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Rude-α’s New Band Bubble Baby is 🔥
After being humbled by Rude-α’s emotional song “Umui” for Okinawa’s Irei no Hi, we were wondering what would be next for the talented rapper. Perhaps taking a cue from this experience of creating music with a full band (the song featured an all-star team with Masaru from BEGIN, Yuki and Shuntaro from HoRookies, and hometown…
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OZworld on GQ Japan
These are so interesting to watch and OZworld’s 10 essentials on the GQ Japan YouTuve channel is quite revealing. English subs too!
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Awich. The Union. New Album is Out!
Wow. She released the amazing “Queendom” just last year and here is Awich with a brand new album “THE UNION“! It was released last night and we’ve been listening to it non-stop. One song that’s missing that we thought she would include is her remix of MONGOL800’s “Ryukyu Aika” (it can be found on her…
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Our Voices Through Rapper Awich
If you’re a new reader of Karakui, you may think it’s mainly a blog about Awich (and YU-KA) because of how often we post about her. It’s just that this is how BIG she’s become and it’s very much deserved. Being a female rapper in Okinawa and Japan and becoming famous enough to command a…
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Awich’s “Queendom” EP Gets Postponed
Announced on Awich’s Twitter is the postponement of her upcoming EP “Queendom” due to production reasons (no doubt due to the pandemic). The EP was set to be released on the 24th of this month but at least she was able to get out her new single “Kuchi ni Dashite” (album art is featured above)…
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MC Gosamaru’s “Nakagusuku-son In The House”
“Nakagusuku-son In The House” MV on YouTube Wow. This music video and song is a lot of fun! MC Gosamaru’s “Nakagusuku-son In The House” is an Uchinaa-rap song and also features the amazing Yonaha Toru on sanshin. The single is also available on music streaming services. via Nakagusuku Village Tourism Association (OKINAWA)
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Rude-α’s New Single
Rapper Rude-α has a new single “Jōnetsu no Uta” released on June 23rd (which happened to also be Irei no Hi). The song will be the theme song to Ryukyu Asahi Broadcasting’s “2021 Sokuhō! ! Mezase Kōshien!” show. While we wait for its release, check out his catalog on Apple Music. I’m especially fond of…
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Speaking of Hip-Hop Music from Okinawa
Here’s a new Okinawa hip-hop, rather Ryukyu hip-hop music, album (B-LUNCH 沖縄HIPHOP MIX CD) mixed by DJ KENTA and released on Lunch Boxxx Records. Pretty interesting stuff.
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Daichi Miura’s new single to hit store shelves on 2/11/09
Former J-pop group Folder lead vocalist, Daichi Miura, will be releasing a new single titled “Your Love feat. KREVA” on February 11, 2009. The new single will be released almost seven months after his most recent single, “Inside Your Head,” which was released on July of this year. “Your Love feat. KREVA” will pair him…