Music and Lyrics: All the Fxxks to Give

Spencer W. Kimball once said “Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcefully”. Well, no disrespect to Spencer W. Kimball, but f…

Hyorin Kicks Off Her Return with “One Step”

Three years after her solo debut, Sistar's Hyorin is making her first comeback! Before her title track "Paradise" had been released, the songstress sha…

Questionable Lyrics in Jay Park’s “Everything You Wanted”

Jay Park has released his newest LP Everything You Wanted and it’s quite obvious that he’s got sex on the brain. Though he’s certainly matured since hi…

The SB Mixtape: 9/7/2016, Relationship Goals

Love songs come in many varieties: simple or soaring, unrequited romance or crazy in love, just starting out or been together forever. The quality of a…

Ready Yourselves: The K-pop Wave Is Changing

Over the last three years, K-pop has been experiencing a bit of struggle to stay afloat the way it did in the late 2000s and early 2010s, while other g…

Follow the Movement Tour in San Francisco: AOMG and DIY Hip Hop Labels

Jay Park has been incredibly busy. In the span of two and a half years since he founded AOMG, he’s released ten singles and two albums. He’s been a var…

For Your Viewing Pleasure: All Jacked Up

Welcome back to For Your Viewing Pleasure, where we take time out of the week to curate a set of photos from the K-pop landscape. While we have feat…

Jay Park Is Bitter But Cute In “The Truth Is”

Although Jay Park first made his debut in the Korean music industry as the leader of JYP boyband 2PM, his departure from the company and subsequent ret…

The SB Mixtape: 11/17/2015, Fight Songs

Welcome back, readers, for another round of the SB Mixtape! 2015 is winding down, which inevitably means stress levels are going up. Final exams, re…

Best of K-Hip Hop: Summer 2015

This summer in K-pop, there was a heck of a lot of hullabaloo surrounding the plethora of competing idol groups that were all making comebacks around t…