James Kai Wei Lau 劉愷威 is a multidisciplinary creative - writer, director, actor and hip-hop artist. Since directing his award-winning short film "Eviction" in 2021, James has focused more on making music under his Chinese name 'Kai Wei'.

A wordsmith championing his roots, he layers lyrically rich rhymes that explore deeply personal stories over jazzy samples and grimy drum loops, proudly infused with many different aspects of Asian culture.


Kai Wei

Anyone else get introduced to dnb/jungle as a kid from videogames?

I've always loved dnb/jungle but I've never released any music like that - until now.

New single 'DEBRIS' out now, it's something a little different, happy to finally drop a song with some breaks in it - hope you enjoy!

Listen here:
open.spotify.com/track/3VuEz9dlwVorQJmicQYdpl?si=v…

6 months ago | [YT] | 1

Kai Wei

Yo thank you so much to everyone that's been showing love to my single 'Tsunami'!!!

Got me fully cheesing out here.

And if you haven't heard it yet, here's a playlist I curated full of other chill hip hop songs to listen to after Tsunami:
open.spotify.com/playlist/6Z2ialfZ5j0EFXjmK7ZSqM?s…

1 year ago | [YT] | 0