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Some older releases on this but thought the newer songs were quite good. Unsure why EP won't load, but whatever

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lol they really decided to film all of their MVs during their vacation

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I’ve been listening to the EP a fair amount recently. I’m not massive on Can I Sip Dambae, but I love Let’s Find a Good Manager and Makgeolli Banger.

The crew are starting to make more waves on the official Spotify Hyperpop playlist, with Effie having a few songs featured on it now, and a new song by Kimj has just gone on to it too, (and honorary member SEBii is on it a few times as well.) We just need to see The Deep get on it too.

This is the new Kimj song on there, it’s fun (bro loves Skrillex so much, but it’s kinda endearing lol)

I just happened to turn on M-countdown when their debut performance was starting. I was really impressed.

Bop for me. The whole EP is nothing but bangers!

I’m offended that you would even ask.

Did Young Posse just release the best Korean rap record of the year?

On the one hand, it is easy to listen to Young Posse’s music and think it’s not that deep, it’s all a bit of light hearted fun (that’s fine, Young Posse bring back an element of fun sorely missing in other kpop groups nowadays and I love them for their goofy concepts).

But scratch a little deeper into their discography and you’ll find they have a sound that is incredibly well nuanced and crafted by a team with a deep, deep, understanding of hip-hop, with appreciation for everything from its roots to its modern micro genres. In their prior releases, you had the West Coast flavour of “Ate That”, the Tupac style old-school of “Roty”, the nod to Seo Taiji with XXL, and the rage beats of ‘Scars’ (which sounded like something straight from a Trippie Red or Lil Uzi Vert record).

That’s not to say everything has been gold. There’s some very forgettable b-sides on a lot of their past releases, but there was that potential bubbling away, and it now sees fruition on their new EP (which feels more like a proper first album and not just a “single EP”).

Growing Pain pt:1 FREE is a mind blowing record that plots a course through the history of Hip-Hop with a masterstroke. It’s 7 absolute bangers - all killer no filler - a must listen to album for any fan of girl groups or hip-hop.

If you like old-school rap, the title track, Freestyle, is a slice of Beastie Boys madness, and is a worthy addition the holy trinity of Macaroni Cheese, XXL and Ate That. The track MON3Y 8ANK drips with old-school flavour too.

If you like Rage Beats the track YSSR and my favourite from the album ‘Same Shit, Another One’, have you covered.

For something even more aggressive, the song Soju sees them rapping over drill beats.

The song ADHD verges on digicore, starting off with this glitchy, maxed out beat that descends into trap beats and delivery that would be at home on playboy carti’s Die Lit, but then suddenly switches up into an EDM chorus. It’s the sort of madness I might expect from a group like 100 gecs, and certainly lives up to the track’s title.

And to round the EP out, rather than going for the predictable ballad, the sentimental lyrics of School’s Out is underpinned by UK Garage beats, reminding me of something like Pinkpantheress’s Just for Me.

All in all, it is an incredibly diverse record, with a perfect track list that flaunts its knowledge of hip-hop with the utmost skill. Give it a listen!

It’s close but missing 2 crucial factors:

A dance performance on Studio Choom and a band version on It’s Live.

It’s very bittersweet. Following groups like Rescene and seeing them rise like they have feels great. Groups like Ifeye and HitGS are filled with such promise too, it feels like they are gonna blow up it’s just timing.

At the same time, you have your Woo!ahs, your Laboums, your Weeeklys and so on. Groups with such amazing potential who never really scored it big.

Recently, I am thrilled to see Young Posse comeback with a full album (packed with incredible songs) and a full MV, because up until recently I had this sinking feeling the money was drying up and they were going to get quietly retired.

The only other thing I will add is: are any of these groups really that nugu? There is another class of groups below them, the sort of groups that only get to play on Arirang and Show Champion and never even make it to Inkigayo. The sort of groups only BEG4DAWIN posts about - those feel like the true nugu groups, and I’ll be honest, I don’t really know much about those sorts of groups.

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This 4s4ki project slaps. Enjoyed listening to it today. The song below popped up for me on autoplay. I heard some of the tracks on it but will check out the full project tomorrow

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Also that Edward(me) - party slaps. I need to check out her stuff tomorrow too. I like what I am hearing from this track

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Oh, I had missed Bed on my listens of Your Dreamland - yeah that's a really nice song. Your Dreamland EP has these really strong vocal melodies on the tracks that I love - my fav from it has gotta be Nexus (that's in my top 5 4s4ki songs):

Glad you liked Edward(me) too! There's a few more songs in that vein on the album ('i d f c' is great). I am slowly digesting her discography (thankfully not as big as 4s4ki's!)

I also really like the song 'speed', but that's a very dark and minimal trap song. I am impressed with her diversity in sound!

NewJeans - yes of course, with members like that, the group would have been moderately successful no matter what - but the music wouldn't have been the same nor the aesthetics so I don't think they would have paradigm shifted the entire industry like they did.

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I asked @grok

"Okay, kiddo: Imagine you drew a cool picture, but someone copied it without asking and said it was theirs. That's not nice, right? Well, a music company called YG and a singer named G-Dragon are in trouble because someone says they copied a song from 15 years ago without permission. Police are like detectives checking if it's true. The company says they didn't do it!"

"The probe stems from a composer's 2024 complaint alleging YG copied his 2001 song "G-Dragon" without permission for the artist's 2010 album "Shine a Light." Police raided YG's HQ twice to seize evidence like documents and prevent tampering, as it's a criminal copyright violation case. YG denies it, claiming it's a title coincidence, not infringement. Investigation ongoing."

Ha, thanks. Did you ask Grok to explain it like you're five years old?

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This is just my type and I like the STYLE a treat for the ears

Enjoy!

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That was a great remix, thanks for sharing!

I love City Pop, especially the original 1980s Japanese stuff - maybe someone should make a thread over in the Jpop section, I have a few hidden gems to recommend (stuff you don't see on the big playlists).

Edward(me)/EDWARD(我)

This is another artist I am starting to get into a lot. She’s a melodic rapper who dabbles in Hyperpop sounds too. She’s really cool. This is my favourite song so far:

But she has a wide range and also has songs like this (which has a Charli XCX vibe to it):

I'll do one better. I'll answer mine with badly remembered Korean lyrics typed out in English of the first part that comes to mind (throwing standard romanization out the window in the process).

Red Velvet - "b-b-balgan mat!"

GFriend - "Noh goo-ree-go Nah!"

Mamamoo - The one where Hwasa is like "GYATTA MYUUUUUN" or something, over and over.

TWICE - "Sha-sha-sha" (This is how Sana says it)

BLACKPINK - "Cha-gak Hajimaaaaa"

IDLE - Don't be Lazzzzzzzyyyyyyyy (ok, that's English, whatever)

ITZY - Yuna going "Nan Tuk-byol-hannika-ya! *hair flick*"

Le Sserafim -"brueryfdhfjdhfsdfsdf Toe Shoes"

aespa - "Sang Sang Do Mot Han Blackout!"

IVE - "woooo, oooo, ahhhh, ooo"

NewJeans - "Imi-oori-jogi-moli-nopi-inun-pungson-gachi"

BABYMONSTER - "urrrghh. DIDDY DIDDY GIDDY GIDDY Nohrulbolga"

Meovv - "Imma Moggoh bara" (I say this all the time now lol)

ILLIT - "di-di-di-di-do-do-do-do" (I guess that's all their songs)

KISS OF LIFE - "lips lips lips lips lips"

I'm enjoying the album, but Soap is a little bit of a disappointment for me (I think I had hyped it up too much) - I was hoping for Yves x PP chemistry, and while the beat and melody is good, the English lyrics are too distracting...

But I don't hear you shout, who's gonna need it?

I don't need a prob but you've been wanting

Crying won't scare me now, I discipline, you keep it

Can't seem to find out, woke up in my freedom

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SpongeBob? I mean these kid-friendly IPs make sense from Hasbro's perspective, with them being a toy company and all, but I'm sure the game's older players are preemptively rolling over in their graves. I can hardly think of a bigger clash in tone.

There's a fun in-joke that this comic (created back in 2020 when the Walking Dead crossover first came out) is slowly becoming true.

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I havent' played MtG in ages but I ahve to say, the newest set, Edge of Eternities, looks soooo cool.

Yeah, it's finally a set that takes itself seriously (which was also had with Takir Dragonstorm recently) - I am eyeing up the new angel cards for my angels commander deck! I recently moved back to South Korea though, and haven't found anyone to play magic with just yet.

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LOL SHIT, completely unintentional

Do you think an MHJ card would have th Shaman creature type?

Haha, perhaps rules text like:

When this creature enters the battlefield, create 7 trainee tokens.

Tap. Sacrifice a trainee token: Add 1 mana of any color

(Yes, I'm turning MHJ into a mana dork)

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I didn't know about this either, but that's really just equally bizarre & disjointed to me. As someone who used to collect Magic cards but stopped a long time ago, I never would have imagined such crossovers. I remember hearing about a LotR one a while back, and that I could actually picture pretty easily, but these? No way.

It's been a slippery slope over the past 5 years (starting with the Walking Dead secret lair, but really accelerating after Lord of the Rings).

They've been eroding their own IP too with something the community calls "hat sets", for example they did a "wacky races" style set recently where all the planeswalkers were driving cars/motorbikes, setting up massive highways and leaving skid marks (in both senses) all over the beloved planes of the past - filled with cheap pop culture references like this

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It's just clocked that the 5 black mana/5 skulls are for MHDHH

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interesting

but wouldn't it be just another cash grab since they are utilizing "cards" to get certain kpop fans into the game

like there re diehard fans who will collect every PC of their favs and this will just drive up sales for collectors who don't really have an interest in MTG per se

It's certainly a cash-grab, as cash-grabs are all Hasbro cares about now, they are milking the game for whatever they can with a constant stream of crossovers (Lord of the Rings first, but now Final Fantasy; with Spiderman , The Last Airbender and maybe Kpop to come) - to hell with people that actually liked Magic's own IP which the game used for 25 years.

They try to separate the collectors vs the players by selling cheaper 'Play Boosters' and expensive 'Collector's Boosters', the later of which come with all sorts of fancy alternate artworks, foils and other treatments. The price of the Final Fantasy collectors boosters went crazy recently, to the point where a lot of "collectors" settle for buying Play Boosters instead (driving up their price too).