
Download a longer sampler of 10 Vietnamese rap & hip-hop songs in a single zip file here.
I compiled the track list above from 3 CDs found in the same Vietnamese Video/CD store on Chicago's Argyle Street where I discovered this previously posted gem.
In the middle of a pleasant if innocuous conversation with the woman behind the counter, I suddenly remembered to ask, "Oh, um, do you have any Vietnamese rap music?"
Her brow furrowed. "Have you heard any Vietnamese rap music?" she asked. I couldn't quite get the hidden meaning here, which I assumed was either: (a) because it doesn't exist, you poor delusionally optimistic white liberal type person; or (b) because I think it's going to induce projectile vomiting in you.
It turned out she meant (b) and just assumed that I would hate what the Vietnamese--mostly Vietnamese-Americans--are doing with the genre.
Wrong.

4 comments:
Thank you!
You're welcome! Thanks for stopping by ...
By the way, "Thai Rap" is a gem. "The Chinese Association", ah!
"Wrong" :-)
This is indeed wonderful -thank you!
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