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Lyrics Born
Sign in to saveAlso known as Asia Born, Tsutomu Shimura, Tom Shimura, Macka Dang Dang, LB, Tom William Shimura
Asian-American rapper
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Later That Day
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Film & TV
Tsutomu "Tom" Shimura (born September 2, 1972), better known by his stage name Lyrics Born (formerly Asia Born), is a Japanese-American rapper, singer, and producer. He is one half of the duo Latyrx with Lateef the Truthspeaker.
Known for
- Always Be My Maybe — Quasar2019
- Sorry to Bother You — Game Show Contestant2018
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1972
Discography
- Callin’ Out2003
- Later That Day...2003
- Callin’ Out (Remix)2004
- Bad Dreams (Australian Tour Ltd. Ed.)2005
- Same !@#$ Different Day2005
- The Lyrics Born Variety Show - Season One2005
- Overnite Encore: Lyrics Born Live!2006
- The Lyrics Born Variety Show Season 22006
- Everywhere at Once2008
- The Lyrics Born Variety Show: Season Three2008
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 195,386
- Total plays
- 2,079,629
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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 <a
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Tokyo
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- alternative hip-hop
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.lyricsborn.com
- Image
- Lyrics Born (Australia, 2008).jpg
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- Lyrics Born
- date of birth
- 1972-09-02
- pseudonym
- Lyrics Born
- start of work period
- 1992-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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