“After that, everybody thinks that hip hop was the dopest music ever,” said RayRay, one of the few female DJs in Taiwan, the Red Bull Music 3Style 2013 Taiwan champion, and an influencer with nearly 50,000 followers.
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The series is credited for bringing the genre to the forefront and crossing it into the mainstream. “It’s like people being independent, without any support from labels, so they were recording in back rooms, or a friend’s studio,” he said. Prior to that, according to DJ Question Mark, the 2011 DMC Taiwan Champion, the scene was underground even though it’s been around for over 15 years. The new interest in hip hop can be traced to a Chinese television program called The Rap of China, a competition reality show which debuted in 2017, that is akin to the United Kingdom’s Pop Idol, or America’s Got Talent. Lots of young kids are listening to hip hop, especially Chinese rap.” Skin, a Taiwanese DJ and Red Bull Music 3Style 2015 Taiwan champion, who came of age in the ‘90s and early aughts, during hip hop’s so-called golden age.
“It’s for now, it’s a new generation, especially for the young kids,” said Mr. Taiwan is taking what once echoed American hip hop culture, and making it its own, with more Chinese-language hip hop songs being released and played in the clubs. Hip hop has become the language of the Taiwan’s youth in recent years, with, its dance, rap, and DJ culture blowing up across the country. Espinosa, who was performing for the final round of the DJ competition Red Bull Music 3Style, playing DMX’s “Party Up (Up In Here).” When they heard DMX say, “Y’all gon’ make me lose my mind, up in here, up in here,” that’s exactly what they did, jumping in the air wildly to the blaring horns and bass.
Just across from the KAWS sculpture, an audience of twentysomething Taiwanese waved their hands in the air, bobbing their bodies and waving their hands to the motions of American DJ J. In the middle of Taipei’s Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Park, where the former Chinese president’s memorial hall sits on one end and the temple-like National Theater and Concert Hall stand on the other, an 11-story, cartoon-like sculpture, the biggest ever by the street artist KAWS, towered over a large crowd vying to take a photo with it.
With hip hop being banned on television in mainland China, Taiwan is leading the way for Chinese-language rap.
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