![]() Check out all the videos on YouTube, and listen to the songs on Spotify, Apple Music or Tidal.ġ. The 2018 Hiphop x Asia Music Video Playlist aims to illustrate this cultural interplay as well as capture the diversity of the interaction between Asian cultures and Hiphop. To get started, below we've highlighted five videos from the playlist. The blending of Asian and Black culture in these videos are used in a variety of ways - from the Wu-Tang Clan’s homage to their kung-fu influences in “Da Mystery of Chessboxin'”, to Asian-American artists like Dumbfoundead using Hiphop to discuss the difficulties of straddling two cultures in “Safe”, and even to the less-sensitive appropriation of Asian culture and aesthetic in Migos’ “Stir Fry”, it’s safe to say that this cross-cultural pollination is not simply an isolated event. ![]() In the context of Hiphop x Asia, we’ve highlighted numerous examples where Asian influences are evident in American rappers’ videos, and vice versa. In many cases, music videos draw from not just the experience of the artist but also from other cultures to which they are exposed, allowing artists to develop unique “hiphop cultural style and aesthetics” ( Rose 9). ![]() Music videos can be a way for artists to better set the mood of their track, express the meaning of their lyrics, or even to simply just stunt. Since the days of Yo! MTV Raps, music videos have played a huge role in the identity of Hiphop in the cultural consciousness, to the point where “the reception and marketing of music is almost synonymous with the production of music videos” ( Rose 8).
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