SoulJa’s Koko ni iru yo with Aoyama Thelma has been topping the Oricon charts for almost a month now and has shown up everywhere from commericials to music shows, but will SoulJa be forever remembered as a one-hit wonder or will he become an overnight Hip-Hop superstar?

The singer, songwriter, and rapper known as SoulJa has little to give in experience on the mainstream music scene. He is an extremely new artist under Universal’s Nayutawave Records label, along with big names in the J-Urban community like Dohzi-T and ET-King, as well as J-Pop stars Mihimaru GT, TOKIO, and Spits. He’s so new that information on him, even on Japanese websites, is hard to find. His official website, http://www.soulja.jp, does have limited information about the artist. It is known that his mother is from Belgium, which explains his strikingly non-Japanese facial features, and that he is 24 years old, just recently celebrating his birthday six days ago (11/01).

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