The Line From Anime to Boom Bap Runs Through Simi In The Sunshine Vol. 2 by IreQ Savage and Pehoz
A French-American Hip-Hop Duo Packs Seven Tracks Into Seventeen Minutes with an Anime Visualizer
A week after Simi In The Sunshine Vol. 2 came out on 4 September 2026, a full lyric visualizer for the album went up on YouTube, cut from Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan and three more anime series. IreQ Savage and Pehoz, a French-American hip-hop duo of rapper and producer, built the short album out of boom bap, trap, electronica and alt-pop. Guests LVMS and Mic Familiar each take a track.
IreQ Savage and Pehoz are in the playlist below, and the IreQ Savage artist profile collects the coverage so far. Simi In The Sunshine Vol. 2 came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Hit play, then keep reading.
That pairing of anime and beats has a long lineage. Nujabes, the Japanese producer behind Metaphorical Music and Modal Soul, worked on the soundtrack for the anime series Samurai Champloo in 2004. He built his beats from hip-hop, soul and jazz samples. Three years later, RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan composed the music for Afro Samurai, a 2007 anime miniseries starring Samuel L. Jackson. Indeed, its creator drew on his own love of hip-hop and soul.
So the wave runs in both directions. Anime borrows hip-hop’s rhythm, while hip-hop borrows anime’s heroes, villains and transformations. The full visualizer for this album also uses Black Torch, Dragon Ball Z: Bardock, The Father of Goku and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. Therefore, Simi In The Sunshine Vol. 2 sits squarely in the exchange.
Where IreQ Savage and Pehoz Fit, From a 2012 Album to a Seventeen-Minute Second Volume
Still, IreQ Savage is not new to this. The catalogue on Apple Music starts with My Fault in September 2012. After that comes a string of EPs, including Asthma Attack and Final Days in 2016 and Neon Zombie 9000 in 2017. Then albums followed with Afterlife in 2017, Washed in 2018 and Washed II, A Love Tape in 2019.
The run of singles never really stopped. In 2021 alone came ClapbacKING., TakeoverKING., FineseKING. and NightKING., a crown-titled series of their own. Meanwhile, the first Simi In The Sunshine volume sits on Spotify from August 2021, built on short tracks such as Positive Growth, Oldsouls and Tape503.
Similarly, Vol. 2 keeps that economy. Its seven tracks run to about seventeen minutes, from Devour Souls at 1:36 to Escape From The Planet at 3:10. The titles read like episode names: Conscience Realm, Time Tick, Jealous Vulture, Anger Orca. Spotify’s credits for Escape From The Planet list Pehoz as beatmaker, IreQ Savage as studio personnel, and Paul Manjole and Justin Maxam Hubbard as the lyricists.
The blend draws on boom bap, trap, electronica and alt-pop, in tracks that rarely pass three minutes. The visualizer runs them in order with its own chapter marks. For instance, the opener ends at 3:10, Split The Bill starts at 7:39, and the last track begins at 14:41. Even the titles shift slightly on screen, where Anger Orca becomes Angry Orca.
Adjacent Acts for Simi In The Sunshine Vol. 2, From the Guests on the Record to IreQ Savage’s Wider Circle
The two guests carry the album beyond the duo. LVMS joins IreQ Savage and Pehoz on Escape From The Planet, the opening track. Then Mic Familiar appears on Split The Bill. Both are credited as featured artists on Spotify.
Besides the guests, there is a circle that IreQ Savage has recorded with for years. JCPinthecut appears on FineseKING. and on the remix of TakeoverKING., which also features VOCALDINOSAUR. Areo is on NightKING., and KJB shares the 2020 album Worms in a Vacuum. In addition, the Murda Worth Clique posse cut Poison Type put IreQ Savage and JCPinthecut on one track in 2020.
For listeners, the adjacent acts are clear. Anyone who found hip-hop through Nujabes and Samurai Champloo, or through the Afro Samurai score, will recognise the instinct here. The difference is scale: this is an independent duo working in short bursts, with anime on screen and boom bap underneath.
From the BlackSounds.News Curator Team: “What we like most is the economy. The album says what it has to say in seventeen minutes, and the visualizer turns it into a single sitting.”
Start with Escape From The Planet and the LVMS verse, then let the visualizer run the rest.
Stream the album on SoundCloud or the Pandora station. Then follow IreQ Savage on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and Bandcamp. Watch the YouTube channel, and keep up on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Threads.
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