the mixtape show

People who have been with this show for a minute will undoubtedly remember the only other person who’s ever hosted a show on here (okay technically Mamiko did one too – thanks greg) – the man behind The New Soul series – Black TK.
Obviously in Tokyo I don’t run into dude as much as I [...]

So look kids, dex is busy writing a paper right now and can’t make rappidy rap podcasts for a second. Soon, soon.
But more importantly than that, I found something I kinda like that I want to share.
So maybe like a couple weeks ago this dude posts two vimeo links on my facebook. This is [...]

So yeah, for those of you who caught the Skate Tape, this is the video from Tanya Morgan’s Hardcore Gentlemen.
Apparently as if making up a pretend city wasn’t enough, these dudes made up a pretend rap group that supposedly existed 15 years ago, and a pretend video for that pretend group, and a pretend [...]

A lot of people have been asking me what the deal is with Japanese hip-hop [1] is, I’ve been sort of meaning to do this for a while, so let’s get into it – a proper (sort of) review/breakdown on a Japanese rap joint (ps – “Nihongo” = Japanese for “Japanese language”).
So let me make [...]