A track that never got a single release and never got a music video just pulled HALCALI out of a 14-year hiatus.“Otsukare SUMMER”first appeared on the duo’s 2003 album, and in spring 2025 it went viral overseas with no promotion behind it. Fans did the work, and HALCA and YUCALI noticed.
In a Billboard Japan Women in Music interview, the pair said the comeback wasn’t their idea.“We didn’t initiate this comeback. People wanted us back, and that’s what allowed us to do HALCALI again.”Both members are mothers now, and they reject the label of a“career gap.”HALCA put it plainly: that time was the best, because it let her face both herself and society. The reunion also brings back producers O.T.F, RYO-Z and DJ FUMIYA of RIP SLYME, who are dads now too.
New song“Guin Guin Guin”dropped Sept. 2 as the September Song of the Month for Synapshooo. The interview also digs into the male-dominated hip-hop scene HALCALI debuted into and how motherhood shifted the way they hear lyrics and read the world around them. Which song from your past deserves a viral second life?
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