Hello, we are Seventeen’s hip-hop team.
S.COUPS: Seventeen’s Zip My Record.
MINGYU: Let it begin now.
S.COUPS: Wow Let’s go.
S.COUPS: It has been 2,322 days since Seventeen’s debut which was on May 26th 2015(as of the day of the shoot).
MINGYU: Debut album in 2015, the first mini album called 17 Carat.
S.COUPS: It’s seventeen carat.
MINGYU: I can read it as I like.
MINGYU: Number 1, the first mini album .
MINGYU: When we did a tour in Japan in 2017.
MINGYU: We announced that we are going to debut in Japan in 2018.
MINGYU: It says that our genre is dance, ballads, and hip-hop.
MINGYU: We cover so many genres so
WONWOO: The genre is music.
S.COUPS: That’s right the genre is just music.
MINGYU: We can say ‘No Limit’.
VERNON: Ah No Limit.
WONWOO: It sounded like a Korean word, no limit.
S.COUPS: I thought you were speaking Korean.
S.COUPS: Yes and our fandom, ‘Carat’
S.COUPS: They made it really fancy.
S.COUPS: Wow there are photos too.
MINGYU: This is it, this is it.
MINGYU: This is the hardest fan chant that has ever been made.
MINGYU: You have to shout seventeen 12 times in 5 seconds.
S.COUPS: It’s .
MINGYU: Wow really there are things like that, I will go back for now.
MINGYU: You can look at the details in your own time.
S.COUPS: Members. Now we only have hip-hop team here but,
S.COUPS: There are 13 members.
S.COUPS: S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, Wonwoo, Woozi, DK, Mingyu, The8, Seungkwan, Vernon, and Dino.
S.COUPS: We are a team of 13 members.
MINGYU: S.Coups’s details are very cool.
MINGYU: Group leader, hip-hop unit leader, lead rapper. You are doing a lot of jobs.
S.COUPS: I am working hard.
MINGYU: Do we divide ourselves into lead or main rappers?
S.COUPS: There are no such things.
MINGYU: It doesn’t feel so good.
MINGYU: I am a rapper but it says I am a sub-rapper.
WONWOO: We are all rappers.
MINGYU: He’s the one who leads, and I am the one who supports?
S.COUPS: Why are you saying that to me?
It says Vernon is also a main rapper.
MINGYU: It’s more upsetting.
VERNON: We didn’t appoint someone as a lead rapper.
MINGYU: It says Vernon is a main rapper.
VERNON: Yeah it says so.
MINGYU: What are you
VERNON: I guess I look like one.
MINGYU: He’s irritating.
VERNON: People think I look like a main rapper.
MINGYU: I think you need to modify this a bit.
S.COUPS: I guess people think I look like a lead rapper.
MINGYU: So you lead and he’s the main and we are the subs?
VERNON: I guess it looks like that way.
WONWOO: Sorry I yawned.
S.COUPS: The youngest members were born in 1998 and 1999.
S.COUPS: And then it’s exactly stated
S.COUPS: Carats are really mean.
S.COUPS: No-fun unit?
S.COUPS: No-fun unit includes S.Coups, Woozi, and Vernon.
S.COUPS: Honestly I should not be in this unit.
S.COUPS: You got to exclude me.
S.COUPS: What is a Noire?
MINGYU: Ah it is a combination of ‘slow one’ and ‘one that knows nothing’.
S.COUPS: Slow one and one that knows nothing.
MINGYU: I still remember the first article about us.
MINGYU: Because they used my image.
S.COUPS: Ah the first photo we released.
MINGYU: You got to release the main visual first
MINGYU: to draw people’s attention.
MINGYU: That’s how it was at that time.
WONWOO: I am sorry… I cannot do this interview.
MINGYU: Let me check number 5 first, our music videos.
MINGYU: <Don’t Wanna Cry) 200 million views
MINGYU: 94 million views.
MINGYU: 88 million views.
MINGYU: 61 million views.
MINGYU: We can push and a little bit more.
S.COUPS: Then they can reach 100 million views. Go Carats!
VERNON: I see has the most views.
VERNON: Like overwhelmingly a lot of views.
S.COUPS: Yeah it has overwhelmingly a lot of views.
MINGYU: It keeps getting more views.
S.COUPS: Go Carats!
S.COUPS: Wow there are so many of them.
What is the most memorable award you have received?
WONWOO: I think it would be our first ‘New Rising Artist’ award.
WONWOO: That is the most memorable one.
WONWOO: I performed that day.
S.COUPS: He really had a hard time back then as there were not enough time to memorize the lyrics.
S.COUPS: For me, I remember receiving the best dance performance award
S.COUPS: from Mnet Asia Music Award in 2017.
S.COUPS: It felt really great as it means they recognized me as a dancer.
MINGYU: How about you Vernon?
VERNON: Okay, let’s see..
VERNON: I remember every one of them.
WONWOO: Then why did you take a look?
S.COUPS: That’s what I am saying. You take a look closely,
S.COUPS: And you say you remember all of them.
VERNON: Of course.
S.COUPS: What was this fashion award from A awards?
MINGYU: I think because we keep receiving these awards from fashion industry,
MINGYU: we get to show our fashionable side through this shoot with Esquire.
MINGYU: Why?
A Awards is hosted by Arena magazine..
S.COUPS: is the best for me.
VERNON: But I remember this day quite well.
S.COUPS: Is that so?
VERNON: I remember this day quite well.
WONWOO: But anyone doesn’t?
VERNON: I remember how I spent the time while waiting to go up on stage.
MINGYU: The question is so Seventeen. How did you spend the time?
VERNON: I think I had some kind of stir-fried octopus.
VERNON: You remember, right?
WONWOO: When we released , our menus got a little better from Kimbap, and we usually had spicy stir-fried octopus with rice or a bowl of rice topped with pork.
WONWOO: We always picked one from both two menus.
VERNON: I slightly remember the stir-fried octopus.
MINGYU: I remember the scent back then.
VERNON: What kind of scent?
S.COUPS: Why are you being like this.
S.COUPS: What scent?
S.COUPS: The scent from backstage?
MINGYU: There were our stylists at that time.
MINGYU: And there was this certain scent I could smell from the clothes they gave us.
VERNON: I think I know it x 2
MINGYU: There was this specific scent at that time.
VERNON: Yes yes that’s right. That office had its own unique smell.
VERNON: I remember it now.
MINGYU: That’s right.
S.COUPS: In that video, our song starts to play with him raising his arms like that.
S.COUPS: Look at this, look at this.
S.COUPS: Ah it’s too embarrassing.
MINGYU: Wow it’s legendary.
MINGYU: S.Coups was 22 years old.
WONWOO: I thought we didn’t change but we look so young.
S.COUPS: But you haven’t changed even for a bit for real.
VERNON: You look the same now.
VERNON: Wonwoo hasn’t changed a lot
VERNON: ever since our debut. It’s really amazing.
MINGYU: Why are you picking your nose?
S.COUPS: My nose runs when I cry.
S.COUPS: Because my nose runs when I cry, so
VERNON: Ah I see you wipe your nose and then your eyes.
MINGYU: My heart hurts when I see other members cry,
MINGYU: But especially when I see Coups and Woozi cry, it breaks my heart.
MINGYU: Woozi would be worried and Coups would be under a lot of pressure to lead 12 members.
MINGYU: Did you feel anything like that?
S.COUPS: Yes I felt that a lot.
S.COUPS: Even when they got their first win, because there are 13 members,
S.COUPS: there were so many reactions to catch so it is funny that the cameras are being super busy.
S.COUPS: I feel so happy to see them cry for joy.
S.COUPS: Let’s make them win the first place for their whole life.
S.COUPS: We got an award yesterday thanks to the Carats like them.
WONWOO: Did I cry? I don’t think I cried.
MINGYU: Wonwoo doesn’t cry at all.
MINGYU: Let’s go back to 2:20.
S.COUPS: He didn’t cry x2
VERNON: He chocked up a little bit.
S.COUPS: He teared up a little.
WONWOO: Honestly I have tears in my eyes.
S.COUPS: Are you going to disappoint Carats?
WONWOO: I cried because I was so moved.
S.COUPS: Everyone, check out 2 minutes and 20 seconds in of this video.
MINGYU: I cry because DK looked at his ring.
MINGYU: DK looked at his ring.
WONWOO: Mingyu looks so bright.
MINGYU: I can be happy, right?
VERNON: You don’t have to hold back your tears but it seems like he is fighting back his tears, so it breaks my heart.
VERNON: But it also breaks my hear to see him actually cry. Wonwoo at 2:21.
WONWOO: It was so hard to hold back the tears.
MINGYU: It says ‘Apnea Rapper S.Coups’.
S.COUPS: Do I breathe with a gill?
VERNON: You look so cool~
S.COUPS: I look really slim.
MINGYU: Wow you really were slim.
MINGYU: He’s certainly our lead rapper.
S.COUPS: I really Iike Woozi’s that face.
S.COUPS: Seungchceol, even if you forget everything, please don’t for get to breathe.
MINGYU: Did he really forget how to breathe in?
S.COUPS: I look cool if I don’t breathe?
S.COUPS: I should hold my breath.
MINGYU: Don’t you think these things are funny?
VERNON: Dope swag.
MINGYU: He even fainted cool.
S.COUPS: Of course, I can pull it out.
MINGYU: Seventeen Carat Unit Reverse Recording Behind.
S.COUPS: 3 minutes and 23 seconds.
MINGYU: This was a month ago.
MINGYU: when we did , the recording went quite well
MINGYU: without any trouble. We had fun doing the unit reverse.
MINGYU: And wait, do you know that we got our dance moves wrong in the Carat Land?
S.COUPS: You were the one who did it wrong.
MINGYU: I was startled because you raised your arm.
S.COUPS: It wasn’t me! It’s because you raised…
MINGYU: Was it you?
S.COUPS: It was you.
S.COUPS: It was him him him.
MINGYU: There’s a story behind! We need to spill this out.
WONWOO: Hey it was just you got it wrong.
S.COUPS: I saw it exactly from the video.
S.COUPS: It was because, he raised his arm
S.COUPS: not because it was the right timing,
S.COUPS: but because to fix his posture
S.COUPS: as it was too heavy.
S.COUPS: and I got up
S.COUPS: Then he also suddenly raised his arm.
S.COUPS: Dang Dang Dang, we raised our arms like that.
MINGYU: But Wonwoo didn’t know a thing and was just lying there.
S.COUPS: He knew nothing and just lay there down.
Fans call this as ‘Thump of the 13th month’.
WONWOO: That was a clear mistake. Please apologize.
S.COUPS: Please apologize.
MINGYU: Hey wait, I got it wrong because of Vernon, yes.
MINGYU: You got it wrong because of me, right?
S.COUPS: No I wasn’t wrong.
S.COUPS: flinch flinch flinch
WONWOO: I didn’t get it wrong anyway.
MINGYU: You were the only one right and us three…
MINGYU: have problems. We are sorry.
VERNON: I am a victim.
VERNON: Listen.
VERNON: I am at the bottom VERNON: of this hamburger.
VERNON: Now their average weight is 70kg.
VERNON: 7x3=21 so there is 210kg above me.
VERNON: If you get the angle wrong even for a little bit,
VERNON: I cannot breathe as my lungs are pressed down too much.
VERNON: So I was saying go down, go down,
VERNON: And then you got it wrong.
MINGYU: But you said sorry to me that day.
MINGYU: saying ‘I am sorry you got it wrong because of me’
MINGYU: I appreciated that.
MINGYU: It was comforting even though I did it wrong.
MINGYU: You also did it wrong!
MINGYU: For the rap lines I didn’t write,
MINGYU: It feels like they don’t really stick to my mouth.
S.COUPS: I think I can do Mingyu and Wonwoo’s rap lines to some degree,
S.COUPS: But it’s hard to follow the beats for Vernon and Dino’s rap.
WONWOO: They make the beat difficult.
VERNON: I guess that’s why I am a main rapper.
WONWOO: Dino should be a main rapper too.
VERNON: Keep up your work.
Is there any song you would like to cover if you were to do the unit reverse one more time?
MINGYU: Yes I do.
MINGYU: The one which will be released on October 22nd.
S.COUPS: There is a song by our vocal team.
MINGYU: I would love to do it.
S.COUPS: Me too.
MINGYU: The song is so good.
S.COUPS:
MINGYU: It’s doable.
S.COUPS: What?
MINGYU: It’s doable, to sing vocal team’s song.
S.COUPS: How about you Vernon?
VERNON: Unit Reverse?
S.COUPS: Yes x 3
S.COUPS: He’s in another world alone.
MINGYU: Noire.
S.COUPS: We will just guide him into the right direction and try our best.
WONWOO: Mingyu’s heart now. skateboard heart.
S.COUPS: Actually when we were shooting this trailer video,
S.COUPS: We thought it was a prank cam.
S.COUPS: Mingyu’s shaving even though he’s make-ups are perfectly done.
S.COUPS: What I most like about this video is this Hoshi’s part.
WONWOO: I have some photos of Mingyu shaving.
WONWOO: I will definitely upload them once our album is out.
Please tell us about your new song.
VERNON: The title track.
S.COUPS: It’s a rock based
MINGYU: Do you want some water?
VERNON: Rock with You
VERNON: So I will be with you.
VERNON: I will dance with you.
VERNON: I will enjoy the time with you.
VERNON: I will be with you.
VERNON: I think you can think of it like this.
S.COUPS: And among so many emotions,
S.COUPS: We put a lot of our passion into this song.
S.COUPS: And you have to check out our performance too.
VERNON: That’s right.
VERNON: We look cool this time.
MINGYU: I am going to wear out my back.
WONWOO: If it passes 1 billion views, I will upload full version of Mingyu shaving.
MINGYU: Then I will just do a V Live and shave.
S.COUPS: I think 100 million view is the most realistic goal.
WONWOO: Why not! I would go for 1 billion views.
VERNON: That can be possible but
VERNON: Carats would want to see us keep our promise as soon as possible so,
S.COUPS: If we get 100 million views,
S.COUPS: Wonwoo will show more photos of Mingyu shaving
S.COUPS: which haven’t been released yet.
S.COUPS: And speaking of which,
S.COUPS: and have 94 million views as of now.
S.COUPS: We would be so happy if they can reach 100 million views.
WONWOO: He doesn’t have beard.
S.COUPS: They don’t grow very much.
MINGYU: Then we will go for his leg hair.
S.COUPS: Then I will target 100 million views for .
MINGYU: And if gets over 100 million views, Wonwoo will shave too.
MINGYU: will make this possible.
MINGYU: Everyone will be shaved.
S.COUPS: On October 22nd,
S.COUPS: Our new album will be released.
S.COUPS: It’s our 9th mini album.
S.COUPS: We worked really hard for this time.
S.COUPS: And because we are very proud of this album,
S.COUPS: Please check it out, and send your love and support. Thank you.
S.COUPS: If you haven’t watched it yet,
S.COUPS: Please take a look, give it a listen, and send your love for the song.
WONWOO: Please look forward to our photoshoot with Esquire November issue.
VERNON: Please
MINGYU: Like
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EVERYONE: Thank you.