How to Rap in Chinese – Arts & Entertainment

www.youcallthathiphop.com — New blog from Xiao Bizzle, a fluent in Mandarin, social regular on the Beijing hip hop scene. Here's a fill in the blank guide to sounding like a true hip hop head in Chinese.

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