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HOME MADE Kazoku (Home Made 家族, translated in English as Home Made Family) is a Japanese hip hop trio signed to Ki/oon Records, a subsidiary of Sony Records.
BiographyHome Made Kazoku is a three member band consisting of members Micro, Kuro and founding member, DJ U-Ichi. The band was originally created in 1996 under a different name and went through many members before finally settling on being a trio with the name Home Made Kazoku in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, the band perfo...
Read more (511 words more)HOME MADE Kazoku (Home Made 家族, translated in English as Home Made Family) is a Japanese hip hop trio signed to Ki/oon Records, a subsidiary of Sony Records.
BiographyHome Made Kazoku is a three member band consisting of members Micro, Kuro and founding member, DJ U-Ichi. The band was originally created in 1996 under a different name and went through many members before finally settling on being a trio with the name Home Made Kazoku in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, the band performed independently in various Nagoya nightclubs. In early 2004, the band was chosen to be part of a country-wide tour known as the Japan Club Tour. During the tour, the trio gained many fans from their club performances as well as finally being signed to a major label, Ki/oon Records.
Shortly after being signed, the group released a mini-album containing the song "Home Sweet Home (Reborn)". The song became wildly popular and went on to become one of the most requested songs of Japanese radio stations for the year. In July of the same year, their first single, Summer Time Magic, was released and sat at a comfortable 15th on the Oricon charts for nearly 10 weeks. After a series of singles, including Thank You!!, which was used as the second ending theme to the popular anime Bleach and Shōnen Heart, which was used as an opening theme to the anime Eureka Seven, the band's first full length album was released. "Rock the World" entered the Oricon charts and peaked at 5th in its first week. It would stay in the top 20 for the next two months and end up selling 191,744 copies as well as becoming the 78th best selling album of 2005, a sign of the band's new found popularity.
After their first album, the group went on a series of tours and released a string of singles as well as their second and third albums, "Musication" and "Familia". Of special note, tickets to their second tour were sold out within the span of one hour, a record in Japanese music. In January 2007, it was announced that they would perform the first ending theme to the anime Naruto: Shippūden entitled Nagareboshi (Shooting Star) which entered the Oricon charts at 10th place. One of the group, Micro, was featured on the abingdon boys school song "Lost Reason" as it appeared on their self-titled album. Home Made Kazoku has performed for a promotional commercial for a product called "Walky Walky" with their song "Easy Walk". It was also announced that their new single NO RAIN NO RAINBOW will be used as the movie theme for the second Naruto Shippūden Movie which will be out on the 2nd of August 2008.
Style
Home Made Kazoku usually displays a very up-beat mood in their music, sometimes described by fans as "feel-good music". The pace of the songs may vary from moderately slow and calm to moderately fast and energetic. Following a trend within Japanese pop, the group makes use of english phrases within the music. This use is rather extensive, as nearly every song contains some amount of english. Most songs utilize the language in the refrain as well as in isolated instances throughout a song.
The subject matter of the music usually concerns love, harmonious communication with others, and summer festivities. Additionally, most of the music videos seem to take place in the spring or summer, harkening back to their up-beat mood and liveliness. close
Hey, everyone! this forum is about HMKU but i guess we can talk about other stuff also ofcourse 
no bad language or sexual content!
you are warmly welcome 
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Its a home home home home party!!!
Home MAde Kazoku...
Like them really!!!
wow!!!
they really good..
their music is really catchy and the lyrics is definitely great!!!
Loving it every single second...
:)
I really love them! They're so original and they're rapping, is that what it's called? o.o, is amazing!
They have such spunk and they never cease to amaze me!
hi everybody..
home made kazoku.....
home made kazoku....
Yes I also started to like them.
They made real calm music and it is the best thing when your life is troubled.
I hope they will make good music for years.
YAY! Finally a Home Made Kazoku post! I 
them!!! Especially Micro! :RBheart: But I love all the members the same. They have more talent than those stupid hip hop artists in America. If there's any comments in their videos about Micro, I put them!!
they great really great like nagaboshi shooting star jun here its great love them
I LOVE HOME MADE KAZOKU! IT WAS BECAUSE OF THEM I GOT INTO JPOP I WAS WATCHING BLEACH AND THE ENDING THEME SONG IMMEADIATLEY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION. SO I GOT ONLINE AND FOUND OUT WHO IT WAS BY AND VIOLA IM A HOME MAE FAN! AND I ALSO FELL IN LOVE WITH THEIR SONGS SHOOTING STAR AIKOTOBA AND EVERYBODY NEEDS SOME MUSIC ITS BECAUSE OF THEIR SONG THANK YOU (WHICH IS STILL ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS...) THAT I LOVE JPOP SOOOOO MUCH. WELL THATS MY STORY... KINDA LONG... OH WELL
LOVE YOU HOME MADE KAZOKU!
HMK is one of my favorites the first song I heard from them was arigato then later figured out they made my other favorite song nagareboshi and now I love all their songs :RBhalo: no rain no rainbow has to be my most favorite
I like the songs that appear in Naruto and Bleach but I think they have talent.
i like their song!!! in bleach and naruto!!! They have amazing voice!! I love it!!!
i love their song for Naruto Shippuuden,
Nagareboshi,
to the point that i went & memorized it!!
:D
biRiN-cHaMinG :RBhalo:
I first heard them on Naruto, and since then Theyve become one of my favorite bands, I love ' No Rain, No Rainbow'! =D
just in case you dont know the meaning of thier lyrics, they're really well written, a lot of rapping about positive stuff you dont hear enough of in the west.
yes, their lyrics are beautiful
I just started listening to them more. I first listened to their anime stuffs. And I downloaded their album HOME, its sooo nice :3
I love the shorty. I forgot his name though 
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wow. not a lot of ppl here talkin about hmk. thats a shame.
HOME MADE KAZOKU IS TEH COOLIES.
their music is so deep.
AWWww Home Made Kazoku Is Simplyy AWWEsomee :RBstickout: :RBhot:
Well... I Can't Sayy I Don't Know That Much Since I Know Jusst Two Sonngs... The Ones From NARUTO :RBohNo: :RBstickout: :RBstickout: And Theyy Are So AWWEsomee There's Nothing More To It
Nagareboshi Annd No Rain No Rainbow Are Just Greaat ! The Lyrics Are Amazinng And Well I Love It What More Can I Sayy :RBundecided: :RBstickout:
HOME MADE KAZOKU is so awesome !
love them so much !
but i dont like their latest single much, You~Anata ga soba ni iru shiawase is making me feel a little disappointed.
I love their song in Naruto and Bleach, like Arigatou, Nagaraboshi and No Rain no Rainbow
Especially, Nagareboshi'lyric is so awesome !
I love Home Made Kazoku and their songs! :RBheart: :RBheart: :RBheart:
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| Band name | HOME MADE Kazoku |
| Band type | hip-hop group (3 members) |
| Debut | 1 January, 1996 (active) |
| Label | Ki/oon |
| Official website | http://www.home-made.jp/ |
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