Expo Expo
Expo Expo is the second studio album from the Japanese hip-hop group M-Flo. Remixes of songs from this album were released as Expo Bouei Robot Gran Sonik.
Track listing
M-Flo
M-Flo (エムフロウ, Emu Furō, stylized as m-flo) is a Japanese hip hop group consisting of producer and DJ Taku Takahashi and emcee Verbal.
Former member Lisa left the group in 2002 to pursue a solo career, and the remaining members then started the M-Flo Loves... project working different vocalists for each song over three albums, including the likes of Bonnie Pink, Koda Kumi and BoA.
Their mainstream success and critical acclaim established them as the most iconic and influential hip-hop production team in Japan with success throughout Asia.
Taku Takahashi and Verbal also started successful side-projects outside of M-Flo, such as the Teriyaki Boyz and Global Astro Alliance collaborating with international producers and artists such as Kanye West and the Beastie Boys.
In 2008 the group announced a hiatus, stating that each member would be focusing on their respective side projects. In 2012 the group ended their hiatus with the release of Square One on March 14, 2012.
History
Before M-Flo
Verbal (born as Ryu Young Gi [Korean: 류영기/유영기, Hanja: 柳榮起]) and Taku Takahashi (高橋 拓, Takahashi Taku) first met as students at St. Mary's International School in Tokyo. The pair collaborated in the group N.M.D., in which Takahashi was drummer and Verbal emceed, as well as throwing dance parties where they often performed together freestyle.
Podcasts:
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by M-flo
Expo Expo
by: M-floPeople unite and celebrate
No reason to fight
All living creatures hear the soothing
Future music easin' your plight
So unite and celebrate
No reason to fight
All living creatures hear the future EXPO
M-flo
We globally achievin' new heights
Innovative creative we made this
Exposition mission
Eliminated those seekin' to bite
Trifocals increasin' ya
Sight/ vocals release and ignite
Flo bright like a meteorite
Chops like Chubb Rock treatin' em right
Future music even tonight/ so
We can excite, the crowd leavin em hype
Computer love produces lucid dreamin' in fight
Pangalactic rhyming, keepin it tight
Planet shining seein' the light
Verbal,Taku,Lisa unite wish me & Bahamadia
freakin the mic/ like that!
Species of technology
Collaborate with human breed
Say we are one, yes we are one
Cosmic message in the breeze
Will free the world to unity
Say we are one, yes we are one
[repeat]
To cats who spit zirconium/ I vomit jewels
with supreme cut and clarity, audible/ tetra-sonical
Telescopic visions wandering from planet earth
We got media compatible with all machinery
Appropriately called the miracle with 1950's aestheticals
Host of sick technology to shatter most
Obsolete ones, we pull stunts beyond your wisdom
Satellites to venture unknow solar systems
[Speaking in Japanese]
C-H-A-T-R [Speaking in Japanese]
High-tech's the way we are [Speaking in Japanese]
We on the vechicle, at large [Speaking in Japanese]
Shooting off to new stars[Speaking in Japanese]
Yo, it's about that time [Speaking in Japanese]
Yo, it's about that time [Speaking in Japanese]
Yo, it's about that time [Speaking in Japanese]
Yo, it's about that time [Speaking in Japanese]
Peep the architecture
Dwellings sectioned off with metallic textures
Even engineers failed to make predictions
Three o'one two viscous liquid silver condominiums
Transform to suit residents
State of the art/ to transport, we teleport
Instantaneously we send em off
Multi-dimensional/ incredible
Acceleration of velocity exponential
Electromagnetic motor
Aviation in collabo with Swiss Metro
Breakbeat overdrive, cold crash data
Roller-skating "S-1" Atom
Cataracts on photomicrographs
Particles compact/ Duration Studio
Is re-vamped enormous voltage back draft
Last century is brought back
Spit spectacular vernacular
Miraculous M-flo backing it up with
The changes stacking up, twenty-four bars of me acting up
Illadel and Japan be like "ah"
Similar to the sound when you making love
Peep radius of vocal influx catering to thugs and to
Intellects/ EXPO EXPO banging
Like four-fours/ expose souls
Like Edgar Allan Poe/ sick live show you know
How Bahama' go/ freak speech techniques
From a long time ago/ break beat to techno
I get it in though/ making your head slow on
Some three triple o'/ next shit eclectic wit
Brain like computer chip
Esoteric logic infused in it
Data transmit past 64 bit
Transfixed in orbit metamorphosis
Got my MP3 file hot as August is
Download then burn 2 minidisc
Analyze, dissect, detect, process
Analyze, dissect, detect, process
Analyze, dissect, detect, process