Upclose with 24 Herbs
24 Herb is ex-LMF members Kit and Phat, as well as Sir Eats-a-Lot, Ghost Style, DJ Dor Yuk and Drunk. The rap collective air their views on guns, ho's and other shit.
Celebrities
Drunk: There’s no hiding the fact that there’s a star-making machine here simply to generate money. If you wanna be famous, at least have some skills.
Keepin’ It Real
Eats-a-Lot: It sounds corny, but yeah, we're all about keepin' it real. Unless there's money involved, then we're not keeping it real. Show us the money and we're down.
Drunk: Yeah. We'd sell out.
Canto-Rapping
Eats-a-Lot: Kit and Phat rap in Cantonese. That’s hard – you gotta flip nine different tones into sixteen eight bars. Ghost Style raps strictly in English. Drunk and I do English and some messed-up Cantonese. It’s all our own slang and style that we grew up with.
The Indie Music Scene
Drunk: It's getting healthier. Now you hear bands out there with a real sound instead of the karaoke stuff. And it’s mutually supportive. We’re all in it together - it doesn’t matter if you’re a rap motherfucker or heavy metalhead.
Hong Kong Identity
Eats-a-Lot: Commercialism’s broken down the sense of identity – we make music for the China market now, but what about Hong Kong? A lot of people lost it with the 97 handover.
The Crew
Drunk: We have an Indonesian-Chinese, a Montreal-born, two OG local ghetto boys, and two who spent their lives in Australia. We're trying to find that sense of Hong Kong identity.
Ghost Style: You gotta be over 30 to be in 24 Herbs.
Eats-a-Lot: And your waist has got to be over 39.