HI-LITE Records will be celebrating their 5th anniversary with their fans on May 31 at Hongdae V-Hall. Check out the details below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXitW7K_tgs
Title: HI-LITE Records 5th Anniversary Show Date: May 31, 2015
Venue: Hongdae V-Hall
Featured lineup: Paloalto, B-Free, Huckleberry P, Okasian, Reddy, Keith Ape, and host DJ Jjanga
Tickets: 40,000 won (presale) / 45,000 won (doors)
Earlier today, the music video for G2 and Don Mill’s collaborative track ‘HYMN’ was revealed.
The track ‘HYMN’ is an expression of hope by G2 and Don Mills. The music video, which is produced by HAIL, features a unique style of animation. Check out the MV below:
Earlier this year, Keith Ape dropped the MV for his track ‘It G Ma (잊지마)’ which recently surpassed 4 million views on YouTube. Despite the continued controversy over the track “It G Ma” and the alleged “cultural appropriation” of American hip-hop (more specifically, OG Maco’s “U Guessed It”), Keith Ape’s presence in the US is now greater than ever. Korean hip-hop magazine HIPHOPPLAYA sat down with Keith Ape’s record label HILITE Records to discuss this matter.
Earlier today, The Cohort artist Keith Ape revealed his collaborative track with American artist Azizi Gibson in their latest track titled ‘Pae-Ki‘ produced by Kamandi.
Check out the packed Hip-hop Final Lineup for the 2015 World DJ Festival!
The 2015 World DJ Festival will be held from May 15th to May 17th in the Songahm Sports Town of Chuncheon, Korea. The hip-hop lineup this year includes artists from Illionaire Records, Hi-lite Records, The Cohort, Bullhandang Crew, Speaking Trumpet, and the Vismajor Company. Many major Korean rappers are set to participate in the World DJ Festival– which rappers are you looking forward to the most?
1st Illionaire Records – YGGR ft MC Meta (19.80%)
2nd Black Nut – 100 ft Genius Nochang (8.10%)
Tied for 3rd Huckleberry P – Song Without Words ft Ignito, MC Meta (5.86%)
Tied for 3rd B-free – My Team ft Reddy, Okasian, Huckleberry P, Paloalto, Keith Ape (5.86%)
This year’s music video: Born Hater
1st Epik High – Born Hater (20.48%)
2nd Just Music – More (10.30%)
3rd B-free – I Remember (6.55%)
1st Epik High – Born Hater ft Beenzino, Verbal Jint, B.I, Mino, Bobby (11.71%)
2nd Illionaire Records – YGGR ft MC Meta (8.68%)
3rd DJ Premier X Dynamic Duo (7.67%)
This year’s mixtape: Money Vs. Love: Dream (MVLD)
1st Justhis – Money Vs. Love: Dream (MVLD) (12.83%)
2nd Iron – IXTAPE (7.16%)
3rd Donutman – Young & Lifted (3.70%)
This year’s HIPHOP Concert/Festival: Burn Oneself
1st Huckleberry P’s Concert ‘Burn Oneself’ (34.92%)
2nd Hiphopplaya Show (13.69%)
3rd Illionaire Records Concert (8.46%)
This year’s album jacket: Ripple Effect
1st Just Music – Ripple Effect (26.30%)
2nd Illionaire Records – 11:11 (10.15%)
3rd B-free – Korean Dream (7.84%)
This year’s lyrics
1st curse others and say you didn’t, like rap cripple loser San E (B-free – My Team) (31.38%)
2nd the link between you and I, this is the sound inside of us (Illionaire Records – YGGR) (13.11%)
3rd it’s raining outside drizzle drizzle (Just Music – Rain Shower) (3.90%)
This year’s label/crew: Illionaire Records
1st Illionaire Records (27.91%)
2nd Hi-lite Records (25.72%)
3rd Just Music (22.73%)
1. E-sens’ marijuana charges, Anecdote indefinitely suspended? (32.69%)
2. “I’m returning to my position as trainee number 265” Swings enters the military (14.66%)
3. Show me the Money Season 3’s record-high success (12.01%)
2015’s rising star: Black Nut
1. Black Nut (32.98%)
2. Keith Ape (27.95%)
3. TakeOne (14.93%)
Verse 1: The Quiett)
I quietly sit down at my place on that day too
I look at the other kids’ expressions one by one
Waking up and going to school, going home and laying down exhausted
Our life is a four-panel comic
There are quite a lot of books in my backpack
But I don’t know what those things give to me
The thing that keeps me within this pile of books nevertheless
is the delusion that something will be different if I just go to college
You hold your liquor well and cuss well but
No matter how tough you get, in reality you’re not strong
I didn’t want a different life
And even less the same life as others
I lived till this age but still haven’t found anything I want to do, people either tell me
‘You’re already too late’
Or ‘You had no choices in your life’
No matter what work it is, as long as it brings money it will be worth it?
We have no dreams.
We have to hang on dangling just anywhere others go
As we age, we just sigh in frustration
I thought we’d always be together but when I’m lonely
There’s no one by my side
Now, there’s not much time
Now even for a moment, erase that keyword that the world slipped into your hand
I wish you will find your true self
Hook x2)
Inside the box you are always confined
Although you know this, ultimately you’re confined
Verse 2: Paloalto)
Your entire body staggers and you lose your dreams
With a cloudy focus, just where are you going?
You fall in drunkenness, fight and bleed
The fireworks of your passionate youth [disappear] into the distance..
The democratic struggle of 1980
In order to straighten the Republic of Korea’s problems, the subject of justice blazed up
The thickness that shortly and deeply thickened youth
You, with the gaze of that time, have ambition!
The absence of real workers [working] for the country on this ground
No one has interest in that
This is already not the first task but the second task of our society
People who habitually take part in deeds of darkness stand at the edge ((I believe Paloalto is referring to a Bible passage Ephesians 5:11 that refers to ‘deeds of darkness’ (어둠의 일)))
Tomorrow’s future is so very uncertain
We dirty and stain our own reputation
All you do is sit back quietly, eating and fattening up
Why aren’t you scared and worried about the Korean peninsula’s war?
Your head is jet-black and your backpack is empty
Afraid someone might steal your comforts
You are anxious and don’t want to go into a cave so you give in to conspiracies
And in result you make an irresponsible remark ‘It’s all okay’
Bridge)
We live life like that anyway
It’s okay. It’s [just] one moment anyway
It’s okay. We live life like that anyway
It’s okay. It’s [just] one moment anyway
Hook x2)
Verse 3: Paloalto)
It is foolish to drown lamentations in the glass ((He is referring to drinking away sorrows with alcohol.))
Don’t stay down when you’ve collapsed but get back up again
Youth is clear like morning dew
Don’t stop thinking and keep moving
Dadaradada dadadara
In the hardships of this world you abide by something
and your needy soul receives comfort
Survive till the end on this fallen ground
The Quiett)
In the midst of faithless teaching
The sandcastle of our identities fell apart
we are afraid of being alone
and we are shaken by waves of trends like a rootless tree
I’m already way over Twenty Questions and cannot find my way ((Reference to the game Twenty Questions))
And follow the purposeless parade of the masses
We need to know [that] life belongs to ourselves
Stand up tall.
Intro)
My music is my all that I’ve devoted my youth to
Hi-Lite is the lamp that lights up my life
Verse 1)
My music is my all that I’ve devoted my youth to
Hi-Lite is the lamp that lights up my life
The thing I like more than music is cash
The thing I like more than cash will be unveiled
in roughly 4 minutes. While you guys are in a crisis
I break my limits again with my new rap
I’m sorry to you guys but I gotta get
a car like a big jeep and buy my house
For the sake of my mother and my future wife
So that my family will never starve
All of these are just my imagination
I want to buy a big house, above the 63 Building
I drew my dream like Picasso
I don’t know if people will like this song but
now at this moment
I’m imagining having a cool performance with this song
Hook)
My rap is sizzling hot like summer
Man I have feeling it’s gon’ be a hot summer
Hi-Lite, Cohort we all on the come up
and all you gotta do is put your thumbs up
We gon’ make it hot, we gon’ make it hot
Like in a sauna, I’m sweating all over
Bastards that are only a disturbance, fuck off,
cause I have lots of fun even [playing] by myself
We gon’ make it hot, we gon’ make it hot
Like in a sauna, I’m sweating all over
Bastards that are only a disturbance, fuck off
I have a feelin’ it’s gon’ be a hot
Verse 2)
Seoul city where it snowed a few days before
is frozen solid like a big freezer
But this beat I received from Gray some time ago
reminded me of a hot summer night ((Reference to Gray – Summer Night))
While everyone else sleeps peacefully
I sit in front of my MacBook again and become MacGyver
Opening the lock that has locked up my imagination
Enjoying this game called rap of making a new song
I imagine how busy I will be
this summer that I turn 30
On the other hand, I think about having to make a proper album
and like this, I pull an all-nighter again
As if I can see my future with my third eye
I feel high. Or am I just sleepy?
Do I have a cold? Did I turn up the boiler again?
Right now the heat in my room is hotter than the summer
Bridge)
Autumn is lonely and winter is too cold
About the time when spring has passed, my heart beats faster
The reason I’ve been working all winter for
I can’t wait till we go on tour
Can’t wait till we go on tour
Can’t wait till we go on tour
Can’t wait till we go on tour
Can’t wait till we go on tour