Nasty C:巨星游日本 Zulu Man In Japan
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Nov 9, 2026
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AI GeneratedThree artists from Africa and South Africa share their transformative journeys in Tokyo through a Red Bull partnership. They explore the intersections of music, avant-garde fashion, and industrial design, discovering a universal language of creativity. The experience emphasizes the liberation of anonymity, the power of cultural exchange, and the inspiration found in Japanese perfectionism.
Oh, coolest kid in Africa,
but you already know that.
I'm a living legend already, already I'm living my legacy, am I?
Anything close to a peasant, forget it, I'm leader for sure, am I?
with my pit, there's a pit, got them Mercedes,
then left it off on my baby.
Eighty racks in a fanny pack, because lately
I'm dripping this, don't get umbrella.
I used to think I was dead, then I realized I am the opposite.
When I hear the word cheddar, I turn it with semi, apocalypse.
Konichiwa.
Konnichiwa, Hashida this.
Okay, first of all, shout out to Red Bull for making this happen.
I've been wanting to come to Tokyo to...
Interact with the artists from around here,
but I didn't know how to do it, where to start or who to communicate with
I don't know how and and they made
that they solved that problem for me easy
So shout out to you guys for making that happen
while we were still on the plane like descending
I kind of I prepared myself, you know
Because most of the time when we travel
because of like jet lag and us just being tired and stuff
Like I'm never really present. I'm just like I just want
to get to the hotel take a shower take a nap or whatever
But this time I actually prepared myself because I've been wanting
to come to Tokyo for a minute, like the longest of time.
So I prepared myself to be present.
As soon as I landed I just started like embracing everything.
I feel like it's also part of the reason why
everything just went perfectly and went smoothly and
And, and...
we just had such a dope time.
As soon as we landed everybody was so kind.
What I noticed first is that the people here have
a very strong sense of self-respect.
Like they understand themselves and have a dignity
and that resonates to everything else.
You know I feel like character begins from within
and they mastered that here.
Like the respect is next level
and I know that I'm gonna take a bit of that with me back home and
it could see me that and that's like amazing.
Like apart from like the language barrier,
everything was dope you know.
And that was an experience too.
This time around we took the train, we walked a lot.
I took the cab most of the time.
I don't really get to do that back at home
or anywhere else, like in Africa.
It's really dope, you know?
I felt normal again. Like I could walk anywhere.
I could just start dancing, doing random
stupid dance moves in the streets.
I don't have to
feel like I have to hide for anybody or
or get security
or try and be in like a safe area.
It was really dope. I felt free
and I felt normal, man.
You know?
I didn't realize I needed that until I actually experienced it,
and I was like, oh ----, this is a good feeling.
I'm
starting
As soon as we landed, we went
to a small restaurant very close to our hotel.
It was really dope.
We tried out different types of food,
to
messed around with different sauces, spices.
speak
A little bit
now.
of spice.
First of all, just like the way they serve you
is different how we do it like back at home.
Back at home, this is like a big plate.
This is like, there you go, eat.
I need to get tons of these and go back home.
What's up, man?
What's up, bro?
What's this called?
What is this?
Over here, they bring it in bits.
You get to enjoy each and everything separately.
Before you know it, you're full and you're satisfied
and you don't even eat that much.
I feel like I lost weight since I was here.
I think everybody in the music industry
expects us to be in LA right now.
Or New York.
Or Atlanta.
Or that because of what we do or how we sound.
But we're here.
We're here.
Thank you.
We're here in Japan.
We're here.
And it couldn't have been the best.
It's the best decision I think we've made is to be here.
And from we got off the plane, from the night we got in,
not even in the main part of town, like some other part of town,
where everybody's like, ooh, you're way out there.
Yeah.
And we went, and the first little restaurant we chose,
what the f***?
The food and the vibe was just so fire, so lit, yo.
With the little spicy sauce and the soy and...
If it's food, we just want chicken.
If it's snacks, we want vanilla ice cream.
We don't like to experiment, but as soon as we got out here...
Vanilla ice cream.
What up, man?
We got
like...
Seven tracks in, in eight days.
Really dope.
And it was easy too.
It was all effortless.
It was like, we were just having fun in the studio.
Some of the guys, it was my first time meeting them
at the studio.
Like Koko, it was my first time meeting him at the studio.
And we knocked it out, quick.
Yeah.
Yeah, I met JP for the first time actually.
There, yeah.
We had been speaking on WhatsApp,
but it was my first time meeting him
and we knocked it out quick.
It was easy.
And I realized it's just like how it
is everywhere else in the world, you know?
With music, we don't really have to say much.
We don't need that much talking.
We just put on a beat.
Tell me what the concept is.
I realize that's the first thing that they ask me.
As soon as they see me, like, bobbing my head and freestyling,
they ask whoever can translate to say,
okay, ask him what he's freestyling about
so that I can just write also.
They don't need to come to me and say,
how do you feel about this or why are we talking about that
or how should we put it?
It's none of that comes into play.
It's just put on the beat and let's run type ----.
Okay, okay, cool, let's get in there.
Look.
You don't know nothin' bout me, 22 with a 22 beside me
Get a bag, then go and get cocky, superstar brand DeFossy
Flyin' with a condom right in my back pocket, it's raining thots
Drop it, pile it, keep it a secret, we flyin', plop it
Get you some pussy or die, tryin', I'ma roll like a drive
Fight, playin' these hoes, I'ma lie, lie
Thinkin' I'm gonna retire, why?
Nigga, you gotta be high, mm
I am a fuckin' Messiah, konnichiwa, now get in the line
I got the view of a pelican eye, she give me head, it's an alien size
Mm, alright, alright
It's a Africa-Asian collage, you with it or not?
You mother ******, let's go eat
We just had a dope ass session right now at Red Bull Studios in Japan,
me and my boy JP killed it, two songs out the park already,
tomorrow getting back in the studio and we're knocking out three.
It's a really dope session, shout out to Japan for embracing me man.
It was really dope to work with completely different artists
from a completely different side of the world but communicate
in the same way that I've always been doing it like for my whole life.
I get to relive my come up.
Right now I'm about to go to the floor.
I don't know how to pronounce that.
Batika.
I said that right? Yeah, Batika.
About to go in, you know, introduce myself
to the crowd out here. It's been
lovely, you know.
It's about to get even more lovely.
I'm a leader.
Tokyo is the most dangerous place right now.
Yo, stop talking about it, bro! Stay here!
I am from traffic!
Over and over again, every single time I go
to a place where they don't know me,
I get to introduce myself.
I feel like I get to correct my mistakes,
you know, that I might have had back then when
I was still shy, I was still timid.
I didn't know, I didn't have that much stage presence.
We should be talking with the way it goes.
We should be talking, talking, talking, talking.
I didn't have that much confidence.
This time around, I know what to say, what to do.
I know how to gauge people's reaction.
I know where to take it.
So it's dope. I like that kind of thing.
A lot of artists don't like doing that.
They just want to perform to people that know their music
and just like have everyone sing along to these songs.
It's just dope.
But sometimes it's cool to just introduce yourself.
That genuine reaction in people's faces is like...
It's...
You can never compare it to anything, you know?
Seeing somebody that doesn't know you for the first time
just like freaking out to your music.
It starts out like this,
you be on stage and people slowly walk away because they don't know you
and you just came after somebody
that they know, right? That's how it starts out.
And then people get on their phones,
and then they'll start looking at you,
then they'll start taking like one snap, and then they'll move closer,
then they'll start bobbing their heads,
and then they'll start touching you while you're on stage.
How are you on stage?
And that's like, you get to,
you feel all of those emotions all at once.
It's like going from being, oh ----,
I hope they **** with me, to, oh ----, I'm dead.
Yeah, you know, it's really dope.
I'm cool, I'm calm, I'm gravy, I'm drunk,
I'm high, I'm faded, don't want no smoke, no.
To go into Harlem,
which apparently is the oldest hip-hop club in this area.
Nice to meet you Vito, it's been so long, how are you doing?
Nice to meet you Vito, it's been so long, how are you doing?
Nice to meet you Vito, it's been so long, how are you doing?
Nice to meet you Vito, it's been so long, how are you doing?
Nice to meet you Vito, it's been so long, how are you doing?
Nice to meet you Vito, it's been so long, how are you doing?
Nice to meet you Vito, it's been so long, how are you doing?
Nice to meet you Vito, it's been so long, how are you doing?
Nice to meet you Vito, it's been so long, how are you doing?
Nice to meet you Vito, it's been so long, how are you doing?
Nice to meet you Vito, it's been so long, how are you doing?
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
I'm always on stage.
I'm always either on stage or in like a VIP section.
Or backstage, you know?
That's cool.
And and people in the crowd might think that that's well, okay
I'm gonna leave out the stage, the stage sometimes
is better than being in the crowd
but like the VIP and the special treatment and the backstage blah blah
that that ---- might look cool like if you're in the crowd and
You just want that lifestyle, but the first day we got here
We went to 88rising the Red Bull event and I got to be in the crowd.
I got to be in the mosh pit
My jewelry ain't cool, just like a breeze.
All them beats ain't like a sound.
All them beats.
The energy
is like nothing I've ever experienced ever before.
I've never been in that type of setting ever, ever, ever.
Oh my God, this ---- lit as ****.
Japan lit as a bitch.
I was doing the ---- that I always tell my fans to do, you know?
And it's really dope.
I felt like it makes sense now.
I understand why they freak out like that,
why they just scream randomly.
Why sometimes it could be, like I notice some of my shows, when I
come out on stage, some people just look at me like, oh, who's this?
Like some people might not know who I am.
And then like three songs in,
like they'd be so lost in like the whole experience.
They'd be just like zoning out and just like going crazy.
And that's how I felt also.
I didn't know who the guys were on stage.
I couldn't understand a word they were saying.
I didn't know any of the songs they were playing.
But I was going crazy because it's like, it's energy based.
I loved it, man.
I loved it, man.
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I loved it, man.
But it's everything I imagine it to be, man.
I loved it, man.
I loved it, man.
No, it's not.
I even, I've been up on like the scene around here,
like the hip hop and trap scene around here.
I just can't really remember the name of it, guys.
But I've seen the videos.
I've seen how wavy the kids are,
how lit they get, the art, tattoos, face tats,
crazy hairstyle, colorful clothes.
It's everything I imagine it to be.
I've been lit since I landed.
No, me neither.
I'm telling you, like, how many days have we been here?
Three, four days now.
And collectively, I think I've only slept about seven hours.
I don't know.
I swear, I swear on my life.
I swear, I swear.
That's it.
Having a dope and unique sense of fashion
is very important to me as an artist.
I like to show the way I feel through the way I clean up,
meaning the way I drip, the
way I dress, from the head down to the toes.
That means from my hairstyle, the type of hat I put on,
the accessories I put on around
my neck, wrists and fingers.
You know, I'm an all-white type of guy, I'm the all-white jiggy-jigger.
I gotta layer up when I dress up,
and that allows me to get more creative, have fun and
show off.
The fashion part of it, fashion aspect
of this whole trip, this whole visit.
It was very important to me, I learned a lot,
I got to go to a couple of, I want to say labs, showrooms.
I like to say labs because there's a couple of things in there that
are just like far from completion or their final product or whatever.
But you can see the direction
and you can see where that person is headed artistically.
And because I'm a person that's so into art, it's like, oh ----.
Because sometimes I see something and think,
damn, I've had an idea that was like similar to that,
but I gave up on it because I was like,
I don't know where to take this.
People might not ever **** with this.
And I just like disregarded it.
But seeing them actually keep that and value that
and explain that what they're doing to you,
the process with so much passion,
it just makes me feel like, oh damn.
Now every single time I have an idea and I get stuck
because you always have like a couple hiccups.
I can just put it away, give it more thought,
go out there, seek more inspiration, come back to it
and it might end up being a masterpiece.
Hugo who's from Nigeria, 200 million strong.
In fashion, through styling I got a chance to work
with an eclectic array of people you know for me.
Artists like Justin Bieber and Travis Scott
and Chris Brown have had a chance to get my hats and products on.
Celine Dion and Beyonce, Kelly Rowland, Floyd Mayweather, Joe Jonas.
The list goes on and it's been great.
But, you know, I feel like there's just a lot more greatness to come.
Tell me what were your thoughts coming into the space, into Japan?
Honestly, like, Japan has been on my list of destinations for years.
That's why when you said that, I was like, yo, I can't not come.
I can't not come.
It's been just, like,
an inspiration when it comes to fashion and art and style.
I love mostly just the way the people are,
like, their morals, their respect.
It was really inspirational.
The cuts that they have out here, the different types of fits.
It's different to what we know back at home.
Back at home, we just know this, like the regular fits.
Out here, they cut their ---- different.
I know, I saw yesterday, we were at one of the stores
and it was like a long sleeve t-shirt,
but it has another short sleeve layer to it,
like in the front, that just drops,
but you can't really put your arm through it.
It's just like, for effect, it's just dope.
I saw a lot of ---- out here that's bizarre, insane,
but it's like, whoa.
There really is no limit to art.
If you really believe in something, you really put your mind to it,
and you just focus on purely expressing yourself.
Doesn't matter what you think, people will think of it.
All that comes into play later when you're done.
My first outlook to Japan, because as an industrial engineer,
it's all about efficiency.
We studied.
We studied about Japan a lot, like in all our case studies.
And me coming here right now,
like years later, it's like I'm mind blown.
Perfectionism, high morals, high standards,
attention to detail, uh just the people how they
like I wish more people had
that Japanese uh honor like loyalty that's just like unspoken
between people it's just you see
the way they walk they're like people are not throwing things
on the street people not trying
to cut each other it's like a it's like unison non-spoken
And we all have that, like,
we're able to do that if we didn't have selfishness.
Yeah, you know, with this,
you see that culture has no boundaries, you know, like,
we're all united through art, through music,
through fashion, and through passion,
and it's all a story on its own.
I'm definitely gonna start cutting ---- up, sewing some ---- together,
I'm gonna get some paint, some acrylic paint
on my ---- again, because I used to do that,
but I stopped doing it
because I didn't think people would ever **** with it.
Because I was doing it to please people and to try
and keep up with like a trend or whatever.
But now, now I get it.
Thank you.
What you should do with your body
Don't want that ---- on your cunt.
Me and JP the Wavy, Ricky, Teddy,
Mark and the rest of the crew, we were just, we were actually
going shopping.
And then somehow there was just
Music just started playing.
a Bluetooth speaker out of nowhere.
That's when I had the takoyaki.
I'm about to get some takoyaki.
They say it's got an octopus,
but they say it tastes like pussy,
so it's octopussy.
I'm trying to break it off,
so I don't have to eat the whole thing.
Thank you.
It's a bit of a maze, huh?
Takoyaki.
I think that's what started the whole thing actually.
As soon as I started enjoying the food,
I just started dancing, Teddy was dancing, everybody
else was just vibing, and we ended up shooting
a music video and it was dope as ****, like
we were doing all types of like steps,
like some weird ----, it was fire man, it was like
guerrilla style, just really being in the moment.
Having cameras around and like capture the moment type ----.
I like it when organic ---- like that happens.
Because you can never copy that or mimic that or try
and duplicate that.
We were just like having fun.
It wasn't like rehearsed.
We didn't plan it.
It wasn't no cut, take two, action.
None of that.
We were just having fun on the way to point B.
First we went to this other building,
this other studio where we just went to go get our makeup done.
Which took about two hours because the makeup was so crazy.
We did some some other crazy stuff.
There was like a couple mermaids,
but it was like so dope, but it took so long.
My ears were like elf ears.
JP had like a third eye, but it was dope as hell.
But I forgot to put the shirt
on before this thing.
Luckily I thought about it before they
started going crazy with my face.
This baby's baby is Neo-Garu.
I'm on the nail, motherfucking Jack Sparrow in the building.
I love it.
Japan's one of those places where I can just walk at any time,
anywhere, and I feel safe.
I don't feel like I'm going to be mobbed or whatever.
I went to go buy something, and I got lost on the way.
All I had to do was just ask for directions.
Even though they didn't understand English, I wrote it down on Google,
and then they translated it, and they understood.
And they actually went out of their own way
and helped me to get to where I was trying to go.
After that, we went right to the shoot.
I like how the setup was, you know,
the location that they picked was perfect.
We shoot like a whole music video,
a complete music video in just like that one location.
That was dope as hell.
Those were fire.
I expect nothing less.
Just
wrapped,
my man JP
featuring
myself.
We don't even have a title yet.
What's the title for the song?
We don't have a title yet, right?
No, yet.
The song is ******* fire.
The video's gonna be fire, epic.
It's my boy right here, man. I appreciate him, you know.
Brought me back here to his home, showed me a good time.
Gave me a couple of gifts.
Leaving out this bitch with BANGS!
You know what I mean? I feel like I have to go to the store.
I don't know what to say.
Thank you.
I'm going to the store now. I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.
What are you going to do?
Oh, yeah.
I'm going to the store now.
I'm going to the store now.
I'm going to the store now.
What are you going to do?
What are you going to do?
I'm just trying to learn a little bit.
I'm going to learn with some power.
You know what I mean?
How are you?
I'm fine, thank you.
My name is Ntegutsi. I have been working here since I was a child.
The salt is almost gone now.
It's gone.
I want you to go back to Django Shack
and go places and lead your men like this.
Thank you, thank you.
Bye-bye, bye-bye.
I'll see you in October.
What's that sound?
I don't know if it's a good thing or not.
I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to speak in the future.
I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to speak in the future.
I don't know how to translate it.
I don't know how to translate it.
I don't know how to translate it.
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know how to
translate it.
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And behind the camera right now is Hayato.
That's the gang right now.
Yeah, man.
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
Hashida.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jaburo.
Jaburo.
Jaburo.
Yeah.
Hey, what up?
What up?
What up?
What up?
My name is Yoshi.
I'm Yoshi.
I'm going to be an artist
from May 15th, and on May 15th,
I'm releasing my album.
Zmpilo?
Yeah, there we go.
Shirushi.
Shirushi?
Shirushi?
Shirushi.
I've never seen anybody with a similar energy like that.
I guess I was I was too young to really to see how far
that that could go to see the potential in in that type of energy
and really like appreciate somebody that's that happy
and that joyful all the time and it's like oh like yeah man hey man
what up homie you know Teddy was like that I think he still is you know
that's why every every single time we go anywhere for the first time
And let's say, let's say I get in contact with like an artist
from like, let's say, for instance, Ghana, and I speak
to them later again, like they always say, yo, where's Teddy?
Because of his energy, you know, and Yoshi's like that, man.
He's so alive. He's so talented also.
Like his his potential is limitless, man.
He does fashion, he skates. Find out yesterday he plays basketball.
He acts. He's a musician too now.
He just he just took on a new journey. And it's incredible.
It's like he's been doing this for like two or three years already.
But he's just having fun in the studio, like,
just popping his ----, just having fun, you know?
I feel like the universe
has dominoes, you know?
And one domino might have happened like 10 years ago
that led to this domino.
And the moment that I met Yoshi, I felt a domino tipping over.
I just knew, like, this was something
in my life the moment that I met him.
It started out as, like, I felt like I met him before.
He reminded me of my nephew, my brother-in-law, exactly like him.
I was just like, oh, this kid is like,
I feel like he's my family already.
So I had to take him under the wing right away.
What I'm getting from here, you know,
it's super inspiring being around people like Yoshi.
Thank you.
It's great.
It's great.
We love the fact that we can bridge cultures and bring
our African vibe here and be received, you know, somewhere else.
In another continent,
we see the similarities in our cultures and our art.
And I think that's what we're here to do is,
you know, really just culture clash.
I remember telling his crew.
To make sure that they guard his energy, make sure he never changes,
make sure they don't let the leeches come in because in life,
people will test you, people will try to change you, people will try
to break you down, set you back, slow you down, all that type of ----.
And it's their job as his big brothers, his manager
and producer to make sure that they guard him and keep him safe.
Let the babies and their mamas live,
get the haters
and their partners killed, and they're
calming me down, I am not gon' chill.
I'm from the jungle, believe me bro,
no silver spoon, it wasn't easy, oh.
I put in the hours for all of my dollars,
money don't fall from the trees, you know,
I'm a wolf in the wild like a sheep, you know.
Bending in, nigga, keep it low.
I was for all of my dollars.
Money don't fall from the trees, you know.
I'm a wolf in the wild like a sheep, you know.
Blending in, nigga, keep it low.
Make
sure his
energy
never
changes.
He stays like that forever, as long as he can, you know?
Because his energy's infectious.
It's crazy.
You make Colin feel like a teenager.
A teenager the whole time, you know?
Shout out to Yoshi, man.
Right now, I'm at Team Lab Planets in Tokyo.
It's a really dope, how do I call it, like a,
I don't want to say showroom because it's not one room,
it's like a building where you get
to experience different kinds of like illuminated art, I guess.
It's a really dope experience, you know,
that's my first time experiencing anything like that.
I've never experienced anything close to that.
Really gave me some time to think about some stuff,
really appreciate life.
Also gave me a lot of ideas as far as my art goes, really dope.
I like the way they brought their art to life.
It kind of felt like, it felt like it was there.
Like when we were in one of the rooms where we
were in the water and there was a fish
and if you touch the fish or if you grab it,
it turns into like a flower
and then it spreads out into like different petals.
That's really dope.
Shout out to Johan, a genius.
He said it took him like seven months to design that whole thing.
That's really, that's incredible.
Ha! Ichigo Ichie!
Ah, it's our last night, yo.
Heart?
Yeah.
It's a bone, man.
Ichigo Ichie. In formal term, one life,
one encounter, or once in a lifetime encounter.
But as everybody knows it now, as the kids say,
it's basically just YOLO. You only live once.
So, treat every moment like it'll never happen again.
I guess the challenge is to escape the zone of comfort,
that's the challenge, and then convert it to your home,
and then be comfortable with it, and then challenge yourself again
and leave, and that's how you grow, because stagnation is death,
if you're not growing, you know, you're not going.
Every single moment is an opportunity
to make something great out of it, you know, appreciate life,
appreciate every single second of your day, make the most out of it.
This here is Harisha.
Hashira.
Hashira.
Oh man, okay, this is Hashira.
This is my name. This is my name in Japanese.
It basically just means pillar.
My real name in Zulu is Ntsiika.
In full, it's Ntsiika Isizwe.
It's pillar of the nation.
Which I think is crazy that my pops named me that,
because that's what I lived up to.
What do you do for a living?
What do you do for a living?
I don't know. I don't know.
Hey, who?
Who said?
Oh, man, you know, I've got it up to the back.
You know, up to the back of my legs.
You know, I'm not going to talk to you about it.
You know, I'm not going to talk to you about it.
You know, I'm not going to talk to you about it.
I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say.
What's that?
I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say.
I never liked my name as a kid.
It felt like it was so deep,
I'm going to teach you how to do it.
I'm going to teach you how to do it.
I'm going to teach you how to do it.
I'm going to teach you how to do it.
I'm going to teach you how to do it.
I'm going to teach you how to do it.
I'm going to teach you how to do it.
I'm going to teach you how to do it.
Come here.
You know, I... I suck bonnet, I'm pretty sure.
It's a guy who says it's a bonnet.
That's what you can tell. That's what you can tell.
I don't know how to say it in English.
I don't know how to say it in English.
I don't know how to say it in English.
I don't know how to say it in English.
I don't know how to say it in English.
I don't know how to say it in English.
I don't know how to say it in English.
I don't know how to say it in English.
I don't know how to say it in English.
I don't know how to say it in English.
I don't know how to say it in English.
I don't know how to say it in English.
I don't know how to say it in English.
Deep, it made me, it made me.
Seem like a farm boy, you know, every time I say my full name,
people will be like, whoa, where are you from, type, you know.
But as I grew older and I understood the meaning
and like grown-ups started telling me how I'm actually giving up
to that, I started to appreciate it a bit more, you know.
And I've always wanted to like name one of my projects by my name.
I didn't think I'd see it on TV, but now, now it's easy.
I got the tat, I can draw
this now without even looking at it, you know.
I have it in Japanese, which is, I've always wanted to come here.
A lot of diamonds in the rain, drop my top in the rain,
RIP to Kurt Cobain, putting my city on game,
using my name in vain, get you stained, full of change,
whole club going insane, they're going insane,
they're going insane, T-O-K-Y-O-O-K, T-O-K-Y-O-O-K, T-O-K-Y-O-O-K,
It's been
really
dope, man.
People are really warm-hearted around here,
really welcoming, everyone is so friendly.
Every single person that I've met has just been showing nothing
but love, good energy, positivity.
It's just been...
Telling me how amazing I am and what I do.
And how now they feel like they want to see me again.
Either I come back here or they go to South Africa and they see me.
It's really dope.
Why was this trip so important to you as an artist?
You put this really in the forefront.
Of the places you wanted to go.
And if you talk to most African artists,
you know what they're going to tell you?
They want to go to America, right?
But you put this on the top of your bucket list.
Why was that so important?
Well, for me, I'm not just a rapper.
I'm an artist all around.
So I draw, I design.
Like, I will buy something today
and cut it up just so it could be different, unique,
and it'll say something about my personality.
And Japan, I feel like it's like the hub of art.
Like, in terms of, like, everything.
Even, like, the traditional art is still mind-blowing to us.
Like, back at home, how you guys do your tattoos, all that stuff.
It's, like, it's mind-blowing.
So, for me, it was really more about, like, just expanding my,
I don't know, my knowledge and creativity as far as art goes.
Fashion, music, you know, all that type of stuff.
For me, it was, like, I really feel like I came home.
Like, I'm not even lying.
I really feel like I just came home
and learned more about my own culture.
Because it's something that's been in me since I was a kid.
I didn't even know what art was.
I didn't know how to differentiate between the different types of art.
I just knew art was art and I was art.
Let's do the two minutes.
When I think
about purpose,
like why we here
in life, like we
this right here.
It's purpose, bro. This is purpose. Music is a widget.
I hate that musicians don't like when I say that, but it's a widget.
It's a delivery mechanism to get to an audience,
but we're way deeper than that.
If you can sing or you can rap, you can draw, you can act.
Hip-hop has proved that we can
do absolutely anything we put our mind to without Harvard.
Without Yale, without Berkeley,
without any of that, we are incredible at core.
We grew up with the internet, man.
I grew up like.
downloading stuff like I'm
from a different generation I'm like LimeWire
like we didn't have no record stores we didn't have
no MTV like I just downloaded stuff yeah
and we and we got influenced by it
because it resonated we were just saying earlier it's like
right now what we're about to create what we're about
to record is like a feeling an emotion that
we put on a waveform and we spread it
to like masses millions of people get affected people
are going to listen to you and be want
to be like you, like what is your message, what are you trying to tell them
It's like it's powerful. You hold a lot of power.
We all do in this room to a certain extent.
And what is our message? What is our intentions?
As long personally, as long as it's genuine and it's love
and it's going to domino effect to a bigger and more massive effect.
But I also believe that we must control our narrative and we must put
our narrative out there. And today's Internet says I don't need
62 people to interview me for me to tell my narrative, the social media
The internet is giving me the ability to tell my story from my voice
Voice!
As soon as I say it's beef, they be having a cookout.
Bitch
A pussy nigga get ate up.
It be a full mouth.
Bitch
Ban your ass around here.
Put my foot down.
Out from the C-section.
Section.
Really don't need to check in.
But if you disrespect the legend, you better flee in three seconds.
Wait.
I know how to exit.
Don't worry about it.
We'll catch him.
Okay.
We family, so we repping.
Loyalty invested.
I woke up to bad news today.
Teddy just told me the police took my nigga, Trand, away.
Right or wrong, wrong or right, you riding anyway.
Can't get rid of the pain.
All I can do is pray.
Soon as I heard the news, I called my little bro.
Feelin' like a nightmare, I'm in a limbo.
I'ma be screamin' free him till he free ho.
Takin' him out of the gutter the second he get home.
South African people, all the African people,
all my beautiful people, one love, spreading peace.
This music should bring the world together, man.
You know what I'm saying?
This Chop Records forever
Shoutout to my son SCC
You feel me?
We out here in Tokyo.
Niggas in Tokyo making a splash, bro, making a wave.
You feel me?
We from two different universes.
We connected right now
Boom.
We in Asia, nigga.
Hip hop, man.
America, Africa.
We in Asia, though.
We in Tokyo, nigga.
What the ****?
No joke.
What the ****?
No joke.
Damn, I got all the eyes on me.
Every nigga in here, people people people, Tokyo the most dangerous rapper
This is Kazuma, the hottest rapper in Tokyo, Kazuma.
That's so crazy. That's so rad.
Ah, Zuma, Zuma.
Yo, get your ---- together, man.
Thank you so much for supporting us with West Circle.
And we care about diversity.
And we're here, Japan Rising. Here we are.
There we go.
Some of my African friends was ******* cracking, nigga.
Oh yeah.
Get over here, baby.
Let me go, let me go
Let's go, let's go, let's go!
Hey, Tokyo Slime ----, we out here, man.
We out here, making with the family.
We making moves, man.
I just met these guys, but they all got pieces, man.
We're goin'
go down, bro
man ain't no lie, these niggas ain't serious, yo no time
No, this ain't no show.
This ain't no assembly.
All that tattoos.
Jay, Tokyo, Dubai, South Africa, Dubai.
What are you saying? Don't forget about
motherfucking Osaka, motherfuckers!
What?
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Yay, yay, yay, yay, yay.
No cat!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's about to do his first set.
Wassup Rico!
Let's go!
What are you saying?
No cat.
Yeah.
I love Japan.
My first night out, I had a blast.
I was in a mosh pit for the first time ever.
Red Bull, that's the one that's lit.
Oh yeah, I saw a shooter jumping into the crowd
and we left him in the crowd.
I'm starting to speak now.
What are you acting?
Thank you.
Well that's your first time leaving him in the crowd.
Oh!
I almost died, I couldn't breathe.
Yo, we're out of here,
we still have energy for one more, one more mosh pit.
You know what I mean, we're already,
we're out here in South Africa stand up.
Let's go man, Dubai to South Africa.
Yeah!
Tokyo, Tokyo, Tokyo!
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It has to be like the best thing in my life,
I swear to God, there's no question I'm facing the wall.
Oh, oh.
I'm in front of an ugly-ass car right now that's got no rims,
but because it's Japan,
yeah, I'm in world domination, I swear to God.
Let's go!
I swear.
You swear.
Question, coolest kid in Africa?
No cap!
It's about to turn from coolest kid in Africa to coolest kid in Africa.
Okay, okay, coolest kid in Africa.
Look.
You don't know nothing about me, 22 with a 22 beside me,
get a bag then go and get cocky, superstar brand of faucet,
flying with a condom right in my back pocket,
it's raining thighs, driving, pilot, keeping the secret,
we flying, private, get you some pussy or die, trying,
I'm on a roll like a drive, fire, playing these hoes, I'm a liar,
lying, thinking I'm gonna retire, why, nigga you gotta be high,
I am a ******* Masai, couldn't eat you out, now get in the line,
I got the view of a pelican eye, she give me head, it's an alien size,
alright, alright, had to get rid of some guys, alright, alright.
They switch up, I took it in stride.
That's right.
Hi.
Hi.
**** it, I'm living my 20th life.
All right, all right.
It's an African-Asian collab.
Is you with it or not?
Thank you
for watching!
Thank you
for watching!
It's a little fun.
