“Do you Freestyle?”

Chinese hip-hop has recently received extensive coverage in the international media. Dozens of articles, published everywhere from the BBC to l’Express to Time, have attempted to explain the astonishing attempts by the Chinese authorities to censor Chinese rap following the genre’s spectacular rise to prominence throughout the country’s official media over the last few years. On 19 January 2018, a short dispatch from the Sina agency reported that Gao Changli (高长力), Director of Publicity for t...