jin the mc has been around for a while. he started out on 106 and park on their freestyle friday segment. he beat out an mc called hasan who had one 6 straight, and won 7 weeks in a row to be inducted into their hall of fame and subsequently signed a deal with the ruff ryders.
he put a couple of albums, but this cd, his first cantonese cd, came out in 2007 and i heard a few of the songs here and there, but after seeing his single's MV (directed by daniel wu) i bought his album on itunes. i'm totally diggin' his album, i can relate and understand to the lyrics but i don't know if anyone else would find this good. there's a lot of good songs in the album. true hip hop beats no filler/club bangers. a lot of good lyrics that make me ashamed my cantonese isn't as good, plus he puts it all in limerick and rhyme. finally a cantonese rap album that doesn't scream "wigga" and make me cringe in embarrassment.
his album art features, the TVB logo, the recently recalled rabbit milk candy, red envelopes, a tv with a screenshot of stephen chow in fight back to school with an eraser flying at him, a far east movement logo, char siu bao, malted soy vitasoy drink, ll cool j, bathing ape logo, a picture of bruce lee, a box of pocky, mahjong, and a bag of "doll brand" instant noodles (gong jie mien)
in the song 1997 he raps about his dad immagrating to the US and he was born in the US but home was always HK and the end of the song featured an excerpt of an interview with his dad.
another song with the hook "wun lerng chan sic" (working for two meals) talks about how he appreciates his hard working mom and pop, and being happy living a non materialistic life.
a lot of good songs like that, check it out, and you'll definitely appreciate this if you understand cantonese.
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