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/gokunming.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gokunming.com<\/a> proved to be something of a salvation, and started a journey that i&#8217;ll share with you over the next few posts.<br \/>\nhu xuan has also dabbled in metal in his time &#8211; fortunately, his repertoire now extends well beyond that, as evidenced on last year&#8217;s album &#8216;jazz rap is in the city now&#8217; (described by gokunming.com as &#8220;arguably one of the more interesting albums released in china in 2006&#8221;).<br \/>\nproducing under the alias tang ren ti, hu raps in kumning&#8217;s regional dialect, kungminghua and also performs as one half of local hip hop duo, rap republic. . whilst it seems that much international hip hop can be born of gangsta lyricism, hu keeps it&#8217;s locally real. &#8220;one thing I like about hiphop is that it&#8217;s a way to discuss your surroundings. but chinese don&#8217;t need to talk about selling drugs and killing &#8211; these guys [chinese rappers] didn&#8217;t grow up in that kind of environment.&#8221;<br \/>\n<del>check three more downloads at <a href=\"http:\/\/gokunming.com\/en\/blog\/item.php?blog_id=156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gokunming.com<\/a><\/del>. &#8216;jazz rap is in the city now&#8217; is apparently available at stone love clothing store on the east end of wenlin jie near the intersection with cuihu bei lu. when you&#8217;re in kunming this weekend, can you pick me up a copy? cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mp3: TANG REN TI zi nue (self-abuse) mp3: TANG REN TI shanliang de xin (good heart) after a long period of hesitation, i finally took the plunge last weekend and once more attempted to delve deep into china&#8217;s alternative music scene. previous attempts have led me down dark alleys of doom metal or coughed up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[529,90,445,1413],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-planet","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-fat-planet-blog","tag-tang-ren-ti","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15778,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/15778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}