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You the Rock
Birth nameYu Takemae
Also known asYTR
Born (1971-09-05) 5 September 1971 (age 53)
Nagano, Nagano, Japan
GenresHip hop
Occupations
  • Hip hop MC
  • tarento
Labels
Musical artist

You the Rock (stylized as YOU THE ROCK★; born Yu Takemae (竹前 裕, Takemae Yū); 5 September 1971, in Nagano, Nagano) is a Japanese hip-hop musician, MC and tarento. He is nicknamed You-chan (Youちゃん) and Yū-chan Da Aniki YTR (ユウちゃん DA 兄貴 YTR).

Discography

Albums

Year Title
1992 Never Die
1993 Tight But Fat
1st 1996 The Soundtrack '96
2nd 1998 The Graffiti Rock '98
3rd 1999 The Professional Entertainer
4th 2002 XTRM
Best 2003 I Love You the Rock-Best
5th 2005 No Sell Out '05
6th 2007 Big Vip Hop
7th 2009 The Rock

Singles

Year Title
1993 "Lirics"
1st 1998 "Rock the Point"
2nd 1999 "The Professional Entertainer (The Ruler's Back)"
3rd 2002 "Hip Hop Royal"
4th "Monster Lock"
5th 2004 "Grand Master Fresh Pt. 2" featuring Fantastic Plastic Machine
6th 2005 "Untold Story"

Analogue

Year Title
"Free feat. Twigy"
1998 "Duck Rock Fever"
"Hoo! Ei! Ho! '98"
"Future Rock 2001 -Return of B.O.H.-"
"Love da Love"
1999 "The Professional Entertainer / Rap Machine"
"Manhattan Dream / Japan in the House" ft. Boy-Ken
"Joke Talks No (Get Up Brother)" featuring G.K.Maryan, Dev Large
2000 "Chō Raku C-E-Z 2000 (Get Busy Y'all!) / Rocky Road (Yūjō BBS)"
2004 "Grand Master Fresh Pt. 2" feat. Fantastic Plastic Machine
2005 "Untold Story"
"Daz"

Main guest appearances

Year Artist Title
1992 DJ Doc. Holiday The Rhythm.The Rebel
Omnibus Rhythm CD I
1994 Love Tambourines Midnight Parade Remixes
1995 Cool Spoon Two Mohicans
ECD Homesick
Summer Madness / Live at Slits
1996 Lamp Eye "Shōgen"
1997 Kaminari-Kazoku. "Kaminari / Yoru Jet"
ECD ECD no Remixes Vol. 1 cutting edge
Big Youth
1998 Omnibus Far East Coasting –Non Stop Mixed By DJ Masterkey–
avex The Album
Atom Kids Tribute to the King "O.T."
1999 Kan Takagi Hello
Mahha 25 PH-OSY
V.I.P. "Dancehall Checker"
2000 Omnibus Mad Maxx
Silva Comingout
Silva vs You the Rock "Virgin Killer"
Nona Reeves "DJ! DJ! –Todokanu Omoi–" feat. You the Rock
Pizzicato Five "Tokyo no Gasshō"
2001 Sa-e-ra Japon
Twigy "Freedom"
Rino Latina II Carnival of Rino
2002 Tokyo Tetsu Kon-kin Cleat Jungle Nirei Rei nishiki Remix
2003 ECD Master
Omnibus DJ Digs Main Street Electrical Parade
Fumiya Fujii Right Here! Right Now!
Nona Reeves "Changin'"
2004 Nigo (B)Ape Sounds
Hannyan Ohayō Nippon
Eliana Akarui Mirai
Boy-Ken Evrythin' Is Everythin'
Muro Back II Back 2
2005 Nigo Return of the Ape Sounds
Omnibus Entotsu Sampler Vol. 2
G.K.Maryan Soul on Keep
2006 Rino Latina II II (The Second)
Twigy Twig
Yoshipi Da Gama Energy Kakumei
2007 Twigy akasatana
Juno Mak Chapel of Dawn
El Amazon El Hot
Zen-La-Rock Zen-La-Rock
2008 Ami Suzuki Dolce
Twigy Baby's Choice
2009 Disoscillators Last Rockers
Microphone Pager Ōdō Rakudo
Mika Akira "The Rap Idol"
2011 Kaminari-Kazoku./Rino Latina II, Pit-Gob 53, D.O, You the Rock "Kaminari Keihō"

Music videos

Director Title
Catero Alain Colbert "Banging Shake It (Hip Hop)"
Yuta Kimura "Di Children"
"Resurrection" feat. Den, Utamaru
Yuichi Kodama "Grand Master Fresh Pt. 2" feat. Fantastic Plastic Machine
"Grand Master Fresh Pt. 2 (Long Ver.)" feat. Fantastic Plastic Machine
Daisuke Kondo "Hip Hop Royal"
Taitaro "Hip Hop Royal (Space Shower TV ver.)" x
Mizuhiro Sabine "Monster Lock"
Ranran. "Untold Story"
Unknown "Hoo! Ei! Ho! '98"
"The Professional Entertainer"

Major casting works

TV dramas

Year Title Network Ep.
2002 Kekkon Dorobō NHK-G
2005 Tiger & Dragon TBS
2008 Mirai Kōshi meguru TV Asahi 1

Variety programmes

Year Title Network
1999 Beat Bang TV Tokyo
Inazuma Space Shower TV
2000 CDTV-Neo TBS
Dengeki Request: Dynamo Space Shower TV
2001 Goofy
2002 Under CDTV TBS
Girigiri 7 Space Shower TV
2004 Tensai terebi-kun Max NHK-E
Tokyo Kinba BS Fuji
Bape TV Space Shower TV
2005 GyaO Freaks GyaO
2007 Ameba Banchō Cyber Agent
2008 Ranking to Get Ill
2014 DaBaDaBa Fresh CTC

Radio

Year Title Network
1995 Hip Hop Night Flight Tokyo FM
1999 You the Rock the Professional Entertainer

Advertisements

Year Title
2000 Fast Retailing "Uniqlo no Fleece"
2001 Toyo Suisan "Mukashi nagara no Sauce Yakisoba"

Advertisement narrations

Year Title
2000 Orix Blue Wave "Ichiro Casual"
2002 Achilles "Skechers"
Kirin Beverage "Amino Suppli"
Apple Computer "iPod guruguru Drive"
2003 Japan Coca-Cola "Vanilla Coca-Cola"
Asahi Beverage "Mitsuya Cider"
2004 Asahi Beer "Asahi Honjō"
Oriental Land "TDL Buzz Lightyear Natsu no Dai Sakusen"
2005 Asahi Kasei Life & Living "Saran Wrap, Zip Rock Tsukael"
2006 Nissan "Wing Road"
Japan McDonald's "McDonald's Happy Set"
2007 Ezaki Glico "Glico Katayaki Pretz"
Nissan "Nissan Cube"
Sky Perfect Communications "Sky PerfecTV! Natsu! Nama Live Matsuri"
2008 Cadbury Japan "Chlorets Ice"
Ezaki Glico "Pretz"
Ezaki Glico "Papiko"

Main live

Year Title
1996 San Ping Camp
1999 Space Shower TV Sweet Love Shower 1999
2000 Rush Ball 2000
2005 Summer Sonic 2005
2008 Wave Music Fes 2008 in Naeba
2012 Kizuna –Daisanshō—
2014 Ringo Ongaku-sai 2014
2015 Tone River Jam '15

See also

References

  1. "NHKアーカイブス保存番組検索結果詳細" (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 Feb 2017.

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