When you lick your own wounds. True. Personally I can relate. When you’re a creative and think radically or different from the status quo, to you it’s normal, to the rest it shatters current belief systems and norms.
The story is bittersweet, because the whole time you’re developing what you’re good at with a spotlight, you also don’t have the artistic infrastructure to support your Creative career, and you have to build it.
It’s like licking your own wounds to a fault when the system should be the one laying it out, while also profiting from it when the majority earns a living on a kpop environment you couldn’t go back to, almost exiled professional wise, you’re not in the in crowd, you’re still influencing the in crowd because they don’t have the history, the bandwidth in his case Seattle based bboy and hiphop roots that they only appropriate or take in as an identity because of their childhood background. But proximity wise, never knew it, only knew it because of media and became an artist, it’s pretty annoying when people and brands invite him just for them to also get that rap sprinkle and clout, especially if their brand doesn’t have his dna/ branding identity in similarity.
It’s painful to look at something where you could’ve thrive, but in the end you’re the only one that made the system, the rest follow, but you have to cut stick and nail them to make a chair.
Hard. Bittersweet. Triumph. Game changing. It’s the story of many art systems and art. Same with music and Jay.
You could even say it impacted the entire Korean entertainment industry; one example is how difficult it was to find guest performers for SNL Korea at the beginning.