China Daily on Obama Win
YESＷＥCAN!!!!!! OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!
Where to go on Election Day in Shanghai, China?
Vlad and Friend Boris on Palin
Chinglish, Engrish? I dunno. Here's a mix from Shanghai and Wuhan.
The Legend of Bruce Lee
Watch Debate Replay in Shanghai
Soulfire in Nanjing!
Keeping Up With The Wangs???
Where I'm going tomorrow night:
Check Out My New Marriage Blog
Great place to get cheap and good sandwiches in Shanghai
China BOTY Soundtrack
More on today's floods
Floods in Shanghai
This hug was a little too long, Yao...
Olympics is done, but I had fun watching!
LEAVE LIU XIANG ALONE!!!
China's Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics
SOULFIRE IS COMING TO SHANGHAI!!! 8-18!!!
For Those That Wonder If I Still Break...
Typhoon In China
Busy weekends this weekend and next weekend...
My Jeju Review
Redstar interview on Interhiphop
Chinese Drama On Trying to Make It With Hip-Hop
50 Moganshan Lu is the bomb
The Greenwich Village has finally come to Shanghai
Oh snap... Liu Xiang, WATCH OUT!
In Jeju, Korea two weeks from today...
Monsoon Season has arrived!!
No more plastic bags!!!
SOULFIRE IS COMING TO CHANGSHA!! 6-16!!!
Need Studio Space for rent in Shanghai? Soulfire's got your back.
YES WE CAN!!!
DJVibe.CN
Chinese Hip-hop Tune dedicated to the Earthquake
Graff in Shanghai
Take a day off, fool! It's Dragon Boat Festival!
HA HA HA: The Movie
I Heart Beca.
Response to Sharon Stone by Chinese Actor
Hiphop.cn's Xi You Ji Volume 2 Mixtape Is Out!!!
Sharon Stone on China Earthquake
The Last Time We're Going to Kowloon Ice House.
Last Stop - Xuzhou
Back to the Roots @ The Shelter - This Friday
The Forbidden Kingdon (Gong Fu Zhi Wang)
Saved after being trapped for over 180 hours... and gave birth!
How to Dress for Mourning...

Soulfire in Nanjing!

SOULFIRE IS COMING TO SHANGHAI!!! 8-18!!!

Watch out, Shanghai... We're coming home!!!

After all this work, research and pulling strings... You can find Soulfire on Shanghai radio everyday on Shanghai's China Business Network (Di Yi Cai Jing) on FM 97.7 starting August 18th. We'll be on at night starting at 9:30PM.

For Those That Wonder If I Still Break...

Here's proof positive....

OK, so a lot of my moves are the same, but I still got it!

This was at the China BOTY 2008 that happened a few weeks ago. If youa re looking for some clips of the performances and battles, scroll though these search results here. You'll be happy to hear that a lot of the perfromances contain quite a few Chinese culturally related themes. Great job, Caster Dance.

Oh yeah.... get the CD.

Busy weekends this weekend and next weekend...

These weeks have been pretty crazy and busy since my lovely time in Jeju with the wifey. But, as they say, the show must go on!

This Saturday, Redstar has a show at Hangzhou's G+ from 10pm-2am. We'll aslo be on FM 99.6 from 2pm-3pm to do a live interview on the air. Be there for that.

Next weekend on the 18th is the China DMC Championship. Find out more here!

The day after on the 19th is China BOTY Final. Find out more info here and don't sleep! (I know I won't!)

Redstar interview on Interhiphop

Another day, another interview, man.

We were fortunate to get the chance to have an interview with interhiphop, a blog dedicated to interviewing new hip-hop artists and groups on the net. And heeeeeeeeeeerrrr's the interview!

By the way, we're called Redstar. Don't get it twisted! ;)

DJVibe.CN

DJVibe now also has...

This!

Props to Jason and Graham for getting this started. Keep it up, and keep the Redstar props comin!!

Hiphop.cn's Xi You Ji Volume 2 Mixtape Is Out!!!

Back to the Roots @ The Shelter - This Friday

Freakin' beautiful flyer, Gary.

China's best non-pretentious party is back. Be there.

Redstar Intro on Hip-Hop.CN

MoJo reppin' Redstar for Hiphop.cn

(The following is a translation/transcript by yours truly.)

Ready? OK.

I'm MoJo from Brooklyn, NY, but now, I'm in Shanghai with Redstar, we are a dope hiphop group. Redstar is revolution. We Are Revolution.

We're going to change the shape of China Hip-Hop by giving it more elements, depth and sophistication. This is us, we represent Shanghai, we represent real hip-hop, international hip-hop, China hip-hop, we got it all.

Check it, we were on NPR, and even they wanted to interview us. Take a look at that! Now we're on HipHop.cn. Shoutouts to Hip-Hop.cn for supporting us. We need that support. We need more people like us, more hardworking hip-hop groups.

This makes me think about a picture we have where we were walking down this street and there's this long road behind us in the picture. That picture represents the long road an mc has, a producer has, a band has, particularly a hip-hop band has long and difficult.

But now we're here for the service of the people. The service of China and the service of the entire world. This is our most important and main goal. Holler... Hiphop.cn 4 liiiife!

(Singing "Who We Be" Chorus with Tangking)(Beatboxing)

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Back to the music... Enjoy this tune called "Xun Zhao" (Searching). It's not done yet, but I think you'll still like it.

This weekend in Shanghai... Which I will miss...

MoJo in Good Magazine

Chillin' with the China peeps

Firstly, I want to apologize about MoJo In China's mysterious disappearance from the web. It's been about a year of MoJo In China and we've grown up A LOT... Which means my website expired. But we're back with more posts.

Speaking of getting posted, internationally, I was recently featured in Good Magazine about Strangers in a Strange Land. Decent name for a post, but I defeinitely don't feel strange here... Wanna see strange? Go to a third (or second if you in eastern or southern China) tier city karaoke or club at around 12am. That's strange.

Good Magazine has done some really good stories lately on China, particulary leading up to the Olympics. I bet all the Tibet related stuff going on in the world is really blowing up their mag. Anyway, thanks for the article and great pics, Ariana! I'm still waiting for my copies!!!

The Expat Directory Warms My Heart

Props!!

Check out what the China Expat Community from The Expat Directory have to say about MoJo In China (And I didn't write this!):

"....Probably the most energetic Expat website I have had the pleasure of reading through. The site is about MoJo and his take on life in China as a hip-hop MC, China academic and whatever else. You won't regret browsing this very interesting, funny and entertaining site! Highly recommended..."

This is the part when I start to tear up... Nah, man!! It's just dust in my eye!!, Alright?!?!, Just dust!... From all the construction and developing a harmonious society! Nah mean? I'm still a man! A sensitive one... but still!!... Hehe

I'll keep jia'ing my you (jia you) for the world to learn more about China, from MoJo's eyes... Xie xie, dajia!

(Note to self... Write book on MoJo In China... make millions... MUAHAHAHAHAH....)

MoJo in Shaoxing

Waterways and canals can be found throughout Shaoxing.

My wife and I are in Shaoxing located in Zhejiang province, for one stop on a nine city tour for sevan weekends through Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces for Chivas 12 y.o. I'm mcing and beatboxing the shows, which is fun. When ever I do these kinds of shows, I get to see bits and pieces of these cities, but it's never long enough...

Anyway, my wife's family is originally from there (Father-in-law's side, grandfather...) and it's been nice to see it... There are a lot of canals and waterways, much like Suzhou, but I find Shaoxing to be more quaint, at least at first glance.

Next up, Yiwu. Looking forward to it!

Faxing in China is really annoying...

And Dated!!

I work... and we all do.. Sometimes, we gotta send things, and sometimes those things need a signature... And one of the best ways to do it (if you don't have a scanner) is via fax... If you don't have one at home, you can go to a center to do that for you...

I've found faxing in China as a chore... and it's tiring and it can be costly.. Hong Kong, although is a part of China, is still included as an international number so even for sending to certain parts of the country.. It's more expensive...

I would like to see a Kinko's in Shanghai who can just take your stuff, send it away, and do it all for one low and great price... "Yi Tiao Long" (One Long Dragon... which is kind of like everything in one place...), that's what we need... I'm tired of sending from business hotels and spending more than I have to!

Note to self... Buy a scanner...

Second note to self... develop a perfect fax machine, bring it to China and rule the world... MUAHAHAHAHA... ummm... I think I'll keep my day job.

Soulfire is looking for hosts/presenters!

Grab the mic and show millions all over China what you got!

We're looking for presenters/hosts at Soulfire. If you speak Mandarin Chinese and you're into this opportunity, please contact ruby.jiang@soulfire.cn. Good luck!

Back on Channel Young Again!

Miami Vice Revisitied?

No, it's for a show called "Kong Jing Zi" on their program "Jin Ri Ying Xiang" on Channel Young. It's on tonight at 9:30 in Shanghai. They make over people in different office and they stopped by the Soulfire office to pay us a visit. Lucky me, I was one of the one's chosen... I guess I'm THAT BAD... *sniff*...

More and more folks are into the makeover thing out here in China, which was definitely big in the states in the 90's with the likes of Ricki Lake (Go Ricki! Go Ricki!!) and Jenny Jones. (Remember, "From Geek to Chic?")

Anyway, I had fun doing it, but I didn't really like the pink jacket.. it was a bit... too... pink... But I'm glad I could have a chance to re-live my dream to become Philip Michael Thomas (or Jamie Foxx for that matter...) in the flesh.

If you can watch Channel Young tonight, please do. I beatbox too. Holler.

Redstar video for Fullbright Scholar Angela Steele and Lila Babb and their project, DONG TING

Enjoy.

Redstar

More on the project.... DONG TING!!!

(BTW... FIVE days till my birthday!)

DJ Kentaro at The Shelter

Happy Spring!

Listen to Redstar

Redstar at The Shelter Saturday before last.

This Friday, DJ Roli Rho is at The Shelter. Warming up are your local hometown heroes: Redstar.

Check out our song above called "Who We Be", which is about: who... we... be... Obvously.

10PM this Friday! Don't sleep!

Will Chinese Hip-Hop ever take itself seriously?

Foreigners singin' Chinese songs...

Below some videos of original Chinese songs and foreigners (aka lao wai) singing new English versions... If anyone can find any more stuff like this, let me know... (Other languages? Whatever, just pass it on...)

Wang Fei (Faye Wong) "Wo Yuan Yi" (I Want)

Not sure of the artist's name... But does it sound familiar? (Ahem... the one with Wang Fei!)

Jacky Cheung (Zhang Xue You) "Wen Bie" (Goodnight Kiss)

Michael Learns To Rock, "Take Me To Your Heart". Hey... This sounds the same as...

Wang Fei and Jacky are huge out here, and "Take Me To You Heart" is played to death in every shopping mall... I think the new "Wo Yuan Yi" will be big out here too... No matter what, it looks like Chinese music is finding it's own ways to spreads it's wings internationally...

I just want to hear more Redstar. Holla!

Back To The Roots. This Saturday. It's March Maddness.

Amazing translation by Chinese reporter from Edison Chan (Chen Guan Xi) press conference

I'll never be able to top this reporter...

Anyway, if you guys haven't heard about the latest news on entertainer Edison Chan (Chen Guan Xi), do a google search cause there's a lot out there about this and people in China talk about it everyday...

Edison speaks English in this one (He's Canadian), so for all the Yankees, Brits and speakers who use the words: the, that and those in their common language, it won't be a problem understanding him...

The part that caught me the most was the translator who is a reporter on this news channel. The simutaneous translator is superior and accurate... Also, I think he was an actor before he became a reporter because he sounds like someone trying to get an Oscar or working on a crtically acclaimed flick. And his speed is on point!

Anyway, that's it from me. I hope things boil over for Edison and all the other folks involved in this matter and they can live normally once again. Maybe an EDC-Redstar Collabo? Who knows... I'm out!

My Trip to Hangzhou for the Zhejiang Media Group Chinese New Year's Party

So I took a trip to Hangzhou (thrid time this month!) for a Chinese New Years Party with the Zhejiang Media Group in Hangzhou (Their base city in Zhejiang). For all those who are already a bit lost about this post, let me help you out.

Zhejiang is a province in China known for it's most famous city and capital, Hangzhou. Hangzhou is best know for Xi Hu a.k.a. The West Lake. It's a great place to visit, especially in the late spring, early fall months and is a very natural city.

Xi Hu a.k.a. West Lake, in the Winter

The Zhejiang Media Group has a bunch of TV stations and radio stations, including the radio station where my program Soulfire is run from which is called Blue Channel, 99.6FM. (Zhejiang Dian Tai Wen Yi Pin Dao, Zhejiang Arts Station - Jazz is art and living a good life is an artform!)

Here's some more pics from my travels so you can take a good look at Hangzhou in it's beauty as well as how to decorate for a Chinese New Year's Gala. (The party was held at Media Hotel, a hotel owned by the Zhejiang Media Group... They even got their own hotel... Gangster...)

At Shanghai South Railway Station... Madd People!

Zara by the West Lake? Is Hangzhou becoming more like Shanghai? Or is China becoming more international? Things that make you go, "Hmmm..."

Red, Red everywhere... I told you Red is the bomb out here! This is the decor for the night's party... At Media Hotel. We be Media'd up!

The Loft

MoJo In China (Daily)

I'm in this issue of China Daily and I don't know why...

But they put me in. Check out the article online here. It's about the things you normally hear on my blog: Redstar, Hip-Hop, Chinese, Future and Current Plans, and last but certainly not least, my family life. Respect.

Peace to Ida on the article and congrats on getting the 1,000 words!

ICS Shanghai

Assembly and My Blueberry Nights - Chinese Directors are hard at work!!

Chinese movie directors are making it happen this year!!!

Here's a new and super intense war movie by Chinese Director/Actor Feng Xiaogang called "Assembly". My wife Zoe and I watched the movie's preview party last night on CCTV 6. There were about 10,000 audience members and tons of Chinese celebs at the party and they were all pretty hyped up about the flick. The movie takes place during the Chinese civil war in the early 20th century and is about a soldier who watched all his army comrades die in a bloody and violent battle. Based on a true story, Assembly is guaranteed to move you. It should be out in the states and around the world, so if you get a chance, watch it. Jerry Bruckheimer, eat your heart out. Here's the trailer:

My Blueberry Nights, starring Norah Jones, is a movie by another critically acclaimed cult movie director, Wang Kar Wai. You might have heard of him from Chongqing Express and 2046. I'll be performing at the My Blueberry Nights Shanghai release party this evening with Redstar and The Lab. Check out this trailer:

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