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.