- Noise Pop Festival 2026 Presents - Lyrics Born - Seiji Oda - Trackademics - — - Lyrics Born [aka Tom Shimura] is a hip-hop legend who’s been shattering glass ceilings since his start in the ‘90s San Francisco Bay Area home base. The first Asian-American solo rapper to perform at Lollapalooza, Coachella, Outside Lands, and on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Lyrics Born is now Snoop-Dogg-approved with the OG rapper hyping on Instagram LB's recent single “Take It 2 Far” from his recent studio album, Goodbye, Sticky Rice (October 2024). - — - seiji oda is a Japanese-American rapper and producer from Oakland, California. his signature sound “lofi-hyphy” combines ambient soundscapes with his Bay Area hyphy roots. this juxtaposition represents seiji’s unorthodox approach to creating music that feels both familiar and futuristic. - — - Bay Area artist/producer Trackademicks has captivated the attention of those who have a taste for soulfully-charged synth chords, mobbin’ bass lines, slappin’ drums, and genre-defying sounds.Heavily influenced by the textural undertones of R&B and Sophisti-Pop of the mid 1980’s, Trackademicks has crafted tracks for everyone from Kamaiyah to Teedra Moses, Phonte (Little Brother) to Lyrics Born. In addition to his early involvement with Atrak’s Fool's Gold Records and his own crew, the HNRL (pronounced Honor Roll), Trackademicks has been a fixture in the Bay Area music scene since the Hyphy Movement during the mid-aughts, producing the cult classic remix to E-40’s hit Tell Me When To Go. His penchant for remixing is expressed through his masterful, dancefloor-friendly [Re]Mixtape series, featuring remixes of artists like SZA, Don Tolliver, and Little Dragon.