KOHEI JAPAN

Kohei Japan is a Japanese hip hop emcee and a member of the Japanese rap group, Mellow Yellow. Born in Yokohama, Japan, he discovered rap and hip hop while working as a chef.

Many of his songs illustrate the contrasts between his Japanese culture and Western hip hop influences. In his song "Hungry Strut", he proclaims that he eats "rice, not bread, and fish, not meat", thereby asserting that while… More