Samurai Champloo broke barriers by blending hip-hop culture with Edo Japan, setting a new standard in anime. The episodic ...

Set in the Edo period, Samurai Champloo incorporates many anachronistic elements into it, largely in the form of rap and hip hop culture, which also shapes the series' music. These factors combine ...

Now, Fiasco is back with his latest record Samurai. Japanese culture and martial ... I wonder how you translate the discipline of martial arts to hip-hop? Fiasco: My father always wanted our ...

Lupe Fiasco announces his ninth album, “Samurai,” reflecting his deep connection to Hip-Hop and his role as a mentor and creator. Lupe Fiasco is back on the music scene, ready to unleash ...

Hip-hop, which turned 50 last year ... wordplay and rapid-fire rhymes. “Samurai” opens with a refrain based on Winehouse’s comment about her rap lyrics. The song describes a talented ...

In honour of the Junos in Saskatoon, we kick things off with Saskatchewan's own Samurai Champs, a group changing the face of Prairie music. "Being an Asian hip-hop boy band from the Prairies ...

And we’re both almost extinct.” The film-what its maker calls “a gangster, hip-hop, samurai eastern western”-is about the gang that couldn’t shoot straight and the killer for hire who ...

From that one sentence, Lupe conjures up an epic narrative arc for Samurai Amy—her days as a ... out a fever dream about being possessed by hip-hop and revelling in the power of rap music.

What's more impressive is the fact that Watanabe naturally blends hip-hop culture with the Edo period in Japan. In Samurai Champloo, this fusion is executed perfectly in a way that does not seem ...