Episode Notes:

• Did you catch the previous episode yet? That was an hour long review of BTS’ Map of the Soul: 7! And, unlike this episode, it has a transcript!
• There’s a chance that I mispronounce Sik-K’s name when I talk about m-flo’s collaboration with him, eill, and Taichi Mukai (“tell me tell me“). Apologies for that! One note though is that I and Sik-K (in this one HIphopKR interview) pronounce it the same way which is unexpected!
• m-flo loves BoA “the love bug“
• The original twitter thread I used to document my project’s progress
• My #StitchProcesses tweets
• The masterpost for my massive project on blackness and antiblackness in these industry and fandom spaces
• “A Brief History of Korean Hip Hop”
• Bad Rap /My review of Bad Rap
• “How American R&B Songwriters Found A New Home in K-Pop“
• “K-pop in the Age of Cultural Appropriation”
• I slipped up when recalling it but YunB is playing Biggie, not Tupac! (Check out the Quick Coverage here.)
• “kpop is purer than western rap/hip-hop” (2/25/2019)
• “appropriation or appreciation? unpacking south korea’s fascination with black culture“
• If you can afford it, please pick up a copy of Myoung-Sun Song’s Hanguk Hip Hop: Global Rap in South Korea. It has changed my life for the better and her scholarship is stellar and timely!
• Korean pop and hip hop have come to mean a lot to me over the past significant chunk of my life. In some ways, I am an hold hand. In other ways, I am a baby fan. It’s fascinating to see the ways that these spaces are and aren’t similar to other fandom spaces I’ve been in. In excited to keep working, researching, and writing in these spaces and broadening my understanding – oh, and having fun in fandom which is like… actually happening on the regular, y’all!
• I mention constantly how I couldn’t do a lot of my work without the friends I’ve made along the way. I would like to thank, first and foremost, Jae and LJ. I could not have kept my head relatively cool without being able to shout in their general vicinity about it. I’d also like to thank my K-pop fandom friends on Twitter like Carrie, Brie, Morg, Caps, Misha, and Quil. There are so many of you who have opened your hearts, minds, and DMs up to me across the past year and I love you all so much.

Transcript

Speaker: Hello everyone and welcome to Episode 4 of Stitch Talks Ish. If you missed it check out last month’s episode where I reviewed BTS’s Map of the Soul: 7.

I feel like it’s a fantastic episode, just saying –

But on a related note, episode four is also going to be about K-pop, but from a more critical lens.

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