Release Date: 2025/03/21
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Wa Yo Set is an instrumental band from Osaka that freely crosses over jazz, hip-hop, and funk.
With an acoustic four-piece formation of saxophone, guitar, double bass, and drums, the band has established its own style of "Acoustic Dance Music (ADM)".
Their music has been highly acclaimed both domestically and internationally, including a number one position on the Apple Music Jazz Chart.
KZ is a rapper from Umeda Cypher, Osaka.
He has represented Osaka at UMBI three times in a row, and his representative song "Maji De High" has received 10.02 million views on YouTube,
His video for "THE FIRST TAKE" has received 32.33 million views on TikTok.
He also performed as the opening theme song for the popular TBS program "King of Contest" for three consecutive years (2022, 2023, and 2024),
The two artists are active beyond the hip-hop scene.
The two artists will release their collaboration single "job" on March 23, 2025.
Wa Yo Set has rearranged KZ's classic song "job" by playing it live and boldly rearranged it.
The song has evolved into an acoustic sound that accentuates the bluesy melancholy of the song while utilizing the essence of Japanese mono and rare groove.
KZ's rapping, which has grown over the course of his career, has gained even more depth, and his lyrics have become even more heartfelt.
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KZ is a rapper and filmmaker, and a member of Umeda Cypher, the rap collective that began on a pedestrian bridge in Umeda, Osaka. With Umeda Cypher, he has appeared on THE FIRST TAKE and made a major-label debut through Sony Music. Travel and mountain landscapes also inform his work. In 2021, he spent 193 days traveling around Japan by car. In 2022, he walked 4,600 km across Japan, from Cape Sata in Kagoshima to Cape Soya in Hokkaido. He created music and film during a two-week artist residency at Kumonodaira Mountain Hut in the Northern Japanese Alps in 2024, and performed there in 2025.
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