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It was just before midnight in the fall of 2006. I was in a poorly lit basement in a dorm at Northeastern University kicking it with a bunch of rappers. We all lived in neighboring dorms and would meet up from time to time and freestyle. Doning bathing ape hoodies and fitted hats we would spit bars into the early morning. As the sound of beats seeped out of the windows onto the street mixed with the weed aroma from the dorm rooms, we serenaded anyone walking by with the sound of what true hip hop is. This is where my passion for hip hop transcended from hobby to lifestyle. This is where the spirit of the music took me to another state of mind. This is where the similes and metaphors leaped out of my consciousness and danced over the instrumentals. This was where the soul of true hip hop lived. This was where I found Nujabes. I had never heard of Nujabes or the anime series Samurai Champloo at the time, but when I heard the music I felt it. After the freestyle sessions his tracks would be trapped in my mind. The pen would hit the paper and the music would just flow out. Some of my first recorded music was to songs like Tsurugi No Mai, Just Forget, Sincerely, Vagrancy and Mystline to name a few. Now we fast forward to the spring of 2019. Musically I lost myself over the years, but miraculously last year a spark was re-lit in me to share my experience with the world through the artform that has always been a part of my life. I got back into writing but decided to teach myself how to produce to take more ownership over what I would create. It was hard in the beginning but as I kept creating I gained perspective and most importantly confidence. As the year drew to a close I threw on some Nujabes to get some inspiration for a new song and realized "wait a minute he died in 2010", so 2020 would be the 10th anniversary of his death. I scoured the internet and social media looking for blog posts or articles that might be written to celebrate his life ahead of this major milestone. I was hoping to find like minded musicians to connect with and found nothing. No fanfare, no mourning, no nostalgia, nothing. After the initial shock I said to myself "They've forgotten Nujabes. Someone has to do something about this." So I rolled up my sleeves and started writing and producing, and here we are. February 26, 2020. 10 years after the death of Jun "Nujabes" Seba. I, Mighty Kaos, have written, produced, recorded and mixed an album, Notes for Nujabes, to honor the life and times of the legend of lofi himself! The album has 10 songs one for each year since his passing, all in honor of the great music he made for us. Some of them were old verses I wrote over his music in my college years (listen closely and guess which ones) and some were new songs to bridge the gap between the growth hip hop has experienced since his passing. I open the album with Fleeting and close it with Zutto (which means eternal) two instrumentals that symbolize how fleeting life truly is, but that if we try, like Nujabes, our impact can be eternal. I hope you enjoy listening to the music I created to honor him. I know somewhere he's watching this thinking, "Wow who'd a thought a record store owner from Japan would give birth to so many passionate artists." Rest easy king. I hope I made you proud! So now I present to you the ultimate One Love from Boston to Nihon! #NotesForNujabes