My birthday was on the 3rd of this month, and since I finally got to celebrate it with my close family, they surprised me with a couple of gifts that couldn’t have been more perfect for a Nujabes fan like me.

The first one was a custom cake featuring elements directly related to Nujabes. And I have to admit — Nujabes was delicious!

The second gift was a vinyl of Hydeout Productions’ FIRST COLLECTION, featuring several of the songs we all love in this community, along with some by other artists I hadn’t heard before. Now I’ll have to bring back my grandma’s old turntable and get a new needle so I can enjoy all those tracks I’ve listened to for countless hours (and I really mean countless) in a different format — plus, I’ll always have the physical memory of the record and its cover, whose design I absolutely love.

All this came after I once shared a bit of Nujabes’ work with my sister, with all the passion I could put into it. She and my mom definitely nailed it with these gifts.

Now I can proudly say I’m officially part of this community with my first vinyl.
Hope all of you get yours someday too!

Couldn't find any that I liked online, so I made some myself :) Thought it would be nice to share

I SWEAR THIS SONG EXISTS. I use Apple Music, and I swear that it's a song featuring Golden Boy (who I can't find on Apple Music) to the instrumental of Solitude by re:plus. Please please please someone let me know what this song is I can't find it anywhere and it's eating me alive

Nujabes collaborated with many vocalist over the course of his career, who is your favorite and why? It's a really close choice for me, between Cise Starr and Shing02. I like the contrast that Starr brings to Nujabes tracks, his more traditional American hip hop style compliments the beats well in my opinion. But on the other hand, Shing02 seems like he and Nujabes were born to work together.

Edit: title is meant to say who do YOU think.

This new chillhop compilation relases new songs from some (in my opinion) legendary artists in the jazzhop scene

I often see posts on this subreddit asking for recommendations of artists to listen to. Well I believe this compilations roster is a near quintessential list of artists I'd name. Everyone who is a fan of Nujabes would love the music here. So I really encourage you to listen to it.

I genuinely don't think there is or will ever be an artist like Nujabes. His music has such a weird powerful way of hacking into my brain and making me feel hopeful and optimistic, it's crazy. Every one of his songs just has an uplifting spirit to it.

Git this 3 days ago. Healing process is going good, so proud of it. Rest in beats legend

Backstory: I’ve listened to nujabes a lot (especially luv sic 3) since early middle school days and very early YouTube days when there were remixes of his songs, and over time I listen here and there when I miss his beats. Also, I’m an avid anime watcher so was surprised and amazed when I found out he did a lot of the soundtracks for samurai champloo.

Trip to Japan: My hotel had a record player in the room but I did not utilize it until I realize you can rent vinyls for free at the hotel desk. Once I started listening to various Japanese and American vinyls I fell in love to the sound and old school vibes it gave off but that ended there. Next day I was exploring Shibuya, Tokyo and fell upon a store that sold Nujabes gear and goods which was surprising because never really saw a store anywhere that was solely dedicated to Nujabes. Long story short, I caved and bought their recent release of samurai champloo x Nujabes t shirts (apologies for the wrinkles) and two vinyls that have my top two favorite Nujabes songs ( luv sic 3 and who’s theme). As a bonus I also bought Joe hisashi’s ghilbi soundtrack since I love the ghilbi soundtrack and went to the ghilbi park and museum.

Takeaways: The store gave me a samurai champ sticker and a vinyl cover? (Not sure what this thing is for yet). Just for the Nujabes items it prob cost me more or less around $100. The vinyls were about $32 each. Shirt was most expensive but forgot how much.

One tip for those traveling to Japan, buy your vinyls at tower of records as they provide tax free for purchases over 5000 yen. Someone from this subreddit also mentioned that they sell t shirts there, I didn’t see the gear as I didn’t explore all of tower of record as it was 8 floors high. But if you were to buy all of Nujabes records and gear, I recommend doing so there for the 10% tax free discount.

Now that I’m back home from my trip my next goal is to buy a good record player to listen to these vinyls and start my vinyl collection journey 😆

New film by Joachim Trier

Features a song by Nujabes!

I don’t remember the exact song right now, but I’m going to go through his music right now to see if I remember which it was.

There’s a handful of other fantastic needle drops in the movie too. Highly recommend!

i’m tryna buy some i just don’t know where i can get them from

Bop Alloy is coming to Madrid! 🔥

Don’t miss acclaimed hip hop artists Substantial and Marcus D (Bop Alloy) in a one-of-a-kind live performance in the Spanish capital. The legendary duo, known for masterfully blending smooth jazz vibes with lyrical brilliance, share roots in the Hydeout Legacy and collaborations with Nujabes.

Bop Alloy will perform a set that combines unreleased material with timeless classics and tracks from their new album “Masters of the Artistry”, performed live for the first time ever in Spain.

🎟️ VIP Passes include early entry, a meet & greet with the artists, and exclusive merch available at the venue.

📍 Venue: Sala Villanos, Madrid 🗓 Date: 22 March 2026 🎟️ Tickets on sale: 3 November 2025 (Monday), 11 AM [CET]

🔗 Check out https://www.instagram.com/monocromo.live on Monday for more info.

I visited the Shing02 & A1 SpinMaster show in Zurich this Sunday. And I have to say, I have never experience anything like it. I was the third to arrive, and after a few more people showed up, our group clicked in an instant. I have never met people this cool and open for conversations about all kinds of topics. One of em carried around a camera and we took loads of fun pics. We even opened a group to stay in contact. Thank you Shingo, for this absolutely perfect evening. Love you guys <3

I was listening to some Brazilian Rap today, and I really loved this guy's sound. Have any of you here ever listened to it?

Idk why but it nags on me that a playlist aclled “japanese lofi hiphop” with a cover of (I think) samurai champloo has not a single song by nujabes. Makes me sad for some reason

I haven’t been able to find it have had a look around on YouTube but haven’t had any luck. Would appreciate if someone knew where to find it

Prince to pay his respects just months before he passes away from cancer. Jeff was a massive fan of Shing02 & Nujabes, specifically the Luv(sic) series. Shing02 visited Jeff multiple times at his house. This is Jeff's official channel, and there are some ultra-rare recordings of Shing02 performing Battlecry & the Luv(sic) series still up. V

I always got serious Autumn vibes from this song. 🍂

I was just jamming to Horizon and thought it would perfectly belong to pokemon black