"1 vs 99" documentary about Hong Kong Hip Hop 1/4

Part 1 with MC YAN, the Godfather of Hong Kong Hip Hop movement at his house in the new territories. About how he get into touch with Hip Hop, the Hong Kong Graffiti cluture and some thoughts about Revolution. www.cranks.ch production

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[flip1sba]

@stanleycen the problem with today is not just piracy and download music in your i-pod instead of buying a full CD. The problem is also with sampling. Note that most of the greatest hip-hop tracks especially back in the 90s and before are heavily sampled especially from jazz, soul, funk or even rock.

Today, it is much strict to get clearance from sampling. So alot of today's hip-hop have to find other ways to make beats.

[stanleycen]

@flip1sba You took the words right out of my mouth. Except I was not a teenager back then, I was born in 91'. The good hip hop nowadays has gone underground, but even the best of those usually can't compete with the ones from the early 90's and late 80's. It's just something about the vibe those records give out. I also love their affinity for sampling from older jazz, soul, and funk records, I've been introduced to so many great artists and songs of those genres by looking up the samples used.

[flip1sba]

I got into hip-hop back in the early 90s. Hip-hop music was great back then. If I was a teenager living in today's decade, I would not gotten into the culture.

[flip1sba]

@stanleycen usually the best hip-hop groups are the ones who were active and making records back in the 1990s and before. The groups that I mentioned are the music I grew up with as a teenager back in that decade.

Much of today's rap music is not as great as it used to be. It has lost its essence. Back then hip-hop was at its peak. It was about good beats, good lyrics, good flow and good subject matter. Even mainstream hip-hop was worth listening to.

[stanleycen]

@flip1sba those are great picks, I'd add De La Soul and Digable Planets. Really impressed you had Pharcyde in there

[flip1sba]

@d1gps15 Usher is an r&b singer. Though I respect your choices mine would be Gangstarr, The Pharcyde, KRS-ONE, Pete Rock, Public Enemy, Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest and so on as my choices of good hip-hop rappers / groups.

Hip-hop is universal. You don't have to be African American or Hispanic to appreciate or even get into the culture. It has no colourlines!

[flip1sba]

I personally know MC YAN. His LMF band was succesful in HK, a breakthrough from Canto-pop and Canto-rock.

It is cool that he got a nice home in NT. To rent or even own a house is very expensive in HK so only the super rich can afford to live in such places. MC Yan on the other hand lives in the rural part so homes there are more affordable.

HK's hip-hop scene is mainly underground. But you would be surprise that alot of those active in the city's scene are not Chinese but Filipinos.

[d1gps15]

@chromenines and Pharrell

[d1gps15]

@chromenines i have been see it Affion Crockett before. he's good singer, not bad singer, same like Usher and Nick Cannon and other. it was good.

[chromenines]

@d1gps15

smh did u just name a comedian Affion Crockett as a rapper? smh..