

A nationalistic Chengdu rapper has raised a ruckus online with China’s latest offensively awful summer jam in which he boasts that he wants to make foreigners polish his boots before shooting them with a gun.

In his new single Xie Di (謝帝), who goes by the moniker “Fat Shady” (and even has Eminem’s face inked on his arm), frequently angrily spits out the words”gua laowai” (瓜老外), meaning “stupid foreigners” — using “gua,“ a common insult in the Chengdu dialect and the term “laowai,” an informal way of referring to foreigners which can be a slur depending on the context.



At the beginning of the music video for “Gua Laowai,” which was released last month, Xie appears at first to try to caveat his criticism of foreigners in China with the message: “Foreign friends: Respect. Stupid laowai: Fuck your mothers.”

However, such distinctions are mostly absent in Xie’s song where he accuses foreigners of being losers who couldn’t make it in their own countries and decided to come to China to be English teachers, enticed by the money and beautiful women of the Middle Kingdom.

Xie even offers to help laowai earn some extra renminbi by telling them to polish his car and then his Timberlands.



The music video is typical of its genre with Xie shown hanging out with his blurry-faced crew among a warehouse full of luxury cars and pit bulls, and also walking down crowded city streets at night while making aggressive gestures toward the camera.

Xie then ends his video by taking a bat to the head of a mannequin painted with the characters “gua laowai,” beheading the inanimate object in a single blow.



You can watch the video below with an English translation provided by YouTuber Ryan Abroad:



Or check out the official version of the video if you’re fluent in the Chengdu dialect:





The Beijinger also provides a translation of the lyrics (artfully translating “gua” as “wack”):

Wack laowai, wack laowai, so many wack laowai

Crawl out of here, wack laowai

Friends from abroad come to China

They all know that we got the bills (money)

They all know that we got the sisters (women)

Among foreign friends, there are all kinds

there are those few in it for the money

The tall ones are all models

As long as they can fill their bellies, they are not discriminating

Anyways, there are those women who like to throw themselves

Huh, superiority complex; you so wack

I respect foreign friends

but to wack laowai I say (word) to your mother

Because it’s important, I have to say it three times

Wack laowai, word to your mother, word to your mother

Today, an English teacher, yeah

Tomorrow, a young entrepreneur, year

But the day after that, what will you be?

Do you want to polish your higher peer’s car (refer to oneself)

Here, a red red Grandpa Mao (referring to currency)

Here are 100’s and 100’s

Once you’re done and there’s nothing wrong with it, I’ll give you something else to do

You can polish your higher peer’s Timberland boots

Some really like the kung fu

Some can’t make it in their own countries

Where to go, then?

It’s said that Chinese are very hospitable

Huh, you’re pushovers in your own countries

and yet you expect to be taken seriously in China

Come on over, wack job, come over wack job

Your higher peer is going to teach you how to write in Chinese

Teach you a little something

Teach you how to write “wack job” and then I’ll gift it to you

Teach you a little something

Teach you how to write “wack job” and then I’ll gift it to you

You are just wack, face full of flack

Wack laowai, quickly find a translator, your higher peer is going to curse you mightily

Your higher peer’s name is Xie Di

Every man passes on his genes

That’s why you must be very careful

Go ask your grandmother, turn up your grandfather

To tell you about the Eight-Axis Power (troops sent by Britain, the United States, Germany, France, tsarist Russia, Japan, Italy, and Austria to suppress the anti-imperialist Yihetuan Movement in 1900)

Wack laowai, crazies around me

Wack laowai, beside me a wack woman (who is a foreigner)

They are all wack

Your higher peer wants to fire a gun at you



The song first reached the ears of foreigners living in China last week through a popular post on r/China, and it appears that Redditors there aren’t really feeling it. “Why is he standing around foreigner-made luxury vehicles and wearing western clothes, then? Practice what you preach, chicken wuss,” wrote one. “The most offensive thing here is the quality of the music,” commented another Reddit user, while one more tried to get at the impetus for Xie’s diss track: “Which one of you fucked his xiaosan?”

However, Xie has received more positive feedback on his own Weibo account. “This song is perfect. China really does have a lot of stupid fucking laowai. This is why I don’t have many foreign friends who are black. Most of them are motherfuckers,” one netizen wrote, while others applauded Xie for his distinction between good and bad laowai, apparently tired of the latter group stealing their women, disrespecting their culture and copying their driving habits.



Xie is one of China’s most successful rappers, bursting out of the burgeoning hip hop community in Chengdu thanks to an appearance on a national TV talent show where he rapped about Chinese workers “fed up with the daily drudgery of their jobs.” In a 2015 interview with The World Post, he talked about what was holding China back from developing its own rap scene.

“Chinese audiences can’t accept music with any attitude or individualistic stuff. China used to be a Confucian society, and it was all about being humble, stifling, smothering, suppressing. Then we went through a lot and everyone dressed in exactly the same clothes. Again — stifle, smother, suppress.”

It’s not clear if Xie’s latest single will help China become less “stifled, smothered and suppressed,” but at least it’s a step up from last year’s nationalistic summer Party anthem — “This is China” — a propagandistic song from Chengdu rap group CD-REV that purported to tell the “real truth” about China to foreigners.



Later, it was discovered that CD-REV had stolen footage from a South Korean rapper to make their video.

[h/t r/China]



