Hong Kong's emerging artists are using music to highlight the city's socioeconomic issues and express feelings that much of society keeps bottled up.
and love ballads, which are churned out by a handful of music labels focusing on quantity and large-scale performance. Instead, LMF highlighted the everyday realities of working-class youth, and integrated Cantonese, a taboo and vulgar slang — often associated with the triads — into their lyrics to show their dissatisfaction with society.
Here, i-D speaks to some of the Hong Kong’s most inspiring young hip-hop artists, and asks how their hometown has shaped their sound.It’s heavily inspired by boom bap and jazz. I love making beats with various types of jazz samples, but now I also enjoy writing songs from scratch because it gives me a lot more freedom and control over the harmony of a song.I’m born and raised in Hong Kong, and I’ve spent my entire life in this city. I always want to tell people about the other side of Hong Kong.
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