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Lyrics Born (a.k.a. Asia Born) is Tom Shimura (b. 1972), originally from Berkeley, California, though through his childhood he lived in Tokyo, Japan, and Salt Lake City, Utah. He began his hip hop career while at college at UC Davis, where he was a DJ at the college station KDVS. He is a founding member of the group of artists known as Quannum Projects.
He is also one half of the group Latyrx with fellow MC Lateef The Truth Speaker. Lyrics Born has worked with many artists including KRS-One, Jean Grae, Dilated Peoples, Z-Trip, DJ Shadow, Diverse, Tommy Guerrero, Blackalicious and his wife, Joyo Velarde.
Lyrics Born released his first solo LP in October of 2003, called Later that Day.
In April of 2005, Lyrics Born’s second album Same !@#$ Different Day was released on the Quannum Projects label. The album featured remixes of five songs from Later That Day along with a number of new tracks.
LB’s hit song
Callin’ Out was featured in a 2004 Coca Cola television commercial in the United States featuring actor Adrien Brody and was #1 on San Francisco’s Alternative Rock station, Live105 for 5 weeks. The song is also featured in the film Waiting… starring Ryan Reynolds.
His songs have been featured in television shows such as HBO’s Entourage, Six Feet Under, Skins, Gilmore Girls and the films Collateral by Michael Mann and Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift. Lyrics Born also appears in the upcoming Justin Lin film, Finishing the Game.
He is also one half of the group Latyrx with fellow MC Lateef The Truth Speaker. Lyrics Born has worked with many artists including KRS-One, Jean Grae, Dilated Peoples, Z-Trip, DJ Shadow, Diverse, Tommy Guerrero, Blackalicious and his wife, Joyo Velarde.
Lyrics Born released his first solo LP in October of 2003, called Later that Day.
In April of 2005, Lyrics Born’s second album Same !@#$ Different Day was released on the Quannum Projects label. The album featured remixes of five songs from Later That Day along with a number of new tracks.
LB’s hit song
Callin’ Out was featured in a 2004 Coca Cola television commercial in the United States featuring actor Adrien Brody and was #1 on San Francisco’s Alternative Rock station, Live105 for 5 weeks. The song is also featured in the film Waiting… starring Ryan Reynolds.His songs have been featured in television shows such as HBO’s Entourage, Six Feet Under, Skins, Gilmore Girls and the films Collateral by Michael Mann and Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift. Lyrics Born also appears in the upcoming Justin Lin film, Finishing the Game.
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Bad Dreams
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Do That There
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U Ass Bank
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I'm Just Raw
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Rise and Shine
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Knock Knock
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Pack Up
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Stop Complaining
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Hott Bizness
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Before and After
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Hott People
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Shoutbox
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peachpearplum wrote:
saw him last night in san diego. off the heezy.
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El_Pickle wrote:
Hear him awhile back on G4. One of my teacher had Everywhere at Once on her wall, just had to jump right back on LB.
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Kxking wrote:
Just discovered..nice !
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golfmade wrote:
Another quality member of the Quannum Crew.
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smooth_operator wrote:
juliana guill.. damn !
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nwaldron4 wrote:
saw him last saturday it was sick
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anticonhaiku wrote:
LB is the shit god damn son lol
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billybigtime wrote:
seeing this fool next sat...word
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filthymade wrote:
oh shit, so sick.
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Cartman19x wrote:
phillybird the song bad dreams was in the NBA 2K5 soundtrack
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preachelements wrote:
so sick last night at UCR's block party !!!!!
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mana80822 wrote:
you are the illest
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Zepprocker wrote:
Was fucking awesome lastnight at splendor
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elmou wrote:
'Everywhere at Once' is faiaaaaa! More funky than the previous ones but succeeds in the style change nicely. Not a flawless package; some of the tracks made me say 'eww' but it's a good album though.
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MinisterZdrowia wrote:
Last LP is very good. For Example here's polish review of it: http://www.infomusic.pl/recenzje_wiecej.php?id_rec=1560&n=everywhere_at_once-lyrics_born Have a nice day
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Zoonie wrote:
I really have to get back up to speed with yer man here. To me, man, he's the real deal. He rhymes like a damn jazz poet and deserves sooooo much more attention than he gets. And such a boingy, funny dude live too. Doesn't come over to the UK enough for my liking.
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4indie wrote:
Lyrics Born - "I Like It, I Love It" premiered on mtvU this week. Here’s the video: http://www.mtvu.com/music/video_premiere/lyrics_born/
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phillybird wrote:
Bad Dreams had to be in a video game cuz i def know it from somewhere
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ArcticEnter wrote:
Wow, I'm disappointed after buying this new album. Nothing like LTD. I like it, I love it was deceiving.
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DahMaht wrote:
i definitely love EAO, but i dont think it's fair to compare it to LTD because they have such different sounds
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Nov
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Chali 2na & Gift of Gab
Neumo's, Seattle WA, United States
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Nov
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The Deadliest Catch Tour
Roseland Theater, Porltand(, Oregon), Portland, United States
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Dec
29
Falls Music & Arts Festival - Lorne
Lorne Falls Festival Site, Lorne, Victoria, Australia
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News
Interview with 411Mania.com
5 Nov 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/lyricsborn
In an exclusive interview recently conducted with 411 Music, Lyrics
Born clarifies that this is a lifelong pursuit. "I think from a very
early age, I think I knew I always wanted to be some sort o. …
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27 Oct 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/lyricsborn
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Recent Activity
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peskys, oNEmaDsOuL, AdamPellinDeeve and 4 other people added Lyrics Born to their libraries. 6 hours ago
- Lyrics Born posted a news item ‘Interview with 411Mania.com’. Friday afternoon
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ghindo added Lyrics Born to the lineup of The Deadliest Catch Tour at Roseland Theater. Friday morning
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flownious, littlebastard92 and joemud added Lyrics Born to their libraries. Thursday afternoon
- Lyrics Born posted a news item ‘LBFM is ON THE AIR!’. Wednesday afternoon
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OliverSmiff added Lyrics Born to the lineup of Quannum World Tour 2004 at Kool Haus. Wednesday morning
- Lyrics Born posted a news item ‘LBFM and The Deadliest Catch Tour!’. Tuesday afternoon
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jzeidler, qwrtyboy, bowenkress and 14 other people added Lyrics Born to their libraries. Tuesday morning
- Lyrics Born posted a news item ‘LBTV presents Mike Relm’. last week
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