Shoebox.
The place where a day’s journey begins. A place where the difficult daily life stops.
A place where meeting and parting occurs.
You, who’s looking for a place to call ‘home’, we invite you, who wanders between loving and parting, to Epik High’s “Shoebox”. The excitement you get with new shoes and the familiarity you feel with old shoes is prepared in 12 different shoeboxes for you.
Inside the album package is a CD with commentary that contains the thoughts and feelings of the Epik High members while working on the new album.
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Track 1 | Raising The Curtain
“I smile for my dear mama.
If I, who look exactly like dad, cry,
I’m afraid to see him who cried”
A song to cheer you on during difficult circumstances. We deliver a strong cry above intense music despite the sadness behind Epik High’s eventful past.
Track 2 | Happen Ending [Title Track]
“I’m in miserly happiness
“The words I hate more than ‘give me money’ is ‘have strength’”
This song, which is reminiscent of a French movie OST, will calmly comfort you who has suffered greatly over a breakup. We understand your hearts that are tired of encouraging words through shallow lyrics and rollercoaster voices of group members that seem ignorant.
Track 3 | Rich
“I can handle being hungry but I hate being sick
That stomach is quick to be filled and quick to be hungry like a popular song”
Rich in the mind or rich in materialistically, ‘RICH’ is a song that cheers you on, who dreams about becoming rich. This unique song is maximized by the vocals of Taeyang, who has collaborated with Tablo many times prior and established a “trust and listen” chemistry with him.
TRACK 4 | Spoiler [Title Track]
“Is this a suitable punishment for me, who has always wanted to love a movie-like love?
However many times I ask your heart, the answer is always open-ended”
The moments when you get the feeling he/she doesn’t love you anymore… Those moments snatch away your anticipation and happiness like “spoilers” to the end of a movie. This song is for you, who desperately don’t want the heart of the person you love to change. The sound of movie-music that suits this theme and the brilliant lyrics delivers an extraordinary punchline.
TRACK 5 | Burj Khalifa
“My ******** attitude is as elegant as your truth”
The deep ties within “Movement Crew” Epik High, Dynamic Duo, and TBNY members have gathered once again. We named this song after the current tallest building in the world in Dubai, Blues Hallipa (Burj Khalifa), is an anthem for you who is always dreaming a dream that reaches for a higher direction.
TRACK 6 | Fighting Again
“Except your faults, everything else is a crime.
Lonely innocence that I protect with my worse crime.”
This is a song that draws your heart that is tired of love fights that feel like a loss even after winning. Epik High and Younha are collaborating again in 6 years since the great love they received through the song, “Umbrella” with a song with deeper emotion and atmosphere.
Track 7 | Amor Fati
“to me drugs destroy more than what the big devils destroy”
You don’t feel like agreeing with the world, it feels like the world is throwing you away; this song is a song that understands you.
The lyrics are full of resentment but inside, but it is inside where a warm hand is reaching out to you to give you a hope, with a mysterious Vibe.
Epik High’s “Let it rain”, Infinite Flow’s “Rainbow” alike; it shows a fantastical chemistry , written by Tablo and Nell’s Kim Jong Wan who have known eachother for 7 years
Track 8 | Born Hater
“Whatever I does receive thousands of reactions. You don’t know you’re saying cruel words because it’s in your nature”
A song that conveys your tired feelings on Haters,Obstructionists, Disruptive.
Epik High, Beenzino , Verbal Jint, Winner’s Song Minho, B.I,Bobby; Senior and rookie’s different perspective on ‘haters’.
Old school hiphop matched with drum and bass, together with Tukutz Dj-ing added with the rappers harmonious voices.
Track 9 | Lesson 5 (Timeline)
“when you have to earn money, you will finally get a good beating in the head about how it feels”
A song that makes you feel like you’re looking at your SNS timeline while sighing to yourself.
A rap that was written like you were sending and/or receiving mentions (on twitter) showing a teamwork between Mithra Jin and Tablo.
A song for hiphop fans, this is the 5th series for the lesson series
.Track 10| Life is good
“Hug me too and see it ,
the difference between your hot passion and the cold world”
You can take revenge on others who wish upon you misfortune by showing your happiness.
This song is to encourage you to be positive and show your happiness as revenge.
Accompanied by groove and lively beat, epik high’s good rap and Jay Park’s sweet vocal , it will show what is “Feel good music” truly is.
Track 11 | EYES NOSE LIPS
“They say that time flies
but you keep breakin’ its wings.”
Tests make you feel a strange emotion that is a mix of nostalgia and resentment. This song contains your heart that cannot wish for the success of that person you miss. This is a remake of Taeyang’s famous “Eyes, Nose, Lips” recreated with a new concept with Epik High’s style. This song which was released with a video has been changed to an uncensored version.
Track 12 | Shoebox
“The first train and the last train, there’s nothing in between.
Work is a treadmill. Walking in place.”
This song has the same title as the album title, “Shoebox” and it is a song for you, who simultaneously feel the weight on your shoulders whilst feeling your heart becoming light with the word “family”. This song delivers your heart in your place, to the person who is missing you in a place you could call “home”. This project has a deeper meaning as MYK from one-man-band, Salt N Pepper, who is receiving the limelight in the indie scene and a family-like friend to Epik High, took part in it.
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A complex containing an entertainment facility by Korea’s famous record label and talent agency, YG Entertainment, is coming soon to Buena Park in Orange County.
M+D Properties, the California-based real estate management firm overseeing the project, said Wednesday that it conducted a signing ceremony for a joint business partnership with the entertainment company on Feb. 4.
The facility, which is a part of a larger complex called “The Source,” is located at the corner of Beach Blvd. and Orangethorpe Ave. and will feature an indoor concert hall, a studio and a “star item” store with products related to YG’s stars, which include Big Bang, Psy and 2NE1.
Construction of the complex, which is said to be about 45 percent completed at the moment, began in August 2012 and will be finished in December, said David Lee, leading manager of M+D Properties.
Lee said The Source will be a 10.6-acre complex that includes a shopping mall, a four-star Hyatt hotel, restaurants, office spaces, a parking garage and the YG facility.
Talks with big-name retailers such as Apple, H&M, Burger King and UNIQLO to take one of the more-than 150 spaces at the mall are underway, the firm said.
When it opens, packages with concert tickets and hotel reservations will be made available, the firm said. It also plans to station LED billboards promoting YG Entertainment around the center.
The complex will become a root of the spreading of K-Pop around the U.S., said Kim Jun-il, the firm’s director.
Plans for the concert space — which will seat 2,000 and span 40,000 sq. ft. — include both performances by both YG and non-YG artists.
According to Kate Wanamaker, vice president of property management at Greenland Property Management, LLC., The Source is estimated to cost around $400 million and generate more than 4,000 new jobs.
The complex is slated to open June 2015.
They already started breaking ground on it!
We've known CL was going solo overseas for months and months now, there was Bom's scandal, plus Bom and Dara are kinda nearing that age where according to Korean standards they should be getting married and starting a family etc.
