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By 2023, various types of music will be born in the U.S. and become popular music, and their expressions will be diversified. This delay will occur even with content such as SNS and Youtube.
There are those who catch new things, those who want them to be popular, and those who understand them, and those who take time to understand them. It is the time required for Japanese culture to come out of the underground to the overground that is filtered and eventually popularized between these two.
This is true of music and art, culture and politics. I feel that the only thing that does not fall into this category is sports.
This is because it is a form of expression that directly uses the physical body and brain, and does not take much time to understand.
Now, do you know this rapper named C. Karter?
He has loved painting and creativity since his childhood, and after living abroad, he had already completed his work at the crossroads of Japan in Tokyo in 2020, at the tip of a farcical and real situation called Corona.
The same year, he had finished recording the song by the time he went to visit the home studio of a man named ID, one of Japan's most famous artists.
TOKYO BAD NINJAZZ" is a very simple approach in the way of expression of one man, C.Karter. In other words, it is a work that places emphasis on the listener's and the singer's aural enjoyment.
Some of the phrases in the song, such as "Harlequin," "R. Johnson," and "Crossroads," have an American vibe, while others, such as "ninja steps," "Tokyo Bad Ninja," and "just like Tamori," are slightly comical expressions of Japan.
This song is a work filled with his playful spirit. The "we back" voice that can be heard throughout the track was influenced by Roddy Ricch's "The box," which C.Karter was listening to a lot during that period.
"TOKYO BAD NINJAZZ" is a "surprise box" of sorts.
It's not about what's out of fashion, but about what feels good to listen to and feel, and the playfulness in the words - or lyrics, if you prefer, in hip-hop - that can be unraveled later on.
It's a good first step to get to know him, and it's as catchy as Salvador Dali's "The Melted Clock" (originally titled "La persistencia de la memoria").