♪ (punk rock music) ♪
♪ (synthetic hip hop) ♪
- Jay Park! I know him.
- Oh my god! It's Jay Park.
♪ (slow hip hop) ♪
- Are these, like, rappers?
- Is it Korean rap? I feel like it's rap.
- ♪ Uh! ♪
- Ooh, the dancing is dope.
(rapping) ♪ I with my homies VIP ♪
- This is definitely different from K-pop.
- ♪ Dom Perigion ♪
♪ You know what they want ♪
♪ (rapping in Korean) ♪
- Ooh, I'm not even gonna lie. I didn't know Jay Park could dance.
♪ (rapping in Korean) ♪
- "Ain't a party without us."
- There's a point in time where I had playlists of Korean rap.
- ♪ I don't give a [bleep], motha [bleep] ♪
♪ Hashtag mood ♪
- Oh, there's curse words.
- Well, okay, a little bit of English. Okay, we're gettin' there.
- I just like that every other language, they'll cuss in English.
- Their parties are kind of scary. I wouldn't go to one of them.
♪ (music builds) ♪
♪ (beat drops) ♪
♪ (trap music) ♪
- Now it's turned into some trap right now.
♪ (rapping in Korean) ♪
- You know, I like the beat.
- He's a firebender.
♪ (music builds) ♪
♪ (tempo increases) ♪
♪ (beat drops) ♪
- This is epic!
I wish American rap videos were like this.
- I wonder if they play this in the clubs out there
'cause that would be poppin'.
♪ (song concludes) ♪
- That was dope. That was fresh.
- "Wow" is what I could say.
I'm so mad I haven't seen that music video.
- I have no words for that. (laughing) I don't know what just happened.
- There was a guy flippin' with flames-- I don't know if you could beat that.
I don't know what you're gonna show me next.
♪ (tapping drumsticks) ♪ - One, two, three.
♪ (drum roll) ♪
♪ (steamy hip hop music) ♪
- And, of course, they're not really wearing clothes.
- This got really kinky really fast.
- Okay, this is female.
I have not listen to female hip hop.
♪ (rapping in Korean) ♪
♪ I'll change my number ♪
- Hey, I understood that part.
- "I'll change my number."
That was the best punchline they could come up with?
♪ (brassy hip hop) ♪
- Okay, I gotta learn that hat trick.
I gotta learn it.
- They all have that dark tone of, like, hell and fire.
♪ (rapping in Korean) ♪
- Are they all dressed as Harley Quinn?
It was like pink and blue hair.
- ♪ I'll give you my number ♪
- I'd like your number.
♪ (music builds) ♪
- ♪ I'll give you my number ♪
- I like this though.
I like all the beats and stuff.
- That was great. They have attitude.
- It's really good! Like, this is good.
You can't listen to this and be like, "Oh man, no, I'm not feeling anything."
It's like you're listening to it and you're like, "Mm, go!"
Like, "Hit that!"
- ♪ 요즘 rapper, they soundin' extra, extra, extra lame ♪
- Okay, this is dope.
- ♪ ...in your place call that real estate ♪
♪ Reppin' South Korea... ♪ - Yo, this is more my style.
- ♪ [Bleep] be ♪
♪ (rapping in Korean) ♪
- Cool graphics.
- I've heard this before.
It's, um-- it came on an ad on YouTube.
- ♪ 1 in the 오후 still drunk as 고주망태 ♪
♪ Feeling like I'm Tony Montana ♪
- Right from the start, I was kinda like, "Yeah, this is gonna be my favorite one."
- ♪ Like Stephen Curry ♪
- "Stef-on" Curry? (laughs)
- Like, "Stephen Curry" what?
- Yo, I wanna know this song. I wanna know this song.
- ♪ Acting phony ♪
♪ (rapping in Korean) ♪
- 'Ay, yo, yo, hold up.
- Uh-oh. It's about to go down.
It's about to go down.
- ♪ Y'all can't do this without your boy Flow, man (echoing) ♪
- And they're always talking about how, like, "Oh, yo, your boy,
over here on the track."
♪ Coex 보노보노 rapper 십어먹는 모습 like I’m feasting in a buffet ♪
- Just with rap, it doesn't even matter what language it is.
We can't understand it anyway.
- ♪ (rapping in Korean) ♪
♪ Soon mmm boom ♪
- Yeah!
That was dope.
- That was so good.
I'm gonna need them to come out here.
- I'm a fan. Big fan.
- It's different. I like it.
Kind of my style, kind of something I would listen to in the car
over and over again.
♪ (punk rock music) ♪
- (FBE) So you just listened to Korean hip hop.
Is this the type of music that you like here in the U.S.?
- Uh, hip hop in the U.S. is pretty iffy.
It's hit or miss.
- I do.
- When you're out at a party or something, it's great.
- I love hip hop in the U.S. That's all I listen to.
- U.S. hip hop, of course.
I mean, I listen to Junie, N.W.A.
- I actually do love to listen to hip hop such as Drake, Eminem.
Being such a dancer, my main style is hip hop.
- (FBE) So let's discuss each of these videos individually.
The first one we showed you was from Jay Park, featuring Ugly Duck.
- Oh, wait. I know who Jay-- I feel like I've listened to Jay Park before.
- (FBE) It was called "Ain't No Party Like an AOMG Party,"
referring to his Korean hip hop record label.
What did you think about the song and video?
- That one was probably my least favorite of the three.
- They had one of the worst flows I'd ever heard.
- It was nice.
Like, all of them have really awesome beats.
The entire time, I was like, "Yeah."
- These guys kinda take it up a notch
and put themselves out there--
I guess that's why it reminded me a lot of K-pop
'cause in K-pop they kinda put themselves out there a lot.
- I really love Jay Park.
He's really good at what he does.
- The most epic music video I've ever seen.
A crazy amount of flames in there, and that just makes anything cooler.
- (FBE) The next song was by a popular female K-hip hop rapper name Cheetah.
What'd you think of her song and video?
- I loved that video.
It reminded me of a very sassy girl band.
- I can definitely see the Nicki sort of influence there.
- It was something different from what I normally listen to,
but I still liked the song.
I don't think I liked the video as much.
- The video, I felt like it was a little weird.
You don't have to show your butt, seeing your boobs, and stuff like that
just to get views.
- I didn't really like it all that much,
but the way she raps, and what she raps, and how she raps,
it's like, "Oh my god."
- (FBE) So the last video is a collaboration with various K-hip hop rappers.
What did you think? - That was dope.
I wonder if you can get that on iTunes.
- It seemed like one of those lunchtime cyphers,
if you got a bunch of kids sitting in the cafeteria
and one of them is banging the pencil on the table,
and one of them beat boxing, and they make a song.
- That was my favorite one.
That was really good. The editing was so clean,
but it's still unique in a different way.
- They were just throwing random names out there, like,
"Here. Here, Americans, listen to our music."
They're like, "Here. Here's topics you like."
- You definitely can tell that their beats and they way they were speaking
and talking and holding themselves, it was definitely a lot like our hip hop.
- That's kinda like the music that I'm kinda looking for,
that you don't think of to look for, but when it's there
you're just like, "Where has this been all my life," you know?
And that's kind of crazy to think there's so much good music
that you're not exposed to and the moment you are
it's jut like, "Wow."
- (FBE) K-pop has become this huge worldwide trend,
and in the last couple of years K-hip hop is starting
to grow a following globally.
Do you think that K-hip hop is gonna break into the mainstream
like K-pop is doing, or do you think it might be harder for them to do so?
- Um, hmm. I think it's hard for anything to break into the mainstream
because American music and television and everything
just dominates the world.
- I think they have more competition just because K-pop has its own niche.
But if they just create good music, then they'll do well.
- With hip hop and rap, the whole thing is to kind of be different
and that's what sets you apart.
Once they can be themselves, then I can see it totally just blowing up.
- I don't think it's ever gonna break past K-pop.
K-pop is generally a nicer, you know, type of music to listen to.
- (FBE) Finally, after hearing some K-hip hop today,
do you think that you enjoy it more, less, or the same
as hip hop in the U.S?
- I enjoy it more than the hip hop out here.
- I like U.S. hip hop more because I actually know what they're saying
'cause they're talking in English.
- I enjoy it the same. It sounds the same.
- Definitely not the same as hip hop in the U.S.
I'll give it some time.
I'll give K-hip hop a six out of ten.
- The same.
If I hear a good song, I'm gonna like it.
But if I don't, then I'm not gonna like it.
- K-hip hop seems to be pretty enjoyable.
I would say I like it probably on the same level
as I do American hip hop.
- Less, only because I'm a strong fan of U.S. hip hop.
- I enjoy it more.
I don't really listen to hip hop here in the U.S.
- I think I'm gonna go with more.
Right when I get home, I'm gonna start tweeting about K-hip hop. (laughs)
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