KM-MARKIT


Daisuke Kawai was born December 16, 1976 in Tokyo, Japan. He is known best under his stage name KM-MARKIT. In 1998, he was initially part of the Urbarian Gym, a Japanese hip-hop group, which also featured popular Japanese rapper Zeebra beginning in 1997. He would go on to sign with the Pony Canyon label in 2004, releasing his first album, Vivid, in April the following year. He would release one more album under the Pony Canyon label before splitting off to do his own projects.
UBG would later disband in 2010.
After UBG's disbandment, in 2010, he co-founded the Raider Music Record and helped create the underground hip-hop group THE RAIDERS, becoming the executive producer. The group would release one album, The Raiders, along with several singles. -MARKIT would also collaborate with other artists, though they were under different labels.

Biography

Daisuke "KM-MARKIT" Kawai was born in Tokyo, Japan on December 16, 1976. In 1998, he joined the Urbarian Gym, a hip-hop group who was created by Japanese rapper ZEEBRA in 1997. Daisuke would break away from the group to begin his solo projects under the Pony Canyon label in 2005, with his debut album Vivid. The album would feature Koda Kumi, who was one of Japan's more popular artist at the time. This was despite Kumi being under the Avex sub-label Rhythm Zone at the time.
He would release his second studio album, Mark Out, a year later on May 12, 2006. Unlike Vivid, Mark Out would chart at No. 97 on the Oricon charts. It remained on the charts for two weeks. The album featured famed singer-songwriter Miliyah Kato.
Urbarian Gym would disband thirteen years after their debut on March 24, 2010.
In 2010, after UBG's disbandment, KM-MARKIT co-founded the label RAIDERMUZIK RECORDS, and would join the underground hip-hop group The Raiders, coming on as the executive producer. Other members included MINESIN, D-ON, HAR-CO, 8, HI-D, YUKALI, MICHO, KOHH, TY-KOH, TAKESHI & SATOSHI and Mr. LOW-D. Their first single, Oh Baby, would feature KM-MARKIT, YUKALI and 8. They would release their first album, The Raiders, the following year.
The Raiders would go on to release a few singles following their debut album: Get It On, B.M.N. and Shut a Fu%k Up!!!.
KM-MARKIT would release a few solo works post The Raiders album under the RAIDERMUZIK RECORDS label.
These included Next Episode featuring NaNa in 2010, and Magnetic featuring miray in late 2014.
Outside of The Raiders, KM-MARKIT would work behind-the-scenes with various artists as a lyricist and composer. He wrote the lyrics for the Japanese translations of the songs "Blood Sweat & Tears", "DNA", "Not Today" and "MIC Drop" from the 2018 BTS album Face Yourself, along with writing the lyrics to the albums' original songs "Go Go" and "Crystal Snow". He also worked with Japanese hip-hop group Lead for the songs "Shampoo Bubble", of which he wrote the rap portion of the song, and "Drop in the box", in which both he and RYUJA composed the instrumental.

Uncharted singles

Magnetic (along with miray)

Magnetic is the third solo single by rapper KM-MARKIT. It featured R&B/dancehall/reggae artist miray. miray had previously worked with KM-MARKIT on her self-titled album, miray, in mid-2010.
The single failed to chart on Oricon and Recochoku.
Information

Magnetic is the third solo single by KM-MARKIT and features reggae artist miray. The single was digitally released on November 19, 2014.
The song was released on iTunes Japan as a digital single. miray was initially under the Avex sub-label Rhythm Zone. On August 4, 2010, she and had featured KM-MARKIT on her album miray in the song "Box Seat". However, upon the release of Magnetic, she was no longer under the Rhythm Zone sub-label and chose to focus on independent work. This independent work led her to the indie record label Raider Music Record, which was co-founded by KM-MARKIT himself.
Despite being a single, "Magnetic" did not receive a music video and was released solely as audio, not unlike his prior singles, Give a Little... and Next Episode feat. NaNa.
The song was classified as electronica/rap due to the synthesizer used predominately throughout the song.
Track List

Digital Single
  1. "Magnetic feat. miray" – 3:57
  2. : Arranger: KM-MARKIT • KEMUMAKI
  3. : Lyrics: KM-MARKIT • miray

    Albums

Studio albums

  1. "VIVID"
  2. : April 20, 2005
  3. "MARK OUT"
    Rank: No. 97
  4. : December 6, 2006

    The Raiders albums

  5. "THE RAIDERS"
  6. : August 24, 2011

    Singles

Solo singles

  1. "Give a Little... "
  2. : August 25, 2010
  3. "NEXT EPISODE feat. NaNa"
  4. : November 24, 2010
  5. "MAGNETIC "
  6. : November 19, 2014

    The Raiders singles

  7. "OH BABY"
  8. : July 6, 2011
  9. "SUGAR/Higher"
  10. : July 27, 2011
  11. "B.M.N. -Big Monster Nuts-"
  12. : June 27, 2012
  13. "Shut a Fu%k Up!!!"
  14. : July 25, 2012
  15. "GET IT ON"
  16. : August 29, 2012

    Songs as featured artist

  17. "Taidou"
  18. : from album Doytenna 2000 / LIBRO with Ark, KEMUMAKI & DOBINSKI
  19. "MAD MAXX"
  20. : from album THE SHOW CASE / Low IQ 01 x Zeebra x UBG
  21. "BEAT BOXING feat. KM-MARKIT"
  22. : from album ZEEBRA 「BASED ON A TRUE STORY」 / ZEEBRA
  23. "Usohappyaku feat. MICADELIC, INDEMORAL, KM-MARKIT, MINESIN, BACKGAMMON & DOBINSKI"
  24. : from album 三善的大魔境 / Miyoshi/Zenzou
  25. "ONEWAY"
  26. : from album N / UBG
  27. "URBAN BARBARLIAN GUERRILLA "
  28. : from album GUERRILLA GROWING PLATINUM / UBG
  29. "CHANGE THE GAME"
  30. : from album Change The Game / Various Artists
  31. "G.Y.M feat. OJ & ST, KM-MARKIT, BRZ"
  32. : from album NEW DEAL PRESENTS SHOW and PROVE / Various Artists
  33. "Stop the Violence feat. ZEEBRA, UZI, OJ & ST, KM-MARKIT"
  34. : from album UNITED NATIONS III / DJ Yutaka
  35. "THE TRAINING DAY feat. ZEEBRA, UZI, OJ & ST, KM-MARKIT & CHINO"
  36. : from the album DADDY'S HOUSE VOL.3 / DJ MASTERKEY
  37. "Hot Stuff feat. KM-MARKIT"
  38. : from album secret / Koda Kumi
  39. "unreliable feat. KM-MARKIT "
  40. : from album LOVE IS THE MESSAGE / Various Artists
  41. "IT'S ALL A GME feat. GOTZ, CHINO, SUMI & KM-MARKIT "
  42. : from album Street Dreams / ZEEBRA
  43. "MUSIC TRIBE feat. Q & KM-MARKIT"
  44. : from album DRAMA / Full of Harmony
  45. "Taste of Honey feat. CO-KEY & KM-MARKIT"
  46. : from album The New Beginning / ZEEBRA
  47. "Club Happiness ~Brothahood Version feat. KM-MARKIT~"
  48. : from album For Real? / Toshinobu Kubota
  49. "BOX SEAT feat. KM-MARKIT"
  50. : from album miray / miray

    Collaborative works


  • FLY HIGH
  • :"Fly High", "Put your hands up!!!"
  • MOVE LIKE THIS
  • :"Superstar", "SAY YES"

  • SIDE BY SIDE
  • :"Magic feat. :ja:AKLO|AKLO", "Turn it up", "Hey Love", "One More Time"

  • Fantasy
  • :"Fantasy"

  • Wake Up"
  • :"No More Dream", "Shingeki no Boudan", "Iie ne", "Boy in Luv", "N.O", "Just One Day", "Danger", "Miss Right", "The Stars", "Jump", "Iie ne! Pt. 2 ~Ano Basho De~", "Wake Up"
  • For You
  • :"For You", "War of Hormone", "Let Me Know"
  • "I Need U"
  • :"I Need You", "Dope ~Chou Yabe!~", "Boyz with Fun"
  • Youth
  • :"Run", "Butterfly", "Good Day", "Fire", "Save Me", "Baepsae", "Wishing on a star", "Epilogue: Young Forever"
  • Face Yourself
  • :"Blood Sweat & Tears", "DNA", "Not Today", "MIC Drop", "Go Go", "Crystal Snow", "Best of Me", "Spring Day"
  • Fake Love/Airplane pt.2
  • :"Fake Love", "Airplane pt.2"
<:ja:SWAY |SWAY>
  • :ja:UNCHAINED|UNCHAINED
  • :"Naked"

  • MILESTONE
  • :"Shampoo Bubble"
  • Be the Naked
  • :"Drop in the box"

  • Sixteen
  • :"Sixteen"
  • Candy''
  • :"Candy"