When Kim Do-joon came to Lotte's department store, Kim Do-jun found that there were a lot of epikhigh fans at the scene, both boys and girls, both young hot-blooded women, and older middle-aged men, all kinds of dresses, students, urban white-collar workers, and even construction workers were mixed in the crowd, and sure enough, the fan base of epikhighhigh was quite special.

But overall, so many boys like hiphop music, and they like the group of eipkhigh, which is a bit unexpected by themselves.

There was no choice but to put on makeup in the nanny car, and after Lee Kyung-eun and Seo Sun-joo received the call, they immediately rushed over from home, looked at the familiar license plate number, immediately knocked on the door, and walked up.

Without saying a word, he immediately started working, and Kim Do-jun also closed his eyes and hurriedly cooperated.

When he was putting on makeup, the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly rang, and when Han Chenghao saw this, he immediately picked it up, looked at it, and then spoke.

"It's Tablo's call, do you want to answer it?"

"It's okay, you turn on the hands-free, I guess you asked me where I am!"

Since I have promised others, I must keep my promise, look at the time, it is indeed almost time for the signing meeting, I guess I didn't see Kim Daojun, so I am a little anxious!

Kim Do-joon said while closing his eyes, holding his head high, and stretching his neck.

"Brother Tablo, are you looking for me?"

"yes, where are you, didn't you say you'd come over?"

Tablo's voice came from the phone, and he asked a little anxiously.

"It's already here. Makeup in the car! Just got back from Japan. I rushed here non-stop. I'm still wearing no makeup! ”

Kim Dojun said lightly that when applying makeup, you generally can't do too much action, especially the facial expressions, which will cause a lot of trouble to the makeup artist's work, and in such a hurry, you should be more careful. If there are any wrinkles, they don't look good.

"Oh, that's it, where is your car parked, I'll send a staff member to pick you up right away!"

The platform, to put it bluntly, is to help friends, the main thing is a very good relationship with people, usually very close, out of the feelings between friends. Volunteering to come and help get through the field is the simplest explanation.

Generally, it is the old man who leads the newcomer. or the big ones with the little ones, of course, there are also artists invited by the company to come to the platform.

Like Kim Do-joon, there is generally no charge, but if it is invited by the company, it is different, and many times it is the banknote that has the final say.

No matter how much money you spend, you can invite how many big-name artists you can invite, this is an immutable law in the entertainment industry.

Simply tell your address to tablo, in the underground parking lot of Lotte Department Store, although there are a lot of vehicles, but the location of the parking is better, not very far from the elevator entrance, it is easy to see, and it is easier to find, plus it is a nanny car, it is more conspicuous, less than a few minutes, someone came down and waited for him.

Kim Do-jun said hello apologetically, waited for himself for a while, and when he finished putting on his makeup and putting on his clothes, he went up with him directly.

A blue blazer, dark slacks, sneakers, baseball caps, sunglasses, studs, hiphop and other necessary items to dress up, after all the necessary items are packed up, the car door is opened, and the staff on site are followed to the top

The three of Epikhigh are already sitting there waiting for themselves, today is a small fan signing session, mainly to sign autographs and shake hands with fans, and the rest will go on stage and sing a song.

And Kim Do-joon came over, mainly before starting, to have a simple warm-up, there is an interactive process, as a special guest, surprise appeared in front of everyone.

How hot Kim Do-joon is now, many people know that there is no way to invite him, so this is also a temporary method that Epikhigh came up with.

There were already a lot of fans at the scene, all crowded in the middle, still holding the CD they had just bought, ready to ask the three of Epikhigh to sign it

After Kim Do-jun came up, the three of them immediately stood up from their chairs and took the initiative to hug and greet Kim Do-jun.

"Hey, I haven't seen you for a while, we Daojun have all of a sudden become national composers, it's incredible, now think about it, it's really a loss!"

Tablo said with some grievances, today the three of them have been carefully dressed up, and the main color of black is perfect for these three people.

All black, black suits, black jackets, black vests, black pants, although everyone has the same color, but the style of wearing them is different, which is one of the reasons why Eikhigh is loved by so many people.

"Brother tablo is joking with me again, what kind of national composer, it's not written by those media, don't call me that in the future, I was listened to by others, and I thought I was arrogant, by the way, what did you just say you lost?"

Kim Do-joon and Mithra bumped their chests enthusiastically, they are very burly, but they are very introverted, and they are shy at every turn, but they are very active with familiar people, and they talk a lot, a bit similar to Kim Tae-woo in GOD, but it is just a miniature version, which is joked by Kim Do-joon and called a mini version of Kim Tae-woo.

"Of course he said that it was a loss, you are now worth 2 billion in a song, how can we afford to ask you to help us write songs, I knew that we should have signed a few more album production contracts in the first place, so that we will make a lot of money!"

Tukutz tidied up his clothes and responded with a slight smile, he knew Tablo's thoughts very well, and after so many years together, it was rare to see Tablo so attentive to a junior.

For talented and talented young people, he is always full of appreciation, and when he chats in private, he thinks that Kim Do-joon is a natural hip-hop singer, whether it is singing, composing, or dressing. Character. They are all very similar to themselves. How to say it, it is more appropriate to describe it with natural intuition, or feeling, Kim Do-joon is a perfect hip-hop singer.

Kim Do-jun smiled slightly embarrassed after hearing this, touched his nose, and immediately responded.

"Don't think so highly of me, I'm not that good. It's just a coincidence, besides, I really don't have any thoughts now, let alone calm down and write songs, even if I finish the things at hand, I have to schedule them until July or August, and I'm really powerless! ”

Kim Dojun deliberately refused, not on purpose, it was really helpless, if it was changed to before. I will agree immediately and complete the task 100 percent.

The longer you have been in the entertainment industry. Naturally, I realized that many things are involuntary, and the company does not have many restrictions on himself, which is why Kim Dojun has more friends.

How popular composers are, just look at the number of people registered with the Korean Composers Council, the number is very small, and every composer is very temperamental, and he doesn't accept the general list.

I don't like to see people, I don't take it, the price is not high, I don't take it, I don't accept it, I don't accept my own songs, I don't accept it.

This has created a situation where there are more monks and less porridge, so every composer and almost all singers will not be offended, but will follow them.

Kim Do-joon understands this, but he also has a lot of things to do, although it seems that there is nothing to do today, resting at home, but after five minutes, a phone call, he will immediately leave to go somewhere, participate in a performance or award ceremony, platform, etc., which is not nothing.

If you have more friends, you will naturally need help, and Kim Do-jun also consciously cultivates his ability to refuse, not just stupidly agreeing, sometimes he has to be decisive.

"Okay, don't be embarrassed, just look at his appearance, didn't he just come back from Japan in the morning, there will be a long time in the future, and there will be many opportunities!"

Mithra was the first to break the awkward atmosphere, and said with a slight smile, the beard on her chin was not trimmed at all, but it looked more manly.

Everyone understands Kim Do-joon very well, such a big news broke out, and almost all the people of the country knew about such news, and it suddenly became the focus of attention, and it was a little uncomfortable to change anyone.

After all, he is a hiphop singer, and he rarely becomes the focus of attention in the entertainment industry, which is the patent of major companies, idol singers and groups.

I'm also a person from the past, of course I can understand this feeling, Dojoon is too young, the debut time is too short, and after a long time, he will naturally be relieved.

What the media gives is equal to garbage, this is the consensus of artists, when you are popular, you can be held to the sky, unparalleled in the sky, rare on the earth.

When you are not popular, they will viciously trample you on the soles of your feet and splash all kinds of dirty water on your body.

A large part of the reason for the reality of the media is the trend of the entertainment industry.

Tablo walked over with a CD from the table, handed it to Kim Do-joon, and spoke.

"Here, this is our fifth album, the name is "Pieces", the title song is your "One", and there are three of us autographs on it, I gave it to you, go back and listen to it, give some advice, our composer!"

"Yes, Daojun, you don't know yet, a large part of the composer's income is copyright income, that is to say, the more this album is sold, the more income you will get, although an album may only be a little bit, but thousands, tens of thousands of copies combined, that number is small, but with your current income, it is estimated that it can't be valued!"

Tukutz followed Tablo's words and immediately picked it up, adding.

"Oh, the new album is out, then when I go back, I must enjoy it, thank you very much!"

Kim Do-jun looked at the album in his hand, flipped it back and forth, looked at it, looked at the album cover, and then looked at the song, and immediately responded.

The names of Epikhigh's albums are all strange and generally have a lot to do with society, such as the album titles this time, pieces, which are to use music to express every fragment of a broken heart.

It contains songs that give comfort and even encouragement to those who are hurt and hurt by love, people, society, and these worldly things.

This album is the result of a lot of hard work by Tablo, Mithra, and Tukutz, and it is also the masterpiece of Woollim.

Kim Do-joon saw this album at this time. A total of 18 songs are included. The song "one" composed by himself. In addition to the regular version, there is also a remix adapted, which is a bit unexpected.

But it doesn't matter, although the copyright of this song is still on me, but the right to use and adapt have been given to Epikhigh and their company, so they can naturally be adapted at will. Of course, there is a fee to be paid here, but because of the relationship between friends, Kim Do-jun's song is no different from giving it away for nothing.

It's also strange that he was not famous at that time, and naturally the company didn't pay too much attention to it, and the price given was almost nothing except for the factor of friends.

But when the news came out that Kim Do-joon was going to cooperate with a Canadian singer, and added 2 million US dollars, that is, 2 billion won in cooperation fees, everyone was stunned.

There was no previous cooperation. Or unfamiliar, are trying to get the contact information of the jungle company. I hope I can talk to Kim Do-joon, and I hope he can write a song for his company's group.

This kind of thing is also very common, and inviting songs is a very common thing in the entertainment industry, cross-border cooperation, cooperation between different companies, in addition to the s.m company itself raising a large number of composers from all over the world, JYP is based on President Park Jin-young himself, writing songs for its group.

YG, on the other hand, has a group of old hiphop singers, such as 1TYM's retired composer teddy, who are all veteran figures and are quite famous in the entire entertainment industry.

The way of dependence is different, and the way of survival is also different, so small companies can only rely on invitations or spend money to find composers to write songs.

"Okay, stop talking, I'll go up right away, let's go, Daojun is bothering you today!"

As the captain of Epikhigh, Tablo patted Kim Do-joon's shoulder and thanked him slightly, this time I was able to invite him to the platform, and I didn't have to say anything, I agreed directly, I am really grateful.

"What are you doing so politely, I just want to take a look, how is your pre-sale, there are a lot of fans at the scene today, I just came to the underground parking lot from below, and I found that there were a lot of people today!"

Kim Do-jun handed the album in his hand to Kim so-young, and he was going to go on stage later, he had to hold the microphone in his hand, and the platform was very simple, just interview, ask a few questions, and accept the questions of the host generously, and it was OK.

Mithra crept over and whispered into Kim Do-joon's ear.

"25,000 copies were sold in the pre-sale alone, and it is estimated that this time it will return, and it will be a big deal!"

Mithra smiled brightly, in the hiphop circle, there are very few groups that can sell more than 100,000 albums, bigbang is not a pure hiphop group, can only be characterized as an idol singer group, but the music they involve is related to hiphop

Traditional hiphop combinations are still very few.

Epikhigh, leessang, djdoc, dynamic, and many more, as well as some underground singer groups.

But epikhigh is different, it has always been a representative of high sales, and it can't be compared with idol groups like TVXQ, but it also beats other idol groups of the same kind.

The third full-length album "Swansongs", released in '05, sold 160,000 albums.

The regular four episodes of '07. The number of albums sold exceeded 120,000, and by the end of the year, it may have exceeded 130,000 copies, which is a very scary number for a hiphop singer, which shows how popular Eikhigh was in South Korea, ranking third on the album sales chart that year.

Therefore, all three of them are full of confidence in today's return, and even the company praised them after hearing their album.

After hearing this, Kim Do-jun immediately asked, with the same eyebrows.

"So much? The pre-sale is more than 20,000? ”

I also once asked Gary and Ji about the sales of albums, most of them are after 1 to 20,000, the number is very even, and the fluctuations are not very big, because Leessang is not the same as other groups, the fans are very fixed, and only people who like their own music will choose to buy it.

is a relatively pure die-hard fan, which is not quite the same as ordinary idol singers, and there are very few passers-by fans. Hardly.

Long and not handsome. And they can't dance. I don't appear in variety shows very much, and such a person is still popular, so it's really strange.

To be honest, Kim Do-jun is still a little envious of this achievement, and the pre-sale has reached so much, and now that it is officially sold, the number will definitely increase a lot. In addition, playing songs, appearing in variety shows, etc., it is also a big help for the sales of the album!

Mithra put her arm around Kim Do-joon's shoulders and quickly comforted him.

"Why are you so surprised, anyway, every time you sell an album, there will be your copyright fee, you should be happy!"

"Hehe, that's envy, okay. Hurry up and get on stage! ”

Kim Do-joon slapped Mithra away and dared to show off his results in front of him. It's really looking for death, watching myself turn around and ask him to play basketball, and dunk him on the head.

Epikhigh, this time, for their return, also spent a lot of effort to invite the female anchor of SBS to preside over the on-site ceremony of the signing for them.

Kim Dojun clasped his hands on his chest, looked at a few people on the stage, and sure enough, there was a beautiful woman, who was still in a very comfortable mood, with exquisite makeup, a coiled hairstyle, revealing a white collarbone, and an off-white suit, which set off a good figure.

While admiring it, Kim Do-joon cautiously stuck out his head and looked under the stands.

It's okay not to look at it, but I'm startled when I see it, how many people are here, dense, and black, almost the entire Lotte mall is crowded, not including the fans downstairs, poking my head and looking down.

After a brief introduction, the host of the scene shouted that he had invited Kim Dojun, and after hearing his name, he took the topic handed over by the staff around him, paced, and walked up.

The fans in the audience didn't realize that Kim Do-jun walked up, and it wasn't until they got closer that they waved their arms enthusiastically and shouted loudly.

"Hello everyone, I'm Kim Do-joon, a member of LEESSANG, and it's a pleasure to meet everyone!"

As soon as he came on stage, Kim Do-joon respectfully bowed down to the fans in the audience to say hello, and waved his hand by the way, signaling to the fans downstairs.

For others, Kim Do-joon may be dismissive, whether it is a wealthy businessman or an official, it is the same.

But for these lovely fans, Kim Do-joon put down his shelf 100%, in his eyes, fans are the cutest people, they don't know each other, they don't know each other at all, but they can spontaneously gather for you, donate money and materials, and when you are filming, they will come to support you.

Wherever you go, they will support you, go to the airport, go to the hotel, go to the filming site, it's all the same, without their support, no matter how big-name artists are, they don't even count as a fart.

But there are many people who don't treat fans as serious people, one side on stage, and another thing off stage, this kind of thing is not uncommon.

Sincere, simple, with a faint smile on his face, he touched the fans present, who applauded and welcomed Kim Do-joon's arrival.

Because it was in a shopping mall, almost all of them were public, and when someone saw Kim Do-joon, they immediately passed it on through mobile phones and social software.

For a while, it was obvious that a large number of fans were gathering around the mall, whether it was watching with curiosity or Kim Do-joon's fans, they were all moving closer to the middle.

After saying hello, Kim Dojun began to accept the host's exclusive interview, and the on-site staff moved a few tall stools and put them down, and everyone sat down and began to chat briefly.

The questions have been told to the host in advance, and she only needs to ask questions, and Kim Do-jun has already thought about these questions as early as when he was in the car, and they are all routine answers.

After all, interviews are not as casual as chatting in private, and many times, inadvertently uploaded to the Internet will cause an uproar, so you need to sort out the language yourself in advance to see what is wrong.

The hostess of SBS was obviously interested in Kim Do-joon and kept blinking and staring at him.

Jin Daojun, who watched it, was a little embarrassed, sat on the high stool, didn't dare to look at her, held the microphone, lowered his head, and pretended to listen to the host's questions again.

"I heard that the title song of Epikhigh this time was written and composed by Dojun himself, right?"

"How is the relationship between Dojun and Epikhigh, can you briefly explain it?"

"What does Dojoon think of the style of Eikehigh's new album this time, and is there any difference between it and Leessang?"

"For this return, what do you think of Eikehigh's results, can you give a rough estimate in your heart?"

After answering a few questions, it also took Kim Do-jun 20 minutes, and after doing the math, it was about the same, so he stopped immediately.

This kind of thing couldn't be simpler for him, a high-achieving student who graduated from Yale University, answering questions is a piece of cake, but in the face of feelings, and the gaze passed by the hostess, he is a little shy.

After the interview, Kim Do-joon left first, and the rest of the things had nothing to do with him, and then it was their own signing party, Kim Do-joon asked Kim so Yong to buy more than a dozen copies of the new album, so he would support them, and give them back to Taeyeon, Jessica, and Sunny as a small gift, and they would be remembered by them, especially Sunny and Jessica! (To be continued......)

PS: Yesterday's update is still under review, and if you don't like it, or don't understand it, you're watching it after the review!