True Colors Festival hip hop panel Saykoji Wheelsmith Jonzi D

Japanā€™s True Colors Festival has announced an international hip-hop panel, moderated by the UKā€™s Jonzi D, which will include Indonesian rapper Saykoji, Singaporeā€™s Wheelsmith and Japanese trio Tamura King, among others.

Titled This is Hip-Hop!, the panel aims to address negative stereotypes about hip-hop by exploring its eight panelistsā€™ personal experiences in the genre. Topics up for discussion include cultural appropriation, diversity and inclusivity, and hip-hop cultureā€™s capacity for social change.

The panel will be moderated by British hip-hop dance and theatre practitioner Jonzi D, who is also the artistic director of ā€˜hip-hop theatre festivalā€™ Breakinā€™ Convention. It will be live-streamed on September 26 at 10pm (Japanese Standard Time).

Pre-register here to receive the livestream link. In keeping with the panelā€™s emphasis on accessibility, the English-language panel will have English and Japanese subtitles, with International and Japanese Sign Language interpretation.

The Asian representatives on This is Hip-Hop! are: Saykoji, a self-proclaimed ā€œgeek rapperā€ from Indonesia whose moniker plays on the childhood nickname he used to be taunted with; Danial Bawthan, the Singaporean rapper and beatboxer whose artist name Wheelsmith refers to his use of a wheelchair for his muscular dystrophy, and Ghanaian-Japanese sibling trio Tamura King, who hail from the Kanagawa Prefecture.

Also on the panel is American Sign Language interpreter Amber Galloway-Gallego, who has experienced viral fame thanks to videos of her live translation for rappers like Kendrick Lamar and Twista, as well as Canadian breakdancer Luca ā€œLazylegzā€ Patuelli. The latter, who has the muscle disorder Anthrogryposis, founded ILL-ABILITIES, a crew of differently abled dancers. 17-year-old American rapper Sparsh Shah, who has brittle bone disease and mixes Indian classical music with hip-hop in a blend heā€™s dubbed ā€˜Raga-rapā€™, will round out the panel.







This is Hip-Hop! will conclude with a specially commissioned freestyle dance ā€˜momentā€™ featuring 20 breakdancers from Jakarta, London, Tokyo and Singapore. They will perform to a track written for the segment by Wheelsmith.

True Colors Festival, which is organised by Japanese philanthropic non-profit The Nippon Foundation, has staged festivals across Asia from 2006. In June, the festival organised a collaborative cover of Ben E. Kingā€™s ā€˜Stand By Meā€™ performed remotely by nearly 50 artists across the world.

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