Kaigen Lyrics

The name Kaigen, a Japanese term meaning “to open the eye” associated with Buddhist concepts of enlightenment, lets you know that Kaigen is the type of emcee that sometimes has to get deep. Like the Poseidon Adventure. As Method Man would say. Growing up in Tokyo, Kaigen fell in love with hip-hop at a young age hearing American hip-hop tracks on basketball highlight reels, and broke into the Japanese hip-hop scene in his teens before relocating to Melbourne, Australia in 2004. Drawing inspiration from its multi-cultural atmosphere and flourishing alternative music scene, a chance encounter between Kaigen and Raceless of Curse Ov Dialect at Gaslight Music led to Kaigen’s induction into the Australian ultra-... read more