MC Sniper is a hip hop artist from South Korea, who fuses hip hop and traditional Korean music together to create songs that tackle Korean social issues head on. His songs generally deal with love, separation and failure, as well as social reform, the working class, and the economy, goverment and society, making MC Sniper regarded as both controversial and influential.
In 2001, MC Sniper lectured on pop music at Seoul National University, but it was his song Sorasora pureureun sora that first...
Read more (307 words more)MC Sniper is a hip hop artist from South Korea, who fuses hip hop and traditional Korean music together to create songs that tackle Korean social issues head on. His songs generally deal with love, separation and failure, as well as social reform, the working class, and the economy, goverment and society, making MC Sniper regarded as both controversial and influential.
In 2001, MC Sniper lectured on pop music at Seoul National University, but it was his song Sorasora pureureun sora that first brought him to the public's attention. His remake of the traditional song was released on the internet by one of his fans, and shortly afterwards a fan club was created for him, and over 18,000 fans immediately joined, which ultimately led to MC Sniper recording his first solo album in 2002, So Sniper....
2003 saw the release of MC Sniper's second album, Chohaeng, with his third album Be In Deep Grief in 2004.
Three years later, and MC Sniper finally released his fourth album, How Bad Do U Want It? in March of 2007. More polished and smooth than his previous three albums, How Bad Do U Want It? featured other artists such as MC BK, Baechigi, Outsider, Stonyskunk and Clazziquai.
MC Sniper is also credited for discovering and producing the hip hop group Baechigi, and spent 10 months producing Baechigi's first album in 2005. They also participated in promoting MC Sniper's So Sniper..., and together MC Sniper and Baechigi founded the underground hip hop crew Buddha Baby.
Recording artist and founder of underground hip-hop crew Buddha Baby, MC Sniper is considered a controversial and relatively influential musician in South Korea.
He Debuted in 2002 with the album “So Sniper…” and immediately became recognized for acrid lyrics that challenged economic, governmental, and societal conditions - his backdrop: a powerful mixture of hip-hop and traditional Korean music.
He is credited with discovering and producing 배치기 (Baechigi), a hip-hop group whose popularity is now exponentially increasing.
MC Sniper is featured on the Windstruck OST, Cherry Filter’s 3rd album, and even internationally on Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Undercooled”.
Quick Facts
- Real Name: 김정유 (Kim Jung-yoo)
- Date of Birth: February 8th, 1979
- Blood Type: B
- Height: 172Cm
- Hobby: Boxing, Music, Reading, Travel
- Education: Currently on temporary leave from Induk Institute of Technology (Industrial Design major)
- Drinking Capacity: 2 bottles of hard liquor Close
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