South Korean entertainment company
YG Entertainment has given its home country, neighboring Asia, and even the world
with some pretty awesome talents, particularly groups like Blackpink, Big Bang
and iKON. Formed in 2015, iKON has had its own prominent share of the K-Pop
following, with three studio albums (one in Japanese), two mini-album extended
plays (EP), and lots of singles. Initially starting as a seven-man boy band, iKON saw member Kim Han-Bin aka B.I. leave last
year, though his presence will still be felt as iKON gets ready to release its
next EP this month.
According to The Manila Bulletin, the third extended play from iKON, titled “i
DECIDE,” is scheduled to be released this coming Thursday, February 6. This
mini-album is composed of five songs, headlined by the promo single “Dive.” It will
also be the first EP put out by iKON since the departure of rapper B.I. from
their roster in July 2019. Or rather, it would have been the last since YG
Entertainment revealed that “i DECIDE” was already finished the year before,
while B.I. was still a member. He also shares songwriting and composer for the
featured songs alongside the other creative minds of YG Entertainment.
Originally, YG had thought to
remove all songs in the originally full-sized album that B.I. had a hand in
writing and composing for. That would however mandate the creation of new songs
for the remaining members to record. And as iKON already had a recent long
hiatus that was a bad option any way YG might slice it. Instead, some of the
songs were redone, by removing the rap lyrics done by B.I. and having members Jinhwan,
Yunhyeong, Bobby, Donghyuk, Ju-ne and Chanwoo take over rapping the lines as
needed.
The last full iKON album released
by YG Entertainment was a reissue called “The New Kids” on January of 2019.
Said album would be re-recorded in Japanese for that market the following
month. Kim “B.I.” Han-Bin left the group by June after a gossip column
unearthed social media messages by him in conversation with a then-anonymous
female narcotics dealer, discussing the possible purchase of drugs. He admitted
the messages were genuine, and his actions were brought on by personal issues.
B.I. was originally fronted as the leader of iKON, and was also part of their
posse of producers in YG.
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