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On the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the landmark DJ Shadow LP, Entroducing..., we look back on our Sound & Vision segment we ran on the alb...

Local lyricist leaves lasting legacy In the early 1990s, five students crossed paths in the record stacks of…

Todd Inoue April 1, 2021Updated: April 2, 2021, 11:48 am Lyrics Born and DJ Cutso Photo: Eugene Kim In the past year, the pandemic permanently upended our lives. And for Asian Americans like Tom Shimura and Paolo Bello, escalating anti-Asian violence agitated by a churning political landscape compounded what was already a tragic and worrisome year. “That adds an entirely new, extremely heavy layer of burden on us,” said Shimura, better known as rapper Lyrics Born. Following inc...