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Home Made Kazoku

Ever since hearing Thank you!! by Home Made Kazoku, I’ve been a fan of their music. What I call Japrap. I’m not really an avid fan of music in general, and I normally listen to rock tunes and dislike hip hop. However, I find myself slowly liking Japanese rock-rap fusion, probably under the influence of Beck.

I’m not sure what Home Made Kazoku’s music comes under, but it’s certainly not rock-rap. Melodic rap would be more apt. I like the way they combine catchy poppy choruses with fluent and rhythmnic rap. Having 2 vocalists helps too, more variety and harmonising There are barely any pauses in lyrics, thanks to the dovetailing of the two vocals.

Japanese is a lot more suitable for rap than English, by the way. Thanks to them only having 5 sounds, A I U E O, everything rhymes.

Here’s a pretty brief breakdown of their new album, Musication. I’m not familiar with reviewing music that sounds the same though. And I have zero knowledge of the band. I hate fanboys who worship the singers and not the music, so I normally don’t bother to find out info about members of the band. I don’t bother about lyrics too, only when the song is really good.
Here’s the album art