Friday, 6 December 2013

Korean HIP-HOP duo 'LEESSANG'

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(From left, Garie and Gill)

LEESSANG is one of the famouse HIP-HOP musician in South Korea.
LEESSANG is consist of Garie and Gill. First they debuted as a members of 'Honey  family' but when Honey family had period of rest, they organised the HIP-HOP group as known as LEESSANG on 2002. They also active as a member of 'Movement' which is the HIP-HOP crew that formed by Drunken Tiger (or Tiger JK) in Korea. Having a little bit talk about 'Movement', it consist of Korean famouse HIP-HOP musician such as Dynamic Duo, T-Yoon Mi Rae, Epik high,Bizzy, LEESSANG and so on. Com back to story about LEESSANG, they started to get popular with  the title song of 3rd albume 'I'm not laughing'. They also got the awards from M.net Music Video Festival with this song.



They are music normally contained with rap and song, but they also like to collabrate with other ganre of music such as Jazz, Rock and Folk.



  From around 2010, Garie and Gill expanded their career in variety TV show. Now, Garie is a permanent cast member of SBS's Running Man and Gill is a pemanent cast member on the MBC's Infinite Challenge. While they active as an entertainer, also produce thier music. As they are earning the fame in different fleid, LEESSANG opned first Asia tour showcase recently.