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Twigy

Twigy

Twigy has been played on NTS in shows including Soup To Nuts w/ Anu, featured first on 24 November 2021. Songs played include Two Night, Mass 対 Core and Kick It Out.

With a career spanning over 35 years, it is obvious that Twigy has been one of the founders and pioneers of the Japanese hip hop scene. He featured on various works in the early 90s, including "Eat & Buy & Eat" by Audio Sports, as well as his participation in the largely Reggae-based V.I.P Hits series. In 1992, Twigy formed the legendary group Microphone Pager along with DJ Muro (a.k.a. the King Of Diggin') which laid the foundation of Japanese rap and released countless Japanese hip hop classics. Utilizing his high pitched voice and a mind bending sophisticated approach to rhyme construction, he is one of the few veterans of the game that are still at the forefront of Japanese hiphop. Twigy has also been featured on DJ Krush tracks like "Kiro" with Rino and "Tragicomic" with Aco, which have shown Twigy's mastery of Japanese rhymes and his avant-garde approach to word play. His crew Kaminari-Kazoku was the equivalent to a Wu-Tang clan in Japan with a large family of hardcore MC's, while Twigy's solo output ranged from spiritual raps reflecting his Muslim faith and even commercial hits with R&B singers such as Hi-D. Twigy has since pursued ventures into other avenues of hip-hop production, venturing into Jazzy Hip-Hop and Lo-Fi with his albums Blue Thought and Waking Life respectively.

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Twigy

Twigy has been played on NTS in shows including Soup To Nuts w/ Anu, featured first on 24 November 2021. Songs played include Two Night, Mass 対 Core and Kick It Out.

With a career spanning over 35 years, it is obvious that Twigy has been one of the founders and pioneers of the Japanese hip hop scene. He featured on various works in the early 90s, including "Eat & Buy & Eat" by Audio Sports, as well as his participation in the largely Reggae-based V.I.P Hits series. In 1992, Twigy formed the legendary group Microphone Pager along with DJ Muro (a.k.a. the King Of Diggin') which laid the foundation of Japanese rap and released countless Japanese hip hop classics. Utilizing his high pitched voice and a mind bending sophisticated approach to rhyme construction, he is one of the few veterans of the game that are still at the forefront of Japanese hiphop. Twigy has also been featured on DJ Krush tracks like "Kiro" with Rino and "Tragicomic" with Aco, which have shown Twigy's mastery of Japanese rhymes and his avant-garde approach to word play. His crew Kaminari-Kazoku was the equivalent to a Wu-Tang clan in Japan with a large family of hardcore MC's, while Twigy's solo output ranged from spiritual raps reflecting his Muslim faith and even commercial hits with R&B singers such as Hi-D. Twigy has since pursued ventures into other avenues of hip-hop production, venturing into Jazzy Hip-Hop and Lo-Fi with his albums Blue Thought and Waking Life respectively.

Original source: Last.fm

Tracks featured on

Most played tracks

Two Night
Muro, Microphone Pager feat. Twigy
Next Level Recordings1997
Mass 対 Core
ECD, Twigy, You The Rock
Cutting Edge1998
Kick It Out
Twigy
Spellbound Records, Entotsu Recordings, VJ1998
Free
You The Rock feat. Twigy
Cutting Edge1996
Rain
TwiGy Al Salaam
Jazzy Sport2011