Tablo
Tablo
Daniel Armand Lee; born July 22, 1980), who goes by Tablo, is a Korean-Canadian rapper, record producer, songwriter, author, and entrepreneur who is currently based in South Korea. Tablo is best known as the leader and producer of veteran Korean hip-hop group Epik High, and the founder of independent music label HIGHGRND, which houses band Hyukoh...
NationalitySouth Korean
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth22 July 1980
way cliffs staircases
The way up is a staircase. The way down is a cliff.
wings time-flies
They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings.
independent succeed failing
When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.
korea west umbrella
The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.
kissing two burning
The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.
running cities comforting
I walked around Soho's street for over an hour, running into familiar faces but never once stopping to chat. It was then that I felt something discomforting and comforting all at once. I didn't want to be here, in this city, anymore.
trends culture lasting-impressions
Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
musician korean pops
I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
korea differences hip-hop
I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen.
rain laughing wanted
He laughed. I suddenly wanted to laugh, to laugh with him, to sit here, or maybe outside in the rain, and just laugh with him. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t even smile.
becomes good listen model music people whether wonder wondering
One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
people
There's a lot of American people who like K-Pop for some reason. I don't know why, you know? But they like it even if they can't understand it because it has that style, that appeal.