Sup. You guys can call me Royal. I'm from Vancouver, Canada. I started this blog called Asian Rap Worldwide. This is a site where you can read about Asian rappers, listen to Asian rap songs, watch Asian hip hop music videos.
If you want to be featured send in your MP3s, YouTube videos, and mixtapes. For all other inquiries by all means hit me up through email.
TVXQ (東方神起 or Tohoshinki), a Korean boyband from Japan, remade m-flo's Been So Long, one of my favorite songs from m-flo. And they BUTCHERED IT. Now that's just WRONG! The TVXQ version sounds like some soul-less wussy boy band song. The singing part was meant to be sung a by a girl. I don't know which fag was singing Lisa's part but it just sounds so wrong on so many levels!!! No guy in the right mind will publicly sing Lisa's part of the song!! Man... there should be a punishment for blaspheming Been So Long. Please someone.... kick em in the balls (if they have any) when you get the chance. This song unfortunately will be on m-flo's 10th anniversary TRIBUTE album.
Supasang, a cholo-looking Lao rapper from Fullerton, California, shows us his hood and tells his life story in this short-film called Supasang: In The Making. This film was shot on August 17, 2008.
Here is a video footage of Aubrey O'Day and Roscoe Umali rocking the crowd at the Azukar Lounge in Sacremento, California with their hit-single Never Fallin'.
Dumbfoundead introduces a new cereal called Rapper-O's. This song has a really cheesy Leave It To Beaver feel to it. Haha you gotta love the intro of the song: "Rapper-O's? What the fuck is that?!" Rapper-O's is produced by Kato and is from Dumbfoundead's album Fun With Dumb.
Jin has uploaded his footage of his 828 Vita Lemon Tea concert. The concert is strictly in Cantonese. I think the songs Jin performed in this concert are from his ABC album. Part 3 starts with a a freestyle contest. Also, MastaMic and 24Herbs make a guest appearance to perform a couple of songs.
Vietnam's Nah has released an album with [B.0.7] called Doi which is free for digital download. The album is recorded entirely in Vietnamese. I covered the title track Doi (which means waiting) in a previous blog post.
Track Listing:
1. Intro 2. Nhung Dem Dai Bat Tan - Nah, [B.0.7] & Ling 3. Kia Em Nhin Xem - [B.0.7] 4. Doi - Nah & [B.0.7] 5. Cau Vong Cho Em - [B.0.7] 6. Cong Chua Rap Khuon - [B.0.7] & Mai 7. Khong Giong Ai - Nah, [B.0.7], Karik, Rapsoul 8. Than Tho - Nah 9. Hi - [B.0.7]
Planning a trip to Asia in the near future? Here is a list of hotels that you want to avoid like the plague. As voted by TripAdvisor viewers, here are the top 10 dirtiest hotels in Asia. And when I say "dirtiest hotels", I don't mean those with "happy endings". First on the top 10 list is First Hotel Bangkok. Wow. Okay that's what it's first in. First in filth, haha. And Singapore has not 1, not 2, but 3 hotels that made it to the top 10 dirtiest Asian hotels?! That's gonna put a dent Singapore's squeaky clean image, LOL!
1.First Hotel Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand 2.Hotel Grand Central, Singapore, Singapore 3.The Imperial Hotel, Hong Kong, China 4.Royal Peacock Hotel, Singapore, Singapore 5.Woraburi Sukhumvit Hotel and Resort, Bangkok, Thailand 6.Colmar Tropicale, A French-Themed Resort, Bentung, Malaysia 7.Oxford Hotel, Singapore, Singapore 8.City Gate Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam 9.Royal Parkview Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand 10.Aseania Resort Langkawi, Langkawi, Malaysia
Here is BoA, Crystal Kay and Verbal doing a live performance of the song Universe at some Japanese TV show. The single Universe was released in Japan in the 1st quarter of 2009. One interesting factoid about the three artists in this song is that they are all from Korean descent. BoA is a well-known Korean pop artist, Crystal Kay is half-Korean and half African-American, and Verbal is Zainichi (ethnic Korean in Japan).
Is it just me or does Verbal kinda remind you of a modern-day Japanese Shock G/Humpty Hump from Digital Underground? Here's a pic for comparison.
Shock G/Humpty Hump from Digital Underground
Yeah....I totally see the similiarities!! Hahahah.... what do you guys think?
In a related post to Hu Ge, here is Busty Heart crushing things with her boobs on the TV show America's Got Talent. WARNING: This video is not for the faint at heart!
24Herbs has released their newest music video for one of their songs called Hu Ge. I thought at first the chorus of Hu Ge was either in Spanish or Portuguese because it kinda sounds like Spanish or Portuguese (due to my ignorance of both languages) and also because the song has a pseudo-kinda-sounding reggaeton instrumental. Then I read in between the lines of "Hu Ge Clea Va Ge I Li Ke Clea Va Ge," and a grin flashed across my face. The chorus is freakin' briliant!! One really cool thing about the Hu Ge music video is that it features 3D scenes of the girls (but you gotta wear those red-blue 3D glasses to see the 3D effects).
Shortly after the release of Hu Ge, 24Herbs producer Ghost Style wrote in his blog about how the song originated:
Last night we (24Herbs) released our new video "Hu Ge". I love this one. Shout-out to Mo, Wy and Wen who did a great job! Thanks guys! Pretty organic the way it came out and in my opinion that's the best way to write music. To create stuff that is original, an expression of u and that people can 'feel' on different levels is a gift and the best feeling. How it happened was we were driving and saw a fine woman wearing a 'deep v' top. JBS says, "Clea Va Ge", we all laughed and i added "Hu Ge!" haha It was kinda Latin sounding and so, always kept in my mind for a reggaton-type song. JBS comes up with crazy slang all day--this is one of his classics for sure. Thanks to 24Herbs and Revolution for being supportive from the get-go. They took a risk to make some real music. Love that. Another classic.
This is the lastest YouTube leak from Chuckie A called For My People. Some of you might find the lyrics familiar as they are the same lyrics from Sometimes Angels Fall, one of Chuckie's older songs from way back he that did with Kangel.
In related news........ Chuckie A announced on his MySpace that he's selling digital copies of his newest album From The Beginning for $5 USD.
Chuckie A - From The Beginning
For more details, contact Chuckie A at: therealchuckieakenz@hotmail.com
Ris Low, the winner of Miss Singapore World 2009 talks about fashion on Strait Times Razor TV. When asked what she likes to wear when she feels naughty, Miss Singapore World said:
If I'm feeling naughty then I'll be wearing something RED andLOUD. Something....you know? BOOMS!
Check out this new documentary trailer of one of the GREATEST rappers of all time Big L, may he rest in peace! Oh wow... and Jin is in the trailer too? I wonder what kind of role will he play in the documentary? The documentary will be called Street Struck: The Big L Story and its scheduled to drop on February 2010, to coincide with the 11th anniversary of Big L's untimely death.
Eh... isn't it ironic that my next post is about Never Fallin'? I think this is a better affirmation (although its spoken in the negative form). Anyways, the blonde boobshell--err I mean bombshell Aubrey O'Day, formerly from the girl pop group Danity Kane, jumped on Roscoe Umali's Never Fallin' and in this version, Aubrey O'Day is singing the chorus and has a whole verse to herself addressing her haters and critics.
The Far East Movement are featured in Space Cowboy's latest remix of Fallin Down. This remix of Fallin Down sounds A LOT like Girls on The Dance Floor and 2 is Better.... and its pretty much the SAME SOUND (with the weird s-s-s-s-subiminal sug-g-g-g-g-gestions), and SAME SUBJECT MATTER about partying, drinking, dancing and boning drunk girls. For some strange reason, Fallin Down kinda reminds me of Effiel 65's Blue. It has that Euro-techno-dancish kinda sound to it.