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my heart skipped a bit at first, but when you follow those guys for almost 20 fuckin years, there's certain things your gut tells you Ryo has always dealt with mental health problems, kei first solo act was born after Ryo's biggest breakdowns. I mean, the dude has written a book on the matter Cancelling tours and suddenly suspending activities points me to another one of those. Kei has been working on solo stuff for a while, so I'm sure he was somewhat prepared for something like this This saddens me AF, but I'm pretty sure we'll hear more from Ryo in due time. Hope he rests, get well, and make a comeback ASAP. If not, we just lost one of the most influential acts of 00's VK. Cheers to a legendary one!

GOD I HATE THIS

my boy awa can do no wrong

he's definitely not the best vocalist around, but this is super duper catchy

holy shit I'M SO READY I highly doubt it will be a full revival, but fingers crossed!

woww so cool to see him back in a solo project! went to check his other songs and he re-recorded 霞むヒカリ from nil delete heads, can't get much better than this! really exciting!

To be honest I never went past his 12 rules book which I read out of curiosity right before his debate with Zizek ( which was a boring one if you ask me, Zizek seems too cynical to properly engage like younger Zizek would do), but I do understand your point and I think there's a lot of merit, even though it's not for me, that's just life. My point is that I do think that a lot of times when he steps outside the self-help small talk, he dives into some pretty dangerous thoughts, specially considering he knows who make up the majority of his public. For exemple, the several times he blatantly ignore systemic oppressions insisting on placing the root of problems on the lack of self improvement and it reverberates on a shit ton of people who makes life for everyone else really hard, that's when I have a problem with him having the stage. That's why I believe that, even though his words do not affect you (or me, or anyone else who doesn't want to) on a personal level, they are part of what validates some of the horrible circlejerk that affects the life in society as a whole. I fail to see how the (little, IMHO) value he brings to the table outwheights the bad, but that's just me. I am of the idea that society is on the verge of a profound collapse, and the never ending class warfare will reach new violent heights, and he is one of those who speaks to the other side I'm on. But maybe I'm wrong. I fully respect people like you who can be thoughtful and still extracts good from the "bad", maybe are the ones who gonna take us out of this mess, I don't know.

That's precisely why I think we shouldn't give people like him the stage As much as I find 99% of his musings laughably common place and provocative for the sake of looking smarter instead of actually being smarter, what bothers me the most is that we have great masters like Fanon, Mbembe or Cornel West for a more american-centered view/experience that makes Peterson race ramblings look like a child talk in comparison, yet guess which one gets all the attention

cool song, better than testament for sure

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this is brilliant

peffy @ hiphopvomit usually takes lyric requests, you should try your luck there

Nah, more than a DECADE ago Tokyo Shitei was doing stuff pretty similar to this Couple years earlier there were horrible VK boy bands doing pure pop fads come and go, don't see why it would be different with this band. They don't seem to even be doing waves on the scene to be that of a "threat" the only certainty is that mediocre sound doesn't stay, I don't see this becoming the hot new shit every band caters to

I couldn't find more info on this song, and their site apparently is down I thought it was coming as a b-side of this new single, but I guess not did they ever release it? it's so fun!

yeah, its pretty lame

it's not embedding, but here's their artist page on spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ipTXCYZqGOtgjUAeDu3NA?si=-yg7dvioRQ6sFzvxiB8Uww