Born in Vancouver Canada, Lex Shootah aka Katagi moved to Japan in 1998, where he founded the Japanese hip-hop collective, muragumo. The hip-hop collective put out a few singles that were well recieved among the Japanese hip-hop community. Lex disbanded muragumo to puruse a solo career in October 2003. He is currently working on solo material. click here for Lex Shootah's audio page THE FULL HISTORY 2008 *RETIRES - Featured on "Phhat Shit 2" mixtape available in Argentina. 2007 - Released 3rd full length album "A WOLF AMONG SHEEP" (available in Japan and Taiwan) - Collaboration with FROST (Argentina grammy winner) 2006 - Featured on nationally distributed compilation album "GROOVE". - Featured on "Save NO.9 Records" mixtape available in Taiwan. 2005 [April] Featured on JSB Compilation Album. [May] Featured on DJ HALOON mix tape. 2004@ [January] Featured as a guest mc at radio station [fm yamato]. [January - February] Featured as a guest artist on tv programs [hitoe's real life, pbc world news]. [May] Opened for major recording artist [OJ & ST] at club [vuenos]. [June] Featured on a nationally syndicated anti-gangTV commercial for the National Police Agency of Japan. [September] Fetured as an up and coming artist in magazine [bloc]. [December] Contributed two songs to a freestyle ski video [unknown]. 2003 [June] First live event in front of over 200 people at club [matrix]. [October] Featured on natinally distributed compilation album [signal]. [November] Selected out of over 7000 artists as the artist of the month on Japan's biggest indie music site [muzie]. [Cecember] Performed as the headlining artist at club [roppongi bar tokyo]. The Beginning Of It All 1977 Born in Vancouver, Canada. 1989 Started rhymng at the age of 12, influenced by [me, myself, and I] by [de la soul]. 1990 Influenced by NWA and Too Short. 1991 Bored by the materialistic nature of rap, quit rapping to front an alternative rock band. 1991 to 1995 Fronted various punk bands. 1996 Despite not rapping for 6 years, won an mc contest held by a local radio station. 1997 Bored of life in Canada, decides to move to Japan. 1998 Moves to Japan. |
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