Ren, SiyuanFeixa, Carles, 1962-2023-03-102023-03-102021Ren S, Feixa C. Being nomadic and overseas rappers: construction of hybrid identity in Chinese hip-hop scene. Cidades. 2021; Autumn Spec Iss:160-74. DOI: 10.15847/cct.256181645-0639http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56143This research aims to explore the function of intercultural communication of Chinese Rap music and the construction of hybrid identity, through discourse analysis methods: Narrative Semiotics, visual semiology, and sociolinguistics of globalization. The general context of the research is the development of global youth culture and Rap music as an intercultural formulation of local identities. Songs of two Chinese Rap groups are analyzed: Higher Brothers and Bohan Phoenix. In short, it attempts to scrutinize their use of Rap lyrics in order to promote the intercultural communication and construction of hybrid identity.application/pdfeng© 2021 (Ren, S., Feixa, C.). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.15847/cct.25618Chinese hip-hopglobal youth culturenarrative semioticsintercultural communicationhybrid identityimmigrationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess