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Feichang Fresh “A Beijing Love Song” Appears on CCTV

by on Saturday, May 28, 2011 159 comments comments

Feichang Fresh, a group of foreign students in Beijing, in their rap song "A Beijing Love Song"

This music video was uploaded onto Youku 5 months ago, but it gained more attention from Chinese netizens when it appeared on CCTV a few days ago. It features a group of foreigners in Beijing rapping “A Beijing Love Song” (“给北京的情歌”).

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Lyrics:

我们又来了
We’re back
非常非常非常fresh
Extremely extremely extremely fresh
大家都举手来
Everyone put up your hands
准备好了吗
Are you ready?

Chorus:
每到黎明听着你的声音来把我叫醒
Every morning I wake up to your voices
对这城市我是怀着十分激动的心情
I’m full of excitement towards this city
北京的灵魂氛围难以用语言来表达
Beijing’s spirit and atmosphere is difficult to describe in words
我会永远记得你请你别把我忘记呀
I will always remember you, please don’t forget me

羊肉串是我老伙伴儿
Yangrouchuanr [lamb skewer/kebab] is my old companion
我只天天跟美女聊天儿
I chat with beautiful women every day
北京烤鸭再来一块儿
Peking Duck, let’s have one more piece
特别喜欢的是北京话儿
I especially like the Beijing dialect/accent

朝阳区数你最牛比
Chaoyang District, you are the most niubi
海淀区我想更懂你
Haidian District, I want to learn more about you
我们之间的大秘密
The big secret between us
我觉得你倍了不起
I think you are so amazing

Chorus

每天在大学上上课
Every day attending class in the university
不管去哪骑自行车
Riding bicycles no matter where I go
燕京啤酒是忒好喝
Yanjing Beer is the best
在这的日子很快乐
My life here is very happy

在后海我玩得很high
At Houhai, I have a lot of fun
在工体我们都在fly
At the Beijing Workers Stadium we are all flying
靓妹认为我非常帅
Pretty girls think I am extremely handsome
我真是舍不得离开
I really can’t bear to leave

Chorus

一二三环不管什么地方
First, second, third ring, no matter where you are
一块唱这首歌 （大省点儿）
Let’s all sing this song (Louder)
四五六环不管什么地方
Fourth, fifth, sixth ring, no matter where you are
一块唱这着歌 （我听不见）
Let’s all sing this song
x2

Chorus

Feichang Fresh, a group of foreign students in Beijing, in their rap song "A Beijing Love Song"

Comments from NetEase:

网易北京市网友:

Hehe, I’d like to see, what would fenqing say if a Chinese person were to wave around another country’s flag?

网易山东省济南市网友:

With food, drink, and girls but without having to worry about housing prices, stock prices, or food prices, of course they’d be feel things are great.

网易北京市网友:

A good song, much better than those overly sentimental songs coming out of the music industry these days.

网易浙江省湖州市网友:

[Their] Chinese is very good, with a Beijing accent. I must learn from you guys, I too must learn and speak good English!

网易重庆市网友:

Don’t raise the Chinese flag as you please! There’s a difference from your nation/country! We normally only raise it when resisting forced demolitions! Raising this flag doesn’t mean you guys are very Chinese!

网易河北省保定市网友:

I’ve discovered that laowai don’t know where to put their hands.

"A Beijing Love Song" rap song by Feichang Fresh.

Comments from Youku:

没缝的蛋:

Is China’s flag something you can just play around with?

bnc9595:

It’s really quite good.

xiangye项晔:

CCTV broadcasted this today, I came online to find the video, it’s not bad, jia you!

故园情0:

Niu, China, everyone come learn Chinese.

琳nana:

[Their] putonghua truly is good, more proper than many Chinese people, haha. The song is also very nice. Support!

abc爱琴海abc:

赞You guys can sing very well, but can you guys not be so handsome? 赞赞

莫须有的叉叉:

Very cute/adorable. The lyrics were very adorable. The tune was very adorable. The young guys were very adorable. Everything was very adorable.

颠堂路13号:

They’re studying music production, right? The MV [music video] and music production were all very good. Listen carefully to the musical elements they used, they were very good, probably made by experts.

portialee1983:

I…I actually understood [what they are saying], hahahaha… Their Chinese pronunciation is very good.

1153513210:

I wish all laowai could speak Chinese! In the future, Chinese will be an international common language/universal language…

What do you think?

Feichang Fresh endorsing Yangjing Beer.

Feichang Fresh.

Tired of yangrouchuanr… Personals @ chinaSMACK.

  • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

    What? Where’s the propaganda part about the standard of living steadily increasing? At least they got the flag waving part right; the pandering is all correct except for the lack of panda-pandering.

    • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

      Ah.. I got it now: laowai coming to China and engaging in the act of ingratiating themselves to do business/achieve a higher social status than from where they are from/fit in harmoniously with Chinese culture is called – PANDA-ERING

      • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

        Mhher, on second thought, “panda-ering” sounds like some new tribal piercing; I just I’m not right-wing enough to come up with catching sarcastic buzzwords.

        “Panda-pandering” it is, then.

      • ImmortalTechnique

        Imagine if they weren’t treated like privileged snowflakes just because they were white. Check out Tubbs in the back, holding out for whatever name-recognition he can get, maybe he’ll finally score scraps from the captain’s table!

        • 老外

          Although I detest man-whoring, drinking and the like — if they’re happy in China, let them be. If someone can only be successful in China, why deride them? I think everyone deserves to be happy, and live in a country that makes them feel good.

          I don’t give a shit about being a patriot or anything — if you’re happy in China, more power to you! If you can only make it in one country, go for it. It doesn’t make you a sellout — you’re only doing what makes you happy.

          Personally, I love China very much. The culture, the food, and the people. I haven’t been in China for a few months, and I cannot return until next year due to my job. Every chance I get I go to China because it makes me happy, and I’ve considered moving there permanently. I’ve had enough experience to know the ins and outs of the country, and I just can’t stop thinking of the Middle Kingdom.

          Despite being successful in America, I’m not happy here. I’d rather be a lowly English teacher in China. If being in a different country makes you happy, go for it. Don’t let anyone chew you out just because you’re doing what makes you happy and/or successful. Life isn’t measured by how well you can do in your own country.

          • Englebert

            I’m a lowly English teacher in China, and I’ll swap jobs with you if you want, right now.

          • 老外

            Englebert,

            Believe me, if I could, I would do it in a heartbeat. :/

        • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

          Maybe these guys are really happy to be rapping the merits of about another country, and furthermore maybe they honestly mean it deep down in that dark metaphorical heart of ours. Maybe they intestinal worms from eating all that chuanr. Maybe’s.

          The idea of panda-pandering is that there’s no other option for a laowai to take. From the oft-maligned non-Melanie Grittith banging portion of “Miami Vice” standing in the back all the way to Rupert Murdoch, every laowai can only panda-pander in China except in cases where immediately followed by a “-SMACK”!.

          And look at Rupert Murdoch: he got a new wife out of the deal.

          • Eskil

            Though judging from many American liberals I have met when in business in the US, being proud of one’s own country seems to be a gigantic taboo and possible sign of mental illness.

            So perhaps cheering for another country is more socially acceptable?

            Either way, I don’t really care. I’m mostly impressed with the guys’ pronunciation.

  • sneezinglaowai

    Clearly China needs more dipshit laowai jumping around singing about girls and drinking.

  • http://www.makeyourownpheromones.com Michael Hughes

    These guys must be getting so much pussy

    • passin’ thru

      That’s the China dream!

    • staylost

      Yes they are just so gorgeous. Especially if you don’t look at their faces.

      I think Fauna is trying to drive home the fact that Chinese girls really really think being white is hot.

  • http://www.lovelovechina.com Crystal

    And now compare this boy band with those “talented” girls who sang “No House No Car”

  • Raphael

    panda-ring.

    game. set. match.

  • Alex

    Last 4 posts: Shit.

    Not including the baby one.

    • Boris

      Spot on! If I wanted this sterile bollox I’d watch CCTV.

    • Boris

      Oh Christ! -Maybe the next Michael Learns to Rock. Worst fucking thing in China, except for pea ice-cream.

      • MF

        Apparently I am the only white person around who likes pea ice cream. Well, more for me, then.

        :/

        • Boris

          Person? Untermensch! Arch-fiend from hell! I cast thee out, Satan!

      • Jon

        Michael Thoroughly Fails to Rock

    • http://encyclopediadramatica.com/China Elijah

      I didn’t think it possible, but that video was actually more annoying then I originally thought….

      So, has chinaSmack finally started to scrape the bottom of the sensational/ridiculous barrel yet or are we all in for another week of “foreigners” (really respectful name eh?) doing stupid shit to ingratiate themselves for a bit of chinese publicity?

      Seriously…. The only reason that African guy wasn’t on CCTV is that chinese people are too frigging racist to ever accept it.

      I’d almost say that these wannabes are trying to ironic, but that would make me a hipster douchebag….

      Anything on the bombing of government offices? You know, something actually worth discussing??

      • bomber

        Agreed. These days its all bullshit news. Non-news. CH is reporting on interesting shit, but they are blocked. Dawei, too.

        I can’t believe there hasn’t been anything on the bombings.

        • anon

          Why is it so annoying? Because these people seem to like something that you don’t, or seem to like something that is somehow related to something you don’t? You know, enjoying a city (eating, boozing, flirting) that’s within a country that has certain things disagreeable to you?

          Far be it that these guys take their interest in China and do something creative with it, rather than spend their time trolling a blog with a chip on their shoulder looking and begging for an excuse to talk shit. For example, you know about the bombing of government offices, because there are tons of other sites already covering them. Why aren’t you already discussing that story on those sites instead of bitching like a self-entitled princess here? “No, I want to play in THIS sandbox!”

          I don’t think any of these guys in the past few posts save perhaps the African guy and British guy were out to do stupid shit to ingratiate themselves for Chinese publicity. The French guys, as far as we know (unless they orchestrated a false story of running from the chengguan), were just having fun engaging in what amounts to simple cultural exchange. These guys, they’re the stereotypical study abroad story, some young guys living it up having and adventure and a blast in a foreign land. The African? Are you sure he wasn’t on CCTV? Or did you just assume because it was an excuses to take another swipe against Chinese people as being racist? The British guy? We have no idea what that really was about, whether or not it was related to the French Crepe guys, whether it was his idea or someone else’s idea, and ultimately, who the fuck cares if he had some fun while he was at it? Who did he hurt? Your desire that foreigners not have fun and take themselves too seriously in China?

          This website has always been a grab bag of serious and not-remotely-serious stories. Go back and look over the mix every week of every month of every year. It’s always the same random mix. It’s one thing to not like that mix, and it’s another to not like it but repeatedly subject yourself to it whining the entire way. Bottom line is that both Feichang Fresh and chinaSMACK have done things that has gotten the attention and sentiments of a ton of people.

          What have you done?

          • http://encyclopediadramatica.com/China Elijah

            Wow… thank God there’s a holier than thou tool…. I was wondering how long you’d take to start trolling.

            Slowly and gently with a liberal application of KY, slide the two by four out of your sphincter, then you can unclench and stop squinting. THENNNNNNN if you’re lucky, you’ll be able to step back from your little preaching box and see reality as it is.

            How many people are actually commenting on how wonderful and insightful the last bunch of articles have been? How many of the last bunch of articles have been about someone who will never be chinese trying to act chinese to win chinese approval?

            As for what I’ve done, I’ve published an online article, sealed a 6 month contract worth $160,000USD in profit for me, started importing French wine, Abolone, sea cucumber and shrimp as part of another high level deal and that’s all in the last week.

            What have you done? ……. What an immature and silly question, you couldn’t come up with something else?

            [Note from Fauna: Irony]

          • Boris

            Elijah! You’ve found my two by four! Thank you! Now get him to give it back to me. And the KY…

          • Greg

            Elijah,

            based on your comments on Chinasmack, it’s clear you don’t know how to write.

            P.s Taiwan isn’t a country :)

            Keep up the raging son! You’re always a good laugh. Hahaha.

          • Paul

            that’s awesome. someone writes one little comment and you write a book.

          • Greg (the smart one)

            PS Greg – Taiwan is a COUNTRY, ya pole riding bogan. Own government, own judiciary, own stock market, own currency, own flag, own passport.

            Who brainwashed you into believing Taiwan is not a country? Sucka fool!

          • Breaking News!

            Shamed man attempts to demonstrate maturity by proclaiming unverifiable length of own sea cucumber on internet. Bystanders comment, “Reminded us of Chinese government officials.”

          • Breaking News!

            Reclusive passive aggressive webmistress of popular blog disagrees with vocal but oft-ridiculed commenter, skewers latter with one word when others require multiple paragraphs.

          • Jones

            Yeah, Greg (Dumber One), as your Smarter Self said, Taiwan is definitely a country. It was a country long before the PRC was. It also has a government, currency, advanced military, passports, etc. So…

          • http://encyclopediadramatica.com/China Elijah

            Not sure I understand if you’re saying I wrote a book or Anon did, especially seeing as how his 1 comment was as long as both my comments put together.

            Taiwan is a de facto sovereign country, let’s not get into a rehash.

            Fauna doesn’t seem to be interested in comments unless they’re stupid racism that degrades everyone and serves only to fuel the cycle of hate, blatant fengqing trolling or china-apologists… I suppose no one else noticed that trend?

            If the commenting standards weren’t so low, then perhaps there could actually be something worthwhile here instead of the same tired group of people playing roles.

            Luckily for me, I have quite the good life outside of one-sided arguments.

            Oh, and burden of proof lies on the accuser, not accused. Been in china too long eh?

          • Breaking News!

            Oft-ridiculed commenter demonstrates embarrassing reading comprehension skills, selective memory, and lack of self-awareness. Subsequently attempts to apply irrelevant fuzzy legal principle to defend previous unverifiable length of sea cucumber, is ridiculed.

          • Ethan JRT

            Elijah: Given your comments on this thread, not to mention others, I’m pretty sure it’s going to be another six years before you’re legally capable of making deals for the importing of anything at all. Then only three more after that, you’ll be able to legally enter an American bar!

  • Jones

    These past three articles…man…Beijing is full of douchers.

  • McCurry

    Is it ‘White boy sell out week’? Maybe they will serve some Britain fried rice afterwards. They appeared on CCTV for god sake lol

    this is equalvant to seeing outsea Chinese students singing the American anthem and waving American flags around… I bet the Chinese netizen weren’t be so jolly then, probably alot of ‘SB’ getting thrown around

    • anon

      Some Chinese netizens would definitely be throwing “SB” around. Not unlike some foreigners laying into these guys here. Funny how sensitive we are about these things.

  • Jones

    Don’t the Chinese know that 99% of white guy rappers are jokes? They’re basically cheering that they have some losers on rapping about them.

    • mille

      The black guys they hire to “rap” at bars are far worse

      • B-real

        You mean the Philipinos posing as blacks? That has been a trend stretching all the way to Singapore.

  • kevinnolongerinpudong

    From the crazy African guy singing about Maoism to these cheesy white guys waving the flag and talking about living standards- is it “humiliatingly-ingratiating-yourself week” on Chinasmack?
    By the way, fuck CCTV.

    • kevinnolongerinpudong

      Feichang fresh or feichang fuckstick?
      That is the question.

  • Ethan JRT

    I actually think it’s pretty catchy, and decently well-done. In fact, I’m going to call all of you trolls out for being jealous and also pretty bitchy.

    That said: someone who speaks Chinese better than I can feel free to confirm/deny, but I thought the first half of the chorus was absolutely unintelligible.

    Unfortunately, “Feichang Fresh” will never even come close to 老板.” Not by a thousand miles.

    (If you don’t understand simple but heavily accented Chinese, don’t bother with the link.)

    • Ethan JRT

      Aaaaand I forgot my /b tag. Apologies.

  • dr_barefoot

    够二的hip hop 主流无比

  • Hongjian

    These laowais are obviously shortly before their China-hate phase, or long past it and do not give a fuck anymore.

    Anyway… 10/10 for the effort.

    • http://thecapitalinthenorth.blogspot.com jixiang

      Funny I have lived here three years and never had a “hate-China” phase. Am I abnormal?

      • Boris

        Are you a Buddhist?

        • http://thecapitalinthenorth.blogspot.com jixiang

          No I have no religious belief actually.

  • fenqing

    laowais makes video rapping chinese….instant fame.

  • http://www.100Hp.fr david

    too bad the background are only from 2 sceneries of beijing I can’t recognize. They should have sing in front of propaganda and other famous places in beijing.

  • Kning

    Getting pretty tired of all this “Foreigners sing a song in Chinese” , “Foreigner cooks Chinese food”, “Foreigner ties his own shoelaces in China” bullshit.

    Only the naive and ignorant Chinese masses think this is special. It goes to show how far China’s head is STILL stuck up its ass. Opium wars, Japanese massacres, years of decay under communist rule, and the Chinese are STILL suckers for flattery. The only reason this makes the news, is because the average Chinese pops an instant boner when he hears/sees a foreigner ‘admire’ his country by doing it the honour of, for example, learning the language. And while China is busy basking in the glory of the fact that modern, western countries now actually want something that China has, I’ll just sit here and wait until history repeats itself.

    Shit like this would never make the news pretty much anywhere else in the world. If a bunch of Chinese kids started singing English songs in the US, who would give a fuck?

    • anon

      I imagine you’d be saying the same thing seeing the same shit in Japan and Korea, right? You clearly don’t have much experience anywhere else in the world yet are arrogant enough to make assumptions that are patently false had you had such experience. Countries like the US that were built upon multicultural immigration certainly no longer find it novel when an identifiable foreigner sings praises of it. In this regard, China (as well as most of the rest of the world) is pretty different and these things remain novel. And really, just about everywhere you’ll have natives being impressed by a foreigner who bothers to learn their language. It is a obnoxiously ethnocentric notion that doing so as a guest in another person’s country is somehow “doing them an honor”.

      Get your head out of your ass.

      • Kning

        Great speech about assumptions there. I’m sure you noticed you are full of them? Whatever. China is different because of standard Asian xenophobia, yes. But whitey isn’t novel because he is white. They have televisions too, you know. Plus a city like Shanghai is full of go-lucky foreigners. Whitey is novel because their presence in China has shifted from being there to impose something, to being there to learn something. That plays to the Chinese arrogance. If you’d take off your China-goggles you’d see that there is a lot more to it other than just a healthy respect for a foreigner learning the language. That is just one thing. If you’d ever been applauded for using chopsticks properly, you’d understand. Alas, I think your knowledge of China comes mostly from what you want it to be.

        [Note from Fauna: Irony]

    • Raphael

      this so much.

      also, i don’t think that chinese people get titillated at the idea of whitey expressing even the most fleeting interest in their culture because their head is “stuck up their ass”, but because they were on the receiving end of utter pwnage for over a century. it comes from an inferiority complex, not a naive and misplaced sense of pride.

      • Kning

        Go read up on Chinese history, then come back.

        The Chinese have always felt they were the most important country and people on earth. That sense of entitlement has never brought them anything but misery, yet they still cling to it.

        • rudiooo

          “The Chinese have always felt they were the most important country and people on earth”

          how is that possible.. they never looked in the mirror?

        • http://thecapitalinthenorth.blogspot.com jixiang

          Oh and you think other peoples haven’t felt exactly the same way about themselves throughout history? The Japanese, the Europeans or the Muslims? Why don’t you go and read up about world history a second?

          • http://www.foarp.blogspot.com FOARP

            Yeah, and it always worked out great for all concerned . . . .

          • http://thecapitalinthenorth.blogspot.com jixiang

            It never worked out well for the victims of such cultural and/or racial arrogance, such as the millions and millions of natives of the Americas and Oceania who were slaughtered or horribly oppressed by the European settlers who believed their superior religion and culture entitled them to do so, or for the infidels who got in the way of Muslim invaders. As for those who carry such an attitude of superiority, it brings them ill when they cling to it in the face of clearly superior competitors, and refuse to learn from them. The Chinese and many others have been through this phase during colonialism. For Westerners who still believe in their own culture’s superiority, the same phase is going to arrive all too soon.

          • Boris

            Jixiang -Westerners believe in their culture’s superiority? Are you joking? Only developing countries like China believe that the West is superior. What do you think China is replacing its culture with? China is developing an extreme form of capitalism -not sure how good or bad that is just yet.

          • http://www.foarp.blogspot.com FOARP

            “It never worked out well for the victims of such cultural and/or racial arrogance”

            Which was, believe it or not, my point. Nowadays imperialism is a dead letter in my home country, not so in others.

          • http://thecapitalinthenorth.blogspot.com jixiang

            well FOARP your country (which I know is Britain) takes part in all of the US’s imperial adventures.

  • http://www.antoineshapiro.com 安东

    I am the lead singer and person who created this video.

    To be honest, I just can’t understand how much hate many of you guys have to spread. How is this selling out or pandering?

    I was having a good time in Beijing with a few friends. So we decided to write a Chinese rap song, throw in a few 儿s here and there to make it sound more like Beijing and uploaded it on the internet. None of us expected the media attention, which will only last a few days anyway.

    I think it’s extremely sad to see people shitting all over this. Yes, the song is very much pro-China, but keep in mind what we’re praising are local customs, the warmhearted people, and a city that is struggling to assume its role as not only the actual but also artistic and cultural capital of a country governed by a very much culture-manipulating system, that has so much to offer if you look behind the propaganda facade.

    • Boris

      You love China? Great! Loads of people love China here, too. But this is Chinasmack. People are here for crack and sodomy, not for their grandma’s homemade gingerbreadmen…

      • Billman

        Really? All here for crack and sodomy? It’s true, the bad and seedy and sensationalist news is interesting and this is one of the few English language outlets for it, but it is nice to get some more lighthearted stories from time to time. Cheer up brother, enjoy life a little more. If you’re living in China, why are you only interested in the bad news about this place? I admit, I find it a little satisfying to compare some of the dark things that happen to my own homeland, but it’s important to appreciate the fun and the good along with the bad.

      • Mark

        crack万岁, sodomy 万万岁

    • 董明旷

      I’m with Boris. Looks like you guys at least had a good time, and your Chinese is light-years ahead of most foreigners in China. Good for you, I thought it was funny and awesome.

    • eddie9684

      dont worry its just the internet.. haters gonna hate, people hide behind their fucking keyboard always..

      i personally found the song a bit stupid but it s fun

    • McCurry

      First of all, your singing and Chinese were amazing in the video (in Chinese Standard), but I can see where they hate comes from:

      1. People assume you’re fake, because most laowais got a lot of issues with Beijing, and you were over the top PRO-China
      2. You’re waving the Chinese flag that most Chinese won’t even touch, come on dude, you don’t love this country that much. Very sell out-ish/fake
      3. You appear on CCTV, the hated proganda machine, probably not your intention, but they utilized your PRO-China ways for their agenda (everybody loves China!)
      4. You got the special treatment because you’re white, if a Chinese did this with better video and singing, he probably gets called 五毛党

      • Going going gone

        Some men will go to any lengths for pussy

    • Bruce

      An Dong,

      I will resist undue inflection to the best of my abilities. What did you discover “behind the propaganda facade”? Judging by your product: duck, Yanjing beer, and Houhai. Is this really the best you can do to indicate how much Beijing has to offer? Is it not merely superficial bullshit anyone who has spent a day in the city, and perhaps even someone who hasn’t, could refer to? Holding the Lu Zhu or Madoufu up to the camera was just too messy, I suppose. Thing is, there’s nothing local about what you’ve done.

      Likewise, the flag-waving idiocy which plagues the entire video suggests that you are not, in fact, praising local customs. Get a better fucking excuse.

      Glad you had a good time in Beijing. But you shouldn’t be surprised at receiving retribution after choosing to put your shit on the internet. It’s not hate to say that you suck. Now have some pork lung.

      Have a nice day.

      • 李渊

        wow, don’t be so uptight.

        these guys are obviously just having fun and living it up in beijing. they spent some time making a music video instead of sitting around playing x-box or getting smashed. 安东, i support you!

        ok they could have sung about less corny / obvious things. they didn’t. does that really matter?

        maybe you could have a try yourself and make a better song.

        all the stuff that happens with CCTV is after they made it and out of their hands. i personally don’t believe that’s why they made it. and the stuff about being fake… fake what? fake fun? fake hanging out with your friends and singing some goofy stuff in a foreign language?

        i don’t doubt the fact that they like beijing and china. that’s not hard to believe… i’m sure they also really like yanjing beer and lamb skewers.

        me too!

        like it or don’t like it, i say just don’t take it too seriously… no need to be so harsh to the guys.

        anyway, i got the tune stuck in my head.

        • McCurry

          people are hating because of they just end up being ‘Government Proganda Tools’, which probably aren’t their intention.

          but the flag waving was pretty excessive in my oponion

          • anon

            People hating China also end up being government propaganda tools, used as examples of foreign hostility to bolster nationalist indignation and unity. What now?

            The haters here are more or less reacting to their own prejudices by hating on a group of kids who had the fairly innocuous idea of making a decent amateur music video celebrating the good times and feelings they have towards a fucking city. In the realm of rap songs, that’s pretty fucking standard fare. All they need are some booty-shaking hoes and some sort of hand sign for Beijing.

          • Bruce

            And wearing a vest without an undershirt of some sort? Just what level of excess does that reach?

            “ok they could have sung about less corny / obvious things. they didn’t. does that really matter?”

            It does.

            “maybe you could have a try yourself and make a better song.”

            (looks up while loading a giant leather phallus on a cart)…eh? That’s not a bad idea, but China’s proper genre is comedy, not lyric.

    • http://www.qq.com/1325279774 Kedafu

      Can I get an MP3 version of your niubi song?

      want to upload it on QQ music player

    • anon

      Ignore the haters, Antoine. Some of the regular commenters here are just douchebags who have little to contribute other than tired old cliches and general nut-clutching insecurity. I’m sure you anticipated people who will disagree or deride you for what you’ve made and put forth into public view, just don’t let them get to you. Haters are always disproportionately loud.

      • B-real

        Says the pander hugger to the next. These guys have way more videos that profess their fond love of China. To Antoine, go home and shoot a fun video of your home, put bitches while you at it cuz this video was borderline gay, and it promotes homosexuality, alcoholism and an unhealthy life style that CCTV was to blind to see.

        FYI Houhai is surrounded by paid pretty women to get you to spend money at and inflated foreigners prices. Tell 1 of your Chinese friends to walk in and order from the Chinese Menu, bet you the beer is far more Cheaper than what you pay. Continue to panda hug and get ripped off by the country you have adopted and unconditionally loved ever since your discovered that you can get unsolicited attention.

        • Breaking News!

          Homophobic man bitter from failed marriage attempts to offer younger generation information based on insights built from years of personal experience, has difficulty with spelling and capitalization.

          • B-real

            Oooh I have a follower Im flattered. Dude im comfortable with my sexuality get this in the air right now, homophobia is the last of my problems with china. My personal experience is only a chip of what the rest of the world can attest to. My bitterness strings from 30 years before I even thought of coming to China. If you were a true follower of mine, you would know im black, I was once homeless, I served, I studied, I failed, I came to china with a up and coming company, Gov + racism causing that to slowly fail, got married that failed and just 2 years back I was told I only have 5 more years to go before my heart probably needs to be replaced. Im way past bitter my friend.

            You gotta do better to offend me and defend the acts of panda huggers. They are a disgrace to their culture and making a mockery of mine.

          • Boris

            B-Real -you have two followers! I can’t always say I know what you’re talking about, but I like your posts and am glad you’re here.

          • Breaking News!

            Homophobic man simultaneously reads too little and too much into other comments, attempts sympathy ploy, desires to spend the alleged remainder of his bitter life in bitterness, quick to assume detractors embrace widely adored but endangered species.

          • Justin

            Wow, 5 years until you die B-real? Are you on ChinaSmack looking for people to go to your funeral?

      • sudeson

        Ignore anon, He is just a mother fucker.

    • Cool Matt

      Wait. Loving the city/country is BEHIND the propaganda facade? I thought that WAS the propaganda facade.

      I know what you mean by “loving Beijing.” The people, the culture…fair enough. Problem is it can get tricky when those “culture manipulators” aka an oppressive government makes itself synonymous with everything China and involves itself with practically every aspect of Chinese life.

      Even though you try to separate yourself from that aspect of Beijing, the fact of the matter is, it’s very difficult to because that is a huge part of Beijing too. That leads people to wonder how you can love such a place so much that you can sing about it knowing all the shit (abuse and so on) that goes on here.

      • Cool Matt

        Nevermind. Just read your comment wayyyyy below. Good job!

    • sudeson

      安东 kid, Good Job. I know some white dudes used to have English corner to get chink girls, But now it seems like singing a song. White dudes are trying all possible ways to get laid.

      • sudeson

        you guys look fugly, But don’t worry chink girls will stretch their legs to anything that is white.

        • Hoboken

          You sound like a nigger.

      • Boris

        Sudeson -that was me! Didn’t get me laid, though. Got any better ideas? I can’t sing or dance, so a rap video is out of the question.

    • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

      Son, having encountered a bit of internet fame myself, please allow me to give you a few words of advice:

      1) When you go on your big international tour, be sure that the flag you are waving matches the country in which you are actually in. When in doubt, look around and see if the flag you are holding matches the sea of miniture flags that your audience is holding.

      2) Absolutely under no circumstances you must not give this responsibility of sorting out of the correct “flag-to-patriotism” stirring to Tubbs in the back.

      3) Don’t wear clothes with pockets or else you may inadvertinately find your self-expression be muffled somewhat should your Millenium Falcon hands require a cave in an asteroid for emergency docking, eg the end of a sentence before the start of the next chorus… how does it go again? What what fresh?

      4) Your endorsement of Yanjing as the “best” will cause disharmony amongst the common who are disorganized in their loyalty to their refreshing beverage of choice. Be sure next time to take the endorsement money but also add a quick “and the purchase of other Chinese brands may cause the fulfilment of happiness fortune as well”. (quick hint: Qingdao is the Tommy Hillfinger to your Yanjing’s GAP, playa)

      5) Quit school, it’s holding you back. You already have a degree in “I love China!” and “All the pretty ladies in the house say YEAH!” so you’re all set.

      • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

        I only wish you the best of success, so therefore I am offering a few suggesstions for songs to be included on your next rap album:

        “Lei Feng Says What What, You Say What What”
        “Imperialists Ain’t Shit”
        “Drop it Like it is Harmoniously and Universally Luke-warm”
        “Fun tha Police”
        “Fight the Power (of Foreign Capitalist Dogs)”
        “Nuttin But a G(overnmentally-Approved) Thang”
        “Mama Said to Knock You Out, and Mama Mentioned You Specifically by Name, Japan”
        “Parents Just Don’t Understand (I’m being as filial as I can!)”
        “Bust A Move (An Ode to Ding Houses)”
        “Lose Yourself (Ballad of the Lonely Laowai in China)”

        and,
        “The Message (ie the standard of living is steadily increasing for everybody…So push me, for I am not at all close to the eeeeedge)”

    • http://www.thebeijinger.com Victoria

      Hi, this is Victoria from the Beijinger Marketing. I’d like to invite you and your band to come to our 10th Anniversary Party.

      Let me know if you r free on that day.

      victoriayang@truerun.com

  • Dongdong

    Obviously a publicity stunt for Yanjing beer.

  • deputamadre

    Haters gonna hate

  • B-real

    As a black man I hope white people and any other future attempts from other cultures keep rapping so that it can be deemed not cool, then we can rid of the world of this trendy form of entertainment. I could care less about the message for I know this is a simple ploy for these other wise loser guys to get some chinese pussy from the dumbest but curious of the bunch. Im pretty sure if they went to mexico or even India or whatever and did this very same thing they would get no attention. This is not attention worthy for even a smidgen of praise.

    They would be put linked with this guy as a related video http://youtu.be/fbGkxcY7YFU

    • anon

      You sure about that?

      http://youtu.be/c8-CQeZBXu4
      http://youtu.be/rwjMT-OughQ
      http://youtu.be/CELW8KKc4ng

      There are tons of videos about foreigners singing in a non-native language all over YouTube. There are tons of native speakers in the comments giving them plenty of attention nd smidgens of praise.

      • anon

        A few more, comment won’t let me post too many links:

        http://youtu.be/0pIVj_5lkiA
        http://youtu.be/f4N1U242r7s

        • B-real

          I could care less if there were a bunch of porn stars posting good comments, doesn’t FUANA speak good english? She could be mistaken for a native english speaker too.

          • Breaking News!

            Man struggling with failed marriage and ignorant assumptions is proven wrong, makes unrelated retort, struggles with typing people’s names.

          • B-real

            Breaking News has nothing better to write so he make useless observations typos and grammatical errors of other post that he or she more than likely does not agree with. Masking his or her insecurity of posting real intricate personal thoughts.

          • PeterScriabin

            Hey, B-real, don’t worry about this piece of shit! Used to be an ID here “Box”, posted in this same way, I’d bet this stuff is just Box with a new email address, since Fauna didn’t append one of her just one ID, please comments.

            Just my $.02 – I think it’s better if everyone, without exception, ignores this kind of loser. Never, ever, feed them – they just don’t count! Make it like they never even posted.

          • Breaking News!

            Man provoked responds, makes useless observations about allegedly useless observations, defends own insecurity as “real intricate personal thoughts” without offering same leniency to others.

          • Breaking News!

            Man renown for engaging in long-winded arguments with other commenters feels threatened, identifies with provoked man, nervously fears dollop of excrement may be subject of harbored resentment, urges unity in response, is laughed at.

          • B-real

            You know I’ll have to admit the shit is kind of funny. Breaking News post on.

          • Breaking Wind! (aka PeterScriabin)

            Long-time spook debuts bizarre, yet tedious, commentary style using faked new ID!
            Stream of insults belittling long-time inmates cleverly passed off as low-quality attempt to précis existing discussions!!
            MO widely thought to be easily replicated and of little or no informational or entertainment value!!!
            Possible economic benefit anticipated as many now save money on sleeping pills simply by reading spook posts on Chinasmack!!!!

            [Note from Fauna: Please do not use multiple IDs. I already check, Breaking News is not Box.]

          • Frank

            On the contrary, I’d say Breaking News! is really quite entertaining for anyone who is familiar with the repeat commenters here. Plus, don’t you think your attempt to fight fire with fire falls flat when your own comments can be described as tedious and filled with streams of belittling insults? Just look at your last spat with Chad. You’re really not one to talk.

          • PeterScriabin

            Frank – thanks. I agree with you 100%. 很抱歉不再打扰你们了.

    • Kyle

      “As a black man I hope white people and any other future attempts from other cultures keep rapping so that it can be deemed not cool”

      One of the best rappers in the world is Eminem. He ain’t black. Why you gotta have hate? Rap is not black music. It’s music you racist SB.

      • B-real

        You totally missed my point and then validated it. Yes Eminem mastered art form socially designated and dominated by blacks. I’m an avid hater of hip hop and everything that it represent in today’s present form. Early Eminem had his time as gimmick, and he is still a highly respected artist in the genre as it stands today. But you can’t call rap music. I don’t consider it music, never did when I liked it and never will. But they have to categorize it as such. Rappers are not musicians in a traditional manner and most never will be. Again I admired what “Marshal Mathers” brought to the table of hip hop but he and few other greats set new standard that today’s form of hip hop is retarded regressed back to the 90s and further puts a negative stigma to the African American community that my family and many others fought so long and hard to disseminate.

        My point was not only do blacks think its cool to be rapper but now the whole world has embraced and bastardized the art form. These people in the video above and the other “wanna bees” all over the world need to pick up a real skill and have fun with that because on this side of the keyboard and screen we are all cringing in disappointment. At least Weird Al is funny with his all out attempt mock it (some what funny).

        To complete my so called racist rant in the voice of uncle Ruckus from Boondocks “yawl can keep yo chubby goofy looking white boys dancin like baboons and jungle bunnies, speaking dat ching chang wang bullshit, what eva ya selling I aint buyin it cuz it stank and wreaks of that cheap imitation coon music ya wanna be niggas!!!”

    • mastersausage

      People in Mexico speak *Spanish*, people in India speak *English*. It’s not their native language to begin with.

  • chengdude

    Aside from the mild shock of a German asserting “Yanjing beer is really good” and the always annoying sight of painfully white dudes flashing pseudo gang signs, I have no issues. All in good fun. True, as others have said, probably should’ve left out all the flag-waving stuff…that’s just asking for it from the peanut gallery. And yeah, as others have also said, props on the languages skills.

  • Alex

    The fact of the matter is: Chinese worship us white people.. i am white and ever since coming to this country i have been treated like a king.. by all these cheap chinese girls who all they look on is the colour of my skin.. yesterday i was even in sanlitun and 90% of the couples i see were white guys with chinese girls running behind them.. even saw this big fat guy with a chinese girl half his size plus skinnier holding his hands.. now when chinese see white they go crazy so thats why a video like this will always draw attention.. because its a bunch of white guys, if it was any other they wont get notice.. honestly my advice to all you chinese girls is take your mind out of the gutter and start to look more on the color of a guys skin… Why i talk like this because i have many friends from different cultures and we all walk and hang out together and my experience here for the past 2 yrs.. is just plain and simple easy going.. if i decide to go to the club even on a sunday night i can pick up a pretty chinese girl all because i am white .. your minds are so dulll

    • http://www.a@a.com The other guy

      I know what you mean.
      Being a white male in China is like eating at a buffet without a line. The only question being how often you choose to tap into this endless well of debauchery. The women here are like a boundless field of crops just ready to be harvested. All ripe and juicy – and sometimes even some that AREN’T ripe.
      Amirite? ;)

      Here in China I have the equivalent of a 6 figure salary back at home and have no college degree. I spend my time at work cruising the internet posting on online forums and when it’s time to call it a day, I roll home in my benz or my jag , depending on which one I feel like riding in.
      When I go to clubs I can go home with any girl I want – even if their boyfriend is around. That is if I didn’t bring along one of my 3 girlfriends who routinely sit at home all day waiting for me to call them. I openly flaunt my infidelities, but it makes no difference since they think I’m the best that they can do.
      When I go out to eat at a restaurant I call a waitress over to my table and she’ll come serve me pronto, even if she’s in the middle of taking someone else’s order. If she’s lucky I’ll tip her out back by letting her suck my wang.

      When I walk the streets, I never have to move out of anyone’s way. In fact, you’ll routinely see a line of people behind me hoping I’ll pave a way for them. I can talk to people however I want to here and they hang their heads down and take it like a foal without a mother.
      I’m treated like a god here.

      This is fact because I said it on the internet. It’s true until you can prove me wrong.

      • Alex

        chinese girls are dumb to us white men lol.. i feel so much as a king here sometime.. its too easy to get these girls honestly.. these days i just try to educate them some more because honestly they are flirting with stupidity…

        • scarlet (aka donscarletti)

          That guy was being sarcastic, which is regretable because the people he was ripping on don’t understand it.

          White guys just are something that appeals to a minority of Chinese girls. It’s a big enough minority so if you are looking, you can have something to take home a few times a week but generally, if you see one you like it is quite rare that she digs you, which is what you want to be doing if you are a stud. White guys are like giggalos, just a pawn as part of someone else’s sexual fetish, just waiting for another client to call them.

        • Jones

          Where are you from, Alex?

        • Ethan JRT

          The post you’re responding to clearly soared right over your head.

      • Chad

        ROFL. Brilliant post, other guy.

  • rudiooo

    raising the chinese flag by a foreigner: a villainous act done by a f*cking traitor!

    an intelligent, well-informed person would never do that. this guy being a foreigner and thus having the privilege to an untainted perspective i cannot conclude other than 100% brainless.

    BTW they act like clowns! how old are these wankers!?.. sigh

  • http://www.antoineshapiro.com 安东

    Thanks to everyone who understands how this was just a casual, fun thing and laughs the cheesiness off. The whole point was to be cheesy, name clichee things and clearly exaggerate by waving the flag. I don’t even love my own country enough to wave around a flag. Doing so with the Chinese flag obviously doesn’t mean I support everything this government does.

    We shot this quirky over the top video to make our totally China-unrelated friends back home smile, not to go fame-scouting on CCTV. As a Chinese Studies major I am very well aware that there are more local things than Roast Duck and Gongti.

    Bruce and friends, I find it a shame to see pseudo-wise know-it-alls like you making the lives of people who merely want to have some fun hell.

    • donscarletti

      Yeah, we know that, it’s just a casual fun thing, just like your Chinese Studies major.

      Anyway, just like Shoushou, Yan Fengjiao, Gong Rumin, Gillian Chung etc., if you don’t want the attention, don’t tape it.

      很傻很天真

      • ImmortalTechnique

        “Yeah, we know that, it’s just a casual fun thing, just like your Chinese Studies major.”

        C-C-COMBO BREAKER

      • B-real

        Bam!!! some one said and it was goooood.

      • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

        +1.
        ..the rest of this sentence is just to pad it out since my brevity is too short.

    • rudiooo

      i forgive you…………. NOT!!

      hahahahhaha

  • phranky

    Wow! I ain’t seeing a lot of racist remarks here! Last time i checked a black dude did a song and all hell was let loose! Just goes to show how easy you guys (chinks) will lick a white man’s butt-hole for a penny!!

    • Chad

      Most Chinasmack posters aren’t even Chinese lol

  • Lewis

    That was totally groovy and the vast majority of people foreign and domestic, who posted responses are total shitheads!

    I 非常 like! Fuck you!

    • Boris

      Vile! Bring back Spiderman! Bring back 5-Stripe! Bring back the gays…

      • Lewis

        dude, srsly wtf?

  • http://www.a@a.com The other guy

    If you’re a white guy and you can rap (no matter how shitty), you’re an instant sex symbol, regardless of how big of a loser you are.
    True story.

    These guys will be getting many a chinese va-jay-jay soon, if not already.
    The only thing missing from their arsenal now, is a foreign food stand. Then Chinese girls will literally be stripping naked on the streets and throwing their pussies in these guy’s faces.

    • Billy

      “The only thing missing from their arsenal now, is a foreign food stand.”

      Hahahahaha!!

  • Of Canada

    decent. . . but here is another “rap” make by some french guys about “Peking” that is so much better, smarter, cooler and musically superior and entertaining!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08xeC-heMMU

    This is the video really brought back my memories of 2 years living in Beijing. (the intro is a bit weird, hang on)

    • Super_Ball

      Your video is in French, i.e. the singers native language.

      The posted video is in Mandarin. Can’t really compare.

      You just got Ball’d, by Super!

      • Foreign Devil

        Well if you watch the whole thing you will see the singer conversing fluently with the guy selling him some pants haggling over the price. So obviously he can speak fluently. ALso they have another funny video about “Jidan Mifan” But this one is best

  • Super_Ball

    Wow guys, so much jealousy here. What, you don’t like the attention a couple guys get making a video? Go make your own then, sheesh.

    Jealous they can rap in chinese? Then go study some. Stop posting the trollish hate filled comments at least… makes you look pretty lame.

    • sudeson

      I just hate white scums, No matter from wherever they are.

  • Super_Ball

    The Super Ball is back and he just viewed the video… To be honest I was expecting this to be VERY shitty reading some of those comments… Come on it isn’t bad. My prognosis is 一饱耳福. I don’t have any damn musical talent, I bet matching Chinese lyrics with it is a bit of a higher step esp for a “rap” .

    No wonder chicks be rollin out with their Mao Zedong’s (dat is cash for you squares that don’t know the lingo) they prob don’t wanna wear any panties after watching this either.

    Only thing this group needs is Super Ball, if these guys have fame then when they get me they’ll be like Super Fame!

  • Capt. WED

    I don’t understand why there is so much hate for some dudes who made a youtube video.

  • Shanghai Slim

    What struck me most about this video was the awesome power of African American culture, as witnessed by the sight of white guys in Beijing rapping in Chinese. How many other cultures can match that kind of global influence?

    As for the video, I thought it was clearly it was meant all in good fun. Nothing wrong with guests saluting their hosts in a friendly way. There is lots to love about China, as these guys have discovered.

    加油, white rapping guys in Beijing!

  • http://unblockfacebookinchina.info/vpn-in-china Rod

    What a bunch of douchebags. It might be cool if I couldn’t see this guys fat jiggling around. Props for making the vid, but I can’t say I was entertained

    at all

  • Alexander

    Wow………..first we had cultureless white people in the year 2000 trying to copy black people’s culture, now we see their are cultureless white people trying to copy the Chinese culture…….. Add this to the Chinese youth that try and copy Japanese and South Korean culture………and wow……. what an messed-up place we have created.

  • En

    Stop your whining. If you don’t like the over-the-top “we love China” message, watch one of their other silly videos.

    http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjI5OTYxNTIw.html

    • B-real

      Oh fuck me running side ways. Funny thing is the asian make them look even worse for they are better dancers than mighty whitey.

  • Katie K

    莫须有的叉叉 has it right. A-dorable.

    • sudeson

      Well, It’s true that chinese worship anything thats white. I think it’s waste of time to debate on this. Having coitus with something that’s white is considered a honor in china.

      • Boris

        Personally it happens so infrequently that I consider having coitus with ANYTHING an honour!

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  • http://www.vingsstuff.co.uk Expat in China

    Haha! Top marks for making the vid.

  • TIM

    What a bunch of pathetic k#unts

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  • Dan Danger

    Damn, people here whining about how the Chinese flag while in China you see the America flag all over the place in some disrespectful manner and no one is crying about it. Grow up. These guys come for a country where they won’t go to prison for using their own countries flag in a protest, unlike China. I think it is in good spirit and should be seen as a nice gesture, unless you’re a nationalistic commie nazi.

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  • Kou

    Yes of course some morons after just learning few chinese words then their armpit have fire and tell the whole world that they speak chinese..

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