One of the catchiest, funniest, and certainly CRUNKEST Hip Hop acts to come out of ATL, the , will perform a live show this Saturday night (11/14) @ Vics.
Word on the street is, my homie M2 aka El Maya will be rocking the mic as the opening act and your truly, Xiao Bizzle, might even make a guest appearance on stage. If I get the chance to meet these dudes, I don’t even know what the hell I am gonna say…
Yo that’s a tight pimp cup!
Your song “Get Low” really inspired me to make meaningful music…
Without the “Whistle While You Twerk”…I wouldn’t be here today.
Relfection: When I was in college, “Get Low” was without a doubt the anthem of every bar, club, football and basketball game, rotary club and college democrats meeting….it was every where. I still remember watching a room full of white fratty red necks throwing their arms from side to side screaming “TO THE WINDOWWWWWW ….TO THE WALLLLLL” at Klondike in Boone, NC. Wow, Bizzle sure is glad to be in Beijing today.
Scenes like that one are definitely not what Ying Yang can expect from the Vics show. If past shows are any indication, the place will be packed, girls will “shakin’ like a salt shaker” and you can find Bizzle with M2 and DJ Kefra in the VIPizzle.
Here is a track from the Ying Yang Twins to tie in some other posts from today.
An article I read today brought me back to the UGK period in my life, or at least the most recent one. When ‘s album 《Underground Kingz》came out in ’07, it was a North Carolina/Dirty South sensation and this song was the one that we always had on repeat! Try not to start bouncing when you hear this track…
“Bobby by the pound, Whitney by the key, DJ Screw by the gallon, ***** the game belong to me”
OK the real news… there is a good article on featuring an interview of Bun B which addresses his feelings about his rap career since the death of his rap partner, Pimp C (drug overdose, sippin’ too much sizzzyrrruuup) two years ago . Pimp C and Bun B as UGK were pioneers of the Texas (Houston) rap game and influential for the entire Dirty South, Crunk, and Chopped and Screwed rap movements. It was a very sad day when all that purple stuff (more about ) finally caught up with Pimp C. For more on the death of Pimp C, click
In the article, XXL asks Bun B what has been most difficult about putting out and promoting albums without his long-time cohort around:
Bun B: I think the biggest issue I had was the emotional factor. We were very fortunate that Pimp left a lot of good music. It was just important that we weren’t exploiting this project, that we did justice to it and weren’t taking advantage of the situation.
What do you think about record labels or former group members using music from dead artists?
Personally, I think that the way Tupac and Biggie‘s musical estates have been handled has been poor at times and other times pretty revolutionary. I mean, Tupac especially, seeing as he has put out 372 albums since he died. (IM STILL ALIVE! IT MIGHT BE DOODOOO….)
To read more from the XXL interview, click .
I encourage everyone to check out UGK’s albums and shout to to Houston and the whole Dirty South family.
I know from the looks of my posts so far, there is a definite and obvious bias towards Yin T’sang. This is true in a sense, seeing that I work with them now, and it is Yin T’sang who has supported me the most coming up, and the fact that Yin T’sang’s material and information is “most available” to me, and by that I mean…on my computer already. Chip-Chop is bigger than just Yin T’sang, and bigger than just Beijing. The first batches of information focusing on Yin T’sang does not mean that I don’t plan to promote or enjoy other Chip-Chop artists and groups. I want to make sure everyone knows that! I am still working on the basics of blogging and I am trying to come up with interesting categories for postings in the future. So, that being said, if anyone ever has any suggestions for artists, groups or you want to promote something please hit me up at xiaobizzle@gmail.com and I will always, always respond.
Beijing's Hip Hop crews unite to celebrate Sbazzo's birthday
This photo is important, because its perhaps one of the only times you can get this many hard hitting members of the Beijing (and China’s) Hip Hop movement in one place. Some notable guests at the dinner were: Lao Zheng, Lil’ Ray, Dragon, DJ Weschen, M2 aka El Maya, Young Kin, ABD aka 太多词, Da Zheng 大挣，Xiao Bizzle and Sbazzo, plus some more people who’s names I forget. I am a bad blogger…I know.
Also, this photo is a sneak peak into the VIP lifestyle that the Beijing Chip-Chop community lives…
Go ahead….envy those Yan Jing Beer Bottles…Envy the card table turned dinner trash heap…Envy the 400 Cigarettes smoked a minute…ENVY!
We are on the streets tho, that much cannot be denied! Ballin!
So the story goes…30th Anniversary of the PRC’s “Open Door Policy”….naturally they employ Yin Ts’ang to write a commemorative rap song…we all then end up performing the song on Chinese National TV…on the anniversary special viewed by an estimated 10 million viewers… the rest as they say, is in the tape.
Local reggae legends, Longshendao, will be having a record release party @ Club 13 in WuDaoKou tonite.
Long Shen Dao 龙神道
Excerpt on LongShenDao from CW: “Coming from Beijing, Longshendao Band is China most outstanding Chinese language reggae band. Relying on each member musical and human accomplishments and on their unique musical mixed influences of ragga, rock dub and ska… but also Chinese’s daoism and philosophy, Longshendao created a music inspired by the very core of Chinese tradition.” Haha, riiiight.
Xiao Bizzle says: Having seen Longshendao perform, I can attest they are the best chance of getting some quality, relatively authentic reggae in the Dirty Kapital city. Good music, and definitely a fun vibe to their live set. So, if you are thinking about a night of hunting for Korean B-girls or BLCU cradle-robbing at Propaganda, stop off at Club 13 first and get your good vibrations started there.
Address: 1Lanqiying Chengfu Road, Haidian District (East of Beijing University East Gate, West of Qinghua University south gate.)
Tel: 010 86687151 13601019756 13521658605
Email: 13club@sina.com
This song is special to me, because I wrote my first Chinese “16″ to this song as part of my first major performance with Sbazzo @ Happy Valley (欢乐谷 ) last year. XIV (aka Lao Zheng) was not in town at the time, and I had to step in. Another white guy rapping in Chinese…not so easy to find. The whole hiphop.cn family, DJ Kefra from Vics,and even the British break dancers from the Olympic Ceremony, were there that day, and we all def rocked it!
Click the link below to hear the song from the Dirty North Mixtape by Lil’ Ray and XIV, its one of the hottest Chip-Chop mixtapes and songs from 2009. 所以我不怕 So I ain’t scared (Featuring Sbazzo)
走 起来（zóuqǐlai ）：”Let’s get it”, “Let’s do this” __起来 （_______qǐlai）：Put any verb before qǐlai to make a hip phrase, I.E. Drink(hē), dance (tiào), move(dòng), speak (shuō)
说唱（shuō chàng）：Word for “rap”, literally speak-sing
嘻哈（xī hā ）：Taiwanese word for Hip-Hop
嘿泡（hēi pào ）：Northern China word for Hip-Hop
瓷（cí）：homie 铁瓷（tiě cí ）：a true homie
傻逼（shǎ bī）： punk b*tch
牛逼（niú bī ）：dope，phat
范儿（fànr）：swagger
样儿（yàngr ）：style
废话（fèihuà ）：bullsh*t
卷一袋儿（juǎn yī dàir ）：”Roll one up”
呼（hū）：to smoke 飞（fēi ）：to be high
都得死（dōu děi sǐ）：the equivalent of “f**k the world”
撅一瓶（juē yī píng）：Drink a bottle (of beer)
呲蜜（zī mì ）：have sex with women
胡呲（hú zī ）：talk sh*t, bullsh*t, spout off
燥（zào）：wild, like “that show was really zào”
果（guǒ）：hottie
坚果（jiānguǒ）：supermodel hottie
板儿（bǎnr ）：skateboard
狠 （hěn）：crazy, like “that MC’s flow is too hěn”
嘟儿（dūr ）：Du-Rag, bandana
残的（cán de ）：weak, crippled, lame
缺的（quē de ）：sucks, wack
肿了（zhǒng le）：blowin up, out of control
保佑（bǎoyòu）：peace
祝你幸福（zhù nǐ xìngfú）：the equivalent of “speak to the hand”
瘾乐（yǐn yuè）：China’s first Hip-Hop label actually run by people who know hip-hop If you got more slang or phrases to add, or you got questions hit us off below or just comment!
走起来! zóu qǐlai!
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One of my favorite days this past summer was the night of the show at Vics, at which Yin T’sang and yours truly were the opening act.
When I started getting into rapping here in China, of course Xiao Bizzle had his grand dreams and aspirations of working with some major artists even in just minor ways, and in the last 16 months, I have got the chance to do just that. This time, while my role was small, I took my chance and when the time came, I was jumpin’ around on stage at Vics like a crazy fool. That night, opening for MOBB Deep was Sbazzo (马克）and Lao Zheng (老郑）otherwise known as Yin T’sang 隐藏, featuring Xiao Bizzle, and we jumped right into some Chip-Chop hits like Yin T’sang‘s classic “Zou Qi Lai 走起来” and my favorite song to do live, “Push the Bouncer”. I did perhaps the best hypemanning of my life that night. I truthfully didn’t keep up with all the words even though I knew them, simply because I got so pumped that I would break out into “Beijing hip hop!” and “大家走起来 dajia zouqilai! （means everyone get up or stand up) ” and even some “throw ya hands up！ 举手” The crowd was totally into it and we fed off that.
The actual show was crazy, but the before / after the show was memorable too. I remember the 4pm phone call from Sbazzo asking “Are you ready Bizzle?” Bizzle: “Ready for what?” (I started to believe it was going down…) Sbazzo: “To rock the mic for MOBB Deep homie, your coming up with us!”
I wasn’t THAT surprised really, but…it wasn’t actually confirmed until right then. When my name isn’t on the poster, I don’t ever assume I will get any mic time. Nonetheless, I’m always ready when my numbers is called, that’s just a reality of the game when you are an up and coming, (that’s the nice way of putting it) rapper or MC. Usually, I stay on the business side of things with Yin T’sang but for some shows, I can’t resist the urge to help out a little extra.
Havoc and Big Noid were at Vics already when I showed up (Noid, another MOBB Deep member, was here because the other MOBB Deep front man, Prodigy, was in prison. For more info click ) and before we could start the sound check, we all said ‘what’s ups’, did the ceremonial daps and bs’d around in the club. I’ll tell you, being inside a nightclub with all the lights on is a different experience that any Friday night. It doesn’t feel as glamorous, I’ll say that much. Soon, word arrived that some clothing brands had arrived with fresh gear for us to go through…maybe more so intended for MOBB Deep and Yin T’sang than for Xiao Bizzle, but of course, I jumped right in. This is a pretty regular thing at shows these days, and this time, RMBZ Boys and Infinite Fantasy both came through with some fresh gear for everyone to take their pick. I ended up getting an unreleased Infinite Fantasy tee that has the front of Rolls Royce car plus the emblem on the front…super sick.
This was my main chance to talk with MOBB Deep front-man, Havoc, and I found him to be nice but pretty quiet and reserved. He told me he was enjoying China and his first words to describe his time in Beijing was, he had very quickly “seen some sh*t that I’ve [Havoc] never seen before.” They jetted back to the hotel without doing a real sound-check and we all went our separate ways till around show time.
The show went great, after Yin T’sang‘s super live opening set, MOBB Deep came on and I hyped from the DJ booth and video taped as well. The crowd energy was incredible. The bouncers ended up on stage a few times trying to calm things down, which in the end was what singled the end of the show. During “Shook Ones” the crowd got so hyped up that someone grabbed at Havoc, and so after that song the security took control and MOBB ended the set just to keep things orderly. I could fee the energy from the DJ booth, and it was fresh for Beijing. Here are few pictures:
Girlz go wild for Xiao Bizzle
Big Noid
Havoc doing his thing
Zheng and Bizzle
After the show, we partied at Vics for a good while, sippin’ Grey Goose and Hennessy (by Havoc‘s request) but MOBB eventually grabbed some top shelf girls and skeeted out. The rest of the team didn’t mind that much as their “table” at Vics had been and continued to be a resource of free drinks all night for the whole crew to enjoy. That’s another added benefit of these big shows and the Chip-Chop life…the whole family can get free drinks.
Later, when I asked Sbazzo for some reflections about the MOBB Deep show he said: “You know, they were real cool people. Havoc was way more humble than most International artists that we’ve collab’ed with here in China. He was eager to work with us, just like we were to work with him. And they were into the Chinese experience as well… they went all around, to the Great Wall and Forbidden City, they ate the authentic food with us, and really wanted an authentic experience. That’s not like the “in and out, pick up some *ish and girls and then back to the hotel” that we’ve dealt with some other artists. Of course, we had the usual hip hop activities and it was all cool, MOBB definitely is a big international connection for Yin T’sang.“
Yin T’sang recorded the song “Real” with Havoc of MOBB Deep also featuring Young Kin, and that is set to be on Yin T’sang‘s upcoming, and perhaps final (shhhh) album. More to come on that!
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