You the Rock

You the Rock
You the Rock
Also known as	YTR
Born	5 September 1971 (age 53); Nagano, Nagano, Japan
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Hip hop MC; tarento;
Labels	Ki/oon Music; Tokuma Japan Communications; Gate Records;

You the Rock (stylized as YOU THE ROCK★; born Yu Takemae (竹前裕, Takemae Yū); 5 September 1971, in Nagano, Nagano) is a Japanese hip-hop musician, MC^[1] and tarento. He is nicknamed You-chan (Youちゃん) and Yū-chan Da Aniki YTR (ユウちゃん DA 兄貴 YTR).

Discography

Albums

	Year	Title
	1992	Never Die
	1993	Tight But Fat
1st	1996	The Soundtrack '96
2nd	1998	The Graffiti Rock '98
3rd	1999	The Professional Entertainer
4th	2002	XTRM
Best	2003	I Love You the Rock-Best
5th	2005	No Sell Out '05
6th	2007	Big Vip Hop
7th	2009	The Rock

Singles

	Year	Title
	1993	"Lirics"
1st	1998	"Rock the Point"
2nd	1999	"The Professional Entertainer (The Ruler's Back)"
3rd	2002	"Hip Hop Royal"
4th	2002	"Monster Lock"
5th	2004	"Grand Master Fresh Pt. 2" featuring Fantastic Plastic Machine
6th	2005	"Untold Story"

Analogue

Year	Title
	"Free feat. Twigy"
1998	"Duck Rock Fever"
	"Hoo! Ei! Ho! '98"
	"Future Rock 2001 -Return of B.O.H.-"
	"Love da Love"
1999	"The Professional Entertainer / Rap Machine"
	"Manhattan Dream / Japan in the House" ft. Boy-Ken
	"Joke Talks No (Get Up Brother)" featuring G.K.Maryan, Dev Large
2000	"Chō Raku C-E-Z 2000 (Get Busy Y'all!) / Rocky Road (Yūjō BBS)"
2004	"Grand Master Fresh Pt. 2" feat. Fantastic Plastic Machine
2005	"Untold Story"
2005	"Daz"

Main guest appearances

Year	Artist	Title
1992	DJ Doc. Holiday	The Rhythm.The Rebel
1992	Omnibus	Rhythm CD I
1994	Love Tambourines	Midnight Parade Remixes
1995	Cool Spoon	Two Mohicans
	ECD	Homesick
	ECD	Summer Madness / Live at Slits
1996	Lamp Eye	"Shōgen"
1997	Kaminari-Kazoku.	"Kaminari / Yoru Jet"
	ECD	ECD no Remixes Vol. 1 cutting edge
	ECD	Big Youth
1998	Omnibus	Far East Coasting –Non Stop Mixed By DJ Masterkey–
		avex The Album
		Atom Kids Tribute to the King "O.T."
1999	Kan Takagi	Hello
	Mahha 25	PH-OSY
	V.I.P.	"Dancehall Checker"
2000	Omnibus	Mad Maxx
	Silva	Comingout
	Silva vs You the Rock	"Virgin Killer"
	Nona Reeves	"DJ! DJ! –Todokanu Omoi–" feat. You the Rock
	Pizzicato Five	"Tokyo no Gasshō"
2001	Pizzicato Five	Sa-e-ra Japon
	Twigy	"Freedom"
	Rino Latina II	Carnival of Rino
2002	Rino Latina II	Tokyo Tetsu Kon-kin Cleat Jungle Nirei Rei nishiki Remix
2003	ECD	Master
	Omnibus	DJ Digs Main Street Electrical Parade
	Fumiya Fujii	Right Here! Right Now!
	Nona Reeves	"Changin'"
2004	Nigo	(B)Ape Sounds
	Hannyan	Ohayō Nippon
	Eliana	Akarui Mirai
	Boy-Ken	Evrythin' Is Everythin'
	Muro	Back II Back 2
2005	Nigo	Return of the Ape Sounds
	Omnibus	Entotsu Sampler Vol. 2
	G.K.Maryan	Soul on Keep
2006	Rino Latina II	II (The Second)
	Twigy	Twig
	Yoshipi Da Gama	Energy Kakumei
2007	Twigy	akasatana
	Juno Mak	Chapel of Dawn
	El Amazon	El Hot
	Zen-La-Rock	Zen-La-Rock
2008	Ami Suzuki	Dolce
2008	Twigy	Baby's Choice
2009	Disoscillators	Last Rockers
	Microphone Pager	Ōdō Rakudo
	Mika Akira	"The Rap Idol"
2011	Kaminari-Kazoku./Rino Latina II, Pit-Gob 53, D.O, You the Rock	"Kaminari Keihō"

Music videos

Director	Title
Catero Alain Colbert	"Banging Shake It (Hip Hop)"
Yuta Kimura	"Di Children"
Yuta Kimura	"Resurrection" feat. Den, Utamaru
Yuichi Kodama	"Grand Master Fresh Pt. 2" feat. Fantastic Plastic Machine
Yuichi Kodama	"Grand Master Fresh Pt. 2 (Long Ver.)" feat. Fantastic Plastic Machine
Daisuke Kondo	"Hip Hop Royal"
Taitaro	"Hip Hop Royal (Space Shower TV ver.)" x
Mizuhiro Sabine	"Monster Lock"
Ranran.	"Untold Story"
Unknown	"Hoo! Ei! Ho! '98"
Unknown	"The Professional Entertainer"

Major casting works

TV dramas

Year	Title	Network	Ep.
2002	Kekkon Dorobō	NHK-G
2005	Tiger & Dragon	TBS
2008	Mirai Kōshi meguru	TV Asahi	1

Variety programmes

Year	Title	Network
1999	Beat Bang	TV Tokyo
1999	Inazuma	Space Shower TV
2000	CDTV-Neo	TBS
2000	Dengeki Request: Dynamo	Space Shower TV
2001	Goofy	Space Shower TV
2002	Under CDTV	TBS
2002	Girigiri 7	Space Shower TV
2004	Tensai terebi-kun Max	NHK-E
	Tokyo Kinba	BS Fuji
	Bape TV	Space Shower TV
2005	GyaO Freaks	GyaO
2007	Ameba Banchō	Cyber Agent
2008	Ranking to Get Ill	Cyber Agent
2014	DaBaDaBa Fresh	CTC

Radio

Year	Title	Network
1995	Hip Hop Night Flight	Tokyo FM
1999	You the Rock the Professional Entertainer	Tokyo FM

Advertisement narrations

Year	Title
2000	Orix Blue Wave "Ichiro Casual"
2002	Achilles "Skechers"
	Kirin Beverage "Amino Suppli"
	Apple Computer "iPod guruguru Drive"
2003	Japan Coca-Cola "Vanilla Coca-Cola"
2003	Asahi Beverage "Mitsuya Cider"
2004	Asahi Beer "Asahi Honjō"
2004	Oriental Land "TDL Buzz Lightyear Natsu no Dai Sakusen"
2005	Asahi Kasei Life & Living "Saran Wrap, Zip Rock Tsukael"
2006	Nissan "Wing Road"
2006	Japan McDonald's "McDonald's Happy Set"
2007	Ezaki Glico "Glico Katayaki Pretz"
	Nissan "Nissan Cube"
	Sky Perfect Communications "Sky PerfecTV! Natsu! Nama Live Matsuri"
2008	Cadbury Japan "Chlorets Ice"
	Ezaki Glico "Pretz"
	Ezaki Glico "Papiko"

Main live

Year	Title
1996	San Ping Camp
1999	Space Shower TV Sweet Love Shower 1999
2000	Rush Ball 2000
2005	Summer Sonic 2005
2008	Wave Music Fes 2008 in Naeba
2012	Kizuna –Daisanshō—
2014	Ringo Ongaku-sai 2014
2015	Tone River Jam '15

References

^ "NHKアーカイブス保存番組検索結果詳細" (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 Feb 2017.

Notes

^ Former name:DJ Ben

External links

You the Rock at Oricon (in Japanese)

[2] "NHKアーカイブス保存番組検索結果詳細" (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 Feb 2017.

[1] Former name:DJ Ben

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