WMG Warner Music’s HipHopDX Asia Launches ‘The Regionals’

The Undertaking is a Cultural Collab Between the Most Gifted Rappers from the East and the Finest Hip-Hop Producers from the West

HipHopDX Asia, Warner Music’s label agnostic Asian hip-hop media platform, introduced immediately the launch of ‘The Regionals’, a rap cypher collection that’s the first of its form in Asia. Supported by Warner Music’s Asian hip-hop imprint Asiatic Data, the venture invitations prime hip-hop emcees from totally different Japanese markets to leap on beats by a few of the most distinguished hip-hop producers from the West.

‘The Regionals’ serves to drive the globalization of hip-hop music from Asia by spotlighting the versatile expertise within the area, in addition to offering followers with the chance to find and expertise Asian hip-hop tradition at its best. The venture additionally connects acclaimed rappers from Asia with a few of the prime producers from the West, linking up the culture-shapers of worldwide hip-hop into one unified group.

The inaugural spherical of cyphers will kick off in September, bringing collectively a meshing of kinds and cultures by that includes chart-topping emcees from totally different Asian markets together with ARKHO, JON PROTÉGÉ, JRLDM, LOONIE, and MHOT from the Philippines; JULIA WU, KARENCICI, KUMACHAN, and NICKTHEREAL from Taiwan; in addition to B-WINE, BLACKA, GONZO, and TLINH from Vietnam. The producers for the cyphers within the corresponding markets are iconic Grammy Award winners !llmind, Hit-Boy and ninth Marvel respectively.

Eddy Lim, Regional Director of HipHopDX Asia, stated: “Asian hip-hop music is quickly rising in reputation. We’ve been more than happy to watch how communities all through the area have thrived by way of the acculturation of hip-hop, whereas nonetheless holding quick to their very own native cultures. There’s a lot superb expertise right here within the area, and the world must take extra discover. For Asian rap to go world, extra alliances and collaborations between rappers from totally different markets are wanted. ‘The Regionals’ is our manner of displaying everybody else what Asia has obtained.”

David Stouck, Vice President, A&R Asia, Warner Music, added: “Freestyle cyphers are a cornerstone of hip-hop tradition. ‘The Regionals’ present the first-ever cypher collection to raise and have a good time the best-in-class emcees from the East, in shut collaboration with Grammy Award-winning producers from the West. Asiatic Data is delighted to leverage its world distribution networks, which faucet into huge audiences worldwide, to assist HipHopDX Asia on launching this ground-breaking initiative.”

The primary spherical of cyphers from the totally different markets shall be launched on September 2nd (The Regionals Philippines), September twenty third (The Regionals Taipei), and September thirtieth (The Regionals Vietnam) on all main DSPs.