Beenzino

Verbal Jint - Go Hard Part 1: 양가치 (cover)

Verbal Jint – Where It All Started (Feat. Beenzino)

Warning: NOT suited for minors.

Intro x4)
[x_extra info=”popover” title=”Fact” info_trigger=”hover” info_place=”top” info_content=”‘시발’ (shibal, meaning ‘start’) sounds like the Korean word for ‘shit/damn’, which is correctly written ‘씨발’ (sshibal) but often also written ‘시발’ (shibal), giving this line a second meaning: ‘Damn starting point’ That is why he laughs in this intro.”] Start, starting point[/x_extra]


시발 시발점

Verse 1)
Hello, twenty-year-old me, you’re not the least bit interested
in economics, so why did you join that department?
That’s probably why you think that you’ve blown your college life
and you’re not even interested in the famous lectures


hello, 스무 살의 나님, 넌 경제학에 관심
하나도 없으면서 그 과 왜 갔니?
그니까 네가 대학생활이 붕 떴단 생각이 들고
한국 최고의 교수님들의 명강의들도

of the best professors of Korea
However, if you just vaguely kill time in a daze,
you will regret it. You’re not a high schooler
I don’t want you to do anything that makes you feel sorry

흥미가 안 가는 거겠지 아마.
하지만 흐릿하게 시간만 죽이며 멍하게 있다간
후회하게 될걸. 너는 고등학생이 아냐
미래의 너 자신에게 미안할 일은

towards the future you. Your rap on the radio
a few weeks before the SAT, which was praised by [x_extra info=”popover” title=”Fact” info_trigger=”hover” info_place=”top” info_content=”Korean hiphop team active from 1997-2001 who did gangster rap”]Gangtholic[/x_extra],
was quite impressive. Well, I can’t put my finger on it and don’t know
if you could be called a genius, but you seem to be rather talented in that direction

만들지 않았으면 해, 수능 보기 몇 주 전에
radio에서 갱톨릭에게 칭찬받았던 랩
꽤 인상적이던데, 뭐 딱 꼬집어 천재까진
몰라도 꽤 소질 있어보여, 그 방면에.

See, there’s no one else who raps as classily as you
On top of it, someone who has tried a great variety of music like you
is literally [x_extra info=”popover” title=”Reference” info_trigger=”hover” info_place=”top” info_content=”to Verbal Jint’s song ‘희귀종’ off the same album. The Hanja literally mean ‘rare’, ‘precious’, and ‘species’.”]a rare species[/x_extra]
Dig into it deeper! It could be that after a few years

너만큼 세련되게 랩하는 사람이 없거든
게다가 너만큼 다양한 음악을 접한 녀석은
문자 그대로 희귀종이니까
더 깊숙이 파고들어가봐, 혹시 네가

you will have become someone like a big tree
in this scene, who knows? Now, you
likely won’t feel that way at all. Of course,
it can be difficult on your own, so go to a place

몇 년이 흐르고 난 후 이 바닥의 큰 나무
같은 사람이 될지 누가 알아? 지금은 아무
느낌이 안 오겠지 물론, 너 혼자 힘으론
어려울 수도 있어, 그니까 너와 같은 취미로

where people get together who have the same hobby
You’ll discover a world you haven’t known of until now
And after about two years, you release an album
I strongly suggest [x_extra info=”popover” title=”Fact” info_trigger=”hover” info_place=”top” info_content=”Verbal Jint’s EP from 2001″]’Modern Rhymes'[/x_extra] as title

사람들이 막 모여있는 곳, 그런 곳에 가봐
여지껏 모르고 살아온 세상과 만나게 될걸
그리고 2년쯤 후면 음반을 내는거야
제목은 Modern Rhymes 적극추천

Hook)
My worn-out notebook was filled to the brink
with rhymes. At that time I didn’t understand them
but I learned and mastered the original
lyrics and flow using CDs I had purchased with difficulty


손때 탄 공책 안 가득히
써 내려간 rhyme, 그땐 당최 알아듣지
못 했지만 어렵게 구한 CD들로
배우고 익혔네, 본토의 lyrics and flow

My worn-out notebook was filled to the brink
with rhymes. I have seen the impossible, one
after the other, change into reality
It is still the same now

손때 탄 공책 안 가득히
써 내려간 rhyme, 불가능이 하나둘씩
현실로 바뀌는 걸 난 봤지
그건 지금도 마찬가지

Verse 2: Beenzino)
Ayo, wassup, sixteen-year-old Lim Sungbeen?
You want to get out of here quickly, right?
At Munho-ri in Seojong Township, Yangpyeong District, Kyeonggi Province
the only thing you can see are the ridges between rice paddies, and


ayo wassup 열여섯살 임성빈
넌 어서 여길 벗어나고 싶지
경기도 양평군 서종면 문호리에서
볼 수 있는 건 논두렁과 오직

it has a boonies vibe with nothing but mountains and rivers
Inconsistent with that, in your ears [plays] [x_extra info=”popover” title=”Fact” info_trigger=”hover” info_place=”top” info_content=”Verbal Jint’s EP from 2001″]’Modern Rhymes'[/x_extra],
[you’re wearing] a 3XL plain t-shirt and a black do-rag
that you bought in Itaewon, pants with a waist of about

산과 강이 있는 촌구석 vibe,
그와 안 어울리게 귀에는 Modern Rhymes,
3XL 무지티에 이태원에서 산
검은색 듀렉에, 바지 허리둘레는 약

34 or 36, you’re lookin’ for a dirty bitch
However, of all things, your girlfriend is a Catholic who wants to preserve her virginity
Catholic, but you want her to lick your dick
Don’t be greedy again, you haven’t even kissed before

34 or 36, you’re lookin’ for a dirty bitch
근데 하필 네 여친은 혼전의 순결을 지키려고 하는
Catholic, but you want her to lick your dick
또 욕심 부리지마 해 본 적도 없으면서 키스

Do not lose one thing: the peace of your mind
There’s no need to hurry that much, man
Because when there is something you really want, and it is nothing you force upon yourself
but it is something true to you, then you will obtain it

잃지마 한 가지 peace of your mind
너무 서두를 필요는 없어 임마
진짜 원하는 게 있고 그게 어거지가
아닌 진정한 것이라면 다 얻어지니까

Don’t mind the rappers you envy and the well-off hyungs
and keep up your vibes
Because when there is something you really want, and it is nothing you force upon yourself
but it is something true to you, then you will obtain it, yeah

너가 부러워하는 랩퍼들, 또 잘 나가는 형들
의식하지 말고 계속 keep up your vibes
진짜 원하는 게 있고 그게 어거지가
아닌 진정한 것이라면 다 얻어지니까 yeah

Hook)

Move The Crowd

[Recap] Move The Crowd – Chapters 17-18

Read my recap of hiphop webtoon Move The Crowd’s chapters seventeen and eighteen.

[x_custom_headline type=”left” level=”h1″ looks_like=”h4″]인맥힙합 (3+4) (Connections Hiphop (3+4))[/x_custom_headline]

Don Mills reminds Deepflow where they met before and the latter finally remembers him.
Back to the present and the main character. Doosik is doing his job as a bartender, still blaming Skratch for failing to get the job as a “host MC”. As the two are fighting, they notice a guy who lies to a girl about being close to Vasco just to impress her. Skratch says that in his opinion that kind of people are the worst and that they are doing what’s called “connections hiphop”, claiming they know some famous rapper to be popular. When Doosik asks him what “connections hiphop” is, he replies: “Someone who is f*cking unskilled, knows a shit load of rappers and shows off with that.”
Back at home, Doosik thinks about those words and realizes that Skratch is right. Knowing many famous rappers doesn’t mean that Doosik himself will get some of their fame too. He is determined to do his thing until he is acknowledged and decides to make a mixtape.
We see 2SIK recording his mixtape and then going out to distribute it. In the midst of doing so, he meets Don Mills …

Doosik greets Don Mills and hands him his mixtape. Don Mills is reminded of his own efforts in the past and greets Doosik friendly, even asking for his number to give him feedback. As he is being exited and happy about the incident, Doosik sees Jiyun with another guy who he suspects to be her boyfriend. However, he tells himself that he shouldn’t be minding a girl and goes off to distribute more of his CDs.
As he tries to distribute them in front of a concert venue, he sees BewhY, Microdot, and Black Nut who are being followed by a huge crowd. 2SIK dreams of becoming as popular as them one day and has to shake off sudden thoughts of Jiyun and her possible boyfriend.
Meanwhile, Chulmin finds out everything about Doosik and becomes visibly angry when he hears that Doosik is acquainted with Jiyun.
2SIK who is still distributing his CDs is getting more and more pissed off with those people who leech off famous rappers’ fame and swears to himself that he shall never become like them.
At Vismajor’s studio, Don Mills and Deepflow listen to 2SIK’s mixtape and like his fresh style, so Don Mills messages 2SIK …

At the end of chapter eighteen, the authors have left the following note:

Everyone probably has their own criteria, but in our opinion there currently are no rappers who are doing “connections hiphop”. We think this way because unskilled rappers who have made themselves known thanks to connections shine briefly like a mirage and then disappear.

[x_custom_headline type=”left” level=”h1″ looks_like=”h4″]Cameos[/x_custom_headline]

  • Deepflow
  • Don Mills
  • Vasco
  • BewhY
  • Microdot
  • Black Nut
  • Beenzino
  • San E

[x_custom_headline type=”left” level=”h1″ looks_like=”h4″]Trivia[/x_custom_headline]

  • 2SIK’s lyrics go: 2sik gon expose ya motherfuckin posers | You guys who are getting beat all the time are no bulldozer | Hol’ up, this is not a diss against Swings | but directed at the retards who copy his song! | You’re disgusting and uncool. Getting tattoos and grills | and want to be like Chicanos or blacks, | who are you to represent Korean hiphop, asshole? Instead of your Supreme tee | which you bough with your mom’s money, | the smell of my plain Giordano tee, check that | It’s the pheramones which gay assholes | who think that the stage is a fashion show will never have | The women who smell them are naked before they know / ay~ wussup!
  • A fangirl asks Black Nut if he has a girlfriend to which he replies with “No,” and thinks “For me, there is only Beenzino!”
  • Doosik has saved Don Mills’ contact details under “Don Mills-hyung“.

[x_custom_headline type=”left” level=”h1″ looks_like=”h4″]Links[/x_custom_headline]

Move The Crowd – Chapter 17: 인맥힙합 (3) (Connections Hiphop (3))

Move The Crowd – Chapter 18: 인맥힙합 (4) (Connections Hiphop (4))


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