Bobby Kim

바비김 : Bobby Kim

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1 holy bumz presents (1998)

(Cream Records)

==== HongCho, 1999-01-18 ====

A rap/hip-hop album. I bought this CD because at the rare (?) moment I spent watching TV at home in Seoul, I saw this okay sounding music from an unknown artist. I heard somewhere later that Bobby Kim (a.k.a. Bobby) has worked as a rapper on several (?) other people's work.

Beside Bobby, the team holy bumz seems to include, LeeYunSang, LeeSeungJu, and Joe.

The overall feel of the album seems to be following the current pop-rap trend (what do I know of rap trends, BTW), that is, mixing rap/hip-hop with the retro sounding music and atmosphere. Some of the raps are pretty good, especially English ones, but nothing really struck me. I think the second track, free style, was cut out as the initial single.

Bottom line: Well, I don't know about myself, but if you like the rap/hip-hop, especially Uptown, you might like this one as well.

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