The singles ‘Believe’ and ‘daze or confused’ that were released via SoundCloud on July 27 and August 5 to celebrate the label’s 2-year anniversary are getting an official release today on all music portals.
Sleeq & Don Malik release ‘daze or confused (d2 2/2)’
After Jerry.k and Rico’s ‘Believe’, the second track to celebrate daze alive music’s second anniversary has just been released.
Jerry.k and Rico release free single ‘Believe (d2 1/2)’
A bit earlier, Jerry.k and Rico have released the free track ‘Believe (d2 1/2)’ to celebrate daze alive music’s second anniversary.
Sleeq – T_T
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Verse 1)
A dream is like a fully blown-up balloon
Anyone becomes a child in front of it
Hm, but people seem to be a bit scared of holding it
They’re scared it might pop, that they’d accidentally let go of it, or that it could lose air
So, first, they tie the moderately blown-up dream
I’m not sure if that is really yours
I wonder how many people have actually held this long string before me
Meanwhile, I’m far from how I felt in the beginning
It’s not that I’m not being earnest
I’m not arrogant, nor do I posses a lot
I’m not trying to play a bit and slip away
Hm, but that doesn’t mean everything is bad
Uh, if a tempting promise came to me?
I said I don’t sell my soul
I open the door of my hand-sized world and go out
but even though I blink, everything is still pitch-black
Hook)
I think only I love you now (I think I love)
I think only I am left here now (I think I’m left here)
I think everything ends after testing waters, flirting, the touch of a fingertip (I think everything ends)
I think everyone leaves after holding hands, kissing, and doing it once (I think everyone leaves)
Verse 2)
I think everyone left this place
Well, I guess that’s natural because time is ticking
Could it be it’s only me getting it all wrong?
What if it’s the opposite and I’m the only one who left?
Uh, uh, what I wanted to say was
someone just doesn’t want to lose the word ‘dream’
Once a year, it meets the eyes of me who is standing still
This fellow that goes on dusty guitar strings in the storage
Ah, memories are nothing but romantic
and the you of your memories is deceiving the you now
The lump of reality that’s tied in a corner in the dark night
smells like the blade of a knife
After the one picture-perfect night ends
in which I took out all my longing, that’s grown stiff
in front of the dream I met as if I was running away,
I easily say “It’s nothing but a bit** that doesn’t cost money”
Hook)
Sleeq releases free track ‘ㅠㅠ’
Today, daze alive music’s Sleeq has released a free track titled ‘ㅠㅠ’ [Note: a crying face].
Reactions to San E’s ‘On Top of Your Head’
The release of San E’s track ‘모두가 내 발 아래’ [lit. ‘Everyone Is Beneath My Feet’] featuring MC GREE in which he disses B-Free, has set off an avalanche of reactions by other Korean hiphop artists.
Jerry.k who is currently touring Europe was one of the first ones to react. He posted among others:
“Mount Titlis with a height of 3,000 meters. At this height, everyone is #beneathmyfeet #not”
산이의 #hotsummer 디스는 #rapgenius 로 대중음악상을 탔지만 씬 밖에선 아무도 몰라봐주던 2010년의 자기에 대한 디스로 들린다 #내발아래 #아님 Photo posted by Jerry.k (@jerrykmusic) on
“San E’s #hotsummer diss sounds like a diss against himself in 2010 when he won an award at the Korean Music Awards for #rapgenius but still nobody beyond the [Korean hiphop] scene recognized him #beneathmyfeet #not”
“Sleeq has given us these lyrics to use at a time like this #raptight #itsonlyhiphopwhendissing”
For you, who is only hip hop when you diss others, I am probably some kind of a problem
Look straight at me who throws up when hearing your rap
Further on, representatives of AOMG and VV:D have uploaded posts of B-Free’s ‘Hot Summer’ that was produced by Gray. For example, Jay Park:
@freefromseoul – Hot Summer PROD. By @callmegray #AOMG #HILITE Photo posted by (@jerrykmusic) on
Illionaire’s Beenzino uploaded among others a video of him driving while jamming to ‘Hot Summer’:
VMC’s Wutan has voiced his opinion in a tweet:
전국민은 니미 그럼 엠씨로는 유재석이 제일 성공했네. 도대체 언제부터 그런게 미덕이고 스웩인거야. 얕은 관점 보소. — WUTAN : VMC (@WUTAN_JP) April 14, 2015
“All of South Korea my ass,((Refers to MC GREE’s line “산이와 GREE는 전 국민이 아네” [All of South Korea know San E and GREE])) then Yoo Jaeseok is the most successful MC.((Punning on the homonyms ‘MC’ where one refers to a TV host and the other to a rapper.)) Since when on earth is something like that ‘commendable’ and ‘swag’? Look at that shallow standpoint.”
Last but not least, our favorite photographer and film team kick&snap has ‘quietly’ uploaded three videos they took of B-Free’s ‘Hot Summer’. Let’s enjoy them together:
140405 비프리 – Hot Summer https://t.co/TIK7GtP2zi
— kick&snap (@kicknsnap) April 15, 2015
150117 B-FREE 희망콘서트:: Hot Summer https://t.co/fXA5bdlAyr — kick&snap (@kicknsnap) 15. April 2015
141101 비프리 – Hot summer https://t.co/PrIiYeWVzB
— kick&snap (@kicknsnap) 15. April 2015
Meanwhile, no reaction from B-Free so far, who was busy beating The Quiett at NBA 2K15 last night around the time of the song’s release.
Sleeq reveals new album cover and shocking facts
Along with the cover of her upcoming single, rapper Sleeq has revealed shocking facts about herself and her label Daze Alive via Twitter.
At around half an hour past midnight KST, Sleeq tweeted the following:
Don Malik is actually 35 years old
I am the main act of Unpretty Rapstar season 2
I am actually a man so I can’t go on Unpretty Rapstar
Rico is actually Daze Alive’s outcast
I am actually SHINee World((Fyi: Sleeq is a big SHINee fan))
[Image: How Can Love Change …].
This is the cover of my next single^^ Please show it a lot of love^^
I actually got into Daze Alive thanks to my looks
Finally, she changed her display picture to Singaporean hiphop duo Sleeq
and tweeted the following video along with the comments:
Goodnight~
Selamat tidur((Indonesian for ‘Good night’))
Sleeq – Energy / Python
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Intro x4)
I get ma energy from ma inner G
Hook)
I get ma energy from ma inner G
I get ma energy from ma inner gang
I get ma energy from ma inner galaxy
Nobody can even fake it, can imitate
I get ma energy from ma inner G
I get ma energy from ma inner gang
I get ma energy from ma inner galaxy
Nobody can even scheme it, can imitate
Verse 1)
The top keeps spinning, my dream will never stop
Your head is my totem, I don’t stop
So I get ma energy from moving
up, and down again, my fingertips ride waves
they make me get up, I just wait
uh for the sun to set. PM and AM
are interchanged on my watch. A huge cerebrum
I vomit out the right part, ah, ah, I made it again((Wordplay: “vomit out,” “made it again,” and “more to achieve” (see following line) all sound similar in Korean))
Ah, there are still way more things to achieve
Boom boom, I fly while just exploding my potential
A shower of cheers like light above the clouds, they growl
That is my energy, my guarantee, that is my power
Climb)
I get ma energy from ma inner G
Hook)
I get ma energy from ma inner G
I get ma energy from ma inner gang
I get ma energy from ma inner galaxy
Nobody can even scheme it, can imitate
I get ma energy from ma inner G
I get ma energy from ma inner gang
I get ma energy from ma inner galaxy
Nobody can even fake it, can imitate
Verse 2)
Ma energy ma flow
I don’t ever confine you, I just let you flow
Following that blood vessel there, making natural movements
The greatest feeling possible of being moved by music
I brag all the time, I brag lika python
Music is my asset, so I am rich alright
The most expensive amongst my accessories are
ma energy, ma flow
Outro x4)
Uh uh, you just follow ma energy ma flow
//
Hook)
I rap I swag I brag lika python
I rap lika python
I swag lika python
I brag lika python
I rap I swag I brag lika python
I rap lika python
I brag lika python
Ay
Verse)
daze alive,((Sleeq’s label)) lil colossus,((= Sleeq; reference to her song ‘Little Colossus’)) we’re ready
Jerry((Jerry.k is the CEO of daze alive)) got the python,((= Sleeq)) the rarest item
It’s a role that nobody in this game can manage to play
Not a bitch not a hoe, cause I’m not a prostitute
My occupation is being a rapper, an iron bowl((Implies that she / her presence in the scene is strong; also see here))
I do not take off my clothes, I told ya I’m not a prostitute
I’m making a living by using my voice, right, uh
It’s a commotion, “Who’s that kid?”
Uh, yes I’m small and spicy, jalapeño
After listening, everyone is astonished((Pun; in Korean, to be astonished lit. means ‘to brandish the tongue’ → because she’s spicy (see previous line) ))
But I still have a lot to do, like Al Pacino when he finished ‘The Godfather’
After that: Scarface, Montana shit
One out of all kinds of rumors:
people talk about which female rapper is the best these days
Stop talking about looks, in this scene
there is exactly one proper female rapper
Without a break, I run, I run, I run like a marathon
The bastards who thought it was short-distance now have a stomachache
They’re jealous of what I do((Pun; in Korean, jealous lit. means ‘to have a stomachache’ (see previous line) ))
Now their heads hurt from looking up at me
This battlefield is like The Matrix,
virus vs. vaccine((Implies that Sleeq is the vaccine to the viruses aka the other (female?) rappers.))
I’m the one player that will survive
I fight until the end, I never withdraw((Pun; in Korean, “not withdraw” here is ‘안철수’ (ahn cheol soo), and Ahn Cheol-soo is a businessman and politician who ran for presidency in 2012 but dropped out))
I’m curious about my next verse
My greatest trait is that I get better and better
Since I first grabbed the mic, it has never changed
Like a knitted sweater you’ve worn for a long time, it just rucks up((In Korean, “to ruck up” lit. means ‘to go up’, ‘to get better’))
When I go up, your senses decline
I’m sorry, my cellphone will apologize instead((Pun; in Korean, apologize (사과) can also mean ‘apple’ → reference to her cellphone being an iPhone))
When my lyrics are innovative, expectations are a component
Like a dog that is losing its baby teeth, I’m biting everything
Outro)
Ay ay
daze alive
Ay
Exclusive Q&A with Sleeq
Read the exclusive Q&A with Sleeq from June 2014 where she answered questions by fans. The original post can be found here.