Biography
Tsutomu William "Tom" Shimura (born September 2, 1972), better known by his stage name Lyrics Born (formerly Asia Born), is a Japanese-American rapper, singer, and producer. He is one half of the duo Latyrx with Lateef the Truthspeaker.
Bio from Wikipedia
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Blazing Arrow
2002
Psyence Fiction
1998
Nia
1999
Quannum Spectrum
1999
The Craft
2005
Quannum Presents Solesides Greatest Bumps
2000
The Extravaganza / Looking Over A City
1999
The Album
1997
Same !@#$, Different Day
2005
Later That Day...
2003
Adventures Of A Reluctant Superhero
2019
Imani Vol. 1
2015
Twelve Reasons To Die II
2015
And The Summertime Pool Party
2006
One A.M.
2003
Soul Food Taqueria
2003
AnotherLateNight
2001
Discern / Define
2001
I Changed My Mind
1999
Hardcore (Instrumental) Hip Hop / Fully Charged On Planet X
1996
4
2010
From The Corner To The Block
2007
Shifting Gears
2005
Coup De Theatre
2004
Credited work
389 releases · 68 albums · active 1995–2026
- Performance · 555
- Production · 332
- Engineering · 176
- Other credits · 161
Studios: The Glue Factory · Live Oak Studios · Strongroom · The Hut, Oakland
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Latyrx
- Blackalicious
- UNKLE
- Tommy Guerrero
- The Poets Of Rhythm
- Quannum
- Lateef The Truth Speaker