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MBA release second mini album ‘YF (Young Forever)’
‘YF’ or ‘Young Forever’ is the motto of Most Badass Asian and the title of the group’s latest mini album that is brimming over with youthfulness.
Campaign Against Racism Vol. 2: Most Badass Asian release single ‘Racism’
Most Badass Asian have released the single ‘Racism’ along with the music video ‘Officer’ for STONESHIP’s Campaign Against Racism.
Basick releases ‘WTF 3: ￦ON IT ALL (Feat. Most Badass Asian)’
Basick has released the third part of his 2017 Way to Foundation (WTF) Project.
‘WTF 3: ￦ON IT ALL‘ features three-member group Most Badass Asian (MBA). The previous two parts featured Sik-K and Verbal Jint.
‘￦ON IT ALL’ was composed by Neal of Most Badass Asian (MBA) and is about doing one’s own thing disregarding existing rules and laws in order to attain one’s goal, which is in their case money. So the title is a witty three-way wordplay on the Korean Won, the verb ‘원해’ (wonhae) meaning “want” and the English “I want it all.”
The track is different from the styles we are used to from Basick but his usual flow on Neal’s beat is a new and refreshing experience. Check it out in the official lyric video below!
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Credits:
Executive Producers: 임상혁 (Sanghyuk Lim) for All Right Music, 김도훈 (Dohoon Kim), 김진우 (Jinwoo Kim) for RBW, Inc
Supervisor: 전다운 (Dawoon Jeon)
Music Producers and Directors: 임상혁 (Sanghyuk Lim), 전다운 (Dawoon Jeon)
Project Director: 문수미 (Soomi Moon)
A&R: 박천빈 (Chunbin Park), 이후상 (Hoosang Lee), 김민기 (Min-ki Kim)
Composed and arranged by Neal
Lyrics written by Basick, EK, Bola, Neal
Recorded by Most Badass Asian
Mixed and mastered by Nahzam Sue
Cover by 화로 (Hwaro)
Visual Production: 나영미 (Youngmi Nah), 강수영 (Sooyoung Kang), 최예슬 (Yeseul Choi) for RBW
Official Lyric Video:
Source: Mnet
STONESHIP start Campaign Against Racism
Following the incident where STONESHIP artists, including Don Malik, were denied entry to the US, the agency has now started the Campaign Against Racism.
They write:
Dear Viewers,
This is Stoneship International, LLC based in New York. Last March 17th two of our teams, MBA (MostBadassAsian) and Don Malik, were invited to showcase for free at SXSW 2017 in Austin, Texas. Unfortunately our artists were denied entry into the United States by San Francisco CBP (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) for their visas despite official SXSW visa waivers and contracts. Our artists were wrongfully arrested and detained, including the rest of the crew that passed through immigration minutes before. They entered secondary holding and for the next 24 hours our people were subjected to racism (racial slurs), scoffing (comments about diss tracks towards them, ordered artists to perform on queue) and limitations to basic human needs. As our office in New York and SXSW Legal tried to get in contact with our members and the SFO CBP office, all contact was blocked and the office even denied the detainment of the following people: ChanWoo Seok (30), ‘MINJE’ Jo (30), JooHo ‘Jflow’ Lee (28), Dasom ‘SOMA’ Lee (25), ChanJoe ‘NEAL’ Heo of MBA (25), HyeokJae ‘BOLA’ Jang of MBA (24), InSeop ‘Don Malik’ Moon (21), JaeWon ‘OLNL’ Lee (21), SangHwan ‘hanscur’ Lee (19). As soon as our crew made it back home there was a press release on the incident through DAZE ALIVE CEO Jerry.k in Korea and various entertainment news websites […] covered the incident. The event has grabbed people’s attention and we hope to raise more awareness around the world through our “Campaign Against Racism.”
The campaign begins with MBA and Don Malik preparing to tell their experience at SFO. MBA will drop their new video “Racism” on March 26, 2017 with the release of this letter. Don Malik’s video “Yellow” is set to launch the following Wednesday or Thursday. Our other artists who endured that day will be telling their stories through their craft shortly after. As Stoneship International, LLC in New York works to take legal action against those that have committed fault towards us. We ask and hope that our viewers will help in raising awareness of our artists and their message so that no individual will be forced to endure racism again in the future.
MBA’s track ‘Racism’ is also available on SoundCloud. Below the music video that contains explanations of what happened, both in Korean and English.
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Most Badass Asian release first EP
The three-member group Most Badass Asian have released their first mini album.