Big Bang - Shout Out To The World! (English Translation) [2009]

Adults have their way, children have theirs [~ Pt.Three~]

I started working at a clothing store in Itaewon. I was happy that I could simply listen to Hip-hop music all day long and look at clothes I liked. I even had a thought that, “since I now have experience with direct sales and I know what the customers want, I can use that to my advantage for my Hip-hop Multishop”. After a few months however, my conclusion changed to “it’s not as easy as I thought.”

Even though I was still a child and didn’t have to do most of the work, but mentally there were a lot of restraints and it was physically hard on me too. To get sales, I had to go out and find people to go into the store. The owner wanted me to sell as much as I could using whatever method I could. When the shop closed at around 7pm or 8pm, I had to go to the night market to bring the clothes back. Around 3-4am, I had to place the clothes nicely before the shop opened. If I couldn’t finish the tasks on time, the owner would yell at me and half playfully, half seriously hit my hands. My wage per day was fairly high at that time compared to other kids…around 40,000won/day but the owner would say things like “you’re still young…why do you need so much money?” and take away some of mine.

Even though I wasn’t earning money because my family needed it, but I thought like a kid. I was still young, I wanted to buy what I wanted and I wanted to see the world like how it was. Unfortunately it wasn’t easy and I quit working there after being miserable for some time. From that day onwards, I started rapping.

“If my hip hop multishop didn’t work out, then I’ll be a rapper”…I had that kind of opinion. Perhaps because I was still young and I wasn’t scared at all…if one thing didn’t work out then I could always try my best at another thing. At first I wanted to perform on stages but since I didn’t know the right people it was hard for me to do so. The DJs in the clubs were very popular at that time. They were the ones who knew most about Hip-hop. Through my hyung DJ D-maker, I was able to know many rappers and eventually became either their guest rapper or helped them with their performances.

Anyhow, my new world began like this.