GIRIBOY - HIP HOP FRIDAY HIPHOPPLAYA VIDEO INTERVIEW (2020)

Translated snippets under the cut. 

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💬 Song that you were listening to right before this recording? 

🎧 Stella Jang - 일산화탄소 (CO)
“The lyrics are great and I’m attracted to its vintage, minimal, emotional vibes”

💬 Songs that you have been listening to often these days?

🎧 Taeyeon - Better Babe 

“I feel like I become cooler when I’m listening to this song”

“Also, I heard that my favourite producer Hitchhiker made this song”

🎧 Zico - Human 

“The lyrics are great, and it’s a song that makes you immerse in your thoughts” 

“Zico is a perfectionist; There’s no lines that can be omitted from the lyrics” 

💬 Songs with the most memorable MVs? 

🎧 Crush - With You 

🎧 John Park - Alcohol 

💬 Who’s your favourite producer?

🎧 Fisherman 

“Usually when a producer releases an album, most of them would make songs that match the featured artists’ style, but Fisherman ignores all of that and just creates songs as he wishes” 

💬 Songs that you wish was yours?  

🎧 Rhythm Power - Incheon Airport (feat. Dynamic Duo & GRAY) 

🎧 Superbee, Twlv - Shinhan Bank 

🎧 A$AP Rocky - LPFJ2 

💬 Songs with a memorable intro? 

🎧 Seo Taeji - Orange 

💬  An artist that’s been reassessed? 

🎧  Giriboy? 

“I can’t think of anyone else. There were people who didn’t like me at the start, saying things like ‘there’s a melody in this song’ ’this isn’t hip hop’, but now that other hip hop artists are doing it too, they’re like, ‘this is nice’ or ‘this is Giriboy’s style’…” 

“I got cursed at a lot at the start, especially during SMTM3, I think people started changing their minds and acknowledging me after Graduation (성인식) album” 

“There was a time when I got the celebrity disease after SMTM3 because people started recognising me outside, so I was pretty rude (tho I was originally rude), I’m quite ashamed of myself back then now”  

💬 Songs where the featuring artist was better? 

🎧 Giriboy - wewantourmoneyback (feat. Yang Hongwon, Kid Milli) 

🎧 Giriboy - Sunny Day (feat. Nafla) 

💬 What’s your favourite #mood? And what’s a song that goes along well with it? 

🖤 Desperateness, melancholy, kinda like a scene from a movie 

🎧 CJAMM - Pokerface 

“It sounds like a movie BGM, it’s as if CJAMM is a character in the movie” 

“I like the sad and lonely mood of the song” 

💬 A memorable performance? 

🎧 IMJMWDP - I’m Sick @ Melon Music Awards 

💬 Was there a trip that you enjoyed? And what’s a song that goes well with that trip? 

🖤 A trip to Japan few years ago 

🎧 JUSTHIS - Gone 

💬 Which are the artistes that you think of as the past, present and future of Korean hip hop? 

🖤 Present - Changmo, Yumdda 

🖤 Future - Big Naughty 

💬 What are your favourite lyrics? 

🎧 Giriboy - Divorce Papers

“여기 맛있는 거 많은데 There’s a lot of yummy food here

커피만 두 잔 시키네 But I only ordered two cups of coffee”

💬 What are your favourite albums? 

🎧 Drunken Tiger - 나하면 너와나 (One is Not a Lonely Word) 

🎧 D.O (Lee Hyun-do) - The New Classik 

💬 Songs of your life? 

🎧 Giriboy - All Day Long (Band Ver.) 

🎧 Yang Hee-eun - 당신 생각 (Think of you)