J'Kyun

Kim Jeong-tae (Korean: 김정태; born January 11, 1985),^[1] better known by the mononym J'Kyun (제이켠), is a South Korean rapper and singer.

Kim first entered the hip-hop scene in 2003, under the name Jung Kyun. After dropping out of Dongguk University he joined a hip-hop crew known as Diamond Tribe with members: JuNi, Freestarr, LEGO, and Marco and Lugar of Mo'Real, who performed frequently at Club Belly in Apgujeong-dong. He began work on his debut album in the Summer of 2003, with producers: Marco and Lee-ryung. The extended play, Just Clap, was finally released in November 2005.^[2]

In 2008, Kim officially changed his stage name to J'Kyun after his Diss track directed at San E went viral.^[3] His activities began to gain more attention when he joined the music group, Romantic City and produced lyrics under the name Rocy. He withdrew from the group in late 2010 just before the release of a new album.^[4] Shortly after this he became part of a group by the name Fresh Boyz, composed of members: Ceejay, Nolbu, Kwon Sa-jang and himself, although he left the group in mid 2011 for personal reasons.^[5]

In early 2010 J'Kyun announced that he had signed with BigDeal Records, where he went on to release his first studio album Re Birthday in May of the same year.^[6] Some songs on the album, namely "Mom" and "Back Then" were inspired by his mother, who had recently died. While the track "I Go" became known controversially, with negative lyrics surrounding big companies such as YG Entertainment, SM Entertainment and JYP Entertainment.^[7] In October J'Kyun announced that he had decided to leave Bigdeal Records, and that he was involved in a project with vocalist Kuan, currently preparing an underground EP. The project team began activities in November 2010 under the name Louis.B and released two digital singles.^[8]

En 2011, después de que J'Kyun se separara de Romantic City y Fresh Boyz, se unió a Brand New Music donde comenzó a preparar un nuevo álbum, pero luego dejó el sello en 2012 y se mudó a Romantic Factory (una subsidiaria de Romantic City). ^{[ 9 ]} Allí realizó un programa de radio por internet, "Ladies Radio", a través de su página de Facebook, usó esta plataforma para lanzar canciones en las que había trabajado personalmente, en particular, "Fantastic Soonkyu" y "Twinkle Soonkyu", que expresaban afecto hacia Sunny de Girls' Generation . ^{[ 10 ]}

En abril de 2012, J'Kyun lanzó su segundo EP, These Days, que incluía el sencillo "Hot MC" con la colaboración de Zico de Block B. El EP alcanzó el puesto número 70 en la lista Gaon Chart . ^{[ 11 ]} En mayo fue seleccionado como el representante coreano de la campaña musical global "Music Matters" en Singapur. ^{[ 12 ]}

En 2013, participó en Show Me the Money 2 de Mnet como concursante, comenzando como miembro de "Meta Crew", pero luego se unió a "DO Crew" antes de ser finalmente eliminado en las etapas posteriores. ^{[ 13 ]}

En 2014, J'Kyun se unió a YMC Entertainment donde él, Jessi y J-Yo formaron Lucky J. [ ^{14 ] El} grupo lanzó dos sencillos y apareció en la banda sonora oficial de un drama antes de disolverse en agosto de 2016. ^{[ 15 ]}

En 2019, participó nuevamente en Show Me The Money 8 como el rapero enmascarado Cox Billy. Fue eliminado del programa durante la batalla de equipos 1 contra 1 contra Mckdaddy.

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