GAI

About GAI

Chongqing rapper who came up through the southwestern GO$H Music collective rapping in his Sichuanese dialect about pool halls and back-alley life. He won the inaugural season of iQiyi's Rap of China in 2017 and survived the subsequent crackdown on hip-hop on Chinese television by pivoting to historical and patriotic themes. His mix of trap beats, traditional Chinese melodic samples, and dialect flow set the template for the chinoiserie wave that followed.