The soundtrack, with original music by Malaysian composer Adam Mansor, combines urban dance music with traditional Malay folk music -- in harmony with the storyline about a hip-hop band in Kuala Lumpur who head east into the Malay heartland, on the run from loan sharks because they can't repay the money they borrowed for their equipment.

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According to John Knight and Ramani Gunatilaka of Oxford University, they no longer compare their lot with the rural folk they left behind, but aspire to urban standards of living.

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