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💀💀💀 quite a few armys literally said hobi's collab with jcole was going to make the khh scene bitter as hell and wow actually hearing it from their mouths is hilarious
👤 J. Cole tidak sembarangan menerima featuring dengan siapa pun, tidak peduli seberapa besar mereka membayar. Bagaimana kolaborasi ini bisa terjadi?
🐿�� Sebenarnya, J. Cole telah menjadi inspirasi (muse) sejak aku memulai musik dan aku selalu menyukai musiknya. Setelah merilis album solo aku kali ini, aku berkesempatan tampil di Lollapalooza, dan kebetulan kami berdua menjadi penampil utama (headliner) di sana. Karena dia adalah inspirasi besar bagi aku, aku menghampirinya dan mengungkapkan ketulusan ku kepadanya. Meskipun bahasa Inggris ku terbatas, aku mengatakan dengan tulus bahwa aku adalah penggemar lamanya dan bahwa dia adalah inspirasi ku....
👤 Lollapalooza adalah festival yang sangat bersejarah dengan tradisi panjang di AS dan kamu adalah artis Korea pertama yang menjadi penampil utama di festival tersebut. Jadi, di sanalah kamu bertemu J. Cole?
🐿️ Ya, dia adalah penampil utama sehari sebelum jadwal panggung aku. Jadi kami bertemu, dan atas permintaan ku, kami akhirnya bekerja sama dalam sebuah lagu. Aku pikir dia tersentuh oleh ketulusan ku. Aku bahkan mengiriminya pesan Tahun Baru, mengatakan 'Whats up, Cole?' Aku mengiriminya pesan video, mengucapkan selamat Tahun Baru kepadanya dan keluarganya. Aku rasa dia benar-benar merasakan ketulusan hati ku
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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 “Jack In The Box”. 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 didn’t 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. 🤨
“on the street” with J.Cole is j-hope’s way of paying respect to one his early hip-hop inspirations. He gave Jermaine has more bars in the song, that’s 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 someone’s success and understanding it. j-hope’s is the kind you study, not the kind you dismiss.