Latest Release
- APR 15, 2024
- 1 Song
- Good Times · 2007
- Good Times · 2004
- Good Times · 2002
- Good Times · 2004
- Good Times · 2006
- Five · 2001
- Tokyo Classic · 2002
- Neon Lights (feat. WISE & Emi Okamoto) - Single · 2024
- SLY - EP · 2013
- Human Nature - Single · 2022
Essential Albums
- 2002
- 2015
- 2013
- 2011
- 2009
- 2007
- 2006
- 2004
Artist Playlists
- The fun-loving and energetic rap outfit that brought hip-hop to mainstream J-pop.
Compilations
- 2010
- 2010
- 2005
About RIP SLYME
Premier Japanese hip-hop group Rip Slyme got their start in 1994 when Ryo-Z and Ilmari began writing together for fun. After a pair of albums and a string of indie singles of increasingly hit-worthy material (notably, their collaborations with Fantastic Plastic Machine Underline No. 5 and Mata au Himade), they signed to Warner and by 2002, the Tokyo Classic album saw the group become Japan's first million-selling hip-hop group. Four massively popular full-lengths followed over the next few years, right up to 2006's ultra-popular Epoch album and 2007's Funfair. ~ J. Scott McClintock
- ORIGIN
- Japan
- FORMED
- 1994
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap