In the media's eye, you are dubbed as "the Korean American Rapper Dumbfoundead," are you happy with the reference or would you someday like to be known as that badass rapper Dumbfoundead who just happens to be Korean/Asian?
Being known as the Korean American rapper was never my intention but I won’t deny that my ethnicity plays a big part in who I am as a person. Maybe they’ll start dubbing me as the badass Korean American rapper Dumbfoundead. haha.
Early in your "battling" career did you have a strategy knowing your opponents in battles will go hard with the Asian jokes?
Not really, I never worried about what my opponent was gonna say. If you watch many of my battles I don’t have too many rebuttals, I just focus on everything I want to say to them. I think for the opponent to come at me with uncreative Asian jokes is only gonna hurt there chances of winning over the crowd or judges.
Going from a successful battle rapper to a full fledged hip hop artist, what have been the biggest transitions you had to make?
Battle rapping and writing songs are two completely different things. With battling, the opponent is the material, you know exactly what to work with. But with writing songs I had to really tap into emotions, stories, and experiences and share them in a way that hasn’t been done over and over again. It was really hard to get my fans to take my music seriously after giving them years of battle raps/jokes.
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