Hip-Hop Goes Canto

There's going to be a fight. LMF -- Hong Kong's subversive Cantonese hip-hop group -- has stopped playing, and a tall, staggering drunk, maybe inspired by the string of expletive lyrics he just heard, is returning the volley, suggesting a few things band members should do to their mothers. Some 500 fans freeze -- for a beat. Then the DJ spins a record, a guitarist slashes a chord and soon lips, lobes and eyebrows, pierced by stainless steel, glint again from the mosh pit. Wallet chains jangle, tattooed fists pump the air and well-worn skate shoes tamp the Hong Kong Exhibition...

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