Nujabes sample jazz rap and sample Brazilian music works are labeled the same.
Other instrumental hip-hop works such as Nomak, DJ Okawari and Little West are also put in. Therefore, many tracks sound totally unrelated to jazz.
Of course, jazz rap exists. In the golden age, rap music imitated many old jazz records. Shucks pt. I used herbie hancock. Jazzmatazz of Guru directly invited Donald Byrd and other jazz recordings, as well as real musical instruments such as The Roots and jazz musicians such as Robert Glasper to participate in rap across the border.
Jazz-HipHop, as its name implies, is jazz rap. This is an attempt to integrate black hip-hop music with today's mainstream music after experiencing hardcore and gangs in the 1990s. While the influence of modern mainstream music is growing, let black music continue to shine.
Hip-hop music with hardcore and gang labels often collides with jazz, just like an angel with a pistol, impacting hearing and perception in the most overbearing way in warmth and love.
The first jazz hip-hop singer I met was Nujabes, a top Japanese music producer. His real name is Junseba. He spelled his name backwards, so he called it Nujabes. I believe many friends who know Nujabes are from a relatively small Japanese anime "Chaos Warrior".
Chaos Warrior, an animation, tells the story of a woman who met two ronin with different personalities in a pub during the Edo period in Japan. Because of a struggle against injustice and misunderstanding, they met and finally went to find the "sunflower warrior" together.
This 26-episode animation in 2004 used Jazz-HipHop as the theme song and soundtrack for the first time. Nujabes, as a major music producer, tells the story of ronin, samurai, maid and government in the Edo period with HipHop and historical drama of tramp.
The plot of Zen Buddhism, gripping duels and killings, and the beating notes of HipHop and Brazilian classical music add a lot of color to this animation in content and style. Coupled with the interspersed jazz -HipHop, the picture is full of jazz and poetry.
At the end of this animation, the three people bid farewell in a hurry, without looking back or feeling as a souvenir. Throughout the whole drama, the impression is that "the past has let him go", which is also in line with some of HipHop's spirits: being true, straightforward, being true to yourself and not being trapped by the past. ?
The song of the four seasons at the end is also highly sung, and the cover and lyrics of this song are no less than any popular song that was once popular.
For me, the way to know nujabes is not from Chaos Warrior, but from nujabes and the luv (sic) series of Japanese hiphop singer shing02.
Luvsic comes from the trilogy of "Freedom, Love and Peace" co-authored by Nujabes and shing02, while the Luvsic series, a * * *, has six chapters, from luv(sic)pt. 1 to luv(sic)pt.6, and each capital exudes what love is, the source of love, the beauty of the world and the seasons.
On the cover of Luv(sic) pt. 1, the owner is holding a puppy, which may be telling us that this is the most primitive "love".
Sadly, on the night of February 26th, 20th10, Nujabes died in a car accident in Tokyo. A generation of top music producers left this world.
The partners found a beat called "the final chapter of Luv(sic)" in his mobile phone, and the record company found the working file, so there is the current "Luv(sic) finale" (also called Luv(sic)PT6.
But then Yuren Yushan made a remix, and it was really named "Luv(sic)pt6". Maybe this is the imperfect side of the love series. Rafsic doesn't have a 6, but there will never be a 6.
For me, the favorite song of the whole luvsic series is definitely luvsic pt.3 But looking at the whole series, there is no difference between good and bad. Every capital letter is enough to shock everyone's heart, the blending of every lyric and melody, and the impact of every beat on the heart.
For me, there is no height that jazz hip-hop can reach. And I believe that everyone who likes luvsic series will arrange their own playing order for luvsic in their hearts.
Maybe god wants to listen to jazz hip-hop He took Nujabes away in the middle of the night.
HipHop is slowly moving from underground to the ground, and Jazz-HipHop, as an important form of HipHop, will gradually be loved by more people. Jazz-HipHop may be more acceptable and liked than hardcore hip hop.
Moreover, many domestic rappers have good Jazz-HipHop masterpieces, such as Wang Yitai, Wang Flash Fire, Jonyj and Saberliang, all of which have one or two songs that make people feel good.