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    I always get surprised when I see Jinwoo’s rapping parts in any compilation- cuz he is quite good at it! I guess all YG artists are trained to rap and sing- and he always practices more than others.. Plus he has some swag up there on stage which he never has in regular broadcasts!

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      I hadn’t seen him rapping before somehow. I love that even their resident cutie has lots of swag, but hey, you can’t survive in YG without it haha. It’s amazing how full of surprises Jinwoo is.

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        The swag needs to be let out sometimes!! But then again, maybe he can only show it on solo performances because it doesn’t really go with the image WINNER is projecting. Aaaaaaa, I need a comeback!

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          Yasss I so want to see more of that swag! They always show plenty of dork-swag, but I want to see more of their cool-swag too lol. I really miss Winner’s exit:e era, but I also really want to see them do a true hiphop comeback. They do it so well, but they haven’t had a chance to show it yet.
          *starts chanting* comeback, comeback, comeback 😛
          *they did two already this year tho so not complaining*

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        True that! 😀

        And re. Hoon and Mino singing.. I am not gonna be singing praises either. There are times/songs where their voices really sound perfect but not always. (Mino belting out “aaaaa-island” in ep1 of YoF and the quick caption “he is a rapper” comes to mind :P)

        Though I do think that vocals can rap with comparatively more ease than the other way round..

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          (hahahahah that “aaaaa-island” moment made me cringe so hard with secondhand embarrassment! :P)

          Mmmh yeah that might be true. I mean, Hongki raps decently as well for instance. But then there’s some who just have no feel for it. Like Minhyun who so badly wants to be a rapper, but always ends up sounding ridiculous and funny 😂
          Maybe it has to do with the fact that rappers often have a more husky and deep tone? And most kpop songs are written for tenors (and high-singing tenors at that), so it’d be harder for them to practice with kpop songs. Although tbh guys like Mino and JR might never be good singers even if they got proper vocal training with deeper songs LOL.
          But there are a lot of really bad idol rappers, bc rapping is much more than people seem to think and proper, good rapping is super rare, but it can also be harder to spot a bad rapper than a bad singer, so maybe it’s just that people are easier impressed with vocalists rapping than with rappers singing?
          *doesn’t know anything anymore* *made herself all confused now* *HALP*

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            *there there* *everything will be all right* *is kinda confused too* *hugs* *:P*
            *understood what you said above though* *don’t have much to add to it* *except that I guess one really can’t make generalizations with anything*

            But would still say Mino has his moments- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzA_ix-LW_A
            Some of these are actually rap-singing but he can sing well at times..

            *I am impressed by really small things sometimes and at other times brilliant things fail to impress* *depends on my mood and whether I like the person I am supposed to be impressed by* *so rappers singing and singers rapping works for me at times* *dunno what I am saying anymore though* *this is whoopeeyo’s wall though* *let’s do our usual rambling elsewhere* 😉

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            But I’m enjoying this!!! I love notifications! Hahaha

            And I agree with everything both of you said. Especially @obsessedmuch‘s thing about being impressed by little things and not by some brilliant things. Hahaha! MY BIAS IS SO STRONG

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          Mmm yeah, Mino does have his moments.

          Oh, yeah, right, sorry Whoopee! We’ll go ramble on somewhere else so you don’t drown in notifs haha 😛

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          The “aaaa-island” had me in stitches HAHAHA

          Like @kaybee though, I think rapping still requires innate swag. I mean, it’s not easy and I find that I don’t know things technically but there are some ways of rapping that don’t click with me.

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            I had a tiny panic attack when he belted that out and then the captions came out and I literally snorted! 😂

            It’s funny though uz I would never have guessed Jinwoo to have even an iota of that swag but here I am loving his rapping! 😛

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            It does require some innate swag 😎 But also a certain understanding of rhythm, pitch, proper diction, feeling, a good tone, a sense of flow and preferably an ability to write one’s own lyrics and play around with words. It’s not just “talking fast” as so many think, it’s a specific art form that requires practice and talent just like singing, dancing, drawing or anything else.

            Yay! Glad you like getting notifs haha, some beanies get exhausted when we forget and ramble on their posts lol, poor things, so I’m always happy when someone likes it and rambles along with us 😛

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    I love Winner, I really do, but Hoon and Mino’s singing is honestly really questionable LOL. Jinwoo and Yoon rapping on the other hand is definitely better than what most actual idol rappers sound like 😛 YG has such a bias for rapping lol.

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      HAHAHA

      I was actually laughing while watching Mino cover Eyes, Nose, Lips. Their singing parts in Fool were good but that song plays to their abilities. Hahaha!

      But I still think they can sing, just, only certain songs would fit them. Hahaha!

      But Jinwoo rapping is so surprising and good too! That was the main draw of the vid for me too.

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        Fool is a good song and Yoon did great in managing to write something easy and fitted to their extremely limited vocal range (if you can call it that lol), but they still go off pitch a lot when singing it live, especially Hoon. But it’s cute to watch them try haha 😛 And they do really try their best and work hard at it, I just hope Yoon will start writing more rap-heavy songs so Mino can shine more and more choreo so Hoon can show off heh.

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