Japanese hip-hop and rap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54QvPwLXJ2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIp6uabLcj8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zQ4cmGhQZI

Nobody mentioning RIP SLYME? Bit old now I know, but absolutely classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXVu-Wt1TQA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgAqHDs1fEI

And HALCALI who were closely affiliated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6uHEsa41aI

the deep by soul scream from 1996, quality '90s boom bap

There's so much of it, had to revisit my collection to pull out some names.

KIller Bong or anything on Black Smoker records pretty much -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdSScoFxwHs

Bugseed, prolific Bandcamp beatmaker guy -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co8O97O3tFI

Ill Sugi, as above -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saSs5MF_6r0

Buppon -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA5XLGkaCAo

Bron-K -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY6XeYfIdy0

Skillkills, kinda amazing (imho) live broken-beat Hip Hop guys -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so_Z7gyV9mA

Olololop, dunno if this qualifies, it's like No Wave meets Hip Hop or something, but it's awesome -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWfI_GjvoHc

Orrorinz - https://orrorinz.bandcamp.com/track/blow-yo-shit-rough-mix

Rhymester, have been around for a long while but are spotty, I liked the Def Leppard intro to this -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h_OZ1F1BjQ

Wonderful, ILX delivers as always! I'll enjoy digging into these ASAP. Thank you all.

Apologies, I totally missed the pop crossover bit upthread, apologies, Schaa Dara Parr might be a good call, been around for ages, the closest thing to a Japanese Beasties.

I'll have a think about more similar-sounding Charisma.com stuff.

This is prob way too old to be of interest to anyone it but I love tf out of Hoodoo Fishimi's first album Thanatos of Funk, from 1985!

https://youtu.be/9aY139UpZYc

Chelmico -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tflBLxwCWb8

Halcali -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTVeAHo4LdM

Puffy (Ami Yumi) is probably stretching it but they're a lot of fun -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyNDReKYnl4

FEMM -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz3jLeDvpu4

Daoko -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-oDkzv_M6s

Thirteen13 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnbQWOwB14I

Akko Gorilla -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=799rexxpndU

Iri -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1neyBXrfKQo

Nobody mentioning RIP SLYME? Bit old now I know, but absolutely classic

I think of them as a hybrid between hip-hop & boy band but they're really up my alley, in college I was absolutely obsessed with these dudes. their music was so much fun. obviously "Super Shooter" probably the best of 'em but I really loved this tune as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tdMHZRiGd8

wonder whatever happened to them. they've been inactive for a while

Hip-hop/rap isn't my speciality and most of my answers have been taken (Charisma.com, Halcali, FEMM), but I think I have one that hasn't been mentioned, unless I missed it. Chanmina!

This might be a bit sweary for your kid, depending:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMw0V2MtZmk

But there's this one from last year that made it into my EoY list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ1caaQYkz0

(She's Japanese/Korean and works in both languages, btw)

Not too sweary for my kid, she's a hardcore Tyler fan ... CHANMINA is a solid recommend thanks! It's increasingly apparent that S Korea is to this generation what Japan was to mine, so this spans both very handily.
We dug into some DAOKO last night and that was good too. Lots more homework from this thread!

Koutei Camera Girl -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhUkPnAsX8Y

Cicada -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckCyjJoD4Bs

Chai -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMGf3zyhG94

Off brief, but we have a thread now so what the hell, this fucking bangs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3_KiQvOkMY