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...liked how the panel dealt with various concerns with the war -- concerns that are, for the most part, ignored by the mainstream media,” said Yan Xuan...
...what the young want to say," says Cheung Chi Wai, a 29-year-old photographer who has worked with the band. "It's not about foul language. The young generation gets the lyrics because they've had the same experience." Twenty-nine-year-old lyricist and rapper Chan Kwong-yan, a.k.a. M.C. Yan, wants to make music that reflects the way people really talk. "We use a lot of Cantonese street slang in our songs. Canto-pop love songs use written Chinese," says Yan, sliding his hand through the horse's tail of hair that he sometimes wears...
...M.C.s (the guys with the microphones) -- Kit, Yan, Phat and Wah -- rap about fat girls, absent fathers, uncool triad gangsters, smoking dope and creating an authentic, home-grown pop culture. "So many kids in Hong Kong try to imitate the Japanese," says Yan, sitting in the LMF band 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...
...business can LMF and A.Room keep it real? Already the group is doing songs and graffiti in San Miguel beer ads and performing in Levi's-sponsored concerts. Their possible salvation: laziness. It's been 14 months since their last album. "We really don't produce a lot," says Yan, as he holds his joint in the air and gestures toward the crew huddled around the PlayStation. "These guys are very lazy...
...leading his mule past Heguantun village instinctively shakes his head when asked about coal mines in the area. Yet just meters away, in the center of this dusty hamlet, men haul bits of coal out of a narrow shaft. "This is not an illegal mine," insists its affable owner, Yan Lizhe. "It's too small...