Taro Satake aka Japanese rapper and singer-songwriter Novel Core was born on 18
January 2001 in Tokyo and first fell in love with hip-hop via YouTube aged 14.
In March 2016, he took part in an MC battle under the name Core-Boy and
subsequently kicked his rap career into gear, performing freestyle raps around
Tokyo's Shibuya Station and earning a reputation as a skilled rhyme-slinger. He
honed his voice further on Japan's first hip-hop radio station WREP and recorded
his first single, "Metafiction," in 2018. His first EP, Core of The, arrived the
following year, with his debut alb...