Hip-Hop is the most popular street dance music. It was born in the street culture of M country in the 1970s and quickly entered the world, becoming a mainstream popular music genre with international influence.

In today's pop music scene, hip-hop and rap are basically integrated and can be regarded as an indivisible pair of brothers.

On Earth, in the 2009 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Jay Chou used a song "Nunchaku" to let people across the country know and understand this new type of music.

After that, rap and hip-hop soon became the main music genres in the Chinese music scene, and were particularly sought after by teenagers.

The situation on Blue Star is similar, just because people and time are changed.

As a representative figure of the new generation of hip-hop singers, Xu Chenyi relies on his own strength and on capital.

At the beginning, he also wrote hip-hop songs. After signing with Penguin Entertainment, there were gold medal lyricists like Fang Wushui, who rarely wrote them himself. When he came to Huafeng Media, with Django, a great man, he didn't have to write them himself.

Although he no longer creates, his favorite singing career and his identity as a hip-hop singer have not changed.

but.

During the two years since Xu Chenyi came to Huafeng Media, he has basically been acting. Even if there are songs, it is a pop song rather than a hip-hop song.

Therefore, his influence and status in the hip-hop circle have been in a decline.

When he saw that the three songs sent by Django were hip-hop songs, his joy was beyond words and he almost jumped up and cheered.

"Calm down, calm down!"

Xu Chenyi took a deep breath, trying to calm down his excitement.

You should know that after Django won ten awards at the Golden Melody Awards, the songs and scripts he wrote were hard to find. It was a rare thing to get a song, let alone a song that he liked, and there were three songs.

His heart beat for a while, gradually calmed down, and focused on the song information.

"In the Name of Father"...

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"Reverse Earth"...

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"General's Order"...

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Xu Chenyi swept it a few times quickly. The lyrics of the three songs are very different. If the melody is used, you cannot feel it from the simplified score for the time being. Fortunately, the WeChat message comes with accompaniment audio.

So he opened the attachment and started listening one by one.

The melody is super nice and the music is very high, which is his first feeling.

Xu Chenyi's evaluation of a song is mainly divided into two aspects, namely "goodness" and "musicality". The former is equal to market nature, and the latter is equal to artistic nature.

The goodness is the conclusion that everyone draws from self-subjective judgment based on different understandings, different preferences, etc., which is a conclusion that does not support certain music theory.

Commenting on the quality of music requires a certain music theory foundation as support. Even if you don’t know how to express and judge the quality of music, you should at least tell which point is better.

To put it simply, good songs are not necessarily musically rich songs, on the contrary, musically rich songs must be good songs.

Xu Chenyi combined the lyrics and melody to savor three songs repeatedly, and the expression on his face ranged from surprise to great shock. The song "In the Name of Father" is so awesome.

Generally speaking, the main rap part of a hip-hop song has no melody, and the things that come out of rap are only rhythmic. The main rap part of this song not only has melody throughout the whole process, but also incorporates polyphonic and bel canto.

Especially the super long prelude of one and a half minutes, first the saxophone, bass, guitar breakdown, and drum sets slowly joining, then enter the main song, pushing it up layer by layer without repeating it, making the whole song sound more textured.

That's for sure. Because this song was premiered simultaneously on more than 50 radio stations in Asia that year, a total of 800 million people listened to it. Therefore, July 16th of each year was also designated as "Jay Chou Day".

"The melody of this song is as exquisite as a magical one. What are the hip-hop songs I sang before?"

Xu Chenyi became excited again and was already lying on the sofa and dancing.

In fact, in this impetuous era, singers have high song production, but many of them cannot be out of the circle and their singing is very limited. It is already very rare for a singer to have a song that can be recognized by everyone. This is also something that many young singers in the Chinese music scene today are eager to achieve.

He has always hoped that there would be a hip-hop song that could think of his name when it mentioned the title of the song. Now it is this song "In the Name of Father".

Of course, the other two songs "Reverse Earth" and "General Order" have their own characteristics and are nice to listen to, but they are still a little worse.

As soon as Xu Chenyi calmed down, he shared the news with Guan Yansi: "The three songs that Mr. Jiang gave me are about to sweep the hip-hop circle."

Guan Yansi was waiting in the airport waiting room. After seeing the news, she typed and replied: "If you get what you want, then sing well and don't let down Mr. Jiang's expectations."

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The next morning.

When Django entered the office, he saw Xu Chenyi inside, and was surprised and asked, "Why are you here?"

Then, I saw him holding his eyes with two pandas and said, "Sing all night?"

Xu Chenyi scratched his scalp and said, "Since I got the song, I have been practicing."

Django sat down on the sofa opposite him and said, "Then let's have a good rest. Just tell me on WeChat if you have something to do, don't have to come to the company specifically."

"Thank you, Mr. Jiang for your concern. Actually, I'm fine. I'm very energetic. I often play games with Lin Yu all night during the holidays." Xu Chenyi smiled and turned to say: "After a night of research, "Reverse Earth" and "General Order" are basically fine, but "In the Name of Father" can't be sung well."

As he said that, he scratched his scalp again and said, "So, I'll come over and ask you for advice."

Django smiled and said, "This song is hard to sing."

Just kidding, "In the Name of Father" is called one of Jay Chou's three most difficult songs to sing, and the other two are "Ninja" and "The Sorrow of War".

Xu Chenyi smiled bitterly and said, "It's not easy to find the rhythm."

That's indeed.

Although the style of "In the Name of Father" is particularly easy to remember and very "high-end", it is difficult to find the corresponding rhythm of those rap lyrics, and the pronunciation is fast and the lyrics are dense.

Another reason for the difficulty of singing is that Jay Chou's songs are quite special. For example, "The Legend of War" has triads, quads and three connected six groups. This concept requires twenty words to be sang in a row in less than three seconds.
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