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The lead single from Zo Zhit's landmark debut solo album is a dramatic journey from start to finish - opening with sampled boom bap that feels like it's playing inside a retro film, shifting midway into a big-band-jazz-style passage reminiscent of a dance hall, and ultimately landing in a final stretch where Zo Zhit packs rapid-fire words over a slowed-down beat.
Lyrically, the track explores dependency and pleasure tied to the city of Tokyo, and the twisted feeling of living there, surfacing a paradoxical complex about having been born in the city. That love-hate view of urban life serves as the entry point for the "city and self" motif running through the whole album, making it a lead single that distills the record's worldview.
Born in 1993. In 2015, formed the hip hop crew Dos Monos with his junior high and high school classmates TaiTan and Botsu a.k.a NGS, handling trackmaking and MC duties. Signed to the American label Deathbomb Arc and released the debut album Dos City in 2019, going on to earn acclaim both in Japan and abroad, including two successful European tours. On August 5, 2026, he will release his first work as a solo rapper.Beginning with his first-ever film score for the 2025 film Seaside Serendipity (dir. Satoko Yokohama), he has since scored All's Well "All Greens" (2026, dir. Takashi Kayama), and composed music for "Chinpui - Eri-sama's Good Luck", a short anime produced by the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum. He has also established himself as a writer, co-authoring The Last Music "A Hip Hop Dialogue" (DU BOOKS) with critic Masashi Yoshida, and continues to work beyond the bounds of music, including a weekly podcast, Shit and Tail, with philosopher Takumi Fukuo.
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