We’ve been watching the Asian hip hop landscape change and grow lately, and one of our favorite hip hop and trap groups to come out of this movement is Higher Brothers. The collective of rappers have even been supported by 88Rising and gone on tour internationally with the likes of Rich Brian and Joji. No doubt one of the group’s most catchy songs is Made In China, and that punchy track has now gotten the DJ Snake treatment on an incendiary bass-turnt remix. Go on and get those trap hands up as we lose it to the hard hitting trap and bass banger.
We’ve been eagerly watching the hip hop and trap scene burst wide open in Asia, spearheaded by an invigorating and fascinating movement in China. At the forefront of this activity is Higher Brothers, a collective of artists who mostly rap in Mandarin Chinese, but they toss in plenty of English phrases, too. The group recently toured with fellow groundbreaking Asian artists like Joji and Rich Brian on 88Rising’s Double Happiness Tour, and they’ll be making their way out to SXSW next month, too. Their latest single, Trickery, is one of their grooviest and eclectic songs yet. While other ones were rough swaggering trap jams that evoked Migos and Fetty Wap, this slick hip hop banger exudes some old school West Coast hip hop vibes. It’s like Snoop and Migos, with an iota of MJ tossed in, too. Trickery is more than dance worthy and undeniably contagious. It comes from the crew’s new EP, TYPE3, arriving next week. Higher Brothers obviously has plenty of tricks up their sleeves when it comes to the range of their hip hop sound.
If you follow new music closely like we do here at IHM, then you probably know that there’s a ground breaking hip hop and trap movement in China right now that’s been so monumental that even authorities have been cracking down on it, banning tattoos and hip hop culture from television. One of our favorites at the forefront of this movement is Higher Brothers, and it is truly our belief that some of the best new hip hop is coming out of Asia right now. The group of gifted emcees, who’ve often collaborated with other rising stars from the Asian and Asian-American scene in the past, are absolutely riveting when they’re delivering their hard punching trap rap. Even though I’m thoroughly fluent in Mandarin, you can imagine how hard it is to catch every word in a rapid-fire lyrical flow when it’s delivered with the scathing bite and electrifying barbs of a project that takes after the likes of Migos and other American trap artists. I can’t wait to catch Higher Brothers when I hit Austin for SXSW in March, and I’m loving the High Brothers remixes that are starting to surface. Raise those trap hands and get ready to get down to this fresh remix of Higher Brothers’ wildly infectious Made In China by trap and bass maestro Y2K. It’s wonderfully filthy and gritty, jarring and needling. I’m sure Higher Brothers really appreciates this wicked take on their track, it’s right up their alley. Y2K’s mind jogging remix is a free download, here.
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