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Hello, we’re Dynamic Duo. My name is Choiza, and I’m Gaeko.
It’s nice to meet you! This is our first time meeting with Soompi.com!
Hey, we promised to stop talking about you becoming a father on TV.
Yeah, because it makes me look so old. Well, thank you for your congratulations.
Thank you, Soompi.com for coming to us.
Let’s continue with the father and military talks.
I’ve got a new baby. I didn’t give birth to it, my wife did.
She delivered the baby, and he’s growing up well. It’s been about 150 days.
He’s very healthy, being breastfed by his mom.
We’re mixing powdered milk, but yeah, he’s growing up well, sucking milk from mom.
He’s been breastfed so well, he’s grown up so much now. He’s gained a lot of weight too.
And yes, we both finished our military service recently.
It’s been about 18 years since our debut. When we first made our music under CB Mass, it was right to do that type of music.
It was really good. Our view of the world was very edgy too. But as we got older, our mind has changed too.
And naturally, our music evolved as well. So now, we’re more and more looking at things from a family perspective.
We don’t see the world just from our own point of view, but from a lot of different angles.
And I think that’s why our music has changed as well.
We’ve been doing more music that understands and accepts others.
But we still love to party, so we’re making a lot of fun music too.
Well, first of all, instead of training a younger artist…
You just need to raise your kid well.
It’s really hard to raise even one kid.
We’d like to become the window for young and talented artists to get publicized to the mainstream audience.
Instead of personally training and turning someone into a singer, we’d rather help and support that person from the side.
There are a lot of really talented artists in Korea, even in the underground hip hop scene, including producers, rappers, and singers.
So we’d like to see things from the side and provide them support.
I think we still have a lot of aspirations as Dynamic Duo, and as musicians.
So we’d like to continue to show a lot of music as Dynamic Duo.
And even if we work as producers, we can still do our own music. So we’re interested in both jobs.
Our dream is to do music until we die, much like Stevie Wonder or James Brown.
We may not become as famous, but we’d like to become someone who continues to do music.
These are good questions. They just made us legends.
Wait, isn’t the term “legend” supposed to mean you’re dead? If we’re legends, aren’t we supposed to be dead?
Yeah, something of the past.
Sort of like a fossil! Anyway…what was the question again?
So first of all, I think Korean hip hop has grown so much both in terms of quantity and quality.
And it’s already been almost 20 years since hip hop was introduced in Korea.
What we would like to see are more star musicians.
We need people who can rap with a lot of star potential, in order to have this scene continue to remain young and productive.
The problem is there are not a lot of stages where talented musicians can perform.
I mean, there are a lot of clubs, but there’s only very few TV stages, and not a lot of TV shows where we can introduce these talented musicians.
So their opportunity to perform has been shrinking.
They’re only on the Web. There’s no substance and they only exist on the Internet.
So I hope there will be a place where we can all interact with each other. They need to get more publicity to become more popular.
I hope the scene would expand more. The quality of Korean hip hop has improved a lot.
And compared to Japanese or American hip hop, Korean hip hop has its own uniqueness.
And with the current style of music, it definitely has some value and potential in overseas markets.
So we’re hoping to see more artists promote in foreign countries as well.
We’re Dynamic Duo. Soompi.com, we hope you continue to grow. Soompi chaego (the best)!
Dynamic Duo fighting!