Songs On An Old SD Card

Recently, I came across a phone I used to use several years ago, when I remembered that it had a mini SD card slot. I was interested to see what was on there, so I popped it into my current phone to check it out. I found quite a lot of Japanese rap music on there, which would have been what I liked the most just before I went to Japan. It’s a 1GB  with other music on it, but here’s (in no particular order and without translations,) the Japanese rap I was listening to just before I left England:

Tha Blue Herb

• ペンと知恵の輪 (We Love It Madly)
• Stoicism Prelude (No Time)
• Amenimomakezu
• ￥
• This 98
• Once Upon A Laif In Sapporo
• Shock-Shineの乱(1 Premise) Remix
• Bossism
• Stoicizm
• 続･腐触
• あの夜だけが
• Ame Ni Mo Makez (there are two songs of exactly the same title, but different tracks)
• Coast 2 Coast 2
• Shock Shine No (Mixtape Version)
• Chie No Wa

Tokona-X

• Nexxxt Big Thing
• Oh my goodness feat. Akira
• H2
• I Just Wanna
• Dirty Go Around feat. ASM
• – Skit –
• BAD若旦那~いんだくらぶ~
• Do U Want it again~OUTRO~ feat. ia

Twigy

• Tsuki
• Dateme
• Miharuka Sukanata
• Al-Khadir
• Kick It Out
• Mizu
• Represent
• 今は昔 feat. 風雲 Storm Riders
• けむめまけ
• 七日間
• 七日間 (DJ Kaori Remix)
• ナニナニ feat. Bird

UZI

• イントロ
• 言霊
• 9mm
• Izumi
• アウトロ
• Knock Out feat. Zeebra
• Microphone Death Match
• ひとり酒

Zeebra

• 結婚の理想と現実
• Beat Boxing
• Hip Hop 解放戦線 feat. UZI
• 城南ハスラー
• Children’s Story
• 城南ハスラー 2 feat. Dabo, UZI, G.K. Maryan

King Gidorah

• 最終兵器
• Unstoppable
• トビスギ
• F.F.B
• リヤルにやる
• 911 (Original Version)
• 真実の爆弾
• 平成維新 feat. 童子-T & UZI
• 最終兵器 (Aquarius Remix feat. Muro
• ジェネレーションネクスト
• 夜明け

???? (文字化け)

• ???? (文字化け)

Nitro Microphone Underground

• Terminal-1
• Watack

Muro

• Chain Reaction (Re-Reaction Remix feat. Uzi, Deli, Q, Bigzam, Tokona-x, Gore-tex

KM-Markitt

• Dirty Talk
• Memory Lane
• Inner City Blues

ECD

• レイシスト
• イライラ

DJ Oasis

• 撫子 feat. UZI
• 煙立つ東京 feat. Dabo, S-Word
• Change The Game feat. K-Dub Shine, Zeebra, 童子-T, UZI
• ここにあるぜ feat。 JA飛龍

DJ Krush

• Real feat. Tragedy Khadafi
• Shin Sekai feat. Rino
• Shinjiro feat. Mos Def
• Jugoya
• Zen Approach feat. Black Thought
• Vision of Art feat. Company Flow

???? (文字化け)

• ???? (文字化け) feat. Zeebra, UZI, Akeem, NG Head

DJ 刃頭

• Sword Heads feat. Jeru Tha Damaja, Nipps
• Oh, Oh, Oh feat. Word Swingaz
• アマリージャ Charro feat. Boo
• 野良犬 feat. Ill Bostino
• ハズファー波

That’s quite a large and varied list, which I’ll take to be representative of what I like the best in Japanese rap. Once I got to Japan, I became occupied with other Japanese things, so listening to this music took a back seat. So kind of like a Wooly Mammoth trapped in ice, that SD card, trapped in my phone, preserved my listening habits, allowing me to take a step back in time.

Would this be the playlist you’d give to someone that was interested in Japanese rap music? I know there are great tracks that are missing, but you wouldn’t necessarily fill a playlist with only the hardest hitting tracks, would you? Perhaps a more rounded overview would be best to give a taste of the varied styles? What do you think should be here that isn’t?