Two powerful cuts from soakubeats' masterful 2018 second album "Crude" get the long-awaited 7-inch single treatment!!! The A-side is "Elaiza feat. Tokuri" (sample1), a synth-funk-meets-future-R&B number brimming with clear synth tones and sentimental melodies that soakubeats himself describes as "a piece I'm proud of, made in true faith to my own curiosity." On it, Hakata's own Napoleon Dynamite, Tokuri, raps about his feelings for a certain female celebrity he ran into one day in Harajuku, and the wildly idiosyncratic music video that showcased his one-of-a-kind character became a talking point in its own right. The B-side features rapper dodo, whose own album 'importance' just dropped in February. Over a druggy, chilled-out trap track full of floating atmosphere, dodo delivers tight rhymes and punchline after punchline on this cloud rap cut. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)