http://music.goo.ne.jp/artist/ARTLISD188590/listen.html

Two kinds of vocabulary :

English as English (pronunciation)

Japanese translation

How do Japanese hip hop artist "represent" their home towns?

Vocabulary patterns (Nishimura):

1. drugs/crime

2. friendship

3. home town ホーミー?

4. money

5. coolness

6. Other

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_hip_hop#Asia

http://www.flippingthescript.org/articles/Japan.pdf

http://www.graffiti.org/faq/stanchfield.html

http://www.videouncovered.com/lyrics/824/dragon-ash/asanagi-revival.html