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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.

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Top Tracks

1	Callin' Out full track	152
2	Bad Dreams full track	112
3	I Like It, I Love It	110
4	I'm Just Raw full track	63
5	Stop Complaining full track	58
6	Do That There full track	55
7	Pack Up full track	51
8	U Ass Bank full track	47
8	Rise and Shine full track	47
10	Hott Bizness full track	44
11	Hott 2 Deff	40
12	Intro full track	38
13	Interlude full track	37
14	Knock Knock full track	35
15	I Changed My Mind	33

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smooth_operator wrote:
Sunday evening

juliana guill.. damn !

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nwaldron4 wrote:
April 2009

saw him last saturday it was sick

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anticonhaiku wrote:
April 2009

LB is the shit god damn son lol

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[deleted-user] wrote:
April 2009

this is up there with lupe fiasco and dizzee rascal for me
billybigtime wrote:
February 2009

seeing this fool next sat...word

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filthymade wrote:
January 2009

oh shit, so sick.

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Cartman19x wrote:
November 2008

phillybird the song bad dreams was in the NBA 2K5 soundtrack

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preachelements wrote:
September 2008

so sick last night at UCR's block party !!!!!

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mana80822 wrote:
September 2008

you are the illest

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Zepprocker wrote:
August 2008

Was fucking awesome lastnight at splendor

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elmou wrote:
July 2008

'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:
June 2008

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:
June 2008

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:
June 2008

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:
June 2008

Bad Dreams had to be in a video game cuz i def know it from somewhere

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[deleted-user] wrote:
May 2008

The new album is definatly his 'fun' album - LTD can not be replicated, quit comparing his work to that.
ArcticEnter wrote:
May 2008

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:
May 2008

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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Pegaman wrote:
April 2008

I too like this album better

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Tehryan wrote:
April 2008

Shit. I actually like this more than LTD. <Feels like a bad person>

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