Rolling Stone India spotlights #SUGA's unconventional journey in their recent article:
“The Surprising Backstories Behind Some of K-Pop’s Biggest Stars”
✦ Today, he’s known as SUGA or by his independent rap moniker, Agust D. But before the world recognized him as a hitmaker, pop titan, elite producer, and hip-hop superstar from BTS, he was moonlighting as a delivery boy.
In early 2010, Yoongi left his hometown of Daegu, where he was once the underground rapper Gloss, and found himself stranded in the costly city of Seoul. He took up a job as a trainee at Big Hit Entertainment — then a tiny, debt-ridden startup — where his salary could barely cover his cost of living. Every expense came with a compromise, sometimes even forcing him to choose between eating a full meal or taking a bus ride home.
The breaking point arrived in 2012 when, while rushing to make a delivery, he met with an accident and T-boned his bike, injuring his shoulder labrum. Worried that it would get him kicked out of the agency, he hid the excruciating pain, claiming he had fallen down the stairs. This struggle shaped a dual identity that would eventually define his stardom.
As SUGA, he learned how to work the machinery of mainstream K-pop, turning his raps into global anthems. Yet, he strongly refused to let the glossy industry erase the boy on the bike. Under his alter ego Agust D, his solo track “Amygdala” directly confronts the trauma of that crash and the burden of keeping it a secret while dealing with family tragedies as evident in the lines, “Uh-uh, the news I couldn’t deliver / My accident news that I couldn’t share / And the phone call that came during my schedule: my father’s liver cancer.” The music video too serves as a visceral, cinematic re-enactment of the accident itself, with Suga trapped in a cyclical nightmare of a car door colliding with his frame. While the K-pop industry usually keeps topics like mental health out of discussion, he chose to be open about his.
The years following his 2020 shoulder surgery signaled an artistic liberation, culminating in 2023 with D-Day, an album chosen explicitly “to liberate myself from all the shackles in my life.” To cement this, Suga embarked on a solo worldwide tour, where the stage design physically collapsed around him, symbolically shedding his past traumas. Following his tour, he enlisted in his mandatory military service in September that year. But the physical toll of that 2012 crash followed him all the way to his military service, with health officials ruling him unfit for regular combat duty, deploying him as a social service agent instead.
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🐱: You guys trust me okay?
🐱: Because the next stage is going to Blow Your Mind 🤯
🐱: Team Toronto, are you ready?
🐱: You're not ready
🐱: Are You Ready?
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🐱: ARE YOU READY???????
YOONGI SPEAKING ENGLISH SO FLUENTLY THEN GROWLING OMG 😭
Qué puto asco que Chris Brown siga recibiendo nominaciones a premios después de todos sus delitos, luego vienen a querer decirte que las denuncias le arruinan la vida a los hombres
Que los fans de NCT se metan a la discusión hace la situación graciosa, como porque un fan del grupo que tuvo un v!olador trata como miserables y de lo peor a otro. Entiendo q es cuestionable lo de KNJ y JHS, pero no me jdas 😆
ahora entiendo a mi amiga ex-kpoper fan de la 2ª generación cuando me decía lo de “la maldición del servicio militar” y yo no entendía nada
ahora sí :)
@camigoround Son tan imbciles, que ya ni puedes discutir con ellas. Solo queda reportar sus videos nefastos o cuentas, porque eso si les duele: perder likes :b
@SoeLuot7@tiabvch Hasta donde sé, su empresa si lo elimino :b entonces cual es la excusa ahora? Esto no es una campaña de odio, incluso si es que hay personas subnormales que se aprovechan de la situación, solo se trata de cuestionar lo que hicieron Nam y Hsk.
@jjk_mentaa Discrepo, las que vienen en paquete si están demasiado empalagosas, las que vienen en presentación de tubo, esas si están ricas 🤺 igual capaz es imaginación mía