“…Tyga, H.E.R., Anderson .Paak). But beyond hip-hop's commercial side, many Asian Americans have gone on to make music, teach, and organise around 'woke' hip-hop's themes like decolonisation, feminism, pro-Blackness, and social justice movements with artists like Ruby Ibarra, Magnetic North, Native Guns, Skim, Blue Scholars, and Himalayan Project (Villanueva 2020;Viola 2006;Wang 2006). In a final through-line of Afro-Asian solidarity, culture, and activism from Greater China to the USA and back, for over 20 years, Hong Kong artists like LMF have embraced hiphop's messages of anti-authoritarianism and working-class rebellion (Lin 2008), with their music resurfacing as theme songs of the 2014 and current protest movements.…”