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The group achieved great success in 20 with the songs "How You Like Me Now?" and "Come Again," with the former selling more than 220,000 copies and the latter approximately 390,000 copies. He was convinced and the group debuted as a three-person group (with vocalist Lisa) in 1999 with "The Tripod E.P.," which debuted in the top 10 on the Japanese singles chart. Asakawa believed one of these songs, "Been So Long," featuring vocals from a mutual friend of both Verbal and Takahashi, Lisa, was high enough quality for him to try to convince Verbal to become a full-time musician. M-Flo was then officially formed, with Verbal and Takahashi recording many songs together. Masaji Asakawa from the DJ group GTS, a contact of Takahashi's, believed the song was very high quality. During this time, he recorded a rap for a cover of Barbra Streisand's " The Way We Were" that Takahashi was producing. In 1998, Verbal returned for winter break to Japan. After he mistakenly purchased a Gang Starr album, he became interested in East coast hip hop including De La Soul and Pete Rock & CL Smooth. Verbal has said that his influences began with gangster rap groups like N.W.A. In his first year of university, he abandoned these plans after a great romantic disappointment, converting to Protestantism and deciding to study for a masters in divinity at Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary to become a pastor. Verbal returned to the United States, to study philosophy and marketing at Boston College.
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The band received many offers from major record labels after their live performances, however as Verbal did not see being a rapper as a practical career, he turned down these offers. He met Taku Takahashi there and the pair formed a rap rock band called N.M.D. His parents moved back to Tokyo and Verbal attended St. He was impressed and influenced by the hip hop culture of New York City and at 14 years old he started writing lyrics in English. When at a YMCA summer camp, Verbal was first exposed to hip hop music, in the form of Run–D.M.C.'s " It's Tricky" when the other children sung the song on the bus for the camp.
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In 1985, his parents moved to Boston in the United States for work. Verbal was born in Tokyo with Korean background in 1975.