Réjizz Fused Isaan Molam Into Hip-Hop, and Marshall Records Signed Him First

Réjizz raps as comfortably over jazz-inflected soul as he does over a trap hi-hat, switching from Thai to English mid-bar without breaking stride. He calls the result Thai-Funk: jazz phrasing, soul basslines and the rolling triplet feel of Isaan's molam tradition, folded into contemporary hip-hop and R&B. This year, Marshall Records, the British amplifier company's own record label, made him the first Thai artist it had ever signed.

From Schoolyard Battles to a British Amp Company

Born Ray Jay Rangsit, Réjizz traded lunch breaks for rap battles before his debut single, "Old School Gangster," earned him recognition across Bangkok's underground scene. The grind paid off faster than most. He was named Thailand's Hip-Hop Artist of the Year for 2025, and by this summer Marshall Records had put his name on its roster alongside acts from the UK, the US and South Korea. He is still the only Thai artist on that list.

The Marshall deal is a strange kind of validation for an artist working this far from the UK garage-rock heritage the amp brand is known for, and that's the point. Marshall Records, founded in 2016 on Marshall's guitar-amp heritage, says its roster is "united less by genre than by a commitment to individuality and boundary-pushing sound," and a Bangkok rapper splicing Isaan folk music into hip-hop fits that brief as well as any of its rock signings.

What Thai-Funk Actually Sounds Like

His EP The New Era came out in 2025, around the time he was first playing international festival stages: Wonderfruit, Hola Shaka, and Asiatopa in Australia. The follow-up, The Era, dropped in July 2026, five tracks that are more pointed about what he was going through to make them. "I was stuck in a situation where my flow state and creativity were suppressed for a long time," he told Bandwagon Asia after the release. The lead single, "JRIZ," plays jazz-inflected hip-hop against modern dating from both a male and a female perspective inside the same song.

He isn't precious about the ambition behind it either. "I believe a lot of talents change themselves to become famous," he said in the same interview. Thai-Funk, as he's described it, only works because he refuses to drop either half of it: the jazz-club smokiness has to sit next to the Isaan countryside groove, not replace it.

Joining a Longer Molam Lineage

Réjizz didn't invent the idea of running molam through electronic production. Bangkok's Studio Lam spent years building a scene around exactly that collision before it closed its doors this year, and the Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band has been touring a live version of the same fusion for fourteen years. What Réjizz adds is a hip-hop vocabulary and a UK label with international distribution, which is a different kind of reach than a listening bar or a live band gets. Isaan folk music has been finding its way into Bangkok's electronic and club spaces for over a decade; Réjizz just got signed for doing it.

Réjizz closed out 2025 playing a set inside the check-in lobby of The Standard, Hua Hin, for the hotel's Standard Sounds series, turning a hotel reception into a dancefloor on December 30, days before the new year. It's a small gig next to a UK record deal, but it's the kind of room where Thai-Funk makes the most sense: close enough to see who's actually dancing, and close enough to prove it works.

Cover photo: Marshall Records, via marshall.com.