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The Hip Hop Culture And Actors With Tattoos Are Banned From Chinese Television

The hip hop culture can’t win for losing with the hits and black eyes the genre has been getting since its inception.  China has taken its disdain for the culture by banning it from television.  In addition the ban will include any and all actors with Tattoos as well.

Now we’ve seen videos originating from China with young people doing their versions of popular hip hop records, dance and the whole kit and caboodle.  Banning the culture is only going to produce a defiant generation of young people who not only follow the culture but will also breed more artist.

If this ban works, we can see other countries trying to implement the same thing.  Welp…it is what it is!!

Read more as reported by Mix Mag:

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China has banned “hip hop culture” and actors with tattoos from appearing on television, reports Time and Chinese news outlet Sina.

The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China (SAPPRFT), China’s top media regulator, has specified it now “requires that programs should not feature actors with tattoos [or depict] hip hop culture, sub-culture (non-mainstream culture) and dispirited culture (decadent culture)”.

Chinese rapper GAI, real Zhou Yan, was recently removed from China’s hit talent show Singer, and clips of his appearances on the show have been removed from the network China Hunan TV’s official YouTube channel, although he still appears in the trailer.

Tecent News also reports another prominent rapper VaVa, real name Mao Yanqi, has been cut from entertainment show Happy Camp, and a contestant on the challenge show Super Brain, which has no relation to hip hop, had a “hip hop style” necklace censored through image blurring.

Following these incidents, more overt rules have now been outlined by SAPPRFT’s publicity department director Gao Changli, these are:

“Absolutely do not use actors whose heart and morality are not aligned with the party and whose morality is not noble.

“Absolutely do not use actors who are tasteless, vulgar and obscene.

“Absolutely do not use actors whose ideological level is low and have no class.

“Absolutely do not use actors with stains, scandals and problematic moral integrity.”

Time reports that the ban has faced backlash on social media, labelling the ban “trashy” and accusing the government of having “childish logic”.

Source: Mix Mag

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