'Boy from Hanoi': US ambassador to Vietnam releases his own lunar new year rap

Musical effort by former National Security Council figure Dan Kritenbrink is hailed as a full assault on the art of rap'

The US ambassador to Vietnam has recorded an original rap and music video ahead of Tet, the lunar new year, risking inevitable ridicule by styling himself as the boy from Hanoi".

I'm from Nebraska. I'm not a big city boy," raps Dan Kritenbrink in the song, released on the US embassy in Hanoi's Facebook group. Then three years ago I moved to Hanoi."