626 NTS residency announced, jackzebra's label/collective big fan of 1kbps, DJ and producer who's part of 626 and produced some of jack's very early music, when he still rapped in broken English

they did these two short EPs which are among my fav stuff he's released, super cinematic

first NY shows got announced for Elsewhere but immediately cancelled w the explanation they'll need to upgrade the venue and reschedule for January lol

FINALLY press is picking up on bloodz being at least as notable as Jack, he showed me the pics from this shoot a while ago and said it's Dazed, I thought just Dazed Asia again but ok we on main now lfg !!

might be his biggest profile yet

"The Humble Godfather of Chinese Underground Rap" excellently put
dazeddigital.com/music/article/68917/1/bloodz-boi-interview-the-humble-godfather-of-chinese-underground-rap

man this s*** is gold I didn't even know about this early history ?!?!

"In 2017, rap went mainstream in China. The moment is easy to pinpoint: hip-hop competition show The Rap of China. MC culture had been bubbling in the country for years prior – generally, as with most musical imports, regarded with suspicion by government authorities – but the series opened the floodgates. Broadcast by the Baidu-owned iQIYI streaming platform, the show accrued one billion views within its first month and, by the time the second season rolled around, hip-hop had been catapulted from a fringe, foreign influence into the core of Chinese pop culture. Rappers were soon advertising energy drinks during the show’s commercial breaks, and kids all over the country were picking up microphones with the hope of achieving fame and glory on the series.

Bloodz Boi, however, represents a different lineage.

Speaking to Dazed first in January, and later in June, of this year, the Beijing-born artist recalls how he was invited to appear on The Rap of China’s explosive first season. “It wasn’t like it is now – back then, the Chinese hip-hop scene was very small so they wanted everyone to participate,” Bloodz Boi explains. “It’s a commercial business, I said, ‘They will f*** the underground’. I felt a little down watching everyone around me get famous, but that was the only time. My fate isn’t about being an artist, it’s about being a good person.”

Where is your music headed in the future, then?

Bloodz Boi: I think time & place might be the end of my rap stuff, I want my music to be more experimental, like digital folk. More like 2022 EP a crying poem. More instrumental, and recordings from my life. I’ve been influenced by a lot of the hip-hop stuff, but, inside of me, I’m actually a quiet guy. I don’t really like to have fun, I don’t turn up and s***. That’s the real me and I have to face that.

I was speaking to my friend, Doon Kanda, in Japan. He told me, ‘You have to follow your heart’. He has a pretty big following, but he recently switched to folk music, too. With hype music, you can perform a big concert and make everybody happy, but, with the emotional stuff, you have to be very real.

gahdamn @proper @Vox @foreveramn pls help get some life in here this is sad 😭

bloodzebra January u heard it here first

Possible to talk about user116 in here too?

ban

nah I mean he got a tape w jack sure go ahead. Chinese underground is not that big might as well gather all discussion here

that said there was just a big show w like everyone there and it was a bunch of ppl tbh

Read the english translation of Givenchy and was almost brought to tears

The clothes she wears are Givenchy
I am curious about everything about her
I want to know the secret behind you
Please tell me it is not a bad idea
I don’t mean to bother you
Just out of curiosity
Sorry

poetry in motion

I mean him and bloodz are good at just doing dumb rapper talk lol, but both of them have serious pen game in their own ways and actually have many rly raw emotion songs

James Gui did a great job of breaking down Jack's wordplay in Chinese in his P4k review

pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jackzebra-king-of-kings

Somebody transcribe his verse on here

New!

@beflygelt do you know trickyzb by any chance?

did not, put me on 🙃

I can confirm bloodzebra album is v much real and pretty awesome 🤫👀 first half the cloudy ambient plugg you'd expect from the .cutspace link, transitioning into a more dance-y trap second half. def showing you their whole range w beat selections, some pretty unique ones on there imo

bloodz also confirmed dropping January, first MV gotta be #soon

bloodz and jackzebra appear 4x each in NTS Guide to: Chinese Underground Rap

bloodz NTS episode for January just out too, still the king of emo ambient

jack playing in NYC this Saturday joined by Surf Gang's Eli Properr and one of my ambient goats 703

elsewhere.club/events/1538313379729
instagram.com/p/DTsrzCVjl81

@sentient_sherm_bag @Vox

Wish I could pull up

bloodzboi and spira me short tour in china soon

ep on the way hopefully

this weekend actually. they made a rly beautiful song together years ago, "Darling You Don't Need to Translate Your Heart All The Time".

I bet they're working on something, he has so many EPs in the works tho lol, still waiting on Cameron Morse collab for LuckyMe, the Darcy Bailey one and the Harto Falion tape for Surf Gang too 😭 all 3yrs+ in the making

hopefully bloodzebra dropping soon at least it doesn't look like they're making January tho lol