(upbeat music)
- When I first went to Korea, I was like the outsider.
And now I came back over here and there's
not many people like me,
so now I feel like the outsider again.
What's good, this is Jay Park, AOGM, H1GHR Music,
Seattle to Seoul.
Let's get it.
("All I Wanna Do" by 2PM)
- I mean, I'm just in town for MTV.
I'm in town for (mumbles).
Just doing some, just kind of like,
some media and some press, or whatever.
Some promo.
Even though I don't really have anything our right now.
But, while I'm out here, you know.
I was born in Seattle and I lived there
until I was 17.
My dad would work in Korea a lot.
It was mostly just me and my brother and my mom.
I kind of got good grades until middle school
and then, in high school is when I started,
kind of like, fucking up.
I started like skipping class
and going breaking dancing and stuff like that.
That's what I really wanted to do.
I wanted to become a professional dancer, like b-boy.
My mom's like, "Ah shit.
"He always likes to dance.
"Let's see where he stands."
She saw this thing in the newspaper
where they're holding auditions.
I thought it was a contest where you win money,
first prize, or something like that.
I didn't know it was an audition for a boy band.
I kind of like freestyle danced,
I rapped this verse that I wrote,
and then I went to go eat Taco Bell.
I didn't really care about the result.
Out of all the auditions that they had,
I'm the only one that they casted, or whatever.
My family was kind of struggling at that time.
Here's this opportunity, here's this chance
to do something with myself, with my life.
If I could support my family by doing that,
it's like, why not?
We are in K-Town, LA.
About to go to a spot called Toe Bang.
I'm assuming that it's...
Toe is like throw-up and then Bang is room.
I'm assuming it like a bar
and it's like the throw-up room
because you drank too much.
- Ready to eat?
We've got lots of food.
- Take one.
- Everything was so unfamiliar.
You know, I really couldn't speak the language,
didn't really know anybody,
couldn't really adjust to the culture.
It was literally kind of like a job.
Train from 9AM to 9PM.
I wasn't really used to that.
I was used to just dancing for fun,
dancing with my homies, rapping,
and doing that as a passion.
I didn't know what I was getting myself into.
I was kind of like, all right,
I'm gonna go there and just be in a boy band
and make an album, and then what?
But then I didn't know I was going to be
in artist development or be a trainee,
or whatever, for like four years.
- [Cameraman] Do you get recognized a lot out here
in LA?
- I mean, if your in K-Town.
(laughter)
Typical day as a trainee, you just have a bunch
of lessons.
You have dance lessons and you have singing lessons.
(singing)
After I debuted in a boy band,
you go to dry rehearsal, you fucking
do your hair and make-up,
you do camera rehearsal.
I remember days where, it's kind of like,
you do shit all day and then I'd go home
and just take a shower and not even sleep
and go right back out.
And go do my hair and make-up,
and go right to filming shit and doing whatever.
So not being able to sleep for 40 hours at a time,
just because it was kind of like TV, show, house.
Company, show, house.
I was a savage back then.
I can't even lie.
And I would fucking workout like a beast,
no sleep, I'd still workout.
Fucking had like an eight pack
and just be like, good to go.
I just kind of got used to it
and then some things that were just, kind of like,
didn't make any sense.
They were like, "Yo, turn in your cellphones."
And I was like, nah, I'm not going to do that.
I'll just quit, fuck it.
I'll just go home.
And they're like, "Alright, alright.
"You don't have to turn it in."
Everybody else turned it in but me.
As a kid, you have this false sense of entitlement.
You haven't really experienced the world yet.
You haven't really developed into an adult.
It's kind of like, yeah, I was just an ignorant little kid.
I'm still more comfortable speaking English.
But now, I just suck at both,
it's kind of like, I'm screwed.
I would text with these girls,
that was like the driving force of me trying to like...
My Korean getting better.
I'd be like, "Yo, she sent this, what does this mean?"
And then, that made my Korean a lot better.
All right, guys.
We're here at All Def Digital,
about to take the BAR exam.
Let's see how I do.
(gentle music)
- So, some of them are pretty fucking easy.
Some of them are a little more challenging.
- I got cut from the group.
When you're young and ignorant,
you make mistakes.
I just felt sad that I let everybody down.
I kind of went back to Seattle
and didn't really have anything to show for it.
I was sort of relieved, also,
just because, kind of like, I'm back with my family.
I can see my friends again.
I don't have to worry about what I wear, what I say.
I had no plans, to be honest.
I was just working at the tire shop
and you know, living a normal life.
I was doing like b-boy battles again,
I was easing back into life.
And then I put up this YouTube cover,
"Nothin' on You" by BoB and it blew up.
I guess people were still very interested in me
and seeing what I was going to do.
I think it got like 2 million views in a day.
After that, the industry was like, "Oh, shit.
"There's a lot of buzz around this guy.
"Like, da-da-da-da."
That's when people started hitting me up.
After, you know, I departed from the group
and departed from the company,
I just kind of did stuff I wanted to do,
worked with people I wanted to work with.
That just kind of got me to where I am today.
People are starting to book me for shows
and I only have YouTube covers.
I'm like, oh shit, I need to make an album
if I want to perform.
Okay, I've made an album.
("FSU" by Jay Park)
I felt like I reached a plateau in career
and also, I speak better English thank I do Korean.
I'm like, yo, man, I need to start making music in English.
But my manager, at the time, was like why don't you
just start your own label?
Shit, okay, cool.
And then I started my own label in 2013.
I started supporting my family,
started supporting my relatives,
and then I started to, kind of,
make certain artists' dreams come true,
which is super dope.
I feel like this is what I want to do
and this is what I'm here for.
The call came in from Rock Nation,
they wanted to sign me.
I was like, "Oh, shit.
"Okay, cool."
(singing quietly to self)
I listen to the songs that I am about to release
on my mix tape and just some features that I did.
It's very chaotic, my thought process.
Every single project you see progression
and as long as you see progression,
I can't ask for anything, nobody can be perfect.
So you can't asked for anything better
than just getting better and progressing.
You know, this is who I am,
but when I first made the transition,
everybody's like "Oh, who's this guy from this boy band,
"trying to rap and do hiphop.
"Oh, his lyrics suck."
Everybody doubted me, everybody.
You don't see a lot of Asian people in mainstream media,
in general.
I mean, now you're starting to see more.
Especially in hiphop, yeah, it's very very rare.
Especially me being from the K-Pop background,
it's even more rare.
It took three, four years of a lot of work
to switch people's image.
But, I enjoyed the challenge.
I like making what seems impossible, possible.
People ask if I want to distance myself from my past,
or K-Pop.
I don't need to do that.
I am who I am today because
of everything I've been through thus far.
That' why I embrace it all.
Here I am, meeting people like Jay-Z and Beyonce
and Meek Mill, people that I listened to,
and that I look up to.
I don't really like to label myself as anything.
That's not too many people that are like me,
that do what I do.
Some people might know me as K-Pop,
some people might know me as hiphop.
I'm just me at the end of the day.
I'm just Jay Park.
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