{"id":1415278,"date":"2022-04-01T15:44:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T19:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415278"},"modified":"2022-04-01T15:44:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T19:44:55","slug":"china-communist-rappers-pen-ode-to-coronavirus-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-communist-rappers-pen-ode-to-coronavirus-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Communist Rappers Pen Ode to Coronavirus Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-communist-rappers-pen-ode-to-coronavirus-fight%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415278&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A group of students from state-run universities in southwestern China\u2019s Chongqing municipality recently created a rap to promote the Communist Party\u2019s failed efforts to control the Chinese coronavirus, the <em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1257111.shtml\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a socially responsible young person who is cool, rap is my choice to speak up and encourage social change when things go wrong,\u201d one of the participating rappers told the government outlet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Student Wang Ziyu told the <em>Global Times<\/em>, a Chinese state-run newspaper, on March 29 about \u201ca project he recently took part in that saw rappers from more than 20 local universities in the Chongqing Municipality perform a song supporting the city\u2019s efforts to fight against COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Global Times<\/em> relayed Wang\u2019s account of the musical endeavor, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>More than 40 rappers from over 20 local institutions of higher learning such as Chongqing University, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and the Chongqing City Management College gathered in a university town in Chongqing to perform the 15-minute cypher.<\/p>\n<p>Led by \u2026 a short intro of news reports about the surging cases of COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] in the city and three confirmed cases in Chongqing City Management College on March 12, the song was launched into a rap showing support for local efforts to combat COVID-19.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Global Times<\/em> further published an excerpt of some of the rap\u2019s lyrics, particularly a verse referring to healthcare staff working overnight to deliver Chinese coronavirus tests to students. The verse read:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We can always face\/ we can always take\/ despite endless rain\/ we don\u2019t care about pain\/ under the devil changing different ways we will win\/ thanks to those angels in white in the wind who saved us from the bad thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/05\/27\/china-produces-hip-hop-marx-video-connect-young-folks\/\">created<\/a> several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=1&#038;v=qAKxtuLEqR8&#038;feature=emb_logo\">rap songs<\/a> to promote the Party\u2019s policies. Typically stilted and of dubious impact, the raps have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixthtone.com\/news\/1009994\/the-shanghai-lockdown-rap-get-fed-go-on-get-tested\">addressed<\/a> various topics including the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Some have included samples of Xi Jinping speeches to promote communism to young people.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>One such rap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/08\/19\/rand-paul-stars-chinese-rap-video-accusing-us-starting-coronavirus-pandemic\/\">surfaced<\/a> in August 2021 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=1&#038;v=MhllE6Q7VQk&#038;feature=emb_logo\">demanded<\/a> the U.S. \u201callow investigators into a U.S. Army facility the Communist Party has claimed for months, without evidence, may be the true origin of the Chinese coronavirus,\u201d Breitbart News reported at the time.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The government\u2019s achievements in hip-hop artistry went largely unembraced by the general population, though rap music itself has grown extremely popular in the country. In response, the Communist Party has attempted to crack down on rap songs that do not promote communism or rap not created by the government. In 2018, Beijing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/01\/25\/after-failed-patriotic-hip-hop-push-china-cracks-down-on-rap-trend-it-created\/\">banned<\/a>\u00a0rap music from state television after a reality competition show called <em>The Rap of China<\/em>\u00a0grew more popular than anticipated. <em>The Rap of China<\/em>, airing on the Chinese streamer iQiyi,\u00a0featured authentic Chinese rappers instead of Chinese Communist Party products and thus threatened to potentially pierce Beijing\u2019s official narratives. In addition to banning rap music from broadcast television, Chinese pressure forced one of the winners of the first season of the show, rapper PG One, to apologize for <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/shanghaiist\/chinese-rapper-apologizes-for-his-offensive-lyrics-by-blaming-influence-of-black-music-664d3f56fd6e\">allowing<\/a> \u201cblack music,\u201d meaning music by black Americans, to influence his style. One of the original judges on the show, producer Kris Wu, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/08\/01\/chinese-canadian-pop-star-kris-wu-detained-on-suspicion-of-rape\/\">arrested<\/a> on charges of rape in August 2021.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>China has experienced a nationwide resurgence of its Chinese coronavirus caseload in recent months, with Chongqing\u2019s current outbreak of the disease serving as just one example. Chinese Communist Party officials in charge of Shanghai recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/20220328\/e48f13e6fcb643f2822b372e5ec079c6\/c.html\">ordered<\/a> one half of the metropolis to lock down from March 28 to April 1 and the second half to lock down from April 1 to April 5 in an effort to contain the city\u2019s latest Chinese coronavirus epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party\u2019s decision last week to essentially shut down Shanghai was significant, as the city serves as China\u2019s financial mecca and houses the world\u2019s busiest shipping container port. Shanghai is additionally the most\u00a0densely populated city in China with a population of nearly 26 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/china-registers-over-1000-new-daily-covid-cases-fourth-day-2022-03-16\/\">forbade<\/a> all 24 million residents of\u00a0China\u2019s northeastern province of Jilin, which borders both North Korea and Russia, from traveling outside of the province in early March amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/28\/coronavirus-china-builds-19-makeshift-hospitals-in-northern-province\/\">spike<\/a> in Jilin\u2019s caseload of the Chinese coronavirus. Most of the province has likewise been forced to observe strict local lockdowns, which prohibit residents from leaving their homes, since at least March 11.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20444195\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Transit-officers-wearing-protective-gear-control-access-to-a-tunnel-in-the-direction-of-Pudong-district-in-lockdown-as-a-measure-against-the-Covid-19-coronavirus-in-Shanghai-on-March-28-2022..jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Transit officers, wearing protective gear, control access to a tunnel in the direction of Pudong district in lockdown as a measure against the coronavirus, in Shanghai on March 28, 2022. (AFP\/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jilin City, the second-largest city in Jilin province, will begin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2022-04-01\/china-reopens-one-city-as-shanghai-lockdown-enters-second-phase\/100957346\">lifting<\/a> its three-week-plus lockdown order on April 1. Residents of Jilin city will still be required to wear sanitary masks indoors and socially distance after April 1, according to the state-run China Central Television (CCTV).<\/p>\n<p>Local Chinese Communist Party officials in charge of\u00a0Changchun, Jilin\u2019s capital city, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/30\/china-lockdown-victims-running-out-food-regime-worries-computer-chips\/\">issued<\/a> a public apology on March 29 after news leaked online that municipal authorities had failed to provide Changchun residents with sufficient food during the city\u2019s ongoing lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAuthorities in Changchun \u2026 apologized to local residents for the short supply of vegetables as the city\u2019s two major vegetable wholesale markets were temporarily closed due to the sudden epidemic flare-up of COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus],\u201d the <em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1257123.shtml\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to COVID-19, two major wholesale food markets in Changchun have shuttered, leading to a shortfall in food supply,\u201d Changchun Deputy Communist Party Secretary Liu Renyuan told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are particularly anxious and angry about this, and we express our deep apologies to the public for the impact and inconvenience caused,\u201d Liu said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of students from state-run universities in southwestern China\u2019s Chongqing municipality recently created a rap to promote the Communist Party\u2019s failed efforts to control the Chinese coronavirus, the Global<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}