China Is Now Using Rap Music to Recruit Young Men to Its Army
China is hoping that rap and rhymes will help recruit more young men to the world's largest standing army. A hip-hop beat backs lyrics like "Kill! Kill! Kill" in an action-packed video released by China's People's Liberation Army PLA. The slick production has racked up nearly 100,000 comments on China's Twitter-like service, Weibo, since being posted on the army newspaper's website Thursday. The lyrics "hide neither combativeness nor a desire to fight," China Daily newspaper noted dryly in a story on the piece on Tuesday. The video does not shy away from the gruesome, and starts with references to being shot, Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News