Tokyo Mega Late Show

Big MLS Prime energy!!

The original! Steze picks up the phone to bless convo with some 'giggy! The duo known as 3 Chainz catch and chop up on topics like family, conspiracy theories, health, comedy,

Liberty; freedom; & independence. And birds. If you didn't know, Steze loves birds and his country, Guam. So much so in fact that he made a documentary, Ko'ko's & Kings: the Return of Guam's Birds, about the effort to reintroduce the islands' native birds after being on the verge of extinction. It's being shown in a film festival, but should be available to the public sometime in December. Make sure to check it out!

Take a breath, Then get back to work.

<3 ya'll

@soundgiggy

youtube.com/stevelefeve

@lesteze

Part two of our podcast with super creative content machine, L-Spade. Featuring guest co-hosts, Film and tv actor, Lex Hunter. Also Cliff, the host and producer of the Tokyo Speaks Podcast.

Here we discuss a lot about L Spade. His newest project "Faker News: Now With More Pulp." His thoughts on the difference between producing and beatmaking. Making music for the Benza video game. The Uncommon Knowledge Podcast. All of this sprinkled throughout these other topics:

- What are the differences between abstract hip-hop, experimental hiphop and hip-hop. What makes hip-hop... hip-hop?

- Memphis and 3-6 Mafia's influence on Atlanta, crunk and modern rap music

- Eminem, Busta Rhymes and the criteria towards finds an objective GOAT emcee.

- Tracing the lineage of Twerking & J-Lo's butt not being new to black folks

- Royce the 5'9, Busta and Doggystyle being a classic album.

- Ranking the Outkasts albums

- Something about Kanye, R Kelly, and Bill Cosby

- hip-hop artists and public intellectuals

PSA: 20TH anniversary of Prodigy's HNIC & 25TH Anniversary of The Pharcyde's Labcabincalifornia

The music bed is all beats from Japanese beatmaker, Bugseed!

Peep part one for a lot of political conversations. L-Spade will be back next month discussing his Youtube show. Tokyo Stash and Spade

lex @sageofstone

Cliff @ Tokyo Speaks

L-Spade @djlspade

[email protected]

@bugseed

Lots of topics with amazing folks this time around! Now with more pulp!

New homie and tremendous content machine, Marcus "L-Spade" Johnson! He is a producer, emcee, occasional actor, host of the Uncommon Knowledge podcast, co-host of Tokyo Stash & Spade, and also the Ran Dumb show.

Joining us as co-host is my brother and host of the Tokyo Speaks Podcast, Cliff.

And also cohosting, L-Spades co-host on the Ran Dumb show, film & Tv actor and video game character, Alexander Hunter.

I wanna say this was a concise convo about L Spade and all his amazing endeavors but that's not what happens. We mostly jump around from topic to topic from serious discussions to funny shit. From political to politically incorrect. Lots of long walks off short tangents.

So this was basically a kick it episode. I did get to know L-Spade and am looking forward to having him back soon. Next month were having a more focused convo to discuss his successful youtube show, Tokyo Stash and Spade.

Part two of this podcast come out Friday and it's a lot of music talk and discussion.

Check out L-Spade and Lex on the Ran Dumb Show. And also the several other projects L-Spade is involved in.

PSA: MottoNice blog and This Is Not Information Pod.

The music bed is all beats from Japanese beatmaker, Bugseed!

New Music by Meiso and Libro.

Tokyo spotlight:

Ueno Park and Nature

Code Chrysalis

Gyomu Super & Hanamasa

lex @sageofstone

Cliff @ Tokyo Speaks

L-Spade @djlspade

@displacedmedia

@bugseed

Part 2 of our interview with Don Dre aka Piggles Di Gaijin and Robbie Heat.

Here we focus on music and popular culture conversations.

Make sure to check out part one to find out more about both of these cats. And go follow them on instagram.

We share a few of Don Dre and Robbies tracks and here are a few of the other topics we discuss:

- Vybz Kartel and the colorism

- Lil Vicious

- Homophobia and the progress made in the dancehall community

- Ladies in the scene

- Free Myndz and Masicka

- A bunch of the solid food places

Plus a lot of other shit. Thanks for tuning in and catch us again again.

@piggledigaijin

@djheatjapan

@hottavybz

https://soundcloud.com/hottavybz

@fatvonfree

https://fatvonfree.bandcamp.com

Peace! Episode 129 with my homie Robbie Heat and his frequent collaborator/ youtube star, Piggles Di Gaijin.

Robbie Heat aka Dj Heat is a dancehall dj and producer from Birmingham UK. He is the head of the soundsystem HottaVybz.

Don Dre aka Piggles Di Gaijin is a Singer, MC and YouTube content creator.

Together they collaborate at events and creating music.

Topics:

- collaborating together during Jah jah starz events

- the good and bad aspects of dancehall culture in Japan

- Japanese accent using jamaican patois and the phonetic similarities between jamaican patois and nihongo

- the outsider perspective on dancehall culture and appropriation

- Sound System culture in Japan, dub plates and the legendary Sound System crews in Japan

- Jah Jah Starz and the best places for dancehall parties in Tokyo

Music bed entirely by the incredible FatVonFree

PSA: Jansport J "Any Weather"

Show Focus: "The Experience @ X Bodega in Yokohama November 7th

@piggledigaijin

@djheatjapan

@hottavybz

https://soundcloud.com/hottavybz

@jansportJ

@fatvonfree

https://fatvonfree.bandcamp.com/

Time to check-in! This drop was done with SOMYAKU a.k.a. DC3 of The Breakdown crew. We get into the state of the recovery in Japan, what the future might look like for the entertainment and tourism scenes, and some general concerns and worries. Also, America is trash.

There is also some talk of a possible The Breakdown resurrection, even if it has to happen digitally, so stay tuned in for that and we'll be sure to keep ya'll posted on any updates also.

Wear a fucking mask, ya dingus

@somyaku

@the_breakdown_tokyo

Part two of our episode with the ladies of Japan for Black Lives.

Ryoko Ito is an interpreter/ translator, a member of the Japan For Black Lives (JP4BL) Non-profit organization, "otaku DJ," and one of the organizers of the #1 vibe out party in japan, SpeakEasy TYO

Today she joins us with former guests, singer/songwriter, Maya Hatch and founding member of Japan for Black Lives, Naomi Kawahara.

Here we go into detail regarding an online workshop led by Maimouna “Mumu Fresh” Youssef. We play a bunch of music and talk about tacos.

Naomi appears on episode #121 with Brooklyn Terry discussing more details about Japan For Black Lives.

Maya Hatch appears way back on episode #64.

@iam.reeyo

@jp4blacklives

@fabfivetokyo

@mayahatch

@rararajbeats

https://linktr.ee/MYoussef

The perfect guest list continues!

Ryoko Ito is an interpreter/ translator, a member of the Japan For Black Lives (JP4BL) Non-profit organization, "otaku DJ," and one of the organizers of the #1 vibe out party in japan, SpeakEasy TYO

Today she joins us with former guests, singer/songwriter, Maya Hatch and founding member of Japan for Black Lives, Naomi Kawahara.

- Ryoko's upbringing in the US and Japan.

- Naomi, Ryoko and Maya's involvement with Japan for Black Lives.

- The importance of educating Japanese people about race issues.

- The difficulty of translating academic English terms to Japanese.

- Doing interpretation work in the 90s and 00s for hip-hop's most well known artists visiting Japan.

- Hanging out with Chaka Khan and Kanye

- Doing interpretative work for Grammy nominated artist, Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh

& a whole lot more...

Musical Bed Brought to you bythe incredible Ra Ra Raj (Episode 114)

Naomi appears on episode #121 with Brooklyn Terry discussing more details about Japan For Black Lives.

Maya Hatch appears way back on episode #64.

Tokyo Show Spotlight: Aaron Choulai Sextet at Battica on 10/23

@iam.reeyo

@jp4blacklives

@fabfivetokyo

@mayahatch

@rararajbeats

Part two of our episode with MC / Beatmaker Yo Jahmal Is Dead fka Killa Verse aka Dusty Scrolls aka Supreme of The Tokyo based hiphop collective the Bridge.

Also featuring MC Boodah and Happy Dayz Beats of the Bridge and the homie, Being

This episode HD Beatz and Killa Verse share several new/ unreleased music.

We also each share some verses that are murderous, raw, hard killer verses. featuring Canibus, Raekwon, Andre 3000,

Papoose, Holocaust aka Warcloud, Qwazaar, & Busta Rhymes

Then we get into skateboard Culture and how it intersected with hip-hop culture as we were growing up.

All Beats this episode provided by the incredible Ra Ra Raj, Go check

out his new album Good Night Sunshine! Also MLS episode #114.

Show Focus - BLACK RADIO @ AA COMPANY 11/23 w The Bridge

Thanks for listening!

@killa_verse_aka_supreme

@Boodah___Bridge

@dayvividly

@Happydayzbeats

@rararajbeats

Some more socializing distantly! This time, the guy John Meyer of the Got Faded podcast is on; we had him and the rest of the Faded crew on awhile back and now it's just Johnnie a.k.a. The Spilt Ink to talk about pandemic weight gain, seeming normalcy in Tokyo, underground parties, and getting back to doing live events. Pls enjoy the content and continue to wash your hands

thespiltink.com

@thespiltink

@got_faded_japan