Suga’s thoughtful approach to collaboration nods to the respect that PSY possesses in the Korean entertainment industry. PSY was already inspired by the arena-ready production, but when he suggested Suga join him on the track, the process instantly came together: “We both were really into the track, and we finished that in literally three or four days.” One of the standout moments of “That That” comes in the second verse, when the two stars trade off lines as Suga crafts a prime opportunity for PSY to remind the public of his true spitting skills and go bar-for-bar with the BTS member. “He talked to me about Biggie and Tupac, I was like, ‘How do you know all that?’ He’s really crazy about ’90s hip-hop. Day one, we meet and of course, we talked about music, right? But the quote he said was absolutely the trigger – he said, ‘Hyung, regarding hip-hop, the ’90s were the bomb.’ But the boy was born in the ’90s! ” PSY laughs.
It was the right way: talking, chatting, laughing, and spitting and feelin ‘it. ‘ When I saw what he was doing, improvising and his enthusiasm, I got literally infected from him. “We worked together, it was fun and I thought, ‘Yeah, this is music this was what I’ve been doing since I was young. “I was boosted with that incident, that young blood of that musician,” he says, still careful about using Suga’s name. PSY says that his sessions with Suga for “That That” were so transformative that they inspired him to write an additional five to six new songs in the following month. While Suga has been monumental in the writing and production process of BTS since its 2013 debut, the 29-year-old has lent his talent to some of Korea’s top stars like IU, Epik High and Heize, while also collaborating with the likes of Juice WRLD, Halsey and Japanese singer ØMI. He came with the track and he suggested me. “I was really into being a manager of the company for the last two years, before I met this track. “Right before that, I was a perfect manager,” PSY says with a slight laugh. The 44-year-old was enjoying his time in executive mode, but last fall, when Suga reached out with a track, the fateful production proposition ignited a change.
4 and is nearing a full year on the chart) and the label’s first boy band, TNX, was formed through a TV reality show, on which PSY helped whittle down a group of 75 K-pop hopefuls into the six-member outfit. Rapper Jessi rose to become one of Korea’s hottest MCs and personalities thanks to her viral single “Nuna Nana” (the 2020 video has more than 170 million views on YouTube) R&B singer-songwriter Heize scored her biggest track yet on the Billboard K-Pop Hot 100 (“Happen,” from 2021, peaked at No. Instead, PSY spent most of the pandemic home in Korea igniting new musical paths by taking an active role in managing his P NATION signees. That was the only two years that I’ve never lived as an artist. But in the last two years, I did not have a single day as an artist – that was a huge difference my last 22 years. “I’m really lucky because I do not have any deadline from nobody… and from time to time, even if I do not release a new song, still, I’m living as an artist, let’s say, 100 days a year, at least.
1 and first in a lead role.“Making a new song means that I want to refresh my concert – that’s it,” says PSY, who has more than two decades of music under his belt since releasing his debut album in 2000. 1 on Billboard Hot 100įuture concurrently places 18 songs on the latest Hot 100, including all 16 from the standard edition of I Never Liked You, with “Wait for U,” featuring Drake and Tems, soaring in at the summit, marking Future’s second No. Harry Styles' 'As It Was' Tops Billboard Global Charts For Fifth Week, Future & PSY Debutįuture, Drake & Tems' 'Wait For U' Debuts at No. 1, the fifth-most in the chart’s history among rappers, after Jay-Z (14), Drake, Eminem and Ye (10 each).įuture Sends All 16 Songs From 'I Never Liked You' Onto Billboard Hot 100 The set is Future’s eighth Billboard 200 No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 222,000 equivalent album units earned, according to Luminate, scoring the biggest weekly total for an album this year. for a fifth total week, thanks to the opening week success of his new album, I Never Liked You.
1 on the Artist 100 (dated May 14), returning as the top musical act in the U.S. Future scores his first triple triumph on the Billboard Artist 100, Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100, as he leads all three charts simultaneously for the first time.įuture vaults from No.