By Ken Saito | Filed to: Lowrider
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“No Music, No Life.” In the heart of Shibuya, home of Tokyo’s youth culture, there’s a massive multi-story Tower Records shop with that sign hung in the middle of it. Much like that outdated shop standing tall in Tokyo’s hip district, Tokyo’s lowriders have resisted fading away. The record shop is where they have their monthly meeting, and it can’t be a coincidence it happens there—many of these owners got into lowriders because of the American hip-hop musicians they listened to growing up in Japan.
