An American All Asian Music Company Exists

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Ines Izon, guest writer

There’s a company that exposes talented Asian artists only in America? Well, they’re called ‘88rising,’ you may already know them with their popular artists Niki, Rich Brian, and Joji. This music production company allows exposure to the Asian community with all types of Asians. They have music genres like R&B, pop, rap and hip-hop.  

Their artists like Niki(she’s Indonesian) who has a popular song ‘Indigo’ which has about 1.2 million views on Youtube. She specializes in R&B, produces all her music and makes her own lyrics, which other young females can relate to. Then the artist Joji(Japanese Australian) who has a popular song ‘slow dancing in the dark’ which has 117 million views. He also does R&B but his way of music is known for going into “sad boy hours” where a person would go in a depressive state or is in a depressive state which needs music to match the mood. His songs are based on true situations for him, there’s quite a few of the guys and girls who can relate to his situation. 88rising also has Rich Brian(Indonesian) who has his hit songs ‘history’ with 31 million. Under the genre rap and sometimes pop, his music being a bop, something you would dance to. 

Of course, they have other artists like the Higher Brothers(Chinese rappers), Kieth Ape(Korean rapper), and more talented artists. Go check out 88rising, because every year there’s a collaboration with all their artists and other artists(like ChungHa, Major Lazer, Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee, etc.) to make an album called ‘Head In the Clouds.’ If you enjoy pop, r&b, hip-hop, and rap, then check out as many 88rising artists as you can before they have their annual Head in the Cloud concert in the summer.