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Shing02

Born Shingo Yasunen on 18 October 1975 in Tokyo, Japanese-American hip-hop MC and musician Shing02 moved to the Bay Area of California at the age of 15, where he became immersed in the emerging hip-hop scene of the 1990s. He gained international recognition for his collaborations with the Japanese producer Nujabes, particularly for their genre-defining "Luv(sic)" series, which has since become a seminal work in the lo-fi and hip-hop scenes. He took his debut work back to Japan for the first time as an MC in the summer of 1997, bringing "Emu Uta no Susume" with him and in 1998 rel...