Drunken Tiger
Boy groupDisbandedHip-hopRetroSelf-produced
Skip the choreography: this is the crew that dragged Korean hip-hop into the mainstream with their own lyrics and an anti-establishment attitude. Tiger JK is the heart of it, and "Good Life" topped charts for weeks. A true classic.
- Members
- 2
- Debut
- 1999 (27 years)
- Generation
- 1st gen (until 2003)
- Label
- Feel Ghood Music
Start with: Good Life
Achievements
- Debut album Year of the Tiger (1999) produced hits "I Want You" and "Do You Know Hip-hop", now considered Korean hip hop classics
- The Great Rebirth (2000) established them as the first commercially successful true hip hop group in Korea
- "Good Life" (2001) topped Korean music charts for weeks; Best Hip Hop Performance at the 2001 MNET Music Video Festival
- Feel gHood Muzik (2009) sold over 100,000 copies with all 27 tracks debuting on the Top 100 K-Pop Singles chart
- Record of the Year at the 2010 Seoul Music Awards and Best Hip Hop Album at the 2010 Korean Music Awards
Timeline
- 1999Debut album Year of the Tiger from Tiger JK and DJ Shine
- 2000Second album The Great Rebirth; DJ Jhig, Micki Eyes and Roscoe Umali join
- 2001Third album The Legend Of... with the hit "Good Life"
- 2005Sixth album 1945 Liberation; DJ Shine leaves the group
- 2006Tiger JK founds the label Jungle Entertainment, new home of Drunken Tiger
- 2009Eighth album Feel gHood Muzik featuring Rakim
- 2013Tiger JK forms MFBTY and signs to Feel Ghood Music; album The Cure released
- 2018Final self-titled album with Yoon Mi-rae, Bizzy, RM and others
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