China bans hip-hop (read THUG) culture, tattoos from TV

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‘Tasteless, Vulgar And Obscene.’ China Just Banned Hip-Hop Culture And
Tattoos From Television

January 26, 2018

After drawing public criticism for lyrics deemed as sexist and promoting
drug use, one of China’s best-known rappers has dug an even deeper hole by
blaming the influence of “black music”. One came under fire after official
media on January 4, 2018 highlighted lyrics from the 24-year-old rapper’s
2015 song “Christmas Eve”, which includes lines such as “she wanted me to
(obscenity) her, pin her down, get her drunk.”

China has banned hip-hop culture and actors with tattoos from appearing on
television.

The country’s top media regulator — the State Administration of Press,
Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China
(SAPPRFT) — now “specifically requires that programs should not feature
actors with tattoos [or depict] hip hop culture, sub-culture (non-mainstream
culture) and dispirited culture (decadent culture),” Sina, a Chinese news
outlet, reports.

Gao Changli, director of the administration’s publicity department, outlined
four “Don’t” rules on Friday:


1) Absolutely do not use actors whose heart and morality are not aligned
with the party and whose morality is not noble

2) Absolutely do not use actors who are tasteless, vulgar and obscene

3) Absolutely do not use actors whose ideological level is low and have no
class

4) Absolutely do not use actors with stains, scandals and problematic moral
integrity


The ban follows the removal of the prominent rapper GAI from Hunan TV’s
Singer, a hit competition show. Clips of GAI, whose real name is Zhou Yan,
were also removed from China Hunan TV’s official Youtube Channel, but no
official explanation has been given.

Wang Hao, aka PG One, another well-known rapper, was forced to apologize
earlier this month after one of his songs, “Christmas Eve,” was criticized
for promoting drug culture and insulting women.

Rapper Mao Yanqi, aka VaVa, was cut from the variety show Happy Camp,
according to Tecent News. Music by Triple H, an influential underground
rapper, has also been removed from major streaming sites. And a contestant
on the show Super Brian, which is not hip-hop related, even had his hip-hop
style necklace blurred out.

Chinese social media has responded angrily to the ban.

“SARPPFT is so trashy! They didn’t want to give Chinese hip pop singers any
chance of survival! we can go back to ancient times,” wrote one user on
Weibo — China’s equivalent of Twitter.

“How can a government with high culture have such childish logic?” asked
another.

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