<strong>Jin tha MC</strong> is "ABC (American Born Chinese)" at Schema : more than ethnic

Jin Au-Yeung is better known as Jin, Jin tha MC, and The Emcee. Miami-raised Jin's big break came after he moved to New York and won battles on BET's freestyle program "106 & Park" which eventually led him to Ruff Ryders label and his debut single "Learn Chinese". In 2004, out came his first album "The Rest is History"...he disappeared awhiles but came back in 2006 with a limited release only through MySpace called "I Promise". His first Cantonese-album is expected to drop in 2007, and its first single "ABC (American Born Chinese)" has already launched.

The video debuted on MTV Chi, a music and entertainment network created to give positive images of Asian people on TV and popular culture. Fitting since Jin is known for his creative rhymes peppered with social and political commentary. After Hot 97 NYC aired the offensive song "USA for Indonesia," Jin fired back with a diss song "F%$k The Tsunami Song".. Recently after Rosie O'Donnell's "ching chong" comment, Jin responded with "You're Fired!" (featuring Donald Trump) which he recorded "basically for the same reason she decided to do her little 'ching chong' bit: that's just how I am."

More on Jin and "ABC" (including video) under the cut...

* Jin’s Myspace www.myspace.com/therealjin.

* “You’re ABC” video: (In Cantonese, with English subtitles)

* “Learn Chinese” video:

* “You’re Fired” :

* Logo for MTV Chi:

* LYRICS to “36-24-36 (APPLEBOTTOM JEANS)” features some Canadian content towards the end:

Here’s something that I bet you never seen (what’s that?)
Asian girl in some applebottom jeans (okay)
36 24 36 Baby let’s go
See her from the back’n be like she blazin
Think she Black, turn around found out she Asian
So amazing, what an odd occasion
I’m tell you this for your information
I like em Brown, Black, even Caucasian
But this one got me standin here dazin
So sick, think I need my medication
This is not a song, it’s a dedication
For my nation, a celebration
It’s a party, you don’t need an invitation
But back to what’s in front of my facing
Good God, what a beautiful creation
I don’t give a damn what’s your reputation
You independent and you got an occupation
I’m take you to da club from da basement
Then I might hit up the radio station

I got this Chinese broad that stays out in the Bay
Leave comments on my MySpace every single day
Got a Korean chick who stays down in Texas
When I’m in town, scoop me up in a Lexus
A Japanese joint in Miami on the low
She said she got a man but he out in Tokyo
My Viet chick got more than good looks so you know
I as her can she cook and she said fo sho
Got a 20-year-old that still watches Nickalodeon
I think she half Thai and half Cambodian
A weed head that likes to puff on a killa of green
From the Philippines, love the way she fill her jeans
Asked this one shorty if we could chat
She told me that she was Laos
I ask where’s that?
Then she proceeded to show me on the map
I said that’s where we goin cuz baby that’s where it’s at

It’s ya boy Jin y’all
Everybody back home already know I got wild love for y’all
But check it out, I jus got my passport renewed
So I’m go around the world for a special aite
I’m be back, shout out to all my people up top
I’m talking bout in Canada, T-Dot, Vancity, Montreal I see y’all
Can’t forget all my people in out in da UK, that’s right down in London
All my people partying down in Lexington Square
Big ups to everybody in Australia, that layin Down Under,
You know Sydney, Perth, Melbourne
And of course the Gulf Coast
Big up to all my people in Hong Kong
I’m gone

Schema Magazine

Jin tha MC is "ABC (American Born Chinese)"

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