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Japan: Chinese-Japanese Rapper Nycca

James from Japan Probe introduced a trilingual Rapper Nycca. The post is linked to a youtube video of the singer’s self intro and rap in three languages: Japanese, Cantonese and Putonghua. ...full story at Global Voices

from Global Voices on Thu, Apr 26 2007

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