 Famous UK rapper Central C has finally revealed that he's Chinese now David the internet is discussing whether this is a big deal or not Yeah, and a lot of people were also asking the question Andrew Why did it take so long for him to reveal this? Anyway, you guys make sure you like subscribe turning your notifications check out smile. I saw smile. I saw calm Andrew Central C's real name is Oakley Caesar Sue Sue comes from the Chinese side from his dad Let's pull the quote from the actual a vogue UK article himself He says my dad's Guyanese and Chinese and my mom's English. He says Hesitating before he answers he usually declines to reveal his ethnicity and this might be the first time He's actually confirmed to himself now a lot of people are like why did it take so long for him to say it? Did he think it wasn't cool? Was it for marketing reasons to appeal to you know more markets or was it because he had a bad Relationship with his dad. Yeah, well, let's talk about it Obviously as Chinese guys we find out the biggest the biggest rapper from the UK Maybe you know as far as like popularity wise ever ever He's the most popular UK rapper ever globally and maybe not your the best one But he's the he's the most popular one for him to reveal that he's Essentially a fourth Chinese or I don't know how much Chinese is in an eighth It's Chinese enough where he has to know to yes He has to say it right he has a full Chinese grandparent, right, but I guess it took him like five years to talk about it I will say this um My friend knocks them all he's like really tuned into the UK rap scene He told me this like five years ago when central C was just kind of bubbling up And I have we have actually brought it up on this channel before why he doesn't say it right right because there There's been rumors on the internet or people from the UK who know him or have seen his dad They were like yeah, yeah, he's actually part Chinese blah blah blah, but like I think that and here's the thing I kind of always had a feeling because central C would always talk about his old Toyota Yaris He'd always say I'm going from Yaris to Yaris Which is the Lamborghini Yaris right and he had that line multiple times and I was like What kind of rapper would just talk about his old Toyota so much that seems like a very Asian thing to do right? He also had photos on his Instagram with his black friend and he called it like rush hour and stuff like that So there was some illusion to the fact that he had some Asian ancestry, but he never confirmed it Yeah, he never wanted to outright say it although he does talk about noodles. He knows how to use chopsticks He didn't like do do a rap video partially in a Chinese takeout in the UK Yeah, yeah So there's been some Chinese themes that he's used but I guess yeah He just never wanted to come out and say it but David I guess people from Guyana being part Chinese is really not news Right actually the first president of Guyana in the 1980s was Arthur Chung a full Chinese guy was the first president of Guyana which is kind of crazy because a lot of Chinese first came to Guyana Along with the British as laborers they came as like servants You know I mean like indentured workforce right to work in Guyana And then obviously a lot of them stayed integrated and stuff like that So there is actually a notable Chinese heritage I mean all over the Caribbean Jamaica too, but like especially Guyana So we got to talk about it There's several components to this that I think that are relevant to us talking about this as Chinese guys One somebody was saying that everybody always denies their Asian heritage Freddie Mercury was half Indian He never talked about it right Bruno Mars is half Filipino rarely ever talks about until later and later much much later A lot of celebrities Vanessa Hudgens said yeah, I didn't embrace it until later a lot of people sort of hide their Asian side So because what it's not viewed as cool in the West right? Even though that is slowly changing over the decades and more rapidly recently another part is if you deny your ethnicity Or you don't tell anybody and you can appeal to multiple groups a lot of people were talking about the Drake effect or other Artists where people are like yeah, everybody can see themselves in this artist and that helps blow up their market share right right right So I think let's go into the comment section because there's obviously a lot of different perspectives on this right somebody said God This is really embarrassing this guy is ashamed of himself Why can't he be proud of his roots because I show speed which is a famous twitch streamer was like yo Bro, what's your ethnicity and central seed just dodged it three times and then just ended the stream right made it really Cryptic this is last year by the way Um, what do you think about that like people were saying it was just something that he was told to do by his managers to maintain market Splits because basically so many people around the world were like claiming him and if he says that he's Asian It's not like Asians. They don't really compose a big portion of the rap market. Yeah Yeah, we're like Africa or the Arab countries do or whatever I think it's kind of weird You know when you're an artist especially when you're put in the system and you got to make money And you got other mouths to feed and you got a team to support and people are relying on you you do It's just like a restaurant You have a product that you put out But you're gonna just want to put out the product that most people understand right right if you put it out like we talk About on this channel complex ethnic or whatever self identities multi-layered things They're very hard to understand it's hard to sum up and people don't in a way You don't want to tell people everything if it's kind of a weird identity, right? Which if he came out early and was like you know, I'm Chinese, you know I'm Chinese right before my Chinese that would have like made turn people off I think he's at a point in his career now He's successful enough him coming out and ending up being part Chinese doesn't really know that he recently Performed at in Hong Kong. Yeah, so maybe that was he was like maybe I'll you know, I acknowledge my Chinese So I get some of this Chinese. Yeah, but maybe I'm unbeat money of this To be honest, I think enough people like him now it doesn't matter But sometimes there is a sense that if you reveal early on and we know some youtubers, right who would not reveal their ethnicity We also knew some comedians who did not reveal their exact ethnicity even amongst other Asians Because they were just we're like, I don't know might like make might well I mean, I'm gonna keep a real Elliot Chang our friend of ours Don't he is Korean and he would not say if he was Chinese or Korean for like 10 years I mean, let's be honest Bart Kwan and Joe They didn't even talk about their actual ethnicities and they're they're funny hilarious guys They made fun of all different types of Asians, but they never talked about their own ethnicity up until like a few years Well, they didn't want to split the market. Let's be honest I think that was part of it. That's the primary driver. I can't speak for everybody That is what I believe is the truth. Um, a lot of people are saying not being black in the rap world It's like somebody coming out of the closet. That is what somebody said because a lot of rappers. I mean rap is very black, right? So people were saying I thought he was black But then why is he using the n-word and then a lot of people were saying Jennifer Lopez went through this fat Joe went through this French Montana went through this etc. Etc. Even a lot of mixed people in the rap game went through this. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, I mean, I I don't know, you know, I'm not the person that can give out that pass Obviously, so I don't really know what the rules are or there's obviously not like super strict rules on who can say who cannot I will say this. I don't think central C says the n-word that much in his songs But he's not the most street rapper, right? Yeah, he's like a lot like he has a lot of girl fans Like he's kind of like the cool like Drake lover boy type Would you compare him to like a Bieber Drake of the UK drill? No, it's like when Drake came out Drake like kind of got more like I guess hood later or harder later Let's say he got half of his career, right? But like early Drake. He's kind of more in that lane Yeah, some people were just a lot of girls were coming out saying his dad is really fine. I like his dad, too I guess I looked into it. His dad is half Chinese and half native Guyanese, which is more of like a Arawak Native Caribbean indigenous like yes. Yes almost Native American type Okay, some people said his real names Clarence obviously in reference to eight mile every rapper as a studio gangster Somehow he ended up acting super hood getting tatted on his face now bros from the UK burbs Someone said he didn't say it because being Asian is not legit for in Consideration of street people it made him look less hood to the mainstream media Because even if you wanted to be Guyanese, of course, it would have helped if his dad was black Guyanese versus You know two types of Asian looking Guyanese, right, right, right? I mean his dad kind of looks like a Like a mestizo Filipino Filipino I would say his dad looks Hispanic right other people were saying man He was just a soft half white half Asian kid, you know with the white mom blah, blah, blah, blah Here's here's the thing and girl fans They just like central C because he's really good looking and he's you could tell he's like Been good with women his whole life. He's cool He's not like a street like killer killer. I'll slice you dude But I'm saying dudes will more hold you to that type of standard Yeah, obviously dudes want to check your street cred more now. I do think central C he talks about his upbringing He had a rough upbringing. He did, you know, do some ill sell some illegal things when he had to but yeah I guess on the question of if he's black by black American standards. I don't know I don't I can't answer that question. Obviously everybody else has their own opinion on it, right, right, right I guess the truth is that like I said most of his fan base has been spoken for he's made enough good music He's popular enough. He's gonna be rich forever. Yeah, this doesn't really hurt him It's just that maybe he can't get more street now, but he has to stay more in that Drake pop rap lane Yeah, yeah, but but he probably was always destined for that Do you think he made a smart calculus not revealing it until it became a multi-millionaire? It's hard to argue it's mess. All right, here's the thing my Chinese side wanted him to rep it all the way up, right? Right, but I can understand and this is messed up and we can get into this a little bit later even in the video Being Chinese is not cool in the streets It's just being Asian in general Asian in general is not cool, but Chinese is even maybe like being Filipino or being Vietnamese is considered a little bit more like Valid or whatever to people's like perception or the reality whatever. I mean things is debatable, but I'm just saying it's like He got the outcome that he wanted. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I mean he was raised mostly by his mom because his parents broke up at a young age. So I guess his Chinese guy and his dad is not really in his life and to be honest his dad doesn't look like Me, right? I mean like his dad's not that Chinese Grandfather didn't yeah, maybe his grandfather looked more like full Chinese But I'm like saying like his dad like it doesn't really like if you told me his dad's just Hispanic I would I would also agree I think a big part of it too is that like him revealing that he's Chinese He's gonna lose a lot of his other fan bases that thought he was a Somali or Arab or whatever And then he's not necessarily gonna gain a huge bunch of millions of dollars from the Chinese side Because there was a few comments of like girls in the UK that love rap. They were like, oh my god He's my Chinese king. We love him, but but not a lot, right because Chinese people they're more into J Chow or higher brothers even or K-pop, right? They're just not like it's just not a rap urban audience Yeah, well, I don't know you guys. Let me know in the comments down below Do you think it makes sense that he kind of hid his ethnicity early on and now Can reveal it because he feels more comfortable in his career and that's like kind of natural for a lot of people Although I don't love it. It is what it is Obviously for us, we can't hide our ethnicity David We've been we've been full blast on it since day one But but I will say this early on a lot of people even though they knew we were the Fung brothers They still asked if we were Korean and it's not that I would ever have said, oh, yeah I'm Korean and then try to like hey guys Koreans like come be more fans of us You know what I mean? I was just like, I don't know like Fung is our name. That's that's what it is, right? I mean, here's the truth man in any lane There are certain identities that are higher ranked or more powerful archetypes, you know, I mean like it's more powerful to be like a mage than like a You know what I mean? I don't know I don't play League of Legends But you know, there's different archetypes that are better or worse for different circumstances in these like multi-MMO RPGs I'm just saying like people try to like You know tow the line in the gray zone to try to get all the advantage points in terms of perception that they can get because an Entertainmentator it ultimately boils down a perception, but like we said Welcome central C into the fold. I'd like to see a more Chinese stuff central C You get the Chinese past a center China. I mean, I don't know if even if I can give the Chinese pass, but I I'll put my vote in for you He's probably part Haka because Haka Chinese were the specific type of canto that went over to Guyana, right? So anyways guys, let us know in the comments down below central C is part Chinese He's probably gonna start rapping it more now. So let's show him some love Or you don't care it doesn't matter. Anyways, thank you so much and until next time we out How can it be bad at math cuz I'm Chinese