From the sandy streets of Urumqi to the capital of Sichuan, Uyghur rappers also got something to say. Here’s a humble attempt to gather information and archives about Xinjiang hip-hop in Chengdu and make this music accessible to the wider community.
This academic blog aims to gather and facilitate access to musical archives, illustrations, videos and written texts about the hip-hop scene in the west of China. Part of a PhD research conducted between Chengdu and Beijing, it aspires to protect and feed academic work on modern Chinese subcultures.