New kind of music

Hip-hop on the mainland is set for a makeover as the new season of The Rap of China is being recorded. Wang Kaihao reports.

When the first season of The Rap of China, a reality show on hip-hop, was premiered through streaming media platform iQiyi last June, it attracted 3 billion views within three months.

And rapper jargon became buzzwords overnight although hip-hop was once considered as a music genre with limited appeal in China.