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'''Banana Ice''' is a Japanese rap artist. | '''Banana Ice''' (real name Shitamachi Kyōdai, 下町兄弟) is a Japanese rap artist. He sang the [[Japanese themes|theme song]] for the Japanese dub of ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'': "[[War War! Stop It|WAR WAR! STOP IT]]". | ||
{{quote|Your parents, your grandparents are Japanese; You can never be the black person you want to be;}} | {{quote|Your parents, your grandparents are Japanese; You can never be the black person you want to be;}} | ||
Banana Ice was relatively popular in Japan during the '90s; he even sang the theme song for the Japanese dub of ''Donkey Kong Country'' and also provided the voice for Funky Kong. So far as his rap career is concerned, | Banana Ice was relatively popular in Japan during the '90s; he even sang the theme song for the Japanese dub of ''Donkey Kong Country'' and also provided the voice for Funky Kong. | ||
So far as his rap career is concerned, Banana Ice released several albums under the Shibaura Records lable, beginning with "RAPP!!" in 1992. In 1999, he released a compilation album titled "Rap Rapper Rappest" and has continued to release new songs and albums as recently as 2009. Banana Ice briefly gained some controversial notoriety amongst rap fans around the world with the song "Imitation + Imitation = Imitation", wherein he condemned all "B-Boys" (Japanese rappers who tan their skin and wear dreadlocks in an attempt to look black) as phonies and cultural traitors. | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://www.bananaice.net/ Banana Ice.net] | *[http://www.bananaice.net/ Banana Ice.net] | ||
*[http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/BANANA_ICE Banana Ice at Japanese wikipedia] | |||
*[http://www.academia.edu/242174/Thinking_out_of_the_Bronx_Rap_and_Hip-Hop_as_Modes_of_Protest_Outside_Black_America Scholarly essay citing the cultural impact of Banana Ice] | *[http://www.academia.edu/242174/Thinking_out_of_the_Bronx_Rap_and_Hip-Hop_as_Modes_of_Protest_Outside_Black_America Scholarly essay citing the cultural impact of Banana Ice] | ||
*[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pos/summary/v015/15.3condry.html Another scholarly essay about Banana Ice. Seriously] | *[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pos/summary/v015/15.3condry.html Another scholarly essay about Banana Ice. Seriously] | ||
Revision as of 17:14, 29 January 2013
Banana Ice (real name Shitamachi Kyōdai, 下町兄弟) is a Japanese rap artist. He sang the theme song for the Japanese dub of Beast Wars: "WAR WAR! STOP IT".
Banana Ice was relatively popular in Japan during the '90s; he even sang the theme song for the Japanese dub of Donkey Kong Country and also provided the voice for Funky Kong.
So far as his rap career is concerned, Banana Ice released several albums under the Shibaura Records lable, beginning with "RAPP!!" in 1992. In 1999, he released a compilation album titled "Rap Rapper Rappest" and has continued to release new songs and albums as recently as 2009. Banana Ice briefly gained some controversial notoriety amongst rap fans around the world with the song "Imitation + Imitation = Imitation", wherein he condemned all "B-Boys" (Japanese rappers who tan their skin and wear dreadlocks in an attempt to look black) as phonies and cultural traitors.
