10/25/2024
Sunday Night October 27th
7- Close
The house of Suntory presents
Wild Style
Japanese Lo-Fi, Hip Hop and Rap
In mid-‘80s Tokyo, Hip Hop arrived with a booming economy that encouraged people to express themselves freely and artistically.
Tokyo’s hip hop scene speaks to the beauty of globalization- what began asan imported trend is now an ebb-and-flow with an international community. After initial influence from overseas.
Japanese culture has doubled back to more abstract sounds defying convention and drawing on the country’s long tradition of free jazz to create a new, improvisation-based sound.
