A state-sponsored Chinese rap group with songs accusing the United States of creating COVID-19 and calling for the overthrow of Hong Kong and Taiwan is singing part of the official song for the Beijing Olympics.
The English-language lyrics of China’s “Join Us in Winter” are a marked departure from the usual propaganda that rap group CD Rev has produced over the past six years. The group has said Eminem and Dr. Dre are its inspiration.
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“Welcome to Beijing, so glad we meet again, we fight for one dream, walk this road hand in hand,” CD Rev sings. “Skis are flying, what a backflip, somebody’s dancing on the ice, it’s figure skating.”
Pretty telling that one of the main English songs for Beijing 2022 released by gov’t newsagency Xinhua features a rap group that last year put out a song promoting covid conspiracy theories about the US, and whose leader once described foreign media as “our enemies”. pic.twitter.com/2a1rY8lk8f
— Bill Birtles (@billbirtles) February 3, 2022
But just five months ago, it dropped a song on YouTube, “Open the Door to Fort Detrick,” that accuses America of creating the coronavirus in an Army research lab. An English version of the video opens with an argument between Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci over funding a lab in Wuhan, then includes the lyrics:
“What kind of devil’s deal has been signed?
Fort Detrick
More like a witch’s cauldron
How many plots came out of your labs?
How many dead bodies hanging a tag?
What you hiding?
We want the truth … shed light on tightly controlled secret … open the lab and say hello.”
The song was promoted by Zhao Lijian, China’s spokesman for foreign affairs. In a deleted Aug. 21 tweet, he parrots some of the lyrics, saying, “This rap song speaks our minds.”
A song from 2016 titled “The Force of Red” pointedly tells Hong Kong and Taiwan that “It’s a new era now” and “We are the force of Red. Put your hands up.” It calls Western media “faggots,” saying: “Shut your mouth you media punk a** white trash f***ers. … Tell your Uncle Sam about the thing, the Red King’s coming back.”
Other songs are filled with cursing, racist slurs, and homophobic chants.
The group’s leader is intensely patriotic and has called international Chinese journalists “f***ing worthless” and some major media outlets “our enemies,” according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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When China hosted its last Olympics, a famous cast greeted the world that included singers Sarah Brightman, Placido Domingo, and actor Jackie Chan. None of this star power will be evident as the keynote song is left to CD Rev and a few other Chinese artists.
