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omonatheydid{2} Bang Yongguk “The young boy begins to open his eyes to hip hop music”
~ these are actually the following parts of this interview; btw, I have no idea if there'll be more articles
[..] We have prepared the column “star story” in our publishing which not only tells a truthful side to stars, but their past that brought them to where they are today. This episode’s protagonist is Bang Yongguk who has stepped forth into the music industry with his strong charisma as the leader of the six-member group B.A.P.
And Bang Yongguk confessed that when he moved to a new region as he started junior high, he had troubles adjusting to the complicated city life.
“I lived in Incheon and I thought there wouldn’t be much difference in moving to Seoul but I was wrong when I saw how much more people there were and how peers my age were really modernized. Because of that, it took me a while to adjust to the Seoul lifestyle (laughs). Where I used to live, all the lights would turn off when it turned 9PM but in Seoul, the streets were still busy during that time.”
Despite Seoul being a foreign place for Bang Yongguk to start a new life in, he was a kid who was able to adjust with his peers, especially since he spent his time with friends through sports which was a helping hand in getting friendlier with one another. He claims that he still contacts his friends he was close to back then and while he was busy spending his days with his friends and being a jokester, something tickled his curiosity one day and that was hip hop music.
“I started gaining interest in music from junior high and on. One day, I just thought how hip hop music seemed cool. It was also because my older sister liked American music so when I’d turn on the computer in our house, there were only songs in that genre. Because of that, I naturally began listening to hip hop music and gained interest, which led me to start looking for related videos myself.”
Bang Yongguk’s older sister played a vital role in where Bang Yongguk stands today and in thanks to his older sister who knew American music well, little Yongguk began growing his dream with music more and more each day.
“I think after seeing videos with rapping in it, I realized then for the first time that I wanted to rap myself and up till my second year of middle school, I didn’t even know there was an artist in Korea named Drunken Tiger. I always thought those who did hip hop music were foreigners and Drunken Tiger was a fresh kind of shock for me.”
As Bang Yongguk started gaining more interest in music, he began composing. At first, he didn’t know but he slowly began to find out that people took interest in the lyrics he wrote.
“In my second year of junior high I wrote lyrics for the first time. After composing lyrics, coincidentally I found an online forum that comprised of people who were interested in hip hop and rap just like me and it was a whole new world. I posted my lyrics for the first time on an online forum and the responses were really good. In thinking of it as people critiquing my work after having worked on my music alone, I was really happy.”
Bang Yongguk’s rap and lyrics were acknowledged by a lot of people at the time. In showing off his own unique color of music, the many people on the online forum acknowledged his work but more than that, they began praising his work as well.
“At the time, I saw lots of responses like, “Your rap is unique” and “It’s refreshing.” How did I feel? Of course I felt so happy that I felt like I was going to fly. Many people listened to my music and I even received a question that asked, “Do you live outside of the country?” I think my motive back then was to not be swayed by the trend and prove “I only do my kind of music” to others.”
{3}“Because of music, I was even ranked 1 in my entire school..I don’t regret it”
[..] And with the junior high student Bang Yongguk opened his eyes to music, he moved onto becoming a high school student which then he officially began walking down the path of music.
In high school, Bang Yongguk was really a quiet student. Despite moving onto the same high school as his friends that he was with in his junior high years, he was known to be the kid who never really talked.
“I didn’t really talk in high school and I would just go to school and come back home. Because I was quiet in always studying, my teachers thought I was a model student in which they liked. I would study at school and do music at home: that was all I did. Since then, I officially started taking interest in music.”
In his second year of middle school, Bang Yongguk started meeting up with his hyungs (who are label-mates with him currently) that were promoting at the time and began studying on composing. He said he started gaining more knowledge about music from a professional was around this time.
“In meeting up with the hyungs of our label back then, I composed by myself. My spectrum in music began expanding and seeing them produce music, I learned a lot from it. Even when writing lyrics, I used to just write what came to mind before but at the time, I think I thought a little before jotting down lyrics. If I think about it now, I think my third year of high school was the most critical period in my life (laughs).”
However, Bang Yongguk’s parents were very against him doing music. Although he was able to bypass the period of storms and gales well, there was a time when he rebelled for the first time also.
“Because my parents didn’t like me doing music, I even rebelled for the first time. I think my parents wanted me to earn a safe job since I was studious and because of that, I used to sneak out to produce music alone. The storage room we had, I remodeled it into a producing room and I used to stay there. That was the place where the life of rapper Bang Yongguk began.”
However, the bigger his dreams got, his parents’ disapproval grew stronger as well, but that didn’t mean that didn’t mean there wasn’t a compromise in which his parents proposed one factor.
“My parents told me, “Be studious first and then do what you like,” so I opened my eyes to studying as well. Having them tell me that they wouldn’t say anything afterwards once I achieved something first, I went to the library by myself and began studying. My test scores? I eventually ranked first in the entire school. Even after that, I maintained my status in our school’s top rankings (smiles).”
And from then on, music began bringing forth to him a lot of offers. With him being motivated to study from music, he earned a scholarship of course but was also offered a job in a major corporation that is one of the top nationwide.
“I received an excellence award in studies for the first time in my entire life and received a scholarship as well. Once I graduated high school, I was even offered a job in the S Corporation (Samsung). However, I wasn’t interested in any of those and I only had one thing in mind which was music.”
CREDITS: HERALDM (SOURCE) ~ 01 02 | HEODANG @ TUMBLR (TRANS) ~ 01 02
why you no mention your twin brother, yongguk?and I want a picture.
~ these are actually the following parts of this interview; btw, I have no idea if there'll be more articles
[..] We have prepared the column “star story” in our publishing which not only tells a truthful side to stars, but their past that brought them to where they are today. This episode’s protagonist is Bang Yongguk who has stepped forth into the music industry with his strong charisma as the leader of the six-member group B.A.P.
And Bang Yongguk confessed that when he moved to a new region as he started junior high, he had troubles adjusting to the complicated city life.
“I lived in Incheon and I thought there wouldn’t be much difference in moving to Seoul but I was wrong when I saw how much more people there were and how peers my age were really modernized. Because of that, it took me a while to adjust to the Seoul lifestyle (laughs). Where I used to live, all the lights would turn off when it turned 9PM but in Seoul, the streets were still busy during that time.”
Despite Seoul being a foreign place for Bang Yongguk to start a new life in, he was a kid who was able to adjust with his peers, especially since he spent his time with friends through sports which was a helping hand in getting friendlier with one another. He claims that he still contacts his friends he was close to back then and while he was busy spending his days with his friends and being a jokester, something tickled his curiosity one day and that was hip hop music.
“I started gaining interest in music from junior high and on. One day, I just thought how hip hop music seemed cool. It was also because my older sister liked American music so when I’d turn on the computer in our house, there were only songs in that genre. Because of that, I naturally began listening to hip hop music and gained interest, which led me to start looking for related videos myself.”
Bang Yongguk’s older sister played a vital role in where Bang Yongguk stands today and in thanks to his older sister who knew American music well, little Yongguk began growing his dream with music more and more each day.
“I think after seeing videos with rapping in it, I realized then for the first time that I wanted to rap myself and up till my second year of middle school, I didn’t even know there was an artist in Korea named Drunken Tiger. I always thought those who did hip hop music were foreigners and Drunken Tiger was a fresh kind of shock for me.”
As Bang Yongguk started gaining more interest in music, he began composing. At first, he didn’t know but he slowly began to find out that people took interest in the lyrics he wrote.
“In my second year of junior high I wrote lyrics for the first time. After composing lyrics, coincidentally I found an online forum that comprised of people who were interested in hip hop and rap just like me and it was a whole new world. I posted my lyrics for the first time on an online forum and the responses were really good. In thinking of it as people critiquing my work after having worked on my music alone, I was really happy.”
Bang Yongguk’s rap and lyrics were acknowledged by a lot of people at the time. In showing off his own unique color of music, the many people on the online forum acknowledged his work but more than that, they began praising his work as well.
“At the time, I saw lots of responses like, “Your rap is unique” and “It’s refreshing.” How did I feel? Of course I felt so happy that I felt like I was going to fly. Many people listened to my music and I even received a question that asked, “Do you live outside of the country?” I think my motive back then was to not be swayed by the trend and prove “I only do my kind of music” to others.”
{3}“Because of music, I was even ranked 1 in my entire school..I don’t regret it”
[..] And with the junior high student Bang Yongguk opened his eyes to music, he moved onto becoming a high school student which then he officially began walking down the path of music.
In high school, Bang Yongguk was really a quiet student. Despite moving onto the same high school as his friends that he was with in his junior high years, he was known to be the kid who never really talked.
“I didn’t really talk in high school and I would just go to school and come back home. Because I was quiet in always studying, my teachers thought I was a model student in which they liked. I would study at school and do music at home: that was all I did. Since then, I officially started taking interest in music.”
In his second year of middle school, Bang Yongguk started meeting up with his hyungs (who are label-mates with him currently) that were promoting at the time and began studying on composing. He said he started gaining more knowledge about music from a professional was around this time.
“In meeting up with the hyungs of our label back then, I composed by myself. My spectrum in music began expanding and seeing them produce music, I learned a lot from it. Even when writing lyrics, I used to just write what came to mind before but at the time, I think I thought a little before jotting down lyrics. If I think about it now, I think my third year of high school was the most critical period in my life (laughs).”
However, Bang Yongguk’s parents were very against him doing music. Although he was able to bypass the period of storms and gales well, there was a time when he rebelled for the first time also.
“Because my parents didn’t like me doing music, I even rebelled for the first time. I think my parents wanted me to earn a safe job since I was studious and because of that, I used to sneak out to produce music alone. The storage room we had, I remodeled it into a producing room and I used to stay there. That was the place where the life of rapper Bang Yongguk began.”
However, the bigger his dreams got, his parents’ disapproval grew stronger as well, but that didn’t mean that didn’t mean there wasn’t a compromise in which his parents proposed one factor.
“My parents told me, “Be studious first and then do what you like,” so I opened my eyes to studying as well. Having them tell me that they wouldn’t say anything afterwards once I achieved something first, I went to the library by myself and began studying. My test scores? I eventually ranked first in the entire school. Even after that, I maintained my status in our school’s top rankings (smiles).”
And from then on, music began bringing forth to him a lot of offers. With him being motivated to study from music, he earned a scholarship of course but was also offered a job in a major corporation that is one of the top nationwide.
“I received an excellence award in studies for the first time in my entire life and received a scholarship as well. Once I graduated high school, I was even offered a job in the S Corporation (Samsung). However, I wasn’t interested in any of those and I only had one thing in mind which was music.”
CREDITS: HERALDM (SOURCE) ~ 01 02 | HEODANG @ TUMBLR (TRANS) ~ 01 02
why you no mention your twin brother, yongguk?
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Date: 2012-05-02 02:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 02:15 am (UTC)yeah. give me a secondfixed it :)
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Date: 2012-05-02 02:15 am (UTC)but dammnn is he like, some sort of genius or something /sob please marry me you perfect man you q______q
btw, that pic of him with tigger is so adorbs, I remember he said in an interview if he were to be a cartoon character he would love to be tigger lol ♥
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Date: 2012-05-02 12:31 pm (UTC)i have cousins and friends being forced to enrolled in something that they have zero interest in in college just because their parents think "majoring in music or arts is useless".
but the good thing is that i've noticed in recent years most parents are much more liberal when letting their kids choose their own major. one of my younger sister is studying Fine Arts though my parents(n most of us tbh) basically have no idea wtf that is. when asked by friends what is Fine Arts, they just answered " lol dunno. drawing?"
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Date: 2012-05-02 02:23 am (UTC);________________________;
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Date: 2012-05-02 03:15 am (UTC)So he has a big sister too? I don't want her to sound like BYG. lol!
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Date: 2012-05-02 03:27 am (UTC)Baby was like, "Yeah I made first...and then stayed near the top just to prove a point while I did my music."
Yes, you are awesome and if I was younger I would want to marry your sexiness LOL...all jokes aside an intelligent man is hot
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Date: 2012-05-02 04:02 am (UTC)This is definitely one of the more insightful articles written about an idol.
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Date: 2012-05-02 04:07 am (UTC)dis precious manboy :>
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Date: 2012-05-02 12:28 pm (UTC)so calvin and hobbes of him.
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Date: 2012-05-02 04:30 pm (UTC)And his smile has been wonderful since he was really young too :o)
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Date: 2012-05-02 04:55 pm (UTC)I can't imagine him being super shy though
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Date: 2012-05-02 05:41 pm (UTC)