DJ TATSUKI - Diamonds Are Forever feat. MIKADO & DADA

September 24, 2026 | Tokyo, Japan | Team RJHH

DJ TATSUKI releases 26 on November 4 via his label Chewing Gum and Dreams. Five tracks, five rapper pairings, one composer: Mill1. “Diamonds Are Forever (feat. MIKADO & DADA)” is the second single, after “地元どこ (Jimoto Doko)” in late October. The EP entered the iTunes Hip-Hop/Rap chart in Japan at number 4 on November 6, and the single at 13. The video is directed by WON and produced by OYSTER.

The title 26 follows 23, DJ TATSUKI’s first EP from 2023. Mill1 composes every beat, DJ TATSUKI produces, Ryusei mixes. The guests change on each track: Masato Hayashi and Jin Dogg, MIKADO and DADA, LUNV LOYAL and YTG, Tete, then $MOKE OG and SWEE. That two-rapper format is the one DJ TATSUKI has worked in since “TOKYO KIDS” with IO and MonyHorse in 2022.

What MIKADO and DADA say

The hook sets the image: “永遠に残る俺らの声はまるでDiamonds Are Forever” (eien ni nokoru orera no koe wa, marude Diamonds Are Forever, “our voices that stay forever, like diamonds are forever”). The two verses tell the same story from different angles. The first counts what money changed and what it didn’t. MIKADO or DADA still goes home to 築港 (Chikko, a port district in Osaka) to hand money to his parents. The second verse happens in the studio, at night: “スタジオの中は朝日が見えん” (sutajio no naka wa asahi ga mien, “inside the studio you can’t see the sunrise”), the meal a girlfriend cooked going cold, and “ダイヤみたいに光ってる汗” (daiya mitai ni hikatteru ase, “sweat shining like a diamond”). The credits don’t say who raps which verse.