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WARNING! WALL OF TEXT INCOMING! Info on Jay Park: So back in Seattle which is where he grew up he joined a bboy crew called AOM (Art of Movement) in high school. He started dancing and rapping for fun and didn‘t know what to do with his life cuz his grades where pretty bad and he had no interest in doing college or anything like that. After receiving a smack from his mother for saying that she insisted that he auditions for a korean company that was looking for new artist to sign under their label. So called trainees that would be taken over to Korea and put under so called „artist development“ which is basically a boot camp to become the next big superstar in the korean entertainment industry. They have lessons in dancing,singing,rapping languages, media training etc for anything between 1 to 7 years even. So Jay went there and auditioned thinking it was more like a talent show in which the winner gets some sort of award or prize money or something. He got casted and decided to move to Korea at the age of 17 with barely any knowledge about the culture or music scene over there. He barely spoke korean (15-20% maybe) and was definetly more american than korean at that time. He wasn‘t used to the food over there, got made fun of because of well basically anything because he stood out that much and got scolded a lot by the teachers for not following the rules that much because he didn‘t understand their social structure and the system behind everything. In the states it‘s all about the individual and Free speech etc but in Korea there is this so called „save face culture“ where it‘s better to put on a socially accepted public persona and caring about the group instead of being an individual. Moving on, he did that for 4 years and eventually debuted as a member of a boyband called 2PM back in 2009. 2PM was the biggest boyband in the country at that time and the K-Pop scene was much much smaller than compared to today where you have hundreds of boy and girlgroups to listen to. So 2PM was THE BIGGEST DEAL back then and he was the leader of the group so one of the most important members. He left that group/got kicked out (no one knows REALLY what happened but I guess both??) after only one year because of a scandal that happened. While being a trainee under that company (JYP Entertainment) he wrote some messages to a friend via MySpace about how he didn‘t like it in Korea and wanted to go back to the states. He literally wrote „Korea is gay“ which got taken out of context and blown up to become an issue over him actually believing that Koreans where gay etc (keep in mind that „...is gay“ was/is a popular slang to express how one doesn‘t like something in English but the people over in Korea didn’t know about that and thought he meant it literally) So all that happened and he left (there is a video of him at the airport going back to Seattle with THOUSANDS of Fans there loosing their mind over him it‘s really crazy you can look it up) There were even local News in US TV talking about him once he was back in Seattle. So after that he worked at a tire shop of one of his friends and uploaded a cover of BoB‘s Nothing on You on RU-vid. That video got over 2million views within the first 24 hours and contributed to over 5k or even 50k sales (not sure) of that single in Korea alone and put it back on the Charts. BoB then released a new version with Jay‘s verse replacing Bruno Mars‘ verse on the song that was Korea exclusive. So remember that bboy crew I mentioned at the beginning? AOM. One member of AOM was a guy named Cha Cha. He is half Filipino half Afro American and was also making music back then. He was a producer and saw that Jay was also starting to make his own music. So he played him some of his beats, Jay liked them and they‘ve been working together very closely since then. Jay got calls from a lot of companies and talent agencies both from Korea and the states and ultimately decided to join SidusHQ. He released his first Album under that label and started gaining more recognition as a solo artist over in Korea. He also moved back to Seoul and concentrated on rebranding himself from a former K-Pop Idol to an independent artist that does RnB, Rap, Hip Hop and Pop. After a few years he decided to create his own label which he named AOMG (Above Ordinary Music Group) in honor to his bboy crew which him and Cha Cha are STILL part of to this day. They have bboy battles ever now and then for fun. So after founding AOMG which was more out of convenience rather than money because he connected with a lot of people that he wanted to work with and collaborate, he managed to establish himself as one of the biggest, of not even the most influential person in the korean Hip Hop and RnB scene, which only started to REALLY pop off after the airing of the first season of a show called Show me The Money which is a hip hop based survival type of show kinda like the voice or American idol but only focused on rapping. So with that scene popping off and him being at the very front of the scene for a while even before, he only became even bigger and established himself over in Korea as a household name and even in the asian hip hop scene in general. That’s also why he became a judge on Asia‘s Got Talent btw He was then thinking about what he wanted to do after achieving pretty much everything he wanted over in Korea. He decided to go back to the roots and look into the Seattle based Hip Hop scene. He met lots of dope artists and signed them under his newly found label H1GHR Music. Which is more focused on the international market while still having korean artists promoting in Korea and American artists promoting in the states underneath. Also important to notice is that during a US Tour of AOMG in New York he got noticed by someone working for Tidal (the music streaming platform that Jay Z owns). He noticed that the majority of people in the crowd were non asian and singing and rapping along those korean artists. He was very impressed by Jay and the show and contacted him afterwards. Things happened and Jay got signed under Roc Nation which is Jay-Z‘s own record label. He is the first asian man under that label alongside names like Alicia Keys, Rihanna, J.Cole, Rita Ora, Calvin Harris etc Roc Nation promotes Jay in the US and helps him with the distribution of his albums and stuff in the states while the music itself is still entirely made by artists under H1GHR and AOMG. He went to a lot of radio stations and had lots of interviews for his first EP out of Roc Nation called „Ask Bout Me“. I recommend watching the whole 40min interviews he did on SWAY in the morning (with his very impressive and politically charged Freestyle Rap at the end) and on No Jumper. He also has released a full length rap album called The Road Less Traveled in 2019 featuring Seattle based artists alongside some other projects. This man is never sleeping and making collabs left and Right no matter how famous or infamous one might be. I consider myself a fan and even I haven’t listened to ALL of his songs yet cuz there‘s just too much out there. You should really listen to his WORLDWIDE album which helped him earn respect and a name in the korean hip hop scene as a rapper. Specially because people that have been in the K-Pop Industry before (so called Idols) are usually frowned upon in the hip hop/underground community for being a sell out and not a true artists. He managed to make the jump and get recognized. My favorite Album of his is definetly his RnB Album „Everything you Wanted“ tho. Just listen to it as well so you can get both sides from him covered. Sorry for this wall of text but if anyone deserves to be talked about then it is Jay Park. I haven‘t even started talking about his political engagement throughout the years and how he helps establishing new artists in the scene and changing lifes etc this man is such an inspiration he really is something else. His label H1GHR released two albums with all of the members as a collaboration you should check that out as well. The RED TAPE is mostly hardcore rap and hip hop while the BLUE TAPE RnB and Pop. RED TAPE MVs: The Purge How We Rock (fave) Telefono Remix (fave) DDDD Freestyle The Arrival Cypher (fave) Team BLUE TAPE MVs: Oscar Gotta Go Afternoon

Label of the Year 2020! Well deserved, H1ghr Music 🔥🔥🔥🔥

2:27 that’s GSOUL he used to work with r Kelly in the early 2000s also worked with Mariah Carey ! 2:46 that’s jay park here ! He’s the CEO. I think the original vid actually cut by parts and name the parts of the artists PH-1 is the one with the white Tee

This indeed k hip hop / rnb. GSOUL is an rnb singer and Jay Park is both a singer ( dancer) and rapper. The girl that commented below left all you need to know. You deffo need to check out their solo stuff and k hip hop in general. As I’m more into rnb and rap I highly prefer k hip hop/ rnb to kpop even tho some songs are good it’s totally different if you appreciate real rap/rnb k hip hop is the real deal.

As for Jay Park‘s solo songs: For more Pop/Mainstream stuff: All I wanna do (one korean and one English version) Solo (korean) Know Your Name (korean) Metronome (korean) Me Like Yuh (one korean and one English version) Joah (korean) V (korean) All the Way Up (an english and a korean Version) My Last (korean) Sexy4Eva (more hip Hop/Pop) All Day (Flex) (more happy pop/rap in korean) RnB: Aquaman (entirely English) I don’t dissapoint (english) 2nd Thots (english) Turn Off your Phone REMIX ft ELO (korean) Million (English) Yacht (English version ft Vic Mensa and korean version ft Sik-K) Ride me (korean) Only One (English tbh idk if it fits this category) Alone tonight (English also dunno if it fits here) Nothing Matters (pop/rnb korean but the whole EP is very personal which is not something he usually does) Encore (korean him talking about retiring soon) By myself (korean and god this song is heart breaking to me) Ballads/soft shit/RnB: Stay with me (korean) The truth is (korean) The promise (korean) Rap/Hip Hop/Trap/Oldschool: Worldwide (korean) Want it (korean) Raw shit Hulk hogan On It (English) FSU (but the LIVE version cuz the original has Rich the Kid and GASHI as Features but the live one has only Jay spittin 3 verses) Soju (original ft 2Chainz and the Remix featuring korean artists with a different verse from Jay) Get it all (English) Monster (English) Twisted Dreams (English ft Jay Electronica amongst others) K-Town (English) Run It (commercial for Nike ft Jessi and Woo Won Jae) Turn up/club/EDM: Mommae (Most known song more Hip Hop/Club vibes) Forget about tomorrow (English) I like 2 Party (korean mainly) Ain‘t no party like an AOMG Party (korean) Forever (more chill but EDM) (korean and English mixed a lot)

Some Info about the members There are several artist under the H1GHR Music Label some are american and some are korean, not all of them are on all songs either. The ones that mainly took part in this collaboration/compilation album are on the korean side. HAON (pronounced not Hayon but just Haon just like you would read it) He is 21 I believe and became known through a korean TV show called High School Rapper, a survival show like American Idol for High schoolers in Korea BIG Naughty He is also very young 18 he also participated in a season of Show Me The Money (the biggest hip hop survival show in Korea, plays a major role in making Korean rap and hip hop mainstream in the country) and signed with H1GHR soon after, Hasn't released much music as of yet. Woodie Gochild dont know much about him but he has a very distinct style both physically as well as musically, much autotune and very melodic, he always stands out in the group setting TRADE L The newest artist, he had his debut with the release of the Cypher called Arrival (도착) and he is only 17 years young and still goes to school. He originally auditioned for a show called Sign Here (also a survival show that was created by AOMG the first label that Jay Park founded) but he didn't make the first round but Jay really liked him and contacted him privately and asked him to sign a contract under H1GHR Music instead after checking him out on SoundCloud Sik-K (pronounced like the word 'sick' and the letter K) He met Jay years ago and wanted to be signed by him so he also took part in a season of Show Me The Money to proof his worth to Jay. He is an established artist already and a well known name. He is currently serving his mandatory military service in Korea. pH-1 (pronounced like the letters P H 1 literally haha) His english name is Harry, he was born in Korea but moved to the states at a young age so he is also fluent in english just like Jay. Harry used to work as a dental assistent and software engineer before moving over to Korea again to pursue a career in music because Jay discoverd him through a friend and gave him that opportunity. He is well known in Korea as well and has also been part of a season of Show Me The Money before. Golden He is a singer not a rapper. He used to go by the name of G.Soul and has one of the best voices I have ever heard. He is absolutely phenomenal. Started his career under JYP Entertainment as well (just like Jay Park) they used to train together for a while back in 2005 but Golden concentrated on the american music market and moved to the states, he came back a few years ago I believe and his contract with JYP ended so Jay reconnected with him and signed him under H1GHR. He participated in the latest season of the Voice of Korea and won that competition as well. In January Golden decided to not renew his 3year contract with H1GHR and changed his name back to G.Soul again. They are all on good terms tho no bad blood There are also some producers and DJs signed under H1GHR that are also household names in the industry by now like the Duo GroovyRoom (they both are like 25/26 and have already worked with the biggest names in Korean music in their short career) and the american artists that aren't well known and more underground like 28AV (used to go by the name Avatar Darko) who is originally from Russia and moved to the states or SoufSouf which is a rapper duo that recently got signed they are 22 and 18 I believe.

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