Japanese hip-hop

Japanese hip hop is hip hop music from Japan. It began in the early 1980s with Yellow Magic Orchestra and Hiroshi Fujiwara. Japanese hip hop tends to be most directly influenced by old school hip hop, taking from the era's catchy beats, dance culture and overall fun and carefree nature and incorporating it into their music. As a result, hip hop stands as one of the most commercially viable mainstream music genres in Japan and the line between it and pop music is frequently blurred.