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Fans shouldn’t become critics.

Mithra : because fans are fans.
Tablo: their roles are different.
Dj Tukutz: i think the role of the listener is to catch the meaning of the song. I think that is the extent of their role.
Tablo: they shouldn’t analyse it. When you’re listening to music, you should just listen.
There are those who think listening is creating.Those people are useless

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"If we made the first album again I wouldn’t call us a hip-hop group. That felt like a bridle and was really suffocating. Of course when we do hip hop, we confidently do hip hop. If hip hop fans listened to that song, I think they would think we were a hip hop group. Because of 1, they judged 99. The people who liked our emotional songs defined us in their own way. Each conception of Epik High is so different that no matter what, it doesn’t matter to us. But worrying about making music that will be loved by both is really difficult. If I went back to the past I think I would say that we’re a pop group, but that we have confidence in doing rap and hip hop well (laughs). From the beginning it wasn’t something that we said. A lot of qualifiers about us being hip hop warriors stuck (laughs)."

Tablo , on Epik High’s musical style  - ELLE Interview  [translated by emily @icarus-walks.net] read the full interview here 

"If you make depressing music, you get even more depressed. Now I don’t want to make music like that. From that time, the album’s direction became very different."

Tablo - ELLE Interview  [translated by emily @icarus-walks.net] read the full interview here 

"I requested it. It was my first joint work. These days if I make music it unconditionally becomes depressing. I played piano and if you only heard the chords it was clearly bright, but at the completion it became depressing. That was incredibly annoying. I made it brightly but because it became depressing I was stressed out. Even the members felt heavy, and because they said it would be better if it came out brightly than gloomily, I sought reinforcements. They gave the energy that we needed to be bright and enthusiastic."

Tablo - on the involvement on YG producers in 99 - ELLE Interview  [translated by emily @icarus-walks.net] read the full interview here 

"Yes, i saw her (on kpopstar) ,and i wanted to feature her in a song and she fortunately came to YG…. Epik High’s featurings , even in my solo..i always picked the featurings .
If you don’t like who i pick you ,then you may curse at me.
When i make songs i always keep someone in mind, so that person has to sing the song.
Actually rather than Lee Hayi, i had someone else in mind ( to sing “it’s cold”) but she came to do it in the end."

Tablo talking about the featuring of Lee Hayi (in “it’s cold”) on Yoo In Na’s “Volume Up” [x]

"To me music is a nasal drip , it has to hurt to come out well"

Tablo , when asked “music is…” to which he followed up with “sorry, that was supposed to be funny, wait wait wait. I feel like they’re taking me too seriously, i really thought it would be a hit”  on sketchbook [x]

"Epik High is a team who has had a lot of ups and downs… They’ve been very extreme and decisive.When we’re in a good period, it is really good, When we’re in a bad period, you know it’s a bad period.
It’s not ‘have they gone under’, it’s ‘oh they’ve definitely gone under’.
After we’ve recovered from those hard times, If we haven’t left each other yet,then what could pull as apart?"

Tablo (when asked “what is the glue that holds Epik High together?”) Translation thanks to hongso@icarus-walks.net, you can view the whole video here 

"people say life is hell, yeah my life ain’t going right, my life is so hard and all this shit
hell is the life you give up,
you got to keep your head up ,dust your shoulders off… keep it high"

Tablo from Epik High’s song “My Life”

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