Underground Rapper or Overground Rebel? Creative Artist or Conspiracy Theorist? Multi-talented hip-hop producer or Loud mouthed MC? Hard working professional or channel surfing slacker? Is it the name to know in Hong Kong rap or just another dude from Kowloon with a funny name? In answer to all these charges, Ghost Style stands Guilty as Charged.

 

Ghost Style returned to Hong Kong the day before the ’97 handover, armed with a pen, a mic, and a 20/20 vision of what the future of HK hip-hop could be. Shortly after touching down GS got his initiation into the local music scene fronting for a renowned local band ‘Site Access.’ After putting out two independent albums with the band, Ghost Style spun out on the path of solo music artist, sucking in urban grit, mixing, mastering and crafting it to a fine tune before spitting out serious product. His three albums from this period are heavy hip hop, dark and twisted beats from the heart of Hong Kong (one of these, Alias, was the first English rap album produced in Hong Kong). 

 

In 2005 Ghost Style hasn’t rested on his laurels for a second; he’s spent the year making dance floor across Asia writhe alongside the crème de la crème of the international DJ set, rapping for Detroit’s Ghetto Tech icon DJ Godfather and rhyming for Lebron James on LBJ’s “Chamber of Fear Asian Tour.”  Somewhere along the line, Ghost Style found the time to start up the ‘Rebel Studio’ project label. Oh yeah, did we mention ‘Initial D’? GS provided the head spinning rhymes for the summers box office smash film ‘Initial D’.

 

Never one to rest on his last cut, Ghost Style is riding the cutting edge further with his latest delivery, Message Is Complete. Offering the heaviest Ghost Style tracks to date, ‘M.I.C.’ is a powerful aural mix of club, commercial, and street style beats, all of it straight from the heart of Hong Kong.  Ghost Style stretches his lyrical reach even further with ‘M.I.C.’, waxing lyrical on topics ranging from the chemistry lathered streets of Hong Kong to the territory’s politics, bad boys, party girls, and just about anything else worth keeping real in HK.   Ghost Style calls these slices of HK life aural movies his ‘exaggerated fiction’, and his vocal range – from crispy kid to low-key baritone – brings his stories to life.  With his instantly recognizable voice, potent lyrics and shards of brilliance, Ghost Style remains the name to remember in Hip Hop on this side of the Pacific Rim.

 

Message Is Complete Track List:

Skit: Start / Pump Your Rump / I Want U Back / Your Angel / Cash N’ The Clip / Chill Wit U ft. Mao / Skit: Rebel Music for Life / Lost Conscious / Prodigal MC ft. Waxxmatic / Lazy On The Grind ft. Kwokkin / H.U.S.T.L.E. / Imamcyo / Skit: what’s my name?

 

Featuring MCs: Waxxmatic, Kwokkin and additional engineering by Dan F.