South China Morning Post, “Can Hip-hop Kick-start Its Own Revolution?”, May 14th, 2000.

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Also, the most marketable pathology in the world "doesn't jibe with most Asian kids because they just don't rebel like their Western counterparts" says trend spotter Matthew Dodds...

Dodds, whose company informs MTV, Nike and Sega as to teens tastes du jour, believes identity is another clue as to why hip-hop remains insignificant in the SAR. 

When Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule, he says, youngsters preferred to identify with the glamour of Canto-pop in order to distinguish themselves through material possessions from their mainland cousins.

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