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Growing older with hip-hop - that lifestyle is finally becoming real in Japan.

Mike Matida's latest album, Tokyo Night Shift, is a quiet, honest portrait of a man who found hip-hop in his teens, moved to Tokyo in his twenties, and somehow survived his thirties.

This is not a story of "success" or "failure" - it's the everyday life of someone caught between society and the streets, still moving, still breathing.

Without relying on over-the-top bravado or shock value,
Matida offers a different angle on ordinary life - sharp, grounded, and deeply personal.
His music captures what mature Japanese hip-hop might look and sound like in its next phase.

He's not a gangster, but he's not straight-laced either.
Not famous, but not defeated.
He simply keeps loving what he loves -
and this is the sound of someone still here, still real,
a survivor's rap with no fronting, no filters.