Comments on: Hong Kong Hip Hop history – in videos!

By: wreckoning

wreckoning — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:54:40 +0000

Missing the bboys, and yea there is a small movement going on.

By: anotherlonelyday

anotherlonelyday — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:16:48 +0000

actually you’ll find fama is a blend of hong kong kiddie culture and some genuine musical chops. that’s to say, on the surface they may appear and probably are (partly) a unserious rap group but actually they’ve got a lot of good stuff to say.

it just isn’t raw or sound ‘hard’/'proper’ as a hip hop group because as hkh as said, they’re proper commercial and are meant for that. check out their live vids and you get tons of kids rhyming along with their witty lyrics.

to quote ah phat in the dare ya documentary, ’sure, softhard probably don’t have the all round musicality like we (lmf) might do but the things they were saying are definitely not pop’.

By: akita

akita — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:58:55 +0000

yep ive seen em all…for me personally mc yan is still the best in the game….jin can be up there hes got skillz but he needs to sharpen up his chinese vocabs first…. the boy got the flow already u know tat. n the rest…..come on now…hahah…fama is a fuckin joke…i see em as comedians ALA SOFTHARD…phat n kit r nice…mastamic is good…ghoststyle is aiight… sanfan n other underground cats im not too familiar wit but saw clips on youtube as they r more like the apprentices of yan…

BFD = BIG FUCKIN DEAL i remember goin there in tst wen i was lil haha good timesss

anyway good article…espeically like this line – “Hong Kong seems to have a grasp of the swagger, but not the soul of the music.”

peaaaaceee

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:04:12 +0000

Fantastic post dude. I literally spent the past hour Google-ing some of these guys and watching all the videos. The old LMF documentary is actually done pretty well. I really think the rap ‘game’ in HK pretty well summarizes the general attitude and culture of HK society.

By: melvin

melvin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:52:02 +0000

thank you for the insight of the hip hop culture in hong kong, I can’t wait to go to HK and hear some of these acts. Definitely it would be a welcome change to hear people rap in a different language.