China Bans "low taste" Hip-hop

time.com/5112061/china-hip-hop-ban-tattoos-television/

China government has just enacted a society-wide ban on all hip hop. Censoring it off TV, internet, and forcing all current hip hop acts into hiding.

Other urls found in this thread:

krmagazine.com/2015/11/12/japan-yakuza-involvement-in-entertainment-industry-led-to-kidnap-of-devs-sister/
twitter.com/NSFWRedditVideo

Great, America should ban anime next.

>anime
not banned in China
>ape hop trash
banned in China

The century belongs to China. Even they can see what degenerate shit ape culture is.

if you support censorship you need to remove yourself from the gene pool

nah it's literally a good thing.

you've just exposed the central dichotomy of their action though

they ban hip hop, supposedly the absolute cradle of degeneracy, yet leave anime unscathed

makes no fucking sense

when are they banning degenerate punk and metal music?

Don't play dumb. It's because hip-hop is black and anime is Asian.

real, non-homophobic, non-sexist, non-racist, non-oppressive, non-genocidal, not prone to censorship, not prone to collapsing communism has never been tried

Probably because they know that the US uses it to subvert. Why? Because they pay the same musicians in the west.

Mainstream musicians. Not even once. It's all bullshit.

metal and punk aren't even relevant enough in 2018 to be banned

What is the criteria for wheter something is hip hop? Is DJ Shadow banned?

It's not financed by mainstream record labels. Why? It's white music apparently.

haha what? how can you be this deluded? why do white people have such a huge victim complex when they basically own the world?

Why do all you retards not realize banning hip hop will make it become more popular?

It literally gives people a moral imperative to support hip hop and makes doing so cooler

china and its fucking paternalistic government lmao

this, it's like these people had never fucking heard of Prohibition

It might. It's a gamble between that and letting it grow undisturbed. Whether you like it or not, it is possible for an authoritarian government to absolutely stamp out civil movements. Soviet Russia did it all the time. Repression in Saudi Arabia "works" currently, from the repressor's perspective.

Goddamn, now imagine if America banned rock n roll back in the day for being "too sexual and the devil's music." Or Vienna banned Mozart for making the kind of dynamic music that was considered degenerate by many at the time. Or the Catholic Church banned ars nova and ars sublitor in the late medieval era for creating innovation in polyphonic music in a secular context rather than religious. Shitposting about "kek hip hop sucks guise muh chimps and sheit!" aside, this is pretty fucked up, kinda reminiscent of USSR actually.

if they genuinely cared about productivity and actual degeneracy rather than a race boogeyman, they would have banned anime eons ago

It won't be possible because hip hop is only growing in western culture and the east inevitably follows the west. That's why they aren't really communists anymore. They are still gonna be watching our movies and shit.

No good music ever came out of china so it's ok.

are you seriously comparing hip-hop to mozart lmao

empires have banned the folk music of various minorities throughout history, this is a natural historical action process

>all the anally devastates soy addicts ITT
Godspeed you China, you're on the right path after all.

>They are still gonna be watching our movies and shit
Didn't TLJ flop hard in China?

It's a clear sign of willful ignorance or mental deficiency when one implies that comparable reactions to different actions somehow makes the actions similar. Leaping ignorantly across the cultural, musical, and historical chasms separating Mozart and hip-hop makes you look like a fool.

>now imagine if America banned rock n roll back in the day for being "too sexual and the devil's music."
honestly that would have been fucking amazing

You do realize that Soy is one of the most prominent foods in China right?

negro music in general is extremely regressive. take a 60 jazz record and compare it to stockhausen or varese or anyone else of the 60s avantgardists etc. negro music has pushed back musical progress by fucking centuries

>rather than a race boogeyman
So the glorification of violence in American hip-hop, the number of rappers who have been or involved in gangs, the number of rappers who have sold drugs or killed people or been killed, that's all just a boogeyman and if you see a problem with it you're racist? How many anime studios are gang-affiliated?

Is there even a rational argument against banning hip-hop besides "muh feels"?

the glorification of violence in hip hop results in virtually no increase in gang-related violence in china i would imagine.

anime, on the other hand, has a very real-world impact in asia, reducing productivity, inspiring actually degenerate obsessions with various shit, etc. etc.

take japan as an alternate example. hip hop has a fairly wide reach in japan, yet would have no impact on gang-related violence stats. the real-world impacts of anime on the other hand there have been disastrous; hikikomori, declining birth rate, etc. etc.

yes

free speech is a compelling one

how do you figure?

>How many anime studios are gang-affiliated?
No idea about anime but the yakuza have long been deep in the entertainment industry and even in computer game companies
krmagazine.com/2015/11/12/japan-yakuza-involvement-in-entertainment-industry-led-to-kidnap-of-devs-sister/

hip-hop fans can't argue without resorting to false equivalences all the time

granted it's not their fault, that's just leftist mentality in general

To put it into perspective its no big deal in this age of age banning a certain style of music. All I see coming out of this is a stronger hip hop scene in the Chinese underground. More socially and politically aware music.

Metal and Punk music rarely get any air time in most countries and these scenes still manage to thrive.

This but unironically

>take a 60 jazz record and compare it to stockhausen

I'll take the 60s jazz artists because at least they know what a beautiful melody is

it's so cute how conservatives claim to be all for "freedom" but then they jump to ban anything that they don't like/agree with

>kek you can't compare classical to hip hop
Can it with this "I didn't get the context" style autism. I was clearly comparing the context of artists being considered inferior and degenerate by people of that time.

>cute
What did he mean by this?

>how can you be this deluded?
By seeing the bullshit the last 2 years and seeing how global think tanks work.

This isn't the 90's anymore, corporations push agendas. Otherwise, there would be proper rappers on the radio with real nigger problems.

>now imagine if America banned rock n roll back in the day for being "too sexual and the devil's music."
It's the opposite in America, the government promotes it against the wishes of the populace.

I don't like either behaiviour to be honest. It's both not about the fucking music.

>This isn't the 90's anymore, corporations push agendas.

lmaooo corporations pushed agendas as long as they have existed, long before hip-hop even existed.

this is what I mean when I say "deluded". you think Beatlemania wasn't something literally designed by corporations for sales and to distract young people from serious national/global issues in exchange for "duuuuuuuuude legalize weed lmao"?

Haha I wonder if this will include death grips?

SMOG, CHINA, VCR SALIVA

DG metioning china before this even happens, they are truely the only relevant band

>implying anyone in the Chinese government knows about death grips

>Or Vienna banned Mozart for making the kind of dynamic music that was considered degenerate by many at the time
Back then Vienna was almost constantly at war, no shit they clamped down on music. We haven't had a proper war time since 1945. Today's terror attacks are about the closest we get nowadays. Which is why so many fall asleep.

i seriously doubt hip hop in china is actually having a genuine influence on crime trends or patterns of moral degradation

so why should they censor it then?

>lmaooo corporations pushed agendas as long as they have existed
Yeah, but they've gotten much better at it and the state has not responded as quickly in recent decades.
Use of proxy fronts is new ground because people can keep track of things better with modern tech.

That and we now have less and less music label competition. Early 90's was the last hurrah with the Sub Pop and underground hip hop thing when some indie labels got at least part of their foot in the door. Now everything's either one of the big 3 (Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group) or it's a small label that cannot possibly compete for airwaves.

These are shit times for music.

you were not alive in the 90s

I wish.