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
fall cry
Telling someone who’s crying not to cry is the same as telling someone who’s falling not to fall.
stars fall shining
Even a falling star still shines.
falling-in-love believe love-is
People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn’t make sense how they’d laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.
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.
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.
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.
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.
decision television killers
You don't wanna know the sinner. You don't wanna know the killer. Because it's you. Television is stalling evolution. Medication is stalling evolution. Evolution is stalling revolution. Evolution, revolution. Collaboration, the start of revolution. My decision, the start of revolution. Revolution, the start of evolution. Revolution, evolution.
sleep grandmother doors
I always make sure there’s an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.
musician korean pops
I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
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?
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.
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.
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.