Dear whoever you are,
Your "20 years of struggle" doesn't give you the right to disrespect j-hope, especially when you clearly haven't sat with an album as critically acclaimed as โJack In The Boxโ. And don't put him in the same sentence as idols from other labels who use company influence to collab with whoever's trending.
j-hope and BTS started from the bottom if you didnโt know that, a struggling company, zero industry privileges, even mocked by parts of the Korean hip-hop scene early on. They didn't get here on luck. They got here on preparation meeting opportunity. Big Hit didn't make BTS, BTS made Big Hit /HYBE what it is today.
Korean music critic Randy Suh put it well in a 2018 piece: "j-hope doesn't really owe the Korean hip hop scene much because it isn't where he got his start. He has since said with confidence that his musical roots are the 1980s and '90s hip hop that he grew up dancing to"
He didn't come up through the underground rap scene, but he spent his late teens studying it and building a flow that's entirely his own. That groundwork is what made him the first South Korean artist to headline a major U.S. festival, not a Big Hit connection, but raw talent. That's also where he met J. Cole in person, told him he was his muse, and exchanged numbers. That friendship started artist to artist, not through some HYBE rep making a call. ๐คจ
โon the streetโ with J.Cole is j-hopeโs way of paying respect to one his early hip-hop inspirations. He gave Jermaine has more bars in the song, thatโs how much he respects him.
j-hope only collaborates with people he genuinely respects. Korean hip-hop legends like Yoon Mirae and Gaeko who joined him on "Neuron" didn't show up because he's popular. They showed up because they believe in his skill, and because he's cited them as inspirations since day one.
Years in the game don't automatically make you more deserving than someone else. Sure, some artists lean hard on their label, can't rap or sing live, and still get everything handed to them. But j-hope has never been one of them.
Twenty years of experience should teach you the difference between resenting someoneโs success and understanding it. j-hopeโs is the kind you study, not the kind you dismiss.
Like kpoopies are so united to drag & hate BTS,same way they actually love BTS's songs unitedly & secretly.
They cry and feel jealous as those arenโt their fav's songs๐ธ
According to midweek predictions "SWIM" appears to have risen in points/streams. Dropping in positions because of the album ๐ฃ
โ Keep streaming across all platforms we still time left of tracking week to go higher !!
i'm gonna be honest... after seeing Bangtan back to back 2 nights in Munich i totally understand why some of you go to as many shows as possible ๐ญ๐ญ
This is a straightforward message from BTS that they are aiming for longevity & bigger milestones of their reunion album ARIRANG
This means our target should be shifted directly towards #1 on billboards hot 100 without any excuses mind you if we make it happen than this is gonna mark as Bangtan 8th #1 hits on billboards hot 100 data
I would also like to request from yโall that if you could help in fundraising than pls contribute, reach out to the funding organiser team and help them
Bighit, Hybe, USA label, Arirang Producers & Songwriters including BTS themselves are aiming for greater outcomes of both the album & tour so we really need to lock tf in and give everything from our side and at this momentum premium streams counts the best so pls renew your accounts based on however you can afford to stream
Both Normal release & FIFA half time show are prior to eachother estimating tannies gonna perform & promote Normal as their 2nd lead title track infront of the massive crowd
Constant Arirang talk, musical discussion, impact of tour and most important thing chart stability should be our foremost goal without any gibberish hopefully by the time of Normal Release we can reach a good amount of dominance in chart so that our broken stability turns into proper chart stability
Also donโt forget weโre having a normal mv coming soon till then keep swimming ๐
[GQ] During ARIRANG in Body to Body, The entire stadium sings along to the hopeful, yet also yearning, lines word for word in Korean. This is what global influence looks like in action
some of yall need to stop gagging at stalker videos from outside the hotel like it hasnt even been 2 weeks since taehyung scolded us and now oomfs are hyping his own video on the tl