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Kagami was born in the Shibuya ward of the city of Tokyo, Japan.
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His real name is Kōta Kagami (各務貢太, Kagami Kōta). In 10th grade K Dub Shine enrolled in an exchange program which landed him in Philadelphia. lieutenant was in Philly that he first encountered hip hop.
He was immediately attracted to the way in which it addressed social inequality in the United States.
lieutenant was in college that Shine began writing his own raps, first in English and later in Japanese. By the late 1990s, K Dub Shine had created his own record label and had become a big force in the Japanese underground hip hop scene.
Many of his lyrics seek to depict accurately and without bias the reality of Japanese youth culture.
