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Carpe diem, you know.
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I am a songwriter and producer, and though you have to be personal in everything you do, you always having to look at things from another's perspective.
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When I create a song, I immediately think about what I'm going to wear when I perform that song. I think about the music video treatment and about how I'm going to look on stage when I perform the record. The connection is so obvious that it's a single package. An outfit, to me, is almost a tool to express the music.
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I earned the opportunity to stand on stage with many senior artists at YG, and naturally, I gained stage experience.
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As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.
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Seungri sounds mournful while T.O.P has a masculine and husky voice. My voice is thin, just like when I talk
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The sights you can find here in Paris are second to none.
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Before I was physically there in different countries to meet my fans in person, I didn't really realize how famous I was.
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Stony Skunk, when they were with our company, had a song which I personally like called 'Red Light District.'
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When I don't look cool enough or when I cannot make good music anymore, I will retire.
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I occasionally rapped along to some homegrown Korean rap. And then a friend introduced me to Wu-Tang and played me 'Enter the 36th Chambers.' It was very shocking. And then I started to look for different albums. This was pre-Internet, so it's hard to find the music, and it was even harder to find music videos.
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Every Chanel show I've been to is very conceptual. Even down to the music and smells, the whole thing is connected.
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I love listening to people talking about their love, and it always gives me great energy.
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I want to have daughter, and if I do, I want to make sure she learns ballet.
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European style is classic, with its own color, and to me, it always feels chic.
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You know if you're in Rome, live in the Roman way. I grew up there, I was born there, and so I should follow its guidelines, live like a Korean. And I really love Korea. I grew up listening to Korean music, and was able to get to where I am because of it.
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Musical success depends on how much you enjoy it and how much you are willing to put in. Luck must follow, too.
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We are Korean, so obviously they call our music K-pop. But we never thought of our music as K-pop. Our music is just our music.
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I don't want to go to a foreign country and get lumped into that genre. I'm just looking at the bigger picture. This K-pop title might be good for now, but looking ahead it could hold me back, like a prison of sort. I'm a little wary about that.
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Overall, Korean pop serves as the foundation of my musical upbringing. As a result, the melodies that I create just exude that type of vibe.
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I would write down the lyrics to 'C.R.E.A.M.' in Korean - not translating it, but phonetically writing out each word. I didn't know what they were saying, so I would just write everything down as I heard it. I would recite it and imitate it like that. That's how I started to write my own raps.
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The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.
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I started out as a child actor. Back then, I didn't have a manager or company, and I couldn't even dream of having a stylist. My mom made and bought the clothes I would wear. I think that was probably when I first got into fashion.
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There are albums that I like because of specific songs, but then there are albums that I like as a complete body of work. 'Ghetto Fabolous' is an album I lived with daily.
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