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There's going to be a fight. LMF -- Hong Kong's subversive Cantonese hip-hop group -- has stopped playing, and a tall, staggering drunk, maybe inspired by the string of expletive lyrics he just heard, is returning the volley, suggesting a few things band members should do to their mothers. Some 500 fans freeze -- for a beat. Then the DJ spins a record, a guitarist slashes a chord and soon lips, lobes and eyebrows, pierced by stainless steel, glint again from the mosh pit. Wallet chains jangle, tattooed fists pump the air and well-worn skate shoes tamp the Hong...
...prove. Products of Hong Kong's labyrinthine government housing estates, the potty-mouthed hip-hop collective is an affront to the scrubbed-clean Canto-pop starmakers who package and micromanage saccharin-sweet crooners as carefully as Madison Avenue launches a new line of soap. Warning labels decree their albums may not be distributed, circulated, sold, rented, given, lent, shown, played or projected to anyone under the age of 18. Even LMF's schoolyard acronym grates on Hong Kong's frantic, money-obsessed culture: lazy muthaf...
...room, meticulously rolling a Rizla cigarette paper around a line of weed. "It's not about nationalism or anything," he insists, "but no one should want to be a fake Japanese person." The group rarely uses English in their songs and resent accusations that they're just copying American hip-hop fashions. "We are not trying to pretend to be black people," says Yan, who sports a scraggly goatee and a tattoo of an Alaskan killer whale totem on his shoulder...
...metallic future-funk that’s currently in vogue, though equally compelling. The sparse beats are surprisingly dynamic, often shifting directions to complement Aesop’s raps, which are lightning-fast, stoic and nearly incomprehensible. While none of this really breaks with the dogma of traditional hip-hop, Aesop Rock’s real brilliance lies in the way he makes the most of his decidedly average personality. Portraying himself frankly as a typical urban dweller addicted to music and television, he creates a compelling character out of mediocrity and the everyday. With imaginative songs such...
Extremely prolific, Aesop Rock may prove instrumental in bringing underground hip-hop out of its creative...