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— by Yuho Nomura: It was just two years ago that Daichi Yamamoto, a bilingual rapper from Kyoto, burst onto the scene with his experimental hip-hop mixtape, WINDOW. The young musician had gone from working at his local record store Jazzy Sport to being picked up by its eponymous label as a new artist. After a stint studying art at London’s UAL and an album release in 2019, he’s back in his homeland and fully focussed on making music. His new EP, Elephant In My Room, is a trappy five-tracker released in August that has secured him a place on the radars of rap fans across Japan…

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