Hi, I’m Dae Woong
Nice to meet you
I have something I really wanna say
I honestly wanna rap so much
So I dropped out of college
I did whatever I wanted and stayed home
I kept upsetting my parents
Rappers seemed so cool, they just all seemed cool
I wanted to stand on stage and act cool like them
Date many women, make a lot of money
But I didn’t know anything and I just acted like I was all that
When I really did this, I realized it’s so hard
Now I see my friends succeeding one by one, getting jobs and stuff
And all I can think is, what am I doing?
But when I look back, there’s nothing I can do
I’ve always done rap and wrote lyrics
I’m not even that good at rapping
So I really don’t have anything
I’m just an idiot who knows how to take off his pants
I think this is the only thing I know how to do

I was weak since I was a child
Rap was my only friend, I always held onto a pen
I couldn’t relate to any of the other kids
Everyone ran outside with a ball
I wasn’t even good at playing games at PC cafes on the weekends
I always just took my backpack and went home
I wanted to laugh and talk with you guys
But I turned my steps to my parent’s busy store
I was a server since I was in middle school
I became darker after seeing all these different crazy bastards
They broke bottles, shed blood and fought in front of me
Baby mama bitches flirted with other guys without their husbands
My mom and dad had to do what those bastards wanted
I worked until late and came back home
Collapsed in my dark room and slept a dreamless sleep
I hated that those hell-like days would repeat when the alarm went off
So I pulled my blankets over my head and hoped that time would pass slowly
I wished that I would get cancer at that moment
Then these hard days would all go away
I let out a sigh, put on my uniform and went to school
Closed my textbooks, opened my ragged notebook
During class, I leaned on my chin and wrote lyrics
No one looked at me with a smile
So I trampled on those guys on paper
I was the happiest at that time
I wrote many things on that white and small piece of paper
If I didn’t have that time, what would I be like right now?
After a few years, I read what I wrote back then
It made me cringe a little but I chose which path to go on
A new darkness came to me starting then

There’s no one who doesn’t have it hard baby
After things get hard, you’ll come out stronger
You ain’t gotta worry about a Thang baby
Cause there ain’t nothing in this world
you can’t do baby
There’s no one who doesn’t have it hard baby
After things get hard, you’ll come out stronger
la la la la la

I didn’t have high hopes when I went to Soul Connection
After passing the audition, I became a little cocky
I ignored my friends when they called
I pretended I was close with the Soul Connection bros and wrote shitty lyrics
I thought I became something and acted so cool
“You know Soul Connection? You know, the people who sang ‘Under That Dawn’? Yea, I got in”
“Oh, I guess you’re good at rapping”
My ego growing bigger as time passed
Everyone seemed so incompetent
Said all sorts of crap to the Soul Connection bros when I was drunk
The next day, I pretended I didn’t remember and ran away
I stood on stage and shook around with a mic
Let go of my pen and said some offensive things
With high school girls who said they were my fans, thinking I’d score with them
But then I’d snap out of it and all the lyrics I wrote were lies
Lyrics that only about big talk, flaunting and putting others down
Now those words feel like a warning for me
Everyone left me
That night I called Maslo, after I left Soul Connection
I trapped myself in my room, determined to start over, just watch
But pages and pages of my calendar keep flipping

There’s no one who doesn’t have it hard baby
After things get hard, you’ll come out stronger
You ain’t gotta worry about a Thang baby
Cause there ain’t nothing in this world
you can’t do baby
There’s no one who doesn’t have it hard baby
After things get hard, you’ll come out stronger
la la la la la

I thought I was walking on my path
But those who don’t know hiphop around me didn’t really care
Everyone clicked their tongues at me
How many years is he gonna be doing that?
Even when I hold a pen in an empty room
Even when I closed my window cuz I thought people were looking
Some day, I’ll pay back all the criticisms toward me
I’ll change it to jealousy and envy
I’m putting my hopes into the pen in my right hand
It seems like I chose the hard way but I have no regrets
Don’t hold it in, smile so I can get more pitiful
I’m gonna silently get through this, so my success will feel more valuable
It was lonely and sad but I didn’t wanna go outside
Cuz you’re gonna spit in my face and say, you? Rap?
I’ll just smile and say yes, that’s my reality
Then I’ll come home and think about what you said
You may fall asleep peacefully in your room without much thought
But every time I see you, I couldn’t sleep cuz I was so mad
Let’s see how it goes, I tell myself hundreds of times
Now I can’t even cry, so I grip the pen harder
I won’t give up, slowly, little by little
Like an egg escaping through barriers
Even in endless despair, I won’t sway
Unlike JK, it’s always be my side, Shine
Hurry and burn up my loser-like yesterday
I wanna say goodbye with a smile, bye
Like a porridge store, I scoop up bravery and sell my voice
Even if everyone makes fun of me and calls me an idiot
Even if the damn bank raises the interest rate
When my eyes are suddenly blinded in my dark room
Everything will come back, keep silent

Fighting with hard times
Fighting with hard times
Though the calendar has already gone through seven months
The times I spent didn’t go to a waste

Fighting with hard times
Fighting with hard times
Even though you’ve fallen, don’t give up
Hold my hand if you’re like me

There’s no one who doesn’t have it hard baby
After things get hard, you’ll come out stronger
You ain’t gotta worry about a Thang baby
Cause there ain’t nothing in this world
you can’t do baby
There’s no one who doesn’t have it hard baby
After things get hard, you’ll come out stronger
la la la la la