Connor Price released 24hrs in Shanghai with Kaien Nuen on October 30, 2026, a one song single made during 24 hours in China. The release extends his Spin the Globe run, turning a country landing into a finished record with a collaborator, a video, and a worldwide release in days.
24hrs in Shanghai and the 24 Hour Challenge
The idea behind 24hrs in Shanghai is simple, and that simplicity is the point. Price arrived in China with a deadline instead of a finished plan: find the sound, find the collaborator, write the record, record it, and leave with a song that could stand on its own after the clock stopped. The official episode, titled I Had 24 Hours To Make a Song in China, documents that process as the latest Spin the Globe chapter, while the finished single arrived on October 30, 2026 through 4 of Clubs LLC.
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At one song and just over two minutes, the record has to communicate its place, its partnership, and its energy almost immediately. Shanghai is not a backdrop in the title alone. It is the condition that shaped the record and the reason the song exists in this form.
Price has built a career out of turning constraints into a format audiences can follow. By releasing the audio as a standalone single at the same time as the visual story, he separates the challenge from the finished track. You can arrive for the race against time and stay for the record, or hear the record first and then watch how it was made.
A Toronto Artist With a Global Collaboration System
Price is a Canadian rapper, actor, and internet personality born in Markham, Ontario, and long identified as a Toronto native. He started performing at six years old and first reached wide audiences as a child actor, including his role as Jay Braddock in Cinderella Man. Music became his second major lane in the late 2010s, and by 2022 the Spin the Globe series had turned that lane into an international collaboration system.
The premise of Spin the Globe is now well established. Price spins a globe, lands on a country, and collaborates with an artist from that country. The first run produced collaborations with artists including Zambian rapper Killa on Violet and Dutch artist Bens on Spinnin, and it grew into the Spin the Globe EP in January 2023, followed by Spin the Globe 2 in February 2024. What began as a video idea became a repeatable way to meet artists where they live, work quickly in their environment, and bring their scene into his catalogue.
This is not a one off travel stunt. It is a later chapter in a system Price has refined over several years, and Kaien Nuen is central to the result. Nuen shares the artist billing on the Apple Music single, shares rap and vocal credits on the official audio, and shares songwriting credit on the track.
The Credits Behind the Record
The official audio credits give a clear picture of a small team moving fast. Connor Price and Kaien Nuen both perform rap and vocals. Production is credited to 100 Graham and Christian Sagum, with Sagum also handling mixing and mastering for the episode release. Songwriting and composition credits list Price, Nuen, Sagum, Kevin Euerle, and Graham Stiefel, connecting the performance on camera to the finished single that listeners can stream.
Price brings a trusted production core to a new place rather than starting from zero. The local collaboration supplies the new voice, setting, and creative friction, while his regular team supplies the speed needed to finish inside the window. The result is a record credited to both artists equally at the top line.
Listeners can hear the official audio on YouTube, where it was provided by TuneCore with a release date of October 30, 2026, and stream the single on Apple Music. The official episode video is embedded above, and the standalone audio is available at YouTube for anyone who wants the song without the behind the scenes story.
Why This Format Keeps Travelling
Canadian hip hop has often had to prove its reach market by market. Price built a different route. Instead of waiting for a co-sign from one major centre, he made the search for collaborators the content, the marketing, and the music at the same time. Each Spin the Globe stop introduces his audience to another artist and introduces that artist’s audience to him, with the song acting as the meeting point. Shanghai extends that exchange to China, following earlier stops that connected Canada to Zambia, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, Germany, and Japan through the wider series.
There is a discipline to releasing a single this way in 2026. The announcement, the documentary, and the release are one event. The October 30 date is recent, and the result is short enough to replay immediately. That does not guarantee a hit, and this release should not be oversold as one before the numbers are known. What it does guarantee is clarity: a new listener understands who made it, where it was made, how long it took, and why Kaien Nuen is on it within seconds.
For Price, 24hrs in Shanghai adds another pin to a map that has already reshaped his career, from viral singles to two Spin the Globe projects and a catalogue built independently under 4 of Clubs. For Nuen, it places his name beside a Toronto artist with a proven global audience on a record that carries his city in its title. That is the real value of the format when it works. The globe spin starts the story, but the collaboration is what travels.
