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This is 2ikKen's first new single as a solo artist in about three months. It consists of two songs, "Rosa Negra" and "Beautiful". The theme is "love, hate, and sadness," and 2ikKen's mixed feelings of love and hate are packed into two songs with contrasting sounds."ROSA NEGRA" was produced by Live4 and "Beautiful" by Kazuki Nakamura. The mixing and mastering was done by Kotonoha, and the cover was done by 99.9.
2ikKen (Nikken) is a 24-year-old Yokohama-based artist who discovered HIPHOP at the age of 15, when he was at rock bottom and feeling depressed. He was saved by the aspect of HIPHOP that expresses the pain and suffering of people who are not accepted by society, and he became an artist himself. Together with beat maker kiz vil. (now Kazuki Nakamura), with whom he began his career, he debuted with the 3-track single "2iGHT CAPSULE" released in September 2020. Although non-promotional, the single made various playlists. In December 2020, "TOKIO STAR NiGHT" from the same single was made into a music video directed by Shintaro Kunieda. Despite being the debut work of a newcomer, it received over 10,000 views within a week of its release and caught the attention of various experts. Among them, SKY-HI (Mitsuhiro Hidaka) singled out 2ikKen as "the newcomer to watch in 2021" in his own corner of J-WAVE's radio program "SONAR MUSIC. In August 2022, 2ikKen released the EP "2iGHTMARE FESTIVAL", and in June 2023, they released their long-awaited 1st album "Devil Son" and quickly rose to the center of the scene.