Looking back at 2010 in 2020, everything seems to be quite far away. Smart phones have not been popularized to the extent that one person has one, and the "non-mainstream" culture on the Internet is still gaining momentum. The trend of young people is to play with Martian text, and use pauses to replace all punctuation marks when typing.
In the Chinese music circle in 2010, rap is still "non-mainstream" music, but many people have already emerged on the Internet: the most influential online music group feels chaotic, and the kindergarten killer who has returned from transformation and is no longer violent , MC Guangguang, who is very popular in the circle, and Naggy with amazing depth of thought... They are scattered in different cities, but through the Internet, they continue to promote their own power for Chinese rap.
But the rap musicians mentioned above all released a special work in the autumn of this year, in memory of a friend named K-Bo. At the same time, the social news sections of many mainstream media reported a vicious homicide in Shantou City, Guangdong Province. The deceased was named Cui Feifei, who was the real name of the K-BO who was active in the Chinese HipHop circle.
Ten years in the past, the feeling of chaos disbanded, the kindergarten killer once became a "new year singer", this year he started to become productive again, Naggy formed Boogie Hall, MC Guangguang founded Free-out. As the kindergarten killer said today in 2017, "...we have changed more or less, and your appearance is still staying in the autumn of that year."
Ten years are too long, enough for K-BO The sound and smile, life story, and even the truth of her murder are all trapped in the fog of history. Today, the day of her tenth anniversary, let us clear the fog and get to know this "rap queen" again. would like to take this article as the best memory of her.
On January 1, 1982, Cui Feifei was born in Chengdu, Sichuan. It seems that there is a certain number in the dark. After more than 30 years, CDC has become one of the representative cities of HipHop in China.
Cui Feifei, as a child, showed her outstanding talent in singing. In 1993, when she was only 11 years old, she won the second prize of the Provincial Hope Cup Karaoke Contest in one fell swoop. When she grew up, she did not hesitate to turn her passion into a major, and went to the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in 2000.
It is said that Cui Feifei has a quarter of Japanese descent, which is related to her biological mother. It is difficult to verify Cui Feifei’s early experience, but it can be known that her father was divorced, which means that she came from a reorganized family.
Cui Feifei in high school may have experienced going abroad because there are records showing that she "returned from Canada in 1998". After returning to China, she began to formally contact HipHop culture and tried R&B music creation, which also began her long-term activity in the domestic HipHop circle.
In 2000, Cui Feifei, who was only 18 years old, had already received various invitations and began to shuttle to the HipHop Party in major cities in China as a guest performer. In that year, the recognized pioneer of HipHop in mainland China, the Hidden Band, was just formed.
Judging from Cui Feifei’s contact time and understanding of rap culture, it is perfectly reasonable to call her "Chinese Rap OG", and considering her gender, it is even more commendable.
At the same time, Cui Feifei's performance in school is also excellent. In 2003, she won the Top Ten Newcomer Award in the Sichuan Newcomer Promotion Competition and the Top Ten Excellence Award in the National Newcomer Promotion Competition.
The term “promote newcomers” may seem strange in today’s eyes, but its full name is “National Selection of New Artists”. It was founded in 1994 by the late leader of the Central Leading Group on Major Historical Subjects and the former deputy of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television. Minister Comrade Ding Qiao personally advocated the activities.The game is full of gold, which also reflects Cui Feifei's excellence inside and outside the school.
In 2004, Cui Feifei officially graduated from the Vocal Music Department of Sichuan Conservatory of Music. In the following two years, he came to Sichuan Vocational Art College as a vocal teacher. At the same time, she did not give up her love for HipHop. While serving as a lecturer, she also served as the producer of Mingying Records and participated in the TOM National Tour Chengdu Station. These experiences have allowed her to accumulate valuable stage experience.
In 2005, Cui Feifei became the agent and planner of Changsha Yirentang Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. It was also this year that the name K-Bo officially appeared among the ranks of online musicians.
K-Bo is the abbreviation of "King Bow". It is said that Cui Feifei marked the author as "King" when uploading works in the early days, but fans often refer to her as "King Bao" because of her sweet voice. This nickname became "King Bow" and then reduced to "K-Bo". Fans also gave her the nickname "BO sister".
, the rapidly emerging "newcomer", has shown his beautiful timbre through cooperation with Guangguang and others, and has attracted the attention of a large number of fans, even fans such as "K-Bo Chinese Network" and "K-Bo Fan Group" The gathering place is also organized in a manner. It is not difficult to see from the photos below that K-Bo and Guangguang have a very good relationship. Between K-Bo and Guangguang is Mai, who was also called Young Mai at that time.
2006 was a special year for K-Bo. This year she released a large number of original songs, such as "Break Up Anniversary", "Lonely Summer's Cha Cha", etc., and she also served as China Environmental Protection Foundation green ambassador. The original songs of
K-Bo were very popular after being uploaded to the Internet, and were even pirated by well-known domestic record companies several times. Several copyright cases also attracted widespread attention at the time. The occurrence of these incidents also allowed K-Bo to raise the awareness of copyright, and then Taiwanese artist Rainie Yang also privately purchased many of her original songs. During
, K-Bo accepted countless interviews and reports from the media, but she did not indulge in the environment surrounded by flashing lights, because she knew very well that what she loved was the HipHop culture. In 2006, K-Bo also took a part-time job as a planner and editor in Chengdu Xinyifang Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., which made her identity position clearer: the promoter of HipHop culture.
In 2007, K-Bo, who has been on the road of music more and more smoothly, served as a judge in the final of the Sprite National Campus Singer Competition in Chengdu, which reflects that her music has already had considerable influence in the Chengdu area and has been recognized by the mainstream. . In the field of HipHop, which she has deeply cultivated, the name K-Bo has also been widely recognized. How many familiar names are there in the picture below?
Dai Baojing, Naggy, Big Dog, Joe of Uranus ( 徐真真), Break D of No Fear, Evil Boy EB, MC Guangguang, Fat B of the speaker, M80 of spray, Kindergarten Killer (Kindergarten Killer) , Chami Davi...
These Chinese rap OGs who were active from 2005 to 2010 have cooperated with K-Bo, some of them more than once. It is self-evident that K-Bo, who has obtained so many feature opportunities, has a high status and good popularity in the Chinese rap circle.
If you think these names are too old, then I will change a group of names you may be more familiar with: Blow, Young Mai, Sleepy Cat, Ansr J, Big Zoo (the predecessor of the rap club)... Have you ever thought of it, These people who are now becoming the backbone of Chinese rap,Have you cooperated with K-Bo and been influenced by K-Bo? Although
already has a lofty status in the Chinese rap circle, K-Bo has never regarded himself as a rapper. In the show "Bawang Kindergarten" produced by the kindergarten killer, K-Bo mentioned this point and said that he would not diss like a kindergarten killer and fight back against her hater.
Compared with some people who insist on "touching porcelain" to play rap, K-Bo has a very clear understanding of himself. Her biggest advantage lies in her vocal conditions. As an R&B singer, she is very suitable to "sing hook" to the rapper, and her own songs are not good at rap.
We can also learn that this year K-Bo took the lead in the establishment of the women’s original music group "Grid A Class", although the more well-known members are the “rock, paper, scissors”, and the group has not found any other information. , But we can also see that K-BO’s appeal and influence among online musicians is already top-notch.
In 2008, K-Bo served as the news column editor of SMG International Media in Sichuan. In the same year, the influential Hiphop.cn also interviewed K-Bo. The following year, K-Bo became one of them, working part-time as a text editor for Hiphop.cn, responsible for the work in the Sichuan area.
In 2009, K-Bo also "returned to his hometown" and became a part-time lecturer of an elective course "HipHop hip-hop culture" at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, his alma mater. For the promotion of HipHop culture, K-Bo has never fallen behind.
is also the same year. At the first World Chinese Hip Hop Culture Awards Ceremony, K-Bo won the "Most Surprising Female Voice" award, and the winner of the "Most Surprising Male Voice" was named Yao Lichong, who is also a long-term cooperation of K-Bo partner. He also has a stage name that we are all familiar with, Young Mai.
At the end of this year, K-Bo also opened its own online store with its keen sense of trend over the years.
2009 K-Bo does not seem to have any troubles, she is already the "big sister" in the Chinese rap circle, the mainstream recognition of her, the rap circle awards are open to her as an R&B singer, and even she started to run her own shop .
Except that life is not so rich and HipHop culture is not so popular, everything looks so beautiful. Moreover, the "temporarily not so good" of these two things may not have left her with enough goals to strive for and provided her with the meaning of living a good life.
So, she ushered in the last year of her short life, 2010. At the beginning of the year, K-Bo released an amazing news: he will start his own transformation at the end of the year and become an official DJ.
Since his early performances, K-BO likes to "pretend to be a DJ", constantly scratching and singing. After making certain achievements in singing, she naturally began to pursue this "initial dream". It can be seen that fans are not only not disappointed in her transformation, but have high hopes.
This year, K-Bo created the popular Douban station at that time. In the introduction, K-Bo also specifically mentioned that she went to Shanghai to learn DJ skills, and she can see that she is earnestly and down-to-earth to realize her dream. But it was in this introduction that the name that would make everyone grit their teeth in the future appeared: Black Snake.
Black Snake BigSnake, once a member of Shantou's famous rap group "One Finger Group", was also a small player at the timeFamous rapper.
At a certain point in 2010, he and K-Bo established a good relationship on the Internet, especially on Douban, where they had in-depth interaction. The relationship between the two developed to be called siblings and their love for music. Also very agreeable.
So Black Snake invited K-Bo as a guest to participate in his party in Shantou, which is the one mentioned in the poster below.
About the party and the whole trip to Shantou, K-BO has a very detailed description in his Douban diary. In the article, K-Bo referred to the black snake as "Old Snake" and "Brother Snake", obviously respecting and intimate. But in fact, Black Snake himself did not attend the party that day, but completely handed over to two DJs to control the field.
This kind of unbelievable thing today did happen at the "HipHop site" ten years ago. The instability of Black Snake's own physical and mental health also began to emerge from this time, but K-Bo obviously did not care and expressed his love for Shantou.
As expected, in August, Black Snake directly invited K-Bo to Shantou to work with him. K-Bo also joined the rap group Meanwork "Meaning" founded by Black Snake. In the diary at the time, K-Bo also described the situation in Shantou living together with Black Snake and Black Snake’s girlfriend. From the simple and plain text, it is not difficult to see K-Bo’s humorous and easy-going character and her future Full of expectations.
However, things slowly changed. K-Bo went to Japan during this period and collected many trendy Japanese music records. After K-Bo came back, the two began to quarrel. This kind of quarrel even eventually developed to the point that Black Snake decided not to play HipHop, and K-Bo also wanted to quit her group with Black Snake. The following message board dialogues need to be read from the bottom up.
Although the black snake has already said "K-Bo go to death" that looks terrifying in hindsight, K-Bo, who has always been casual and kind, didn't take it seriously, and even replied, "If you call it, you will go away." Huh?" I kindly wanted to take the black snake to the hospital for examination.
On September 12, 2010, K-Bo returned to the black snake's home from Japan, and the black snake's mental state was very unstable at this time. At about 6 pm, Black Snake's girlfriend told K-BO that she would go out to find someone to help solve the problem of Black Snake's "crazy".
So, only Black Snake and K-Bo are left in the room. Until the evening, K-Bo still chatted with her father and her boyfriend through QQ. She told her boyfriend that Black Snake was going crazy, and her boyfriend asked her to leave and protect herself, but she did not receive a reply from K-Bo. After
, the tragedy happened. K-Bo was killed by the black snake with a pair of unsharp scissors. The details of this case are beyond the limits of cruelty, so we will not present them in the text.
According to the verdict, the biggest reason for the tragedy was that the black snake smoked marijuana. Cannabis itself is prone to hallucinations, which amplifies the contradiction between his creation and K-Bo, his unsatisfactory personal life (expelled by the Soho Bar), which eventually leads to tragedy.
In the end, the court's sentence for Black Snake was "lighter punishment": 15 years in prison, on the grounds that he was not sober during the crime. K-Bo fans were furious at the result. They pointed out that the Black Snake completely killed K-Bo, a completely premeditated killing, not a "trance". After the incident
, the "Yizhi" group to which Black Snake once belonged also immediately issued a statement announcing the "permanent expulsion of Black Snake." The death of
K-Bo shocked most of the Chinese rap circle. As mentioned at the beginning of the article, there are many raps who have been friends with K-BoAll hands sang in memory of her passing. The most influential one is "Fei Fei" by the kindergarten killer.
In this song, the kindergarten killer put aside his violent image for a long time, and sang his condolences to his best friend with his affectionate voice and unpretentious but moving lyrics. Even careful listeners can hear his choking voice. This song also made a huge change in the creation of the kindergarten killer.
At the same time, Guangguang, who had been a good friend for many years, also published "K-BO" as a commemoration, and also publicly remembered K-Bo at an event in 2013.
People are gone, but the wheel of time never stops. Shortly after K-Bo passed away, someone made such a remark:
and this is indeed the case. In the following years, Chinese rap did not develop vigorously, nor did it become mainstream music. It was not until the appearance of "China Has Hip-Hop" in 2017 that HipHop culture realized its blossom everywhere in China.
is also at this time, the kindergarten killer "revisiting the old things" on Weibo, as if to comfort K-Bo in the sky. Over the years, people have been learning about this old case, and they have come to K-Bo's post bar to commemorate and commemorate, go to Black Snake's Douban and Weibo to leave a spit.
Today is the tenth anniversary of K-Bo's death. K-Bo and Xu Song and collaborated on "Break Up Anniversary", and in 2018, Xu Song wrote "Arriving as Scheduled", dedicated to those "friends who have left this world." Some people say that if you read the first word of each sentence of the chorus together, the simple three words will make you feel shocked.
Even if Black Snake was sentenced to death, K-Bo still could not save K-Bo’s life, and K-Bo could have made more contributions to Chinese rap and could have freely pursued her dreams... She was only 27 years old, Should also have a wonderful life.
As a materialist and Marxist, I have never believed in the soul, the afterlife, reincarnation, and heaven. But for K-Bo, I sincerely hope that the soul of her tragic death can rest in peace and have a good home. If there is an afterlife, I hope she still smiles like a flower and still loves HipHop...
