Blowin Up Your Spot – JK calls US Jungle auditions a fake

March 27, 2010 DT MFBTY INTERNATIONAL 2 Comments

Recently, a company by the name of Eden Entertainment, held auditions in Atlanta in the name of Jungle Entertainment (JK’s label), YG, and SM. The company charged $10/audition and is sponsored by major players in the industry: Korea Times, MBC, and the mother of kpop blogs, allkpop.com.

However, JK recently commented that no Jungle Entertainment representatives were sent to Atlanta to scout talent.

Eden Entertainment was authorized to submit videos and information on local talent, which any person is allowed to do and can actually do via SM’s, YG’s, and Jungle Entertainment’s websites.

Many have raised flags over the audition fee (which is a rarity) and the fact that the company is scouting for 3 different companies (another rarity since they technically compete for talent).

The company responded with this statement:

AUDITION NOTICE
Ladies and Gentlemen, There seems to be some confusion or misunderstanding regarding the open auditions we held on 3.13 and 3.14 in Atlanta. Eden Entertainment was created to help promote and showcase local Korean and Korean-American talent in the Atlanta area. We wanted to host an open audition to expose hopeful talents to the audition experience. As you know, Atlanta hardly offers talented people any opportunities to pursue their dreams especially for Korean-Americans. Our main goal was to offer a real and honest experience to those who truly want to pursue a career in music. We simply offered our services to help them achieve their goals. We prepared professionally edited videos, a sound studio to hold the audition, hired experts in the industry to critic and give advice to those who auditioned, and finally, provided professional stylists to make those who made the finals look their best. By preparing a professional audition video, we hope that these young talents will be given an opportunity to work with some of the best entertainment groups in Korea. However, even if they are not chosen, Eden Entertainment believes their talents shouldn’t be dismissed and we will help develop them to meet their full potential. Eden Entertainment has never implied nor made any guarantees to anyone who auditioned or in any publications. We also never implied nor said that representatives from YG Entertainment, SM Town, Jungle Entertainment, DSP Media, and Nega Network would appear or host the auditions. This was an Eden Entertainment audition with the sole purpose to send carefully chosen and professionally edited audition videos to these entertainment groups. Now, many people also mentioned the fact that there was a ten dollar application fee and how it was wrong to do so and that a fee implied that the auditions were fraudulent. The application fee was collected in order to pay for the judges who were, Marvin McIntyre (Artist Developer and Coach) who developed New Edition, Jeremy ¡°Unique¡± Davis (Professional Choreographer and Dancer) who worked with artists like Jazze Pha and Bobby Valentino, and finally Miss Rha Rha (Professional Dancer) who has worked with TLC and many other artists. The application fee was carefully calculated from the number of registrations to also pay for the space rental (waiting area), renting a dance floor, and hiring staff members and security, there were no profits collected from this audition. We would also like to mention that this event was sponsored by highly reputable companies such as the Korean Times Atlanta and MBC America in Atlanta. Eden Entertainment has never or will ever take advantage of someone who is trying to pursue a dream, whatever that dream maybe. The audition was an exciting and amazing experience for everyone and hopefully after the final audition videos are released someone¡¯s dream may come true and that is the only reason why Eden Entertainment hosted these open auditions. Thank you for understanding and we hope you support our future events and endeavors.

So are the auditions legitimate? It’s still unclear, but clearly Jungle has no affiliation with it and aspiring artists looking to sign with JK should look elsewhere.

source: seoulbeats.com

-Miss DrunkenCamp

Site Updates

How to sign up for the English forums (no Korean SSN required)

March 25, 2010 DT MFBTY INTERNATIONAL Leave a comment

Hi all,

There has been some complaints that non-Korean citizens cannot sign in to the new forums because you need a Korean SSN. Below are instructions to how to sign up for a forum ID.

Go to www.dt-love.co.kr and click “JOIN,” on the top right of the page.

Forum Name
Password / Retype Password
Display Name
Email Address (Check box to expose email on board)
Homepage (Check box to show email)
Phone # (Optional)
Picture (Upload button on side)
Comment (optional)

Remember to check the last box. It agrees to the terms and agreements.

Finally, click the LEFT button to confirm. The right button is to cancel.

Afterwards, go to the bottom left and under “COMMUNITY,” click “English board.” Sign in, and post away!

Site Updates

Subscribe, subscribe, subscribe (to email updates)

March 22, 2010 DT MFBTY INTERNATIONAL 5 Comments

So I finally have a real email subscription service linked up to the site! If you prefer getting updates via email, feel free to hit the “Sign me up” button on the right side of this page. Spread the word!!

P.S. Don’t forget to hit up the new English Board.

Videos

[video] Tiger JK comments on the state of Asian hip-hop

March 22, 2010 DT MFBTY INTERNATIONAL Leave a comment

At the MAMA afterparty.

[credits to Yes Surh for the heads up]

News & Such

Belated Wedding Gift – JK asks Project Runway Korea to design Tasha’s dream dress

March 21, 2010 DT MFBTY INTERNATIONAL 1 Comment

Last night’s episode of Project Runway Korea guest starred JK as the designer’s client. For a brief moment, the designers worried how they would design something for a hip-hop star, but were relieved when JK revealed the real challenge.

“Please make my wife a wedding dress.”

The couple had a small secret ceremony in 2007, but at the time, didn’t have the funds to get Tasha a real wedding dress. Tasha had always wanted a dress for her wedding, and JK personally requested Project Runway to create one for his wife.

JK requested a simplistic style, something that flatters Tasha’s collar bone and top, and something that flows on the bottom. The top 2 dresses were a toss up between Jung Mi Young’s design (top) and Yoon Choon Ho (bottom). MiYoung’s dress ultimately won the challenge.

The 2nd dress is more my style, but the first one has an angelic look fit for a bride. 🙂

The worst dress was criticized for being over-embellished and for having Tasha’s name misspelled on the train of the dress (“Mi-Re” instead of “Mi Rae”). On top of that, it was done with elementary school glitter. Remember those days when you would write your name in Elmer’s glue and drizzle glitter on top to create a “cool” picture? Yeah, picture that on a wedding dress. Yikes!

News & Such, Site Updates

New English Interview! (and Forum for us!)

March 20, 2010 DT MFBTY INTERNATIONAL Leave a comment

JK recently finished a very detailed and *rare* English interview with KoME world. Go their site to read more about the the roots of DT, influences, and yes, his great Twitter addiction.

Ko-Me World English Interview

Also, thanks to our sister site, TigerBalm, we now have an functioning English forum for us to debate and discuss. As much as I know how much everyone loves to read my stuff (:P), I know the opportunity to connect with other fans (and JK) is important. You will need to input a Korean SSN to read/write for now, however. Borrow a friend’s if possible.

DT English Forum

For now, JK is working on producing Tasha’s HIP-HOP album, her first since her 2002 release. More updates to come.

News & Such

Tiger Responds to racist comments about his son

January 4, 2010 DT MFBTY INTERNATIONAL 7 Comments

Drunken Tiger history shows that JK and the old school crew were no strangers to being vocal about some of the hypocrisy in Korean society. JK most recently reacted to racist comments made by netizens about his son, who is 1/4 African American and 3/4 Korean. Before these comments, JK had written about how when Tasha first came to Korea, she was outcasted due to racism and her inability to speak Korean well (years in Korea of course have changed this). After JK had appeared on TV with his son, net bloggers had made inappropriate racist comments about his son, and while Tasha’s rise as well as other “hapas-Koreans” fame have brought Korea a little closer to overcoming racism, some ignorance still resides. JK reacted strongly, stating his role as a father as his basis for defending his son (and with good reason!)

The comments are below:

“can’t be liked by everybody i know, there’s an article about Jordan, and some of them relpys make me sick,,,,talkin about race,”

“talki bout his hair being nappy and he looks black, they prolly like 12, prolly yong kidz but hopefully they learn”

“Comments are always like that but there are actually kids who say things like half black half black. Racism won’t disappear forever.”

“racism, im sure they dont know no better,it’s ma fault for xposing ma son like that tho when they call ma son up to the stage i had a feelin”

“cant believe the are going as far as using the N word, they need to get the ass whooped by they pops, ignorant ass younginz”

“I know that half of the comments are written by kids who want attention but people still use the expression black.”

“ha im used to bein hated / called all kinds of name it comes wit territory / but in the states i was called a chink ,N now the N word here”

“they could hate all they could, im here for that im used to bein hated, chewed on, jk wack this and that, but can dey just C wat dey C,Love”

“callin ma wife and me kid, nappy headed N***R , i wish they would see me in the street”

“^^ I’m a father so I went crazy over hate comments. I’m sorry.”

“peops are so lonely like me da would say anytihing behind the walls of matrix to say things that would get em attention,i pray for they soul”

Tablo of Epik High replied to Tiger JK saying, “This world doesn’t make sense and it has so many bad people. Your child is beautiful!”

source:
www.twitter.com/DrunkenTigerJK
allkpop.com

Videos

that’s one cute baby

January 3, 2010 DT MFBTY INTERNATIONAL 1 Comment

News & Such

It’s freezing in Seoul, my students give me a headache, and I can’t keep up with JK’s twitter

December 27, 2009 DT MFBTY INTERNATIONAL Leave a comment

(above: JK tweeting, seriously)

Hey all,

So the updates have been MIA for awhile and I apologize. We started a new semester at my hakwon, and the start of semesters are always time consuming. Plus, JK’s shows have been really expensive lately, and my teacher’s salary can’t handle going to all of them lol

Anyway, I will try to update everything in a quick list. I’ve backtracked through pages and pages of JK’s twitter (www.twitter.com/drunkentigerjk) and will summarize. (BTW, JK, you are a twitter addict!)

At the Golden Disk Awards, JK won the title of Best Album of the Year, sporting dreadlocks reminscent of the 3rd album. While I’d love to go back and give a full report, JK’s twitter is insane and I can’t even backtrack 3 days ago. From memory, I know he took this photo to please his halfy 2pm/Drunken Tiger fans. I call them halfies because they are half DT fans and half 2pm fans.

Also, it was announced that JK’s label, Jungle Entertainment, signed on another artist, Cho Moon Guen, the runner up of Korea’s version of American Idol “Superstar K.” He’s a soul singer, sorta similar to Bobby, and the first male vocalist to join the label.

JK announced in another round of twitter updates that Tasha’s releasing a hip-hop album in March 2010, after nearly 8 years since her last hip-hop album, Gemini.

This coming week on Wednesday, JK’s going to be doing a concert with the Ying Yang Twins in Ilsan (Ilsan Kintext). If you’re balling, you can get a crapshoot seat for 99,000 won and for 250,000 won you can get in the pit. The concert starts at 9pm.

JK’s been tweeting videos and pictures of his life lately, which are quite entertaining. My personal fave is the one of his son watching Justin Timberlake perform on TV.

Other than that, I don’t have any other updates. I haven’t been able to be on scene for the latest shows due to the reasons I first mentioned. The only personal update I have for you is this:

JK texted me Merry Christmas.

Hope that’s satisfactory ;D

-Miss DrunkenCamp

News & Such, Videos

Victory Sealed With A Kiss (JK wins Best Male Singer Award @ MAMA)

November 25, 2009 DT MFBTY INTERNATIONAL 4 Comments

In an effort to unify all the music award ceremonies in Asia, MNET transformed their annual awards show into a continental wide award show, awarding and highlighting artists from all over Asia. JK was the first act of renovated MNET Asian Music Awards, starting the show with “Monster,” however, the huge highlight of the night came when JK beat out Bi (Rain), G-Dragon, Lee SeungChul, and MC Mong for the title of Best Male Artist of the year. JK has won his share of awards over the years, mostly under the Best Hip-Hop Artist category, but this is the first time JK has won the Best Male Artist award.

JK’s prize was first sealed with a kiss from wife, Yoon Mirae (Tasha). Clearly overwhelmed, JK was at lost for words when he delivered his speech.

Here is the Monster performance that started the show.

After the show, Interscope Records VP, Luke Wood, complimented JK on his performance:

“I was surprised by the energy from the stage with Drunken Tiger. Their skills in rapping are not inferior to that of American rappers like Jay-Z and Raekwon. Also with 2NE1, G-Dragon and Taeyang, I was impressed with the composition. Especially, with 2NE1’s pop dance musical. I also think 2PM and Yoon Mi Rae are memorable.”

While I wouldn’t personally mention some of the other artists in the same sentence with JK, it’s good to see JK and Tasha getting more recognition from international personalities. This adds on to the ongoing list of personas that have given props to the two (Talib Kweli, Rakaa/Dilated Peoples, Missy Elliot, Jay-Z, Cypress Hill, John Legend, etc. etc.).

The last award show of the year, The Golden Disc Awards, comes up this weekend and JK is up for another Best Hip-Hop Artist award. Until then, I leave you with this photo from the latest M.A.C. Viva Glam campaign here in Korea.