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K Dub Shine
12+ albums
rapjapaneseHip-Hopjapanese hip-hopj-rap
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K-Dub Shine (Real Name, Kouta Kagami was born and raised in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan). Waking up to hip-hop in his teens during his 8 year stay in America in 1988, K-Dub drew inspiration from his idols KRS-ONE, Chuck D, Rakim, Run-D.M.C. among others and picked up his pen which changed his life around completely. Coming from a close to poor home combined with his juvenile delinquent nature in his teens, hip-hop worked more or less as an escape from the alternative street life for Dub and before long in 1988 he wrote his first rhymes on the paper in japanese with a dream to build a real hip-hop scene in his own country. Having picked up a more positive lifestyle with the help of hip-hop culture writing lyrics quickly became natural for Dub who had set his eyes on becoming an MC and use the power of them mic to let people know of his opinions in the way his own idols did before him. First going to schools in Florida and then moving to Oakland for further studies, Dub became acquainted with locals acts The Coup & The Hierogplyphics in the early 1990's and in order to collaborate with them Dub met up with fellow japanese students Hideyuki Sakakura and Kou Sakagami who would later be better known as Zeebra and DJ Oasis. After having appeared on numerous mixtapes followed by the trio selling their own tapes out of car trunks on the streets, the three young japanese mc's graduated from their class and headed back home to Japan in 1993 and finally formed an official group by the name o
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