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A collaborative album by rappers Moment Joon and Fisong, active in Osaka. As immigrants and Zainichi Koreans, they freely traverse Japanese, English, and Korean in their lyrics, bouncing over a soundscape that represents today's hip-hop, encompassing everything from Drill to Neo-Boom Bap, Crunk, Lo-fi, and Detroit styles. The album is a perfect blend of homage to the history of hip-hop and unprecedented innovation, comprising 13 tracks that breathe both the new and the old. It touches on music, roots, anger, politics, Japan, trauma, self-reflection, history, guilt, hope, and the human connections that generate all these elements. The Hip-Hop Album is born out of the connection between two individuals who are different yet similar.
published essays and novels. His semi-autobiographical novel Three Generation was published in the prominent Japanese literature magazine Bungei. In 2021, his first book Japan Immigration Diary was published by Iwanami Shoten. Never afraid to talk about what many in Japan see as taboo, Moment Joon has established his unique expression in both music and literature.
Fisong, born in 2001 in Osaka, is currently active with a crew named B.R.S. In August 2021, he released a mixtape titled 'Ain't no Gone' on Soundcloud. That same year, he featured on 'STRICT' from the EP 'Mixtape My Origin' by producer kptal. In December of the same year, he released the music video 'Art.2021' on the YouTube channel of Japanese Hip-Hop media PRKS9. In December 2022, he released his first single 'For my reason', and in May 2023, he released his second single 'Real Talk', featuring KAMBO from South Korea. His latest release, 'I think', came out in June 2023.
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