Can I know the details? (Newbie Fan) He's such a good rapper and a dad

@@blackchae_ here's the short ver: in the late 2000s a korean media outlet reported that a lot of korean influential figures (mainly from politics and economy) forged their degrees from foreign universities. it was obviously a huge scandal and within this mess an unknown internet user accused Tablo to have also forged his degree from stanfort. people quickly jumped on the hate train and Tablo even went as far as to visit the university with a camera team, had former classmates (and teachers?) attest that he in fact visited the school, showed his certificate and even went to the secretariat (if that's the correct term) to have them show his entries in the books that proved he did attend the university and got his degree. the korean public didn't believe him, the accuser on the internet claimed that all of this was staged and he lied. it was so bad that he said when his wife went into labor in 2010 the people at the hospital were looking at him with so much hate he was genuinely worried about his daughter's well being. later the police tracked down the accuser and it turned out that he was a middle aged korean living in canada that pretty much had nothing else to do than hate on him. that man even went as far as to complain about the press (and public) to harass him and invade his privacy after this came out. as far as i know he never was punished but after this was revealed the hate against Tablo died down. obviously this was very traumatising for him and it took a long time to get over it.

@@blackchae_ there’s actually a podcast that came out last year that dives into what happened called Authentic: The Story of Tablo

@@treeoflife9960yes his professors even backed him up and these are respected people in their fields. And the haters all declared them liars. An interesting point here too is that one of the reasons why he was also targeted was because he graduated from Stanford with a double bachelor’s ang master’s degree. People can’t seem to get around the fact that a Stanford graduate (with a masters too) will go into kpop.

@@iagreewithyou3478 look up for highground then

I love that he wrote that song 🥰

same I replayed that a lot of times and memorized all his verses 😄😄

@@ayn662 the lyrics still give me chills!

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Not to mention Lee Minho 🙂

@@winterkrash the ikon cf one can be turned into a short film 🤣

Same thoughts! I especially loved the AKMU ep and this one 💕

Not to mention that they were the first “kpop” artists to chart on billboard and could’ve been huge if not for the controversy that popped up almost immediately after

@@xiaovi.0753 To continue from what you said. In 2016 they were the first big-name Korean group to receive an invitation from Coachella. Also the line-up in 2022, making them the first Korean group to be invited to Coachella for the second time. They are gold lmao

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Yes and Tablo spills a fun fact about the lyrics in BORN HATER

I don't think Tablo is pride. Tablo would be envy as shown by dressing to look like a painter and crossing out other artist's paintings with red tape, displaying envy towards the creations of others. Bobby is representing pride by showing off all his trophies and money, taking pride in showing off his accomplishments. DJ Tukutz is sloth, Tablo is envy, Beenzino is greed, Verbal Jint is lust, Mithra Jin is gluttony , Mino is wrath, and Bobby is pride.