China's frustration with its pop idols has finally boiled over in a meme that exposes these worshiped celebrities as a sham.

"Do you freestyle?" (有freestyle吗?) has become an immensely popular phrase on the Chinese Internet lately, and it focuses its ridicule upon young, popular male pop stars, mostly towards singer and actor Kris Wu (吴亦凡).

Wu recently appeared on the reality TV show competition The Rap of China (中国有嘻哈, or "China's Got Hip-Hop") where he served as a judge. During the course of the show, Wu repeatedly grilled all the contestants with this same question. Unfortunately, by using his authority as a pop star to ask such a question, Wu invited fans to scrutinize his legitimacy as a rapper.

Needless to say, the Chinese Internet could no longer hold back its tongue and has since exploded into a torrent of memes that ridicule Wu and other Chinese pop idols that fashion themselves as R&B and hip-hop artists.

Chinese Internet users have taken to mockingly question legitimacy by asking "Do you freestyle?" while others have been inspired to pen simplistic rap lyrics that resemble nursery school rhymes in order to ridicule Wu. Others still are answering this question in increasingly creative ways, ranging from feudal gentlemen crying to this cute duck slamming back the jams.

"Do you freestyle?" has also branched out into other memes. Here are Confucius' famous words about daily introspection, but re-worded to ask three times a day: "Have you freestyled?"

Elsewhere, the meme shows members of China's Foreign Ministry saying: "Please commence with your freestyle."

China may not be leading the world's hip-hop scene any time soon, but like every Spring Festival Gala ever televised, Chinese audiences know bad when they see it. Wu's lack of talent as a rapper and "freestyle" artist has always been apparent in China because it's how he entertains his fans.

Wu's demonstrates a glaring lack of hip-hop authenticity when he tries to freestyle rap about making noodles on a Chinese variety show, something played up for laughs. Not only does he begin repeating himself and stop after just 30 seconds, but Wu raps in a stilted delivery without any flow or groove. Wu's hip-hop skills have been tacitly praised by JJ Lin as: "(He) says all of his 'yeah's' perfectly."

But the backlash against China's hip-hop celebrities has affected other people besides Wu, most notably South Korean-"inspired" stars Lu Han, and China's version of Bam Magera, Huang Zitao, who has been ridiculed for his invention of the phrase "狗带" (literally "dog belt") whose pinyin sounds a lot like the English for "go die."

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Even though these celebrities may convince their fans that they are tip top on hip hop, they are mostly known as being celebrity endorsers. For as stoic as Wu looks on The Rap of China with his steely gaze, he's still better known as a spokesperson for women's cosmetics maker Maybelline.

Sadly, as much as hip-hop continues to get popular in China, it doesn't have any place to grow.

Censorship constraints are particularly heavy on Chinese rap artists, culminating in the banning of 120 rap songs from online distribution in 2015. Rap artists that flourish in China tend to focus their content to be align with national interests, such as CD Rev's attacking of Western media with their song "This is China."

But that doesn't mean that hip-hop doesn't have a positive effect on China. Arriving years behind the rest of the world, the "thug life" meme immortalizes China's rich and elite for being shamelessly rich and elite.

Even if if its pop idols don't know how to freestyle, we can see that China's leading class understand the meaning of the hip-hop term "gangsta."

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