Nujabes - "Luv(sic) Part 3" from Modal Soul (2005). Nujabes - "Battlecry" from Samurai Champloo Music Record: Departure (2004). Nujabes - "F.I.L.O." from Metaphorical Music (2003). DJ Top Bill - "Farewell to a Friend" and "Avatar" from Prelude to One Dollar Store (2003). Five Deez - "Sexual for Elizabeth" from Koolmotor (2001). SupremeEx & Tajai - "Contact" from Projecto: 2501 (2000). "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 2012" (2013) (with Hunger). "Game" (2007) (with Ghostface Killah and Napoleon). "Gigabyte" b/w "Streets of Tokyo" (2000). "The Empire" b/w "Laid in Japan" (1998). "A Day Like Any Other" (1998) (with El-P, Murs and Yeshua Da Poed). Zone of Zen (2016) (with Cradle Orchestra). Shing02's remix of the song "Odakias" by Ryuichi Sakamoto was uploaded to Sakamoto's SoundCloud in July 2012. The two initially met via Myspace and Meyer joined Shing02 on his summer tour of Japan in 2008, after which they began work on Passport. In 2010, Shing02 teamed up with Japanese-American jazz vocalist Emi Meyer for her second album, Passport. Together, Shing02 and Nujabes made fan favorites like the “Luv(sic)” series, music for the Adult Swim anime hit Samurai Champloo, and Nujabes’ classic 2005 album, Modal Soul. As collaborators, the two pioneered a jazz rap music style that inspired the viral " chillhop/Lo-fi hip hop" phenomenon in the 2010s. Shing02 is well known for his frequent collaborations with the late Nujabes in the early 2000s. Shing02 has said of his music that "it was natural to have political and social messages in my music I was fortunate to be exposed to it." Living in the Oakland and San Francisco Bay Area, he became immersed in the hip-hop scene amongst direct descendants of members of civil rights movement groups such as the Black Panthers and Asian American activists. He then moved to Berkeley for schooling and studied art at the University of California, Berkeley. At the age of fourteen, Shing02 moved to Menlo Park in the San Francisco Bay Area of California just following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, where he became involved in various creative arts programs. Shingo Annen was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1975 and grew up in various cities in Tanzania and Japan, as well as London. The style of music has made him a significant presence within the underground rap community, and he has achieved recognition beyond the scene for rapping "Battlecry", the theme song of the hip-hop-influenced chanbara anime Samurai Champloo, produced by late Japanese jazz rap DJ Nujabes. His rhyming style makes use of lyrics which are largely conceptual in nature and his hip-hop sound is known for blending various influences, ranging from reggae to traditional Japanese music to jazz. This track’s video has reached over 13 million views and much acclaim, including from this Redditor’s write-up on “Modal Soul,” which “Feather” kicks off in stellar fashion.Shingo Annen ( Japanese: 安念 真吾, Hepburn: Annen Shingo, born 1975), better known by his stage name Shing02, is a Japanese American hip hop recording artist, record producer, activist and investor who was described by Patrick Neate as one of the Japanese emcees who "has addressed important issues from Japanese ethnicity to sexual exploitation to the education system." ĭue in part to growing up in Western cities, Shing02 stands as one of the few multilingual rappers from Japan able to compose songs entirely in either Japanese or English. The track, which samples Yusef Lateef’s “Love Theme from ‘The Robe,'” is an uplifting, simplistic cut with slick lyrics from its featured emcees: “ Drifting away like a feather in air/Letting my words take me away from the hurt and despair,” says Cise Starr on the hook, as the instruments gradually build to a motivational height. 
Nujabes’ signature track is a hip hop cut featuring Cise Starr and Akin from CYNE flowing over one of the catchiest piano riffs of all time.
This track, also featuring MINMI, is incomparable for a plethora of reasons as the signature ending theme to “Samurai Champloo,” it is by far one of the most beautiful tunes ever featured in an anime credits scene (you’ll always end up waiting the extra minutes to listen to it at the end of every episode.) It features a flowing breakbeat and twangy guitars to compliment MINMI’s vocals, which shift from hypnotic, smooth verses to explosive, exciting choruses in a fashion that will leave you crying on a treadmill. The track, placed third on the “Modal Soul” album, features compositional samples from “I Miss You” by Noriko Rose and a haunting vocal sample of Kenny Rankin’s “Marie,” almost dissonantly calling out to the listener: “Your hair piled up high/You’re a flower/You’re a river/You’re a rainbow.” This video of “Reflection Eternal” has reached over 6.5 million views on YouTube.
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