Monday, May 16, 2011

Block B - The new hip hop group




Block B (블락비) is a 7-member South Korean hip-hop group that was created by 조PD, under the label Brand New Stardom Entertainment. Their first single album “Do u wanna B?”, along with the title’s track MV ‘그대로 멈춰라!’ (Freeze), were released on April 14th, 2011.

Previously known in the underground hip-hop scene by Blockbuster (블록버스터), the group had several changes until their current formation: Zico (leader, group’s producer and rapper), Jaehyo (sub-vocal), B-Bomb (main dancer and sub-vocal), Taeil (main vocal), Kyung (rapper), U-Kwon (dancer and sub-vocal) and P.O (rapper).

The members were trained by Cho PD to work on writing and composing about 100 songs over the course of their training period. Training them to become a singer-songwriters, he hoped to expand their experience and competence level, as well as promote “expert ease”.




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