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9:19 AM

For the fifth installment of his letter on YG-Life blog, YG Entertainment boss, Yang Hyun Suk, announced details of Big Bang’s G-Dragon’s solo album.

According to the post, G-Dragon will be returning with another self-produced album this year, in time of his upcoming birthday. His album is already drawing interest as popular female rapper, Missy Elliot, will be featured in it.

The post says:
When will G-Dragon be releasing his solo album?

On August 18 2009, G-Dragon released his first solo album with the celebration of his 21st birthday.
This year, he is planning to unveil another solo regular album on the same date as 4 years ago.

Just like the first album, he will be in charge of composing and writing every song, plus the album production.
The album will consist of 10 songs.

This weekend marks the finale of his grand solo World Tour. For the past few months
G-Dragon has been performing 25 times around the world, and the ending will be held in Singapore.
As soon as he crosses the finish line of his World Tour, he will be devoting his whole energy on another project,
which includes his album jacket shooting and wrapping-up process of his 2nd solo regular album.

His 2nd regular album is like pulling out a diamond from a treasure box
because the album was already in the process of making when a mini album was released last September.

What is special about G-Dragon’s 2nd solo album?

With the 2nd solo album, what we decided to do was to have one legendary foreign artist
feature in it rather than have several. There were many male rappers on the list,
but what YG was looking for was a female rapper – and there was just one. We found the answer so quickly
and we were unanimous on choosing this artist.

And she is – Missy Elliott.

If you know a tiny bit about hip-hop, you would know this legendary artist.
I feel that an introduction of her is unnecessary as everyone knows her, so here’s a very simple background.
She is a hip-hop legend who produced a huge number of big hits that set her apart from other artists.
If you are unfamiliar with hip-hop, just take a peek of her songs “Get Ur Freak On” and “Work It” on YouTube,
and you will recognize her in a matter of seconds.

Missy Elliott partnered with Timbaland, and their amazing synergy produced the following songs:
1997 – SUPA DUPA FLY (Album): “The Rain”
2001 – MISS E… SO ADDICTIVE (Album): “Get Ur Freak On” and “One Minute Man”
2002 – UNDER CONSTRUCTION (album): “Gossip Folks” and “Work It”
2005 – The Cook Book (album): “Lose Control”
These songs put her on a global stardom, and the musicians she teamed up with also include
top-notch artists like 50 Cent, Jay Z., Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, and Mary J. Blige.
But unfortunately she had to stop everything abruptly for health reasons,
which halted all music related activities including releasing another album.

This is why it was extra difficult for G-Dragon to ask her to feature in his song.

For the last several months, YG has spared no effort in asking Missy Elliott to feature in G-Dragon’s song.
We have been sending her G-Dragon-related information including his songs. And finally,
we were able to win her interest for G-Dragon’s creativity and music, and now she will be
featuring in G-Dragon’s new solo album.

Any more details on the song featuring Missy Elliott?

This track is a song by YG’s main producer, Teddy, that has a very unique hip-hop beat like
other Missy Elliott’s tracks. Missy Elliott and G-Dragon exchanged ideas extensively over the phone,
and they decided that G-Dragon would come up with the lyrics and rap for demonstration,
which will be given to Missy Elliott in the U.S., who will then add her own rap to complete the song.

G-Dragon’s song featuring the female hip-hop legend breaks away from the convention
with a hint of Korean taste. The tinge of a voice sample from a Korean traditional folk song “Nilliliya”
makes it a one-of-a-kind, classy hip-hop track.

Diplo, the world-renowned DJ and a songwriter, who has been part of ‘Knock Out’,
will also be participating in this album.

I will come back with more details on G-Dragon’s album and a track list soon!

When will Taeyang announce his solo album plans?

To be continued… see you all tomorrow!

2013. 06.25 FROM YG

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9:07 AM

YG Entertainment’s representative, Yang Hyun Suk, has recently detailed plans on YG’s two new boys groups and its debut through a post on the company’s official YG-Life blog.

According to Yang Hyun Suk, there are two boy groups in preparation at YG Entertainment with Superstar K’s Kang Seung Yoon, K-Pop Star’s Lee Seung Hoon and rapper B.I. who featured in MC Mong’s “Indian Boy” in 2009.

The two groups are currently referred to as ‘A’ and ‘B’, and they will be facing each other in the survival competition program called ‘WIN’. The winning team of the show will be named as “Winner” and they will get to debut on the day after the last episode airs.

The show will air one episode every week for 10 weeks starting from the second week of July.

Check out more detailed plans here.

Meanwhile, Yang Hyun Suk has also revealed that he would be releasing more details about Big Bang next week.
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9:40 AM

For the third part of his letter on YG-Life blog, YG Entertainment boss, Yang Hyun Suk, announced details of Kang Seung Yoon’s official solo debut.

According to the post, the former ‘Superstar K2’ contestant, who originally scheduled to make a debut earlier this year, will finally release his first mini album after the pre-release “Wild And Young” on July 15th. “Wild And Young” was produced 1TYM’s Teddy and described to be a strong rock track, highlighting Kang Seung Yoon’s cool but powerful vocals.

It has been revealed that Kang Seung Yoon also started working on the music video of “Wild And Young” with director Han Sa Min, who also directed Big Bang’s “BLUE” and 2NE1’s “LONELY”.
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11:28 AM

As promised on his recent post, YG Entertainment boss, Yang Hyun Suk, announce details of its upcoming new girl group through a follow-up post on YG-Life blog on June 19th.

According to Yang Hyun Suk, the new girl group is planning to debut in October, which is when 2NE1 is scheduled to release a mini album as well. The trilingual members are fluent in Korean, English and Japanese, and have an average of 17 year old. Having started out with 10 members, they are now going to debut with six members.


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11:02 AM

With 2NE1’s leader CL currently promoting her solo single “The Baddest Female”, Blackjacks are getting really excited to see the whole group perform on stage. It seems they just have to wait a little more as 2NE1 will finally coming back next month.

According to Yang Hyun Suk’s letter posted on ‘YG-Life’, 2NE1 will be promoting at least four tracks from July to October. The first title song titled “Falling In Love” will be released in early July and will be reggae, an entirely new genre for 2NE1.

Yang Hyun Suk will also announce details of a new girl group tomorrow on the blog, while he will continue to deliver news in the same way for about a week.
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8:00 PM

YG Entertainment’s Yang Hyun Suk revealed his thoughts regarding Lee Hi’s first concert.

Lee Hi held her first ever concert ‘RE-HI’ in front of 500 fans at Seoul Seokang University’s Merry Hall. She not only sung her own songs, but also presented other artists’ songs, which she had sung before when she was completing in ‘K-Pop Star’.

During the concert, Lee Hi joked, “CEO Yang never gave me a perfect score of 100.” When Yang Hyun Suk was asked by a media outlet what score would he give to the singer’s concert, he answered, “I once gave Park Ji Min 100 points on ‘K-Pop Star’, but never to Lee Hi.”

He then rated the concert, “If I had to give a score, I’d say that this concert would be around 80 points.”
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9:20 AM

YG Family met up with Hollywood actor Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith at the YG headquarters located in Hapjeong on May 6th.

2NE1’s CL shared two proof shots with the Smith family on her instagram. The photos show Will Smith and Jaden Smith with CL herself, Big Bang’s G-Dragon, Taeyang, T.O.P, boss Yang Hyun Suk, Teddy and Choice37.

Will Smith and Jaden Smith are currently in South Korea to attend the red carpet event for their upcoming film ‘After Earth’ on May 7.

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11:02 AM

Psy and Yang Hyun Suk were seen laughing out loud during what may have been a viewing session of the “Gentleman” music video.

A day ahead of the single’s big release, Psy posted on his Twitter, “#PSYG ;-)” along with a photo of the two laughing brightly and looking very satisfied with the final results for the much awaited “Gentleman” music video.

Psy already released his new single “Gentleman” in 119 countries at the same time. The song mmediately achieved an all-kill status on real-time charts, proving his overwhelming popularity.
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10:00 PM

YG Entertainment’s CEO Yang Hyun Suk will be donating around 1 billion KRW (approximately $922,000 USD) to help children in need.

The agency posted high earnings last year and so shareholders including Yang Hyun Suk pledged to donate the money in stock dividends to benefit sick children who cannot afford medical treatment.

A representative from YG Entertainment revealed, “Yang Hyun Suk has long thought about making donations. He thinks of it as the result of people showing love to YG Entertainment and its artists, so he is paying back the love through donating.”
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10:45 AM

YG Entertainment CEO Yang Hyun Suk becomes the new #1 celebrity in the ranking of stocks.

According to YG Entertainment on January 2nd, YG CEO Yang Hyun Suk saw a 67% increase in his YG Entertainment stake, jumping from a value of 131.4 billion won at the end of 2011 to 219.5 billion won at the end of 2012.

This edges him ahead of SM Entertainment mogul Lee Soo Man, who used to be #1. Lee ended 2011 with a total stake of 184.7 billion won in SM Entertainment, which was enough to rank him at the top of the celebrity list then. However, he only increased by 8.3% over the past year, wrapping up 2012 with a stock ownership worth 200.1 billion won.

Coming in at third was actor Bae Yong Jun with 23.7 billion won in stocks for KEYEAST Entertainment, next Yang Soo Kyung with 8.2 billion won in Yedang Corporation’s stocks, and Park Jin Young at fifth place with 7.3 billion won in JYP Entertainment shares.

Source: KBS
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7:49 PM

Girl group 2NE1 and Big Bang’s Taeyang will be returning to the music scene this November.

YG Entertainment’s head, Yang Hyun Suk, announced on October 5th that 2NE1 and Taeyang will both release new songs in November. Yang Hyun Suk revealed, “2NE1 is set to release a new album in October, but due to their ongoing world tour, they will be releasing new EP in November instead.”

Regarding on Taeyang’s solo comeback, he added, “Taeyang was originally going to release his solo album this summer with G-Dragon. He even worked with American producers for the new album. However, we’re both not completely satisfied and decided not to release it.”

“Taeyang is currently reworking on the solo album and he may release one of the songs as a single in November. As a fan of Taeyang myself, I can’t wait to see his performance on stage his new solo song.”


Source: Star News
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11:57 AM

Singer Psy guest-appeared on the August 29th installment of SBS ‘Night of TV Entertainment’, and revealed that he is being treated differently these days.

In the interview, Psy drew attention by talking about how people especially YG’s head, Yang Hyun Suk, treats him differently after “Gangnam Style” became such a hit.

The singer revealed, “Yang Hyun Suk changed a lot. Before, when picking up a phone call from me, he always said, ‘What? Why?’. But nowadays, he answers ‘CNN dongsaeng’.”

Psy made everyone laugh while talking about his popularity in the US. He said, “About 1,000 people recognize me everyday. I have to wear sunglasses. I never took my sunglasses off when I was in America.”


Source: StarN News
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7:27 PM

In the July 11 episode of SBS ‘One Night of TV Entertainment’, the three judges of ‘K-Pop Star’ Yang Hyun Suk, Park Jin Young and BoA were featured as guests and discussed their future expectations.

From the first season of ‘K-Pop Star’, top finalists Park Ji Min as well as Baek Ah Yeon and Park Jae Hyung had signed with JYP Entertainment, while SuPearls consisting of Lee Hayi, Lee Michelle, Lee Seung Joo and Lee Jung Mi signed with YG Entertainment.

Regarding with their new recruits, Park Jin Young revealed, “They are adjusting better than expected and are training hard with excitement for their debut.”

Yang Hyun Suk then brought up a friendly rivalry saying, “I know SuPearls and Park Ji Min will be debuting around the same time. We will work hard to see who comes out on top”, setting up a challenge with fellow judge Park Jin Young.

To this, BoA broke up the ice by commenting, “Since my comeback will happen first, let’s make sure I do well first”, which caused everyone to laugh.
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3:44 AM

The strict head of YG Entertainment, Yang Hyunsuk, revealed his affectionate feelings towards 2NE1 who came back recently on the 5th. He expressed that he was “hurt” because he couldn’t pay as much attention as he wanted to to 2NE1′s comeback.

On this day, he told OSEN “These days when I see 2NE1, it pains me. Usually when artists from our company make a comeback, starting from a few months before the comeback I would spend day and night, sleep and eat with them, and take care of them. However this time I couldn’t do that for 2NE1.”

Starting last year from December, till this April, Yang Hyunsuk was a judge on SBS ‘K-Pop Star’ representing YG, and had undergone an extremely busy schedule for the first half of the year. In addition to a lot of overlapping schedules at the company, the time he spent on 2NE1 seemed somewhat short.

He revealed, “After so long, 2NE1 is making a comeback in July, when so many other artists are coming back. Especially at this time when it’s really a ‘comeback boom’ I should have taken better care of 2NE1, but I feel terribly sorry that I was unable to do so.”, “So during the last week, I cancelled all my plans and just stayed with 2NE1 throughout and personally monitored their choreography and singing, etc.”



He added, “To our 2NE1 members who are like daughters to me, I feel both sorry and thankful. To the extent that I was unable to pay as much attention to them, till the end of this year, it’s my plan to wholeheartedly focus on 2NE1 till the end of this year.”

Not only just the 2NE1 members, but Yang Hyunsuk has not forgotten the fans supporting these girls either. In regards to the fans who are always supporting the girls, he promised “To the fans as well, I’m terribly sorry. In order to repay you guys, I will work harder for 2NE1.”

Yang Hyunsuk is planned to participate as a judge in the second half of the year as well on ‘K-POP Star 2′. He has been ridiculously busy not only due to the discussions for this upcoming program, but also because of several internal issues at the company. He stated “I’ve been too busy to even rest lately because of work at the office. However when I was with 2NE1, I tried not to appear tired. This is because I didn’t want to give any trouble to 2NE1.”, “This past week with 2NE1, every second spent working on the comeback was worth it.”, displaying his affectionate feelings for 2NE1, as well as increasing the anticipation for their comeback.

Mean while, 2NE1 released a music video teaser for their song ‘I Love You’ at midnight today. The music video teaser added a sexier feeling to 2NE1′s charismatic music, and displayed their even more matured charm. 2NE1 is planning to make their first comeback on the 8th on Inkigayo.

In addition, they will be holding their Seoul concerts on the 28th and 29th that will kick off their world tour, ‘New Evolution’.


Source: Nate
Translated by: GEE @ YGLadies.com


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9:38 PM

The strict head of YG Entertainment, Yang Hyunsuk, revealed his affectionate feelings towards 2NE1 who came back recently on the 5th. He expressed that he was “hurt” because he couldn’t pay as much attention as he wanted to to 2NE1′s comeback.

On this day, he told OSEN “These days when I see 2NE1, it pains me. Usually when artists from our company make a comeback, starting from a few months before the comeback I would spend day and night, sleep and eat with them, and take care of them. However this time I couldn’t do that for 2NE1.”

Starting last year from December, till this April, Yang Hyunsuk was a judge on SBS ‘K-Pop Star’ representing YG, and had undergone an extremely busy schedule for the first half of the year. In addition to a lot of overlapping schedules at the company, the time he spent on 2NE1 seemed somewhat short.

He revealed, “After so long, 2NE1 is making a comeback in July, when so many other artists are coming back. Especially at this time when it’s really a ‘comeback boom’ I should have taken better care of 2NE1, but I feel terribly sorry that I was unable to do so.”, “So during the last week, I cancelled all my plans and just stayed with 2NE1 throughout and personally monitored their choreography and singing, etc.”


He added, “To our 2NE1 members who are like daughters to me, I feel both sorry and thankful. To the extent that I was unable to pay as much attention to them, it’s my plan to wholeheartedly focus on 2NE1 till the end of this year.”
Not only just the 2NE1 members, but Yang Hyunsuk has not forgotten the fans supporting these girls either. In regards to the fans who are always supporting the girls, he promised “To the fans as well, I’m terribly sorry. In order to repay you guys, I will work harder for 2NE1.”

Yang Hyunsuk is planned to participate as a judge in the second half of the year as well on ‘K-POP Star 2′. He has been ridiculously busy not only due to the discussions for this upcoming program, but also because of several internal issues at the company. He stated “I’ve been too busy to even rest lately because of work at the office. However when I was with 2NE1, I tried not to appear tired. This is because I didn’t want to give any trouble to 2NE1.”, “This past week with 2NE1, every second spent working on the comeback was worth it.”, displaying his affectionate feelings for 2NE1, as well as increasing the anticipation for their comeback.

Mean while, 2NE1 released a music video teaser for their song ‘I Love You’ at midnight today. The music video teaser added a sexier feeling to 2NE1′s charismatic music, and displayed their even more matured charm. 2NE1 is planning to make their first comeback on the 8th on Inkigayo.

In addition, they will be holding their Seoul concerts on the 28th and 29th that will kick off their world tour, ‘New Evolution’.


Source: Nate
Translation: GEE @ YGLadies.com
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4:13 PM

Recently, YG Enterainment uploaded a clip of four our trainees with the title “Future 2NE1 (4 Years later)” that cause quite a stir among 2ne1 fans.

Star News spoke directly with Yang Hyunsuk who responded to the brewing rumors that there would be member replacements withing 2ne1, stating:

The video was called future 2NE1 because they are working hard to be a great girl group like their 2NE1 unnies. 2NE1 will always consist of CL, Dara, Bom, and Minji. There will be no member changes, so fans should not misunderstand or worry.


Source: Naver, YGladies
Translated by kristinekwak@ygladies.com
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9:13 PM

Recently, YG Enterainment uploaded a clip of four trainees with the title “Future 2NE1 (4 Years later)” that cause quite a stir among 2ne1 fans.

Star News spoke directly with Yang Hyun Suk who responded to the brewing rumors that there would be member replacements within 2ne1. The YG head stated, “The video was called future 2NE1 because they are working hard to be a great girl group like their 2NE1 unnies. 2NE1 will always consist of CL, Dara, Bom, and Minji. There will be no member changes, so fans should not misunderstand or worry.”

Ealier today, YG Entertainment released a new clip via official Youtube page, featuring four trainees between the ages of 12 and 13, dancing to Usher’s “OMG” as well as singing to “I’m Dat Chick” by Kelly Rowland.


Source: Naver
Credit: kristinekwak@ygladies.com
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9:35 AM

After a successful first season of SBS "Survival audition: K-pop star", a representative of the show has revealed that they will be back with a second season this coming November and the Big 3 judges will be back as well.

Representatives of the big 3 agencies in the industry, Park Jin Young of JYP Entertainment, BoA of SM Entertainment and Yang Hyun Suk of YG Entertainment are all confirmed to be the judges for the second season of talent searching show K-pop star. The show became popular because of the talented scouts and also because of the A-list judges who are behind the top agencies in the industry. For the second season of the show, they are expecting even more participants and they are enthusiastic the second season will be a success like the first season.

Source: Nate
Written by: blueprincess824 @ dkpopnews.net
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8:44 PM

YG Entertainment(YG)’s main pillars, Big Bang and 2NE1 are having comebacks one after another. Both the music industry and fans alike are showing a increasing amount of interest in this.

YG’s CEO Yang Hyun Suk told edailystar on the 29th, “Following the release of Big Bang’s new song on 3 and 6 June, 2NE1′s new album has also been confirmed for a release in June.”

They’re also satisfying the fans’ thirst for 2NE1. With exclusive producer Teddy, 2NE1 has currently completed at least 7 songs. They are also currently in the midst of contemplating which song to set as the title track from among 3 songs. 2NE1 is planned to actively participate in broadcast activities once the album is released, and it has not been determined if a full album or a mini-album will be released.

Yang Hyun Suk also said, ““Big Bang and 2NE1 are at a point where they’re most united since their debut and are in a pleasant state for doing their music.” He continued, “Personally, I think I could rate both groups 100 points out of 100 points for their new songs.”

“I’m more at ease especially for 2NE1. 2NE1 have always been successful with releasing good songs; With their fashion in addition to their strengths, they’re a team that has already obtained recognition. Their comeback this time around is certainly worth anticipating.”


Source: Naver
Translated by nyldeabcd@YGLadies.com / soh0712@YGLadies.com
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3:46 AM

YG Entertainment CEO Yang Hyun Suk (43) publicly declares that he doesn’t find 2NE1 pretty.

On the 21st, Yang Hyun Suk appeared as the guest on the SBS show, “Healing Camp.” When asked by the show MCs, “What criteria do you have in choosing artists?” the YGE CEO replied with, “The rumors that I did not look at appearances when choosing 2NE1 and Big Bang are not true, in reality, I do look at appearance also. During auditions I also look at their appearance, aside from the voices,” he confessed.

Comparing them to other girl groups, the looks of YG’s girl group, 2NE1, is surely different, and he says that he is aware of the comments. In fact, Yang Hyun Suk said, “It’s true that 2NE1 are not pretty,” he said in his frank manner, drawing laughter from the MCs. He went on to say that, “In fact, 2NE1 members are not tall, and they don’t have average pretty faces. But more importantly, I think they’re cool.“

He goes on to say, “I think that a cool person is better than just being pretty,” he said, “2NE1′s CL and Gong Minzy have charisma. It’s cool. It’s my style,” he confirmed.


Sources: Nate News: 1 2 3
Translated by: BlackjackBelle@OhDara/ SlaveTranslator@WeLoveDara
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