Seven tracks of hiphop label MKIT RAIN Records‘ first compilation album ‘Public Enemy‘ are available online. Pre-sales for the physical album have started as well.
Changstarr drops ‘Bali High (Feat. Owen Ovadoz)’ single and music video
Hippie rapper Changstarr has released the digital single and music video ‘Bali High‘ today together with his close friend, MKIT RAIN’s Owen Ovadoz.
Owen Ovadoz releases ‘tho you don’t know’ via SoundCloud
Owen Ovadoz has uploaded the new track ‘tho you don’t know’ to SoundCloud, seemingly in reaction to Debi’s diss track ‘Ovadozed’.
Changstarr releases ‘On the Road Mixtape Vol. 2: Highdigger’
Rapper Changstarr has released the second part of his ‘On the Road‘ mixtape series titled ‘Highdigger’. He calls it “the bible of Korea’s future hippies.”
Debi targets Owen Ovadoz with diss track ‘Ovadozed’
Rapper Debi has uploaded the track ‘Ovadozed‘ via SoundCloud yesterday, which is after Simba Zawadi’s ‘불꽃’ another diss track directed at Owen Ovadoz.
Debi released his debut single ‘Hiphoper’ in 2013. In April this year he released the single ‘Thirsty‘ as a member of YPZ together with Killagramz and Incredivle. Together with Owen Ovadoz, Debi was in the duo ODB. The two rappers released two mixtapes together, ‘ODB Part 1: ODB‘ and ‘ODB Part 2: Move Da Culture‘.
Two weeks ago, Simba Zawadi dissed Owen Ovadoz with the track ‘불꽃’ (lit.: flames), to which Owen reacted with the track ‘세금발머리바나난리우드 (saygeumballmariahbananollywood)‘, which was in fact not a diss track.
Now with Debi, another rapper who has worked with Owen has come forward to express his complaints. And he does not hold back:
Beforehand you said you’d feature without pay
Then you sent me your lyrics and recording, asking for money
I asked, “Why suddenly?” Condescendingly,
you only then tell me: “It’s business”
A lunatic who “overdozed,” who are you trying to deceive?
Now you suddenly want 2 mil won pay for your featuring?
You’ve waited nearly half a year, I thought it was “business?”
You who use your label as an excuse should just suck up to Loopy all your life
J-Man called me, saying he’ll kill you
On the day of the music video shooting you couldn’t be reached, you were absent without notice
The reason was that you overslept, I don’t really get it
Before you get beaten, get a hold of your common sense
I throw oil into the flames Simba lit
I too was deceived by your fake beliefs
You ain’t Mufasa, you’re Scar who’s just waiting
for his chance then dies. Today’s a good day to die
Your left and right cheek, Imma have to smash it
After hitting you with [my] rap, I put you in a casket
Sanggoo-hyung, can we hang this one [from the bridge] too?
With the last two lines, Debi references a line from Deepflow‘s diss track ‘DazeAllLie‘ which was directed at Don Malik: “I’ll just hit you with rap and hang you from a bridge.” “Sanggoo” is Deepflow’s first name.
You’re like meju, a basic ingredient for making Korean soy sauce
I’ll grill you on Sangwook’s hot beat
Grow up already, in three years you’re a thirty-year-old adult too
Bad-mannered children who constantly lie
deserve the whip, you’ve grown a lot Hyunwoo
Ha ha ha ha ha ha funny
When searching your name, the first news result is about rapist Owen
As a fact, upon searching Owen’s name in Korean in the News section of Google, the first result is about the incident on Instagram live.
A little Cho Doo Soon d*ck with rape fantasies
Cho Doo Soon is a convicted criminal who kidnapped, assaulted and raped an eight-year-old girl in 2008.
I can diss and diss you there’s no end, you’re the king of stupid acts
Money? Funny, you make it rain in the eyes of your parents
I believed in you but in the end you’re full of contradictions, you is fake
When you performed together with me you were purely yourself,
you said it in an interview, your stance
However, you sold your soul for 2 mil won
Your fabric is drenched in todayism
F*ck Owen Ovadoz, you ain’t hip hop
Don’t pretend to do it for the culture, you ain’t hip hopF*ck Owen, f*ck Ovadoz
F*ck you and your company b*tch
Korean Fans’ Reactions
Fans (on HiphopLE) were impressed by the intense lyrics and that someone who was close to Owen stepped forward and dissed him: “It’s not like he [Debi] doesn’t know him [Owen], this is coming from someone who’s released mixtapes together with Owen .. Owen, what on earth?” “If those lyrics are true … he [Owen] is the type of person I don’t like,” “No smoke without fire right, and there’s so much smoke.”
“Now, have some popcorn everyone (munchmunchmunch)”
“Debi’s lyrics are …. I wonder how Owen will react”
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Changstarr drops ‘Savage (Feat. Owen Ovadoz, nafla, JUSTHIS)’
Changstarr has released the digital single and music video ‘Savage’ today which features Owen Ovadoz, nafla, and JUSTHIS.
Owen Ovadoz releases ‘세금발머리바나난리우드’ via SoundCloud
MKIT RAIN’s Owen Ovadoz has released a new track titled ‘세금발머리바나난리우드’ (saygeumballmariahbananollywood) via SoundCloud earlier today.
Simba Zawadi releases diss track ‘불꽃’ directed at Owen Ovadoz
Two days ago, rapper Simba Zawadi released the track ‘불꽃’ (lit.: flame/s) via SoundCloud which seems to be a diss track about Owen Ovadoz.
Simba Zawadi was born 1992 and hails from North Jeolla Province. (For more info, read his interview with ROKHIPHOP’S SCV from 2015.)
He is a member of the crew Awaken Tongues alongside Canhaz, OHIORABBIT, 89kid, Hertz, and OaKTong. Simba released his debut album ‘용기 (Courage)‘ in 2015 and has so far worked with the likes of BewhY, DJ Kendrickx, Debi, Donutman, and Asol.
You possibly saw him in seasons five and six of Show Me The Money. In season 6 he lost against Junoflow. Last year, Simba and Ambition Musik’s Keem Hyo-eun (at the time known as Kenny Raw) released ‘The Late Night Mixtape‘ together.
Simba Zawadi has been involved in several dissing incidents: last year he dissed Hi-Lite Records and the other time he was the one getting dissed by Khundi Panda (who, by the way, also dissed Owen Ovadoz). Khundi and Simba are good friends now though.
Funnily, Simba Zawadi’s debut album also featured Owen Ovadoz, who he now decided to diss. In ‘불꽃‘ (lit.: flame/s), Simba spits:
“Where on earth did you hide your love for the US
when you wrote lyrics imitating TakeOne?”
These two lines refer to the “Come Back Home” incident from 2015. It was started by TakeOne who, due to something Keith Ape said in an interview, felt the need to defend Korean hiphop. Simba Zawadi and other rappers, e.g. Suda, released tracks on the same beat. Owen Ovadoz was among them too and took a stance similar to that of TakeOne.
“My hiphop isn’t P.O.E.M nor Problematic
Our hiphop is Yanghwa and The Anecdote“
Here, Simba mentions two of Owen’s albums which makes it very clear that the disses are directed at Owen and nobody else. He also mentions two very important albums of Korean hiphop, respectively by Deepflow and E SENS.
“We’re not set on catching up with the US-American culture
If you got this wrong, then leave and take your whole team with youWhen you were Koreans living in the US
Korean hiphop made you feel proud
However it’s different now, because you have become US-Americans in South Korea
and look down on us as if you were something better.”
Simba Zawadi makes his problem with Owen very clear in the lines above. The root of this whole issue lies in the question what Korean hiphop is, in what way it is different from the “original,” if it’s just an imitation, and so on. In other words, this is once again the whole issue TakeOne already tackled two years ago.
Korean fans reacted with mixed feelings, but all of them agreed that Owen is probably not going to respond to the track, that he is going to be better off not responding, even. “No matter what he does now, it won’t help his cause.” Given the recent issues surrounding Owen, some argued that Simba Zawadi attacked a man who was already lying on the ground.
Meanwhile, many listeners praised the quality of Simba Zawadi’s rap, especially his clear pronunciation and delivery. The beat produced by Verbal Jint in 2008 received attention as well:
“First of all, the beat is dope.”
“I only heard facts.”
“I’m a fan of Owen but this is so liberating.”
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nafla releases first full-length album ‘ANGELS’
MKIT RAIN’s nafla has released his first LP ‘ANGELS’ today with help from his label mates and from producers Cloudy Beats, GroovyRoom, Kim Park Chella, etc.