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20090601: entertainment Tablo

Who better to start this page with than Epik High’s frontman. Tablo. seeing as how he held one hell of a concert two Fridays ago!

Tablo Tablo
name: Daniel Armand Lee (타블로)

born: 1980 July 22

why he does hip hop:
Apparently (I won’t say that any of this is complete fact since aside from information found in his book of short stories Pieces of You. much of this information has come from Wikipedia)in his early life. Tablo suffered from bouts of depression and hip hop music served as an outlet. a means of coping for him,

why everyone should respect him and EPIK HIGH:
Not only did the group as a whole have to fight their way into the Korean music mainstream (which. I’m guessing. was probably pretty difficult due to the unpopularity of hip hop as a genre,,, just take a look at all the other k-pop out there–seriously nothing but boy bands and girl groups,). but some of their songs were censored from the air or had a 19+ label slapped onto it because of what they were talking about, Aside from all that. Epik High recently went completely independent, Sick and tired of the censorship and limitations their record label put on what they could talk about or how they could represent themselves and the fact that being a part of a record label and having to deal with third party sellers significantly increased the costs of all their merchandise. the trio decided to split from their label once their contract was up, Seriously. this is a pretty big business risk and they did it all for their music and for their fans, How much more love can you get?

more on Tablo:
Tablo also wrote a book (or two considering the fact that he wrote one version in Korean and another in English) of short stories called Pieces of You, You can pick it up at your local Korean bookstore, His stories are pretty impressive, Tablo graduated from Stanford University,

his music:
Here’s a song by Epik High called ONE from their fifth album: Pieces, Part One

Somewhere on the internet. Epik High was asked which songs define them best or were the best examples of their work and they said Fan and Map the Soul. so be sure to check those songs out (WP won’t let me upload the mp3′s from my computer so,,,gotta go find them yourselves!),

SUPPORT EPIK HIGH FTW

P,S, AND CHECK OUT HIS BLOG HERE!