Related news How Hip Hop Transformed Japanese Culture Dre, the suave and smoothness of California-born and bred rappers, his voice clear, confident, and nonchalant. DRIVE 2 in вЂ90s West Coast: rife with G-funk wobbles popularized by Death Row-era Dr. Covering all his bases, Shurkn Pap also places CALL ME MR. DRIVE 2 is also anchored by the Japanese rapperвЂ™s enthusiasm for cars and getting around the city. While Shurkn PapвЂ™s discography is unsurprisingly smattered with loving and unflinching devotion to Himeji, CALL ME MR. DRIVE 2, a soulful contrast to its trap-heavy predecessor from 2020. вЂњ Riding my hood / I never change,вЂќ he raps matter-of-factly in вЂњMy Hood,вЂќ the lead single off his latest record, CALL ME MR. Whereas his contemporaries have sought greener pastures in bigger cities like Tokyo, Shurkn Pap planted himself firmly in his home of Himeji, a sprawling, picturesque city west of JapanвЂ™s capital. Hometown pride is an inextricable topic among rappers-celebratory, self-affirming, and endlessly nurturing. It confronts it the only way how: through it. KISSES OF LIFE offers no countenance to it. We live with it, always, sometimes in silent company other times, consuming, obstructive at worst-destructive. I think thereвЂ™s no transcending grief itвЂ™s indelible in nature, devoid of distance and limits. Mary Sue, much like his fallen hero DOOM, pours through these deconstructed arrangements achingly, at times, breathless. While the album addresses death and dying, its orchestrations are immensely alive, the way Mary SueвЂ™s band of producers repurpose old soul records, extending a bygone era in more ways than one. While his is far from dormant, following the death of his grandfather dovetailed with the news of MF DOOMвЂ™s unexpected passing, Sue understands that grief and music arenвЂ™t far apart in terms of expression, one tethered to each other-unsullied. KISSES OF LIFE, Singapore-based hip hop artist Mary SueвЂ™s (stylized as mary sue) Album of the Year contender, registers grief as intractable. ABANGSAPAUвЂ™s вЂњBoyhoodвЂќ offers no promises, no answers, but there is comfort, even peace, in shared grief.

вЂњIf IвЂ™d lost my way / Would you still take me in? / Just take a chance for a change,вЂќ singer-songwriter Lim sings beautifully.

Written with crushing tenderness and vivid contemplation, вЂњBoyhoodвЂќ is a coming-of-age song about self-discovery brought upon by tragic circumstances as much as, if not more than, the choices we make. The song follows the Singaporean rap artist as he confronts the guilt he internalized in his youth, and how it inevitably and profoundly affected his relationships following the death of his father, especially with his mother and himself. Grief comes in the form of reckoning in ABANGSAPAU and Charlie LimвЂ™s вЂњBoyhoodвЂќ-a poignant picture of regret, loss, and missed opportunities. Words by MC Galang and Sofia Guanzon ABANGSAPAU, Charlie Lim вЂ“ вЂњBoyhoodвЂќ Here are our picks for best Asian hip hop and R&B music of 2022 as of March. A recurring theme in our first batch of standout hip hop and R&B releases for this year so far is hope, for the most part that which remains, empowers, and endures. ItвЂ™s a strange feeling to head into 2022 with a pandemic still looming largely-despite promising, though sputtered, developments around the globe, at least on this front.

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