#this is why i love lbnc

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2022.07.26 leebidomylibido (smtm11 application)

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LAYBACKNCHILL

Finallyyyyy my LBNC label info post. I’ve been hoping to find motivation for it for a long time and tonight is the night let’s go. It may be long and much blabla but idc, you can scroll past if you’re not interested :D

Rapper Chaboom founded the label Layback Records first, and then renamed it to LayBackNChill (LBNC) later. The motto is “to live a laid-back life by making laid-back music between people who have a good relationship”.

This year they are my favorite crew (next to my other favorite crews wysd and d.o.g) and here are some reasons why

see how I just called them a crew when they are actually a label? They are more like a crew. All of them seem close with each other and they all release (very fire) collab albums between 2 or more members regularly. It feels so natural in a time where most labels‘ actions and signings are (understandably) business decisions.

even before I knew their motto I would have described them like that. Most of the members are “old” but haven’t “made it” and while I think that must be a huge pressure, they seem just really chill about everything, the music doesn’t sound try-hard at all. It’s just consistently good music.

bc of most member’s ages I personally can identify well with them :P

the music is so good obviously. It’s a group where I regularly listen to music of almost every member. This is personal again but I just like trap I think, and most older rappers do boombap, and that’s just not as exciting for me. (or at least most of the recent stuff I’ve been listening to was trap. Haven’t had time to check all their old music it’s so much :D)

Chaboom did what few hiphop labels (and by that I mean labels that actually release mostly rap and hiphop and not all other kinds of mixed stuff) achieved and signed women, 2 of them. More abt them and the other members now.

and. sorry if this post is messy, their pics not ideal etc i’m too tired. and this is just for reference for later. ah here their LABEL IG page. Follow to not miss out on releases :P

차붐 (Chaboom) | 차종혁 (Cha JongHyuk) | 1985.4.5 | rapper

Founder and CEO

Used to have a boombap style

Participated in SMTM777

Is close with VMC and others

He gave kaogaii his stage name

He was originally a producer before he started rapping

Wybh’s “Equus (remix)” was originally Chaboom’s song feat. Paloalto, Swings, Deepflow (news to me 🙈)

마진초이(Marginchoi) | ??? | producer

Not much is known about him

He usually works with other LBNC artists the most

He was LBNC’s only producer until HD BL4CK joined

songrec? idk everyone he produced more than 50% of LBNC’s music I’m sure of that. They really mainly work only with each other. Pick a random LBNC song and it’s probably produced by him. I just tried it with 3 songs and it worked. Try Leebido - DDOOK DDOOK (Feat. Chaboom, ChaMane, Don Mills)

오아이 (O.I) | 최지윤 (Choi JiYoon) | 1998.8.22 | singer/rapper

(on the left in the photo)

She usually sings but also rapped on her collab album with Wonjjang

They’re so cool check out the album, here the song Stars with kitsyojii and Leebido

리비도 (Leebido) | 이병민 (Lee ByungMin) | 1992.6.21 | rapper

He debuted only in 2019 but has tons of nice Eps

Two EPs of his own and 2 with HD BL4CK, 1 with kitsyojii and kaogaii, and 2 with Chaboom nice work

Song rec: thisineverthat (with Chaboom) so underrated. Their concept seems to be brand names and products lol free ads for those I guess. But it goes hard just listen.

가오가이 (kaogaii) | 백한솔 (Back Han-sol) | 1991.2.18 | rapper

Part of crew Hofgang with kitsyojii. They’re besties since middle school. Their concept is being childish I love that.

Participated in SMTM a lot

Has also become a YouTuber

Changmo gave him libilly merch because they’re both from Namyangju, but they never met or talked (?)

Songrec: Purple Kimchi with Viann (producer) and kitsyojii from their recent collab album

키츠요지 (kitsyojii) | 조승환 (Jo SeungHwan) | 1990.5.25 | rapper

Hofgang with kaogaii

He likes to start diss battles, first I thought it’s silly but ig it’s just for fun and entertainment (still silly xD). First Jo Gwangil for being fast and then some high schooler (I forgot) for being not that good well lol.

Also participated in some SMTMs and even Superbee’s rap academy

His old rap name was Joystick because he wanted a rap name with “Jo” like his last name, but changed it when he joined LBNC

His rap is simple I think but I really like the style. He’s one of my fav and most listened rappers these days.

Song rec for a popular song: 일어나 Remix which got featured by Dingo

Now that I think abt it, kitsoyjii and kaogaii have gotten a lot of support from Dingo in the last months, the funny concept seems to be working. Maybe you’ll see them become more popular soon

원쨩 (Wonjjang) | ??? | rapper

If you read my posts you’ll know she’s one of my fav female rappers. She has an aggressive style and a deep voice so cool

Loves anime

Read my profile post abt her here

She hasn’t released any songs since that post :( anyway, songrec: tlqkf with HD BL4CK from their collab album

요보이 (YoBoy) | 강요셉 (Kang Joseph) | 2002.10.14 | rapper/singer

He is the youngest member

Was on hsr 4

He does a lot of singing, but it’s nice

Song example: Chillin Vibe (Feat. Chaboom, kitsyojii, Wonjjang, Leebido, O.I, kaogaii) (prod. marginchoi)

에이치디 블랙 (HD BL4CK) | 현동권 (Hyun Dongkwon) | producer

The bestttt he’s my fav producer rn

He also worked with Skinny Brown and is friends with Swervy & friends

Member of team yaya

Not much is known abt him but he debuted a long time ago and is pretty young I think -> signs for genius

Have 2 monster collab songs: Seoul Forest (Feat. Don Mills, KHAN, kaogaii, ChaMane, kitsyojii, Leebido, Basick) (a new one) and Lighter (Feat. Kash Bang, Leebido, Blase, Yami Tommy, ICE PUFF, Flavordash, Dayday) (a little older)

Generally if you look at his past featurings, it’s a rich list

Can’t wait for someone to make him a namu wiki page so I can find out 1 thing abt him :D I once found out his first name by reading all the comments on his ig and checking what his friends were calling him but I forgot :(

면도 (myunDo) | 임현도 (Lim HyunDo) | 1994.8.4 | rapper

He was on SMTM a few times and on Sign here

Apparently has/had 6 ferrets

He has his own label B.A.D (ballin’ all day)

I don’t really know his music yet (his signing was announced along with a long album, but it’s not out yet) but here’s a song that got stuck in my head: myunDo, 최서현 (Choi Seo Hyun) - HOUSE PARTY

이그니토 (Ignito) | 민재기 (Min JaeGi) | 1982.9.1 | rapper

He’s the newest and oldest member (ha ha) – newest to sign and oldest in age

He’s been in khh for a long time and was more active in the past

Idk his music well yet either

Latest song he did when his signing was announced: Shocking Asia (feat. Don Malik, EK, Keem Hyo-Eun, Chillin Homie, BLACK NINE, Maddoaeji)

As you can see I once again can’t keep up. Hopefully they don’t sign so many ppl in the future because they’re such a nice gang and if there are too many people, not all of them can collab all the time. Which I hope they can keep doing bc what they make is great. I got into them slowly and then noticed one by one that all members make really good music. At least as far as I’ve gotten now.

And notice how I gave you songs where they all feat with each other? Just doing that bc I hope someone will listen (all yt links btw). But their albums and solo songs are just as great (maybe even better sometimes bc more consistent), can be listened without skipping no problem. If you want more music recs for a member just ask :) I hope you will get to like them too bc everyone who’s not listening is missing outtt ok that was all thx :)

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instead of 20 posts

the hwimin album was real and his leaving h1ghr fake 🤯🤯🤯 love the album it’s very. hiphop? kind of raw? but ofc v professionally produced. but like it has hardly any hooks and everyone raps more and there’s very little singing. he brought us sik-k 😭 and so many underground rappers. some of them idek. he could have easily used bigger names but decided to show he’s still in khh like that. i never would have dared to dream abt any of this and appreciate it a lot.

sik-k said yelows mob. the last time i heard it (indirectly) was when groovyroom were doing that 6 edm songs project and coogie joined and groovyroom said “we’ve never worked together before even though we’re on the same team”. the time before that was in summer 2020 when one of them posted a pic of groovyroom and vangdale. i was gonna say can vangdale come back now but he will on moon sujin’s album! can’t wait!

ourealgoat’s ep came out. the mv is by the same director as always but not shaky this time. the songs are nice but idk how i feel about it being so pop-y. i want to keep supporting my faves but in the end i like rap better than singing and hiphop more than pop and if everyone becomes a pop singer. idk we’ll see.

i can really rec rb nine. his voice is amazing and he already has daytona’s support. i think he may grow big quickly and dearly hope he sticks to his style 🤣 just for my own entertainment haha. no he can do what he wants but i’m telling you his latest ep is very enjoyable. he said full album today at 6 but ig it was a 4.1 joke.

yumin’s ep will feature kyung jaehwan (jehwwn), cloudybay, kid wine.

lil sunder11 new little song. these days he only posts his gf and seems very in love, cute:D

i’m overwhelmed by all the news and then i just want to listen to music i already know. why does everyone release stuff at the same time!

when did goaty and yucca become so close. i love to see it obviously. yucca is not on goaty’s ep so maybe it will be the other way around. last boy the class 2 i’m aaaaaaah

i ended up liking kitsyojii’s album a LOT. not only bc of hd bl4ck bc even on hd bl4ck’s album i like kitsyojii’s part the most now. i recommend it if you like rap. and hd bl4ck’s album is a bit more mixed genres but v great. he’s already preparing his next album woah. i’m telling you i cannot keep up with lbnc i haven’t even had time for leebido’s ep which is also a great one. watch a live performance of leebido feat. chaboom here.

yln foreign and cherryboy17 released an ep on soundcloud. idk if i’ll have time to listen but it’s probably good. it being only released on sc makes uncutpoint look soo bad. like get your shit together you’re trying to be a music releasing company.

leeyoungwoong posted a story of a screenshot of his kkt chat where someone says trade l said when he comes back to korea (from the us) they will have a livrside reunion concert but i’m not sure it’s an april fools joke. it may be that they wanted to have a concert after they saw last saturday’s concert with mighty lynx and some other crews of their generation. that looked fun so i’m not completely writing it off as a joke :D

gyu hyuk 6-track ep will come out 4.6

since released merch + intl shipping

lil poet of friemilli/flocc released a 10 track album feat. blase, deepflow, rakon today.

pullik released a new song with a “new team” called cmnd, i don’t understand who they are but it’s kind of soft so meh.

that’s all for now i think, thank u bye :D

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drop the bit ep.1 opinions

for those who don’t know, drop the bit is a survival/audition show hosted by yng&rich records, with superbee, uneducated kid, and homies as the judges. the winner gets bitcoin i think. i’m not sure about the system/rules because i was too lazy to try and listen to that part, but they explain it at the beginning of the first episode. link in source!

about rappers i already knew: - greenbeige was eliminated :( they didn’t show his performance, idk what went wrong :( - khan!! i remember why i supported him so much. his rap is perfect. best performance imo. glad he passed :D - cherryboy17. he's a funny guy, a bit of a comedian but still raps well. he did well, everyone impressed, thumbs up :D - takuwa - imo did better than last time i heard of him (smtm application). he dropped the "cute" visual style, i guess bc it wouldn't have fit the program? he passed:) - wonjjang's voice cracked, so she was eliminated :((( it's too bad, i can't wait for people to finally discover her :( - 유명한아이 (famous kid) - i know her from soundcloud, she has the dadadada style i love and passed yayyy let's get it! - astral swaggy - i never paid much attention to him but he's good! he passed :) - yoboy. LBNC maknae!! more a singer than a rapper. acoustic guitar beat. eliminated because of that. but such a nice song. if this was smtm, it would’ve been counting stars 2 - roh yunha - did well - as everyone, including me, expected :D all pass.

impressive rappers i didn't know before: (the rapnames may be misspelled because they are only shown in hangeul on the show) - iceboy - he still has to learn, but potential - oksinoba - his voice sounds really good. wish he used less english - kimitae and [can't read bc of his jacket] - a duo. hard to tell because 1 min is too short for 2 people, but they sounded good imo. - max kim - more of a boombap style. somehow he reminds me of swings :D adjusts his rap to the beat really well, unlike a lot of other contestants. - baeni/benny/veni/... - rhyme and flow wonderfulll! i hope she gets far:) - kerrigan may - same! i didn't know her, but she's already quite famous.

generally plus: - i like that they said they didn't let women pass just bc they're women, and would hold female rappers to the same standards as male rappers. - also they failed someone for having a beat that is too acoustic, even though they liked the performance a lot - i like that in a show about rap and hiphop, they focus on that. - the screentime is more balanced between contestants. everyone who passed gets a few seconds of the judges’ opinions and praise, and a short extra interview to say a few things. BIG plus!

generally minus: - they were too impressed with some rappers who weren't that good? - especially when it comes to bad english, missing rhymes, meaningless repetitive lyrics...

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some recent music discoveries

i talked about most of them already but i just want to stress and say again how good they are and talk a little more :D

(links will be yt because i think it’s most accessible for everyone, but if anyone who reads this ever uses my music links, feel free to let me know what you prefer or use) (if you care: all of them have some hiphop style unless stated otherwise)

- kim nongmill - 소년챔프. 8 songs, 21:31 min, 2020. i found this because he released HBGS feat with skinny brown which was SO GOOD and checked out more and discovered this album is also SO GOOD. a fan commented how he has a good sense for music and it’s true. i don’t know how to explain it. all the songs are good, and producer doplamingo (on all songs) does an amazing job. kim nongmill (who also goes by his real name oh damryul) is known for being a funny guy bc he always forgets his lyrics on shows, but his music is seriously good. songrec: For what - Intro. (start there and listen to the rest too :P)

- ashnikko - panic attacks in paradise / maggots. 2 songs, 5:23 min, 2021. an acoustic guitar and a rock song. this is off topic haha but i listen to her a lot and her songs are just great. what teenage me wished avril lavigne had become instead of what happened around the time she started wearing pink xD (now i don’t care of course, just this is good). note: explicit lyrics.

- i could list all LBNC albums i’ve been discovering but will limit it on the latest one: kitsyojii - HDISMYPRODUCER. 11 songs, 33:05 min, 2022. this may get long, ok, so first off, i decided i wasn’t going to be a fan of kitsyojii and kaogaii because i don’t exactly remember haha but they pick fights with younger, more successful rappers bc they’re jealous and i thought that was childish/lame. however, HD BL4CK has become one of my favorite producers recently, his music is always perfectly on point my taste, and he has so much music (i haven’t even listened to everything yet), often collaborating with an artist on a full album (like this one (even though he’s not a main artist he produced all songs), previously also with other LBNC members wonjjang and leebido), and his solo albums (where he also raps! rapped?) always have top notch featurings even though i think nobody knows him. a true hidden gem in khh. anyway, bc of him i listened, and as expected, this album is just great, perfect, totally my taste, and i have to give credit to kitsyojii too, obviously. will have to see if they’ve done sth together before and listen to everything every day. songrecs: 삼땡 (33) (feat. since), it’s about being in your 30s and childish(?) and still not having accomplished much? yeah it’s my anthem xD; fuckboy recognize hoe (feat. rakon) i love the effect they put on kitsyojii’s voice it sounds so good but am scared to look at the lyrics so i just listen :P ; 걸교 (cut off) (feat. errday), errday (/errday jinju) is really underrated btw, nice rap nice beat nice hook nice everything. weaknesses: don mills’ and koonta’s parts. idk what they’re doing but imo it doesn’t fit well xD

- lil sunder11 - 11. 11 songs, 27:30 min, 2020. chill little emo rap/singing rap songs, almost pop. i don’t know why i didn’t check it out sooner, i’ve listened to lamborghini door so many times, it’s a top khh soundcloud song. songrecs: lamborghini door (feat. cid cyan), tears #dontworry. he has an excellent sense for (making) melodies, which in the end, i think i admire most among all music elements/skills generally because i think to me it would be the hardest to come up with.

- lil sunder11 - love was pain. 8 songs, 19:45 min, 2022. this is even more singer-songwriter than the last album and the soft little background beats (rhythm elements? drums?) are even less hiphop than on the album before. you could call it acoustic singer-songwriter pop. i’m usually not soo much into that but. his melodiiies. songrec: city light. the “lalalalalalalaaaala” aaah <3

- heo daniel - hideournight. 13 songs, 40:39 min, 2022. if i say pop-rock with church elements you will think “eh what, sounds boring” so.. just listen to it. he lists older rock bands as his influences but i hear cjamm and yanghongwon. he also had panda gomm produce one of his songs and yescoba featuring so i think i heard correctly :P i talked about the album here. heo daniel’s q&a here. a wonderful piece of art and the songs go together so well. favorites: dusk, gallery, solo.

- i said i was going to do only one LBNC album but just quickly leebido - made in abyss. 5 songs, 15:20 min, 2022. almost all feats and prods LBNC (except chamane) they are so close i willlll make a label post soon.

- lobonabeat! - lobonatune2¡. 7 songs, 15:01 min, 2022. i almost didn’t listen more closely but luckily skinny brown (i think) posted 5 secs of the best melody in his story (songrec: trip!. sbnim bestest taste always <33). lobonabeat! has a unique voice and the soft little bass hugs my soul <3 this.. kind of trap?? is always the same but i love it every time, i don’t care :D there’s also a song with zene the zilla and coogie features ah i wish coogie did this style more <3

- 1300 - oldboy. 1 song, 2:24 min, 2022. 1300 is a korean-australian crew and the song is about the movie oldboy? i don’t get it really oops but the song is really good. can’t wait to hear more from them.

that’s pretty much it :D tmi, among my top 50 songs in the past 4 weeks, there are only 4 that aren’t in here (victon - mayday, way ched - spin the block (feat. paul blanco, 365lit, lil gimchi), minit - all day war (feat. brown tigger, jo gwangil), homies - we need more) :D

i hope you can discover something you like from here!:)