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ALBUMConexión - SingleSanta RM & AKLO
Albums by AKLO
ALBUMRegularAKLO
ALBUMNew DrugAKLO + NORIKIYO
ALBUMSorry... Come Back LaterAKLO×JAY'ED
ALBUMOutside the FrameAKLO
ALBUMThe Arrival (Bonus Track Version)AKLO
ALBUMThe Package (Bonus Track Version)AKLO
AKLO's Popular Music Videos
Dirty Work (Remix) [feat.Anarchy]
AKLO
McLaren
AKLO
Closers (feat. Aklo & Vingo) [Live at Liquidroom, Tokyo, 2018]
KOWICHI
100 feat. AKLO
JAZEE MINOR
Legacy
AKLO, ¥ellow Bucks, Leon Fanourakis & DJ Hazime
LOST IN PARADISE (Re-edit ver.)
ALI
Artist Playlists
AKLO Essentials
This rising rapper casts tight rhymes over pounding EDM and trap beats.
Artist Biography
With roots in Japan and Mexico, rapper AKLO has become a formidable presence in the Japanese hip-hop community since the early 2010s.
• AKLO was born in Tokyo and raised in Mexico City. His mother is Japanese, and his father is Mexican. The trilingual MC often flexes English bars in his raps.
• His 2012 debut album, The Package, topped Japan’s iTunes chart. The independent project features Japanese hip-hop artist Norikiyo.
• In 2013, AKLO's “Red Pill” was nominated for Best Hip Hop Song at the MTV VMAJs.
• The rapper’s sophomore full-length, The Arrival, dropped in 2014.
• The Japanese television series Smoking used a remix of AKLO's “Dirty Work” to serve as its theme song in 2018.
• AKLO guested on ALI’s 2020 pop song “LOST IN PARADISE,” the theme to the anime series Jujutsu Kaisen Ending.
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Genre
Hip-Hop/Rap