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host: All the women I know said that they all admire and like you.
7: Thank you.
host: You must have one of these when you come to meet 7. (the rollershoes) I got these for you. 7:oh thank you.
7: This is a turn in place with the shoes.
*come back to me mv*
host: When did you first make the decision to become a singer?
7: Well, I’d say 1992, elementary school 3rd grade (I think it’s 2nd or 3rd)
*laughter*
when I first saw Seo Taiji and Boys perform “I Know” (they started k-pop btw)
7: “Oh, there is a thing this great. I too want to be a singer.” that’s what I thought.
host: When you thought that, did your parents agree with you?
7: Honestly, my parents did nag because I didn’t study but I actually did well when I studied really hard the night before a test but I hated studying. You know, honestly, I didn’t think bookwork was right for me. It was little bit of a bore.
host:*laughter* Aren’t you being a little too honest?
7: So I guess around middle school, 8th grade I started backing away for studies. It was too hard.
host: So what your saying is that you wanted to study but you didn’t have time.
7: yes exactly. No, I mean, when I did study I was good at it.
host: You do look like you would of do well if you study.
7: No, it was just the time that I used for studying that was boring. But if I really go at it, I study. It was just like the math probelms and stuff, I hated doing.
host: Now, you’re number 1 right now in the music charts, you are Se7en. I don’t think that just happened overnight.
7: No, but really, the time was so long.(pre-debut) I started training from when I was a 7th grader in middle school.
host: Do you really think it was a long period?
7: It depends on how you think. If you think it was a long period, it seems long. if you think it was a short period, it seems short. But really it wasn’t a short period. It was almost 5 years really to debut. It was like 5 years seemed more like 50 years. yeah. At that time I was immature, at the time I thought that I would debut after 6 months or like an year.
This is the first time I’m telling anyone this but before I came here (yg entertainment), I was at another entertainment company, as a 7th grader. So from 7th grade to 8th grade I was there. I recorded an album in 6 months. And without even an years’ worth of training, my actual cd came out. It wasn’t released yet, but it was still pending. So I thought “wow, it’s this is really easy” but a few days before the debut, there was some trouble and my contract broke.
7: I think that experience was a good one though because I really felt a lot of things, and like I told you b4 that I thought “Oh wow, becoming a singer is this easy”, that kind of mentality was turned around for the better. So I thought, it’s going to a long and harsh journey but what if my cd did come out, then I would have been a real undeserving(even a word?;p) person.
host: do u think, hey if my cd came out then i would have been famous from then on and it would have been better.
7: Ah, no, even if the cd came out and I was sucessful, I might have turned into an arrogant person.
*”i know”music letter scrolls “Se7en meets Yang Hyun Suk” <-- YHS is the owner of YG Ent. He is also one of the three Seo Taiji and Boys. He created the dance moves for the song that started k-pop.
7: At that time, the only words he spoke to me was “You’re better than I thought”
host: I know how YHS is a little, but if he actually spoke those words to you, it’s a great compliment.
7: Yeah, thinking about it now, it’s rare because even now I don’t get those compliments from him. I’ve never heard a single compliment from him these days. The first thing he said, really the 1st words he spoke to me when he first saw me was “You look pretty” <-- like how you would say to a baby girl. 7:He said ... Are u new here? Yes. What do you know how to do? Sing. Um, I'll sing. So I sang
7: R. Kelly’s I believe i can fly.
7: Yeah so when I was done he said, “You’re better than I thought” So I was really happy so from the next day on, i was officially in.
host: so from that next day til now is three years?
7: 3 and a half. From that next day and for the first 6 months, I did nothing but clean these floors.
host: wow, this is the floor 7 cleaned.
7:Yeah, well they changed these wood floorings now, it wasn’t as good as it is now. The lighting also wasn’t even working right.
7:I really wanted to sing. I wanted to sing so bad, but no one was teaching me how to sing, they were just making me do all the cleaning around here. They only taught me to dance.
So back then I really hesitated. “From the way it looks right now, there will be no singing career for me. I’ll just end up cleaning forever until i quit.”
7: So after 1 year, YHS said he wanted to meet my parents and that was the actual start for me.
host: so in that first year, when did you most feel that if u made a mistake it would have cost u you’re chance of becoming who you are today?
7:Oh, there was a time of course. At the time I felt mixed feelings. There was a group of older guys that went from here to another company and debut real quickly and became overnight celebrities. So i felt like “wow, when will I ever get the chance to be on tv.” I always saw them on tv, in the spotlight, and it felt like just a few days when all of us were scrubing these floors together. Deep down I was very envious, very envious.
host: So it wasn’t an effortless thing becoming a singer, do u yourself think that?
7: of course, in the eyes of others, they think that it was easy for me, that all this was overnight but that’s not wrong i guess b/c that’s what it looks like on the outside anyway but really on the inside there was a lot of pain, it was what i felt by myself so when they say thoses things in their point of view, it hurt my feelings.
host: so after your contract w/ yg, what did u learn?
7: The only thing I learned from yg, well if u can even say that i learned was dance.
host: If u say that doesn’t that makeYHS a little … heartbroken hehe
7: No, he must hear this (joking)
host: y do u think that?
7: There was no solid thing that i learned really like the vocals and stuff.
host: This is an absolute boot camp style, am i wrong?
7:No really, that’s why my training time b4 debuting was so long. But this is what i heard he said, that he wanted to make me more human (mature). And that as much as u suffered in return the happiness will be twice as greater. It’s true. But honestly, i think that if I was taught vocals (singing) a little bit more and better, I would be a better singer now
But since there was that kind of troublesome for me, I learn to deal with it by practicing singing on my own, and anyway if you learn to sing from someone else, you’re not going to have your own style, so I think in that matter i found my true colors, so I just want to start learning from now on.
Why is he name after a number?
Ah, the puzzling question everyone has when they first hear about Se7en. Before his debut, his company have thought about the possible stage name (from letters to numbers, including 7) that would be suitable for Choi Dong Wook. While eating a restaurant with YG, they noticed there were 7 pieces of radish kimchi. So, they confirmed Se7en’s name from that. He is also the 7th member to debut in YG Entertainment.
[Se7enth-Heaven]
Who Is this YG dude after all?
His real name is Yang Hyun Suk aka Yang Goon which YG stands for. He is a Korean former singer & rapper of a “Seo Taiji & Boys” after the group disbanded in January 1996 instead of solo career he establish YG Entertainment In 1998.
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