MC Jin's 'Big Boys Club' debuts.

Grandmaster Jin has some impressive credits to his name. After pounding the competition in 2001 on Freestyle Friday, a freestyling competition during BET's music video countdown show, he successfully dropped albums in English and Chinese, becoming insta-hero for every Asian American kid in town. His presence in the music scene invited all sorts of criticism though from folks who thought there was no place in hip hop for some Chinese dude. Clearly they didn't know who they were messing with because Jin has since gone on to conquer Hong Kong. I mean, you don't get your 5 foot mug on buses and billboards if you don't have the goods.

So, with now classic anthems like ABC (where he talks about learning Chinese from TVB...genius) and stints as a vocal campaigner for Barack Obama and Vita lemon tea, he got fans wondering about his next big move. Just how do you top off all that goodness? The answer is obvious - your very own TVB chat show. That's right, MC Jin, the guy who tore down challengers week after week on 106 and Park, is now co-hosting a show called Big Boys Club (兄弟幫). No joke. Just a couple guys shooting the shit with celebrity guests. Think The View in sneakers and with large tubs of popcorn. It's that awesome.

Alright, I jest. Given Jin's professed love for the network, a sincere congratulations for even landing on the station is in order. There are worse things than being an indentured TVB servant; you could be one to ATV. But let's be honest, Jin + fluffy white couches and silver pillows? He's already hurting for street cred. If the first show was any indication of what is to come - and I hope it is not - he can forget about facing down fellow MCs back home. Or he better pray that no one ever finds tape of him and his co-hosts waxing lyrical about body hair (lack thereof) and substances excreted while sleeping (again, lack thereof). I won't condemn the project based on one episode, and in fairness, the conversation did evolve. A cute anecdote about a love note gone awry and one not so cute story about spending a couple nights in jail capped off the day's topic - what makes a boy, um, big. Hopefully with that question out of the way, even if not fully answered, Jin and his buddies can move on to more innocuous slumber party topics that delight the Hong Kong male. Not sure what those might be, but that's why I'll be tuning in tomorrow.

No matter what the big boys are talking about though, as long as Jin keeps spitting fun rhymes about everyone's favorite tv channel, I'm a fan. Here, he and his friend, MC KT, break down a popular show about mooncakes. That's right, mooncakes. And it's a sequel to a show about abalone. Take that, Showtime.