This Party-Backed Rap Song is Awesomely Bad

Foreigners apparently can't get enough rap videos about China.

The latest in English raps all about the Middle Kingdom is "This Is China," a song produced by Chengdu-based rap group CD REV and backed by the Communist Youth League of China. Sixth Tone reports that the song was an instant hit after being released on Weibo, earning tens of thousands of comments and shares.

Set to a totally sick sample with Sichuan opera-esque vocals, CD REV covers everything from corruption, to prostitution scandals, to Taiwan ("actually, for normal citizens we just want to be united as one"), to food safety, to public security, to advances in science, to... mobile payments. (Yes, really). 

An excerpt of the lyrics:

Regardless of all the prejudice in the past
Today I wanna restore the impression you have on my country, China
Which have been exactly fabricated by the media for a long time...

You guys can know better about what the truth is and
How Chinese people assess their own country
And how much we don't wanna be disputants

First things first, we all know China is a developing country
It has large population and is really hard to manage
Especially after World War II almost perished
I mean what I say is true, war is always scary
It is real that the pollution is severe at this present stage...

(HOOK): What's your name
This is China
We love the country, we the Chi-phenomena
The red dragon ain't no evil
But a peaceful place
The beautiful land with culture remain...

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Wang Zixin, CD REV's frontrunner, tells Sixth Tone that the song is "for Westerners to understand China" and to show that Chinese people "are trying to make a change.”

This isn't CD REV's first foray into propaganda rap. In January, the group released "The Force of Red," an aggressively pro-PRC song that calls out Taiwan ("TAIWAN AIN'T A COUNTRY / Bitch, at most a county") and Western media (“All you faggots from the western better shut your mouth / you media punk ass white trash fuckers”). 

The hook:

There's only one China
HK, Taipei
They are my fellas
We are the force of red
Now put your hands up, let em see us
Fuck anybody tryna split up
PRC the leader

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