Zeebra - Topic

Born in Tokyo,1971.

He is widely known and esteemed not only for his career as a rapper, but also for being a top running Hip-hop activist, representing Tokyo.

He has collaborated with multiple world-class-artists throughout his career, where he became a solo artist back in 1997.

Not only with the top Japanese artists, but also with noteworthy mentions such as:DJ Premier, Swizz Beats, Damian Marley, Drunken Tiger, Thaitanium, etc.

He also has a successful peroformace career, where he has performed in numerous highly notable venues:

Budokan, Fuji Rock, Rockin’ Japan, Asian Hiphop Festival(Thailand), Mnet Asian Music Award(Macao), etc. 

For his career as an activist, he was selected as a chairman of the Club and Club Culture Conference (CCC), in 2014. He has played the main role in reinspectation of the Fu-Ei-Ho (national law which prohibits night life's late night business hours), which has strongly restricted Japanese night entertainment for over 25 years.

As a representative of the CCC, he took multiple major social acts.

For instance, he made speeches at the Parliament, assembled with the senator group for law reinspeactation, and also appeared on TV discussions.