The "My Hip-hop Era" documentary produced by China Youth Daily, Quku Culture, and iQiyi is officially launched. Young people love Hip-hop: more than just blood, more dreams
"In fact, we are all the same, but we have different backgrounds and experiences, so we have created different selves." In front of the camera, dancer Li Qi told his street dance story. It's hard to imagine that this Beijing boy who looks like a big boy has been associated with hip-hop for 33 years.
In the 1980s, hip-hop entered China as an imported culture, and was accepted by young people along with break dance, disco, videotapes, and punch disks. Li Qi was quickly shocked by this form of dance. From self-learning to the establishment of a team, the dream-following journey inspired Li Qi. Now he hopes that he can inject the charm of Chinese culture into HipHop culture and show it to the world, so that cultures can spark a different spark in the collision.
On March 4, the "My Hip-hop Era" documentary jointly produced by China Youth Daily, Quku Culture, and iQiyi was officially launched. Li Bingbing, X-CREW Captain A, Ye Yin, Lin Meng, DJ Li Yulong and others Ten hip-hop lovers told their different youth stories in front of the camera.
The documentary "My Hip-hop Era" shows how hip-hop, as an imported culture, was accepted by young people, and continued to innovate and integrate in the process of collecting talents. While linking internationally, it formed a unique "localization" "style. A total of 6 documentaries, each reviewing the "youth and dreams" of the three generations from the 1980s to the present; telling the "river and lake" story of street dance culture from the niche to the mainstream; analyzing the true peak moments of the "almighty dancer" ; Exploring the life choices of different dancers when dreams hit reality, showing the "noise" behind the vigorous development of hip-hop culture; and looking forward to the infinite possibilities of "all things have not been named" in future hip-hop development.
X-CREW's captain A compared the hip-hop circle to "the rivers and lakes". As long as people in this circle have different rivers and lakes names, "As long as the door is opened, we can communicate often." From "single fighting" to "supporting each other", the spirit of solidarity has injected into the hip-hop group, and has also made hip-hop culture from a niche to the public and gradually integrated into the mainstream.
In the rivers and lakes of hip-hop lovers, everyone is pursuing their own peak moments. For dancer Li Bingbing, winning the title of "China's first hip-hop world champion" in Paris 9 years ago was nothing more than a success at some point in his life. "Championship is only a matter of that moment, but cultural promoters are a matter of life." After the wave, Li Bingbing chose to continue to go up and to go further. Crossing the four generations of dancers, Li Bingbing shouted after 10 and danced in the same stage in the next day.
On the road to the pursuit of dreams, there will always be thorns in reality. Persist or give up? Dance or survive? As a "Popping legend", dancer Li Yulong turned from behind the stage to become a "DJ specializing in playing games". As a KOD national top four Locking player, Wang Xiaosong picked up the camera and became a hip-hop video director. Lin Meng, one of the "Admiral of Five Tigers", once hesitated between sideline and dance, and then returned to the stage again ... Growing up, there will always be choices, but their choice is not to leave, but to change Love the way more firmly.
Hip-hop is like a prism, which reflects the original intention, pursuit and life of hip-hop lovers in different ages. It is the "decoder" we use to observe and summarize the story of youth growth in different times. The documentary not only clearly shows the story of the changes in thought and culture connected by street dance, but also the national tide culture that appears in the film leads us to break through the street dance circle and explore the development of contemporary youth culture.
“Compared to the rigid knowledge combing, the character stories are more deeply rooted in people ’s hearts.” In order to show the cultural life of young people in different eras in multiple dimensions and increase the visibility of the content, the creators of the show creatively use the “story telling” recording method to connect street dance in different eras The development and change of culture not only makes the program content more three-dimensional and vivid, but also shortens the distance between ordinary people and hip-hop lovers, and allows more and more people to understand the hip-hop culture.
After the video went live, many netizens praised the courage of the dancers to persist in their pursuit of dreams, and some netizens left a message saying that these dancers who kept their love of their hearts seriously became what they yearned for in their hearts.
China Youth Daily · Trainee reporter Wen Weina from China Youth Daily Source: China Youth Daily