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Mega Late Show logo by Lirc aka Kevin

Mega Church: TMG Exclusive Mixtape, Plus Q&A with The Mega Late Show, Part 2 of 2

December 20, 201744 Views

If you haven’t read Part 1 of my interview with The Mega Late Show, or heard Late’s Liquid Wards mixtape, peep it here. The Mega Late Show is a Tokyo, Japan based hip-hop podcast. In just a short time, hosts Mega, Late, and Steze have helped foster a growing community of rappers, DJ’s, writers, and breakdancers. For ex-pats living in this homogenous society, MLS is a portal to connecting artists that otherwise, might not have linked. On the show, they’ve …

Mega Late Show logo by Lirc aka Kevin
Mega and Late. This was the day that I was a guest on their podcast.

Liquid Wards: TMG Exclusive Mixtape, Plus Q&A with The Mega Late Show, Part 1 of 2

December 14, 201748 Views

Tracy Jones

Last summer, through the Facebook group, Black Creatives Japan, I met “hip-hop savvy listener” Mega. With his co-hosts Late and Steze, they produce The Mega Late Show. It might very well be one of the only English speaking hip-hop podcast in Japan. Mega gave me props on “The 20 Best Hip-Hop Guest Verses of All Time,” an LA Weekly listicle that I contributed to. “Man, how could you leave out Cappadonna’s verse off of Ghostface Killah’s ‘Winter Warz?’” he asked …

The night I landed, I saw First Light (Opio and Pep Love of Souls of Mischief, Hieroglyphics) at The Social.
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God’s Waiting Room 1 of 5

November 20, 201735 Views

Tracy Jones

First, you might want to read “Intro to GWR”, here. On Friday, March 11, 2011, hours after The Great East Earthquake struck, I was sitting in front of a Tokyo city hall, waiting for my then girlfriend, Haruki. We were getting married. She was supposed to meet me after work, but never showed. Almost 16,000 people died that day. Barry was still crossing cats over behind The White House. On Tokyo subways, newspapers and on Haruki’s parents’ TV, Japanese voiceovers, …

Milo, “who told you to think??!!?!?!?!” album review

November 14, 201750 Views

Tracy Jones

On rapper Milo’s latest record, who told you to think??!!?!?!?! the black emperor’s robe probably has a single hand clapping on the back. His throne is rusted chrome, encrusted with knocking-knee rappers’ bones, whose rhymes couldn’t hit a quarter note if the Lawn Mowerman rigged an arcade by telephone. who told you seems like a polaroid of the moment Milo became a man. He got married and had a baby. Staring at a crack in the wall to conjure a …