Listen to 10 songs from this 3-CD album
Get it all here.
Visiting my favorite Video/CD store in Brooklyn's Chinatown last year I noticed an odd-looking VCD I'd never seen before: "Dare Ya!" which was described as "A daring documentary on the Hong Kong's most controversial hip-hop band, LMF (LazyMuthaFuckaz)." I noted the "Category III" triangle in the bottom right hand corner. ("Category III" = X, or adults-only, rating.) I assumed it was going to be either really awesome, extremely embarrassingly bad, or some sort of parody, a la Daniel Wu's Heavenly Kings.
It turned out to be fairly good. (You can watch the entire documentary, with English subtitles, below.) But nowhere near as life-changingly awesome as the 3-CD "best of" compilation I discovered a week later in a Manhattan Video/CD place on the corner of Bowery & Canal.
That's the place on the left, with the white awning with orange trim
Listen to the playlist above and though you'll hear a little of their range--hip-hop mixed with soul, thrash, rock, etc. I'll be blunt: I love, love, love, love, love this band. Seriously. While you download, watch the documentary:
LMF documentary, "Dare Ya!" part 1, includes English subtitles
"Dare Ya!" part 2
"Dare Ya!" part 3
"Dare Ya!" part 4
"Dare Ya!" part 5
"Dare Ya!" part 6
This is surprisingly good! Thank you.
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Glad you liked it, Holly! LMF is definitely among my all-time favorites.
ReplyDeleteAnd happy new year to you, too!
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