Daisuke Kawai (川合大介 / だいすけ・かわい, December 16, 1976, in Tokyo), is a Japanese singer, better known by his stage name KM-MARKIT.
In 1998, he joined the Urbarian Gym, a hip-hop group who was created by Japanese rapper ZEEBRA in 1997.
[1] The album featured Koda Kumi(倖田來未), who was one of Japan's more popular artist at the time (alongside Namie Amuro and Ayumi Hamasaki).
[3] In 2010, after UBG's disbandment, KM-MARKIT co-founded the label RAIDERMUZIK RECORDS, and joined the underground hip-hop group The Raiders, coming on as the executive producer.
[8] KM-MARKIT released a few solo works post The Raiders album under the RAIDERMUZIK RECORDS label.
He wrote the lyrics for the Japanese translations of the songs "Blood Sweat & Tears", "DNA", "Not Today" and "MIC Drop" from the 2018 BTS album Face Yourself, along with writing the lyrics to the albums' original songs "Go Go" and "Crystal Snow".
[10][non-primary source needed] He also worked with Japanese hip-hop group Lead for the songs "Shampoo Bubble" (2017), in which he wrote the rap,[11] and "Drop in the box" (2019), in which both he and RYUJA composed the instrumental.
[12] On April 19, 2020, KM-MARKIT took part in the song "Be One ~Bokura ni Dekiru Koto~" (僕らにできる事 / What We Can Do), along with various other Japanese artists, including KEITA, Koda Kumi, Micro and Kenji03 among others.
[17][18] However, upon the release of Magnetic, she was no longer under the Rhythm Zone sub-label and chose to focus on independent work.