Asian Rap Worldwide

sci's 49th track of the year is another song dedicated to Michael Jackson called one more for michael. The instrumental used for this song is Michael Jackson's Off The Wall.

XL Middleton - Middle Class Blues

XL Middleton has leaked out his first single called Single featuring Clinton Wayne from his new upcoming album Middle Class Blues. This is a chill laid-back track dedicated to the ladies.

XL Middleton is a Japanese-Hawaiian rapper and producer from Pasadena, California. He has worked with some big names out in the west coast such as Crooked I, Cashis, Young Keno, and Suga Free.


DOWNLOAD: XL Middleton - Single feat. Clinton Wayne


Check out XL Middleton's websites:

www.xlmiddleton.com
www.myspace.com/xlmiddleton

Jin's VITA Lemon Tea billboard @ Causeway Bay


Jin's new Lemon bling-bling, Pic 1


Jin's new Lemon bling-bling, Pic 2

(shoutouts to ayojin.com for the pics)


For all you guys wondering what is Jin doing nowadays and what is he up to-- well... Jin has a new a endorsement for Vita Lemon Tea! Looks like Vita is trying to use hip hop to advertise their lemon tea just like Coca-cola company used hip hop to advertise Sprite. Vita Lemon tea is quite a popular iced lemon tea in Hong Kong and its been around forever. Heck, I even remember a lot of the Chinese kids back in my elementary school days would be drinking this brand of lemon tea during lunch time. Not me though, my parents always got me apple juice for lunch instead hahaha. Most of you North Americans who will watch the commercial below will be culture-shocked. Yeah its a bit corny and cheesy but that's how they do in Hong Kong haha. Actually, quite a lot of things in Hong Kong's media are cheesy and corny. And I don't say this to purposely offend any of you guys who come from Hong Kong but it is what it is. And furthermore, this is commercial is a reflection on how the mainstream in Hong Kong perceives hip hop culture. It looks like Hong Kong hip hop has a lot of work to do and has a looooooong ways to go!

Malaysian MC is telling you guys, Y'all Just Don't Know! HAHAHAHA!!

sci has released his 48th song of the year for his 52 week project. For this week, sci has done a tribute to the late Michael Jackson and rapped over the instrumental of Michael Billie Jean. This song is called billie jean ‘09. Check this one out guys!

m-flo's new album cover??

Japanese hip hop group m-flo, comprising of Verbal as the rapper and Taku as the producer, celebrates their 10th anniversary today. Looking back at their history the group has divided m-flo's music into two different eras. The first era was the Tripod Era (1999-2002), when Lisa was part of the group. The second era was their Loves Era, (2003-2008) when they have collaborated with many popular Japanese artists.



Today, on their 10th anniversary, m-flo has released this video on YouTube:



Okay so...

1. Topic 1. They released a what? Whatever it is, it is now available its online. For the first time ever! (Forgive my lack of Japanese comprehension but I think its referring to the m-flo music videos now available on YouTube. Can someone who speaks Japanese please fill me in on this? TIA)
   
2. Topic 2. m-flo's Tribute album featuring many Japanese artists will be on sale on 9/16
3. Topic 3. The fans can vote on what songs should be on m-flo's best album. The voting period is starts today and ends on 8/15.

Vote here: http://www.m-flo.com/10yrs/vote/

Schoolboy Duke

Check out this rap remix of the Wonder Girls' Nobody by a Korean-American rapper named Schoolboy Duke.

Born in Los Angeles, California, SchoolBoy Duke got his rap moniker from him always wearing a black Jansport backpack and people started to call him "schoolboy". The "Duke" part of his name stands for "Droppin’ Uncommon Knowledge Everywhere". Schoolboy Duke is currently working on his debut album which features remixes and original Schoolboy songs. School Boy Duke currently lives in San Diego.

DOWNLOAD/LISTEN: Schoolboy Duke - Nobody Remix


Check out Schoolboy Duke's websites:

www.myspace.com/schoolboyduke
www.twitter.com/schoolboyduke

The Wonder Girls


This blog post is dedicated to all the people that "accidentally" came to this blog through the tons and tons of K-Pop-related sites I'm linked with. To be honest, I'm not too fond of K-pop myself. Well.... okay I'll admit. I've had my soompi.com moments....lol. But for the record, this blog is about Asian hip hop, not K-pop, not J-pop or Asian R&B. Don't get it twisted, I support Asian artists trying to make it in the music industry, but if it has nothing to do with hip hop or rap, there's no place for it here. However, if they have a song that includes some sort of rapping in it, you just might, just miiiiiight see it here. But if there isn't rapping in it, it will take a miracle for me to blog about it.

Well kids, today is your lucky day because your miracle has arrived...today! Yaaay! So let me tell you a story. So the Korean pop group, the Wonder Girls have been touring all across North America promoting their music. On June 30th, the day the Wonder Girls were going to do their second concert in Vancouver's GM Place, yours truly decided to go to their concert on a hum-bug immediately after grocery shopping at the T&T supermarket on Keefer St, which was pretty much close to GM place anyways. So I found some scalpers selling tickets and skillfully haggled my way to get some nosebleed-section tickets, for a fraction of the price I might add! Luckily I had my Canucks cap on that day and so when I got inside GM place I proceeded to wear my cap even tighter in fears of someone recognizing me and saying: "OMG!! Hey, isn't that Royal from ASIAN RAP WORLDWIDE?! I love his site! What is he doing here? I thought he likes Asian hip hop, and not Asian pop!" Yeah so when the Wonder Girls were finally got on stage after an hour or so was I cheering for them, clapping for them and doing wolf-whistles and having a blast. Gotta show my Asian sisters that came all the way from Korea some moral support right? And also, isn't it fun to live someone else's dream of seeing the Wonder Girls live in concert and then start bragging to them that you saw them live in concert and that they didn't? Hahaha, I think so. Anyways the Wonder Girls only performed two songs: Tell Me and Nobody. And that was pretty much it.

So I took some pictures and videos with my cellphone from the nosebleed-section but there were blurry as heck because all I had with me was my cellphone with a 1-mega-pixel-or-so-camera. In other words, I didn't come prepared because I went there all on a hum-bug. Don't believe me? Hahaha. Fine. I will post them, for comedic purposes of course. The first video is an excerpt of the Wonder Girls performing Tell Me. The last video is an excerpt of them performing Nobody.

Disclaimer: There is tons feedback coming off from my cellphone's microphone. It sounds similiar to nails on a chalkboard. And you can't see much anyways! But this proves I was there! Watch at your own risk! LOL






If your ears are bleeding from the feedback, hey curiosity killed the cat. I also took some pics too. I couldn't even make out who's in it. Hahaha!! I am the WORST Wonder Girls fan (if I'm even considered a fan of the Wonder Girls), everrrrr. PERIOD. Here are the pics:


The Wonder Girls doing some sort dance for Tell Me or for Nobody


Either that is one of the Wonder Girls (don't know who), or its an angelic presence with a shimmering white aura that I have caught on camera.

Obviously there are better videos on YouTube and better pictures of the concert in the die-hard Wonder Girls fan blogs. But yeah... thought I'd share my little adventure with you guys. For the record, I have not gone to the dark-side and have become K-Pop-fanatic, I'm still hip hop all day. Rest assured, this blog will stay hip hop!! YEAAAAH!!! So..... this post was for the K-Pop fans. Hahaha. Thank you, come again.

Some brave soldier from Hong Kong has posted this video about two years ago. This video clip takes place in Hong Kong's MTR train. In this video, the people are having a loud-talking contest on their cellphones while taking public transportation. The star of this clip is the old and creepy-looking Chinese uncle wearing the black Playboy t-shirt. Not only is he the loudest of them all, he is also boasting about his exploits in the brothels of mainland China right in public.

Remember Loon? Loon from Bad Boy? Yeah, that's him up there! The last thing I heard about him, a long time ago, was that he was beefin' with Mase and Dipset. Now flash-forward to the present, Loon is now a devout Muslim and has a totally different outlook on life. Born as Chauncey Lamont Hawkins, he has changed his name to Amir Junaid Muhadith after embracing Islam. In the interview with AlJazeera, Loon talked about his experiences in rap game, why he left and how he came to Islam. The news anchor tried to get Loon to spit 16 bars, but Loon wasn't prepared for it.

Loon has also done a more in-depth interview with islaam.ca. In the interview (approx. 1 hr 30 mins), Loon tells his story about coming up in the rap game, about his dealings Mase, P. Diddy and the music industry. One of the things Loon said in the interview was that the "Harlem World" concept was originally his and it was Mase that stole it from him. Among other things, Loon says he co-wrote 52 published songs. Many of these songs were written for P. Diddy. And then finally in the interview, Loon tells how he was lead to embrace Islam during his tour in Dubai in December 2008. The Loon in this interview sounds very different from the old Loon. Check out the interview:

DOWNLOAD/LISTEN: Loon's interview with islaam.ca