At a press conference held Monday at Seoul’s Imperial Palace Hotel, Swizz Beatz announced a deal between his own production company and South Korea’s O.N. Media. The partnership is meant to produce collaborations between American and Korean artists, and to help advance K-Pop artists in the US market. Swizz expressed admiration for top-selling groups KARA, Big Bang, 2NE1 and BoA, told local press that he’d like to produce a Rihanna/2NE1 collaboration and explained his desire to market K-Pop outside of Asia:
It’s a new expression and the world is open for new things. I think right now K-Pop in Korea is leading in that area, and I would love to be the one to introduce that to the West. The biggest thing with K-Pop is how much it’s elevated to the next level. A genius like Kanye West [West collaborated with Korean boy band JYJ on "Ayy Girl"] and other geniuses that are smart enough to work with K-Pop groups understand that music is universal… I believe in leadership, I believe in setting the pace, I don’t like to wait till somebody else does it. I like to be one of the first.
In January, Swizz Beatz was listed as the CEO of now-shuttered file sharing site Megaupload on its “about us” page. In the federal indictment filed against Megaupload, Swizz was not identified as one of the site’s owners. This morning in New Zealand, Megaupload’s founder Kim Dotcom was released on bail. He has been in custody since his January 20th arrest.
Sales in South Korea’s music industry have boomed since the country introduced strict anti-piracy legislation in 2009, and Korean groups now dominate Japanese charts and TV.
Read more about Korea’s fresh-faced pop business here, and download Elite Gymnastics’ 2011 mix of K-Pop favorites here.
K-Pop’s songwriter is a racist piece of garbage…clearly Swizz Beatz would be involved. http://www.soompi.com/news/jenny-hyuns-offending-tweets-calling-for-eradication-of-the-black-community-spark-controversy
It’s called K-pop for something… All these attempts to make it in the american market are annoying.
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Ayo, that girl [Jenny Hyun] is a paranoid schizophrenic who was having a psychotic episode when she wrote all of that really terrible shit and obviously does not speak for all Koreans or Korean songwriters. No matter how wack Swizzy has been lately, there’s no need to sling mud like that. That said, kpop is coming w/ or w/o him, BoA isn’t a group, EG have wack taste in kpop. and “Ayyy Girl” is the most ridiculous piece of crap
Teddy Riley was trying to do the same thing w/ Rania or whatever they were called and nothing came of that. He late though, Diplo done some stuff w/ folk over there already
Yeah Diplo produced “Knock Out” for G-Dragon & T.O.P. of Big Bang when they did their little side project. Teddy Riley abandoned RaNia for the juggernaut Girls’ Generation to produce the worst title track in their history “The Boys” even though that album was a huge seller for them despite being terrible all around. And he’s still working w/ SM Entertainment. I guess they don’t care that he beat his daughter with a Rock Band guitar… the dude who produces for LMFAO wants to work with 2NE1 too which is hilarious but also not that much of a stretch considering how annoying most of their music has been lately. Melvin Brown who works w/ Akon and Gaga had planned to debut this no name group JQT here as recently as last month but they’ve since disbanded and some of the girls are moving to another agency (a Korean one) and their US activities are up in the air and probably not happening. So lots of misses so far but the ball is already rolling especially w/ Wonder Girls, 2NE1, and Girls’ Generation.
The King of New Jack Swing Multi-Platinum Grammy Award Winning Producer Teddy Riley is the 1st to Bring K-Pop Music to the USA!
For nearly two years it was no secret to the K-Pop music industry that world renowned Music Producer Teddy Riley and PMG his production team is the first to break ground and envision the success of working within their music sector as well as bringing K-Pop music to the USA.
From attending major press conferences, meetings, working and collaborating with a few major music management and record labels since the late summer of 2010 in Seoul, Korea, Teddy Riley, who has more than 500 major credits to his name including the highlight of his production career the “Dangerous” album by Michael Jackson which sold more than 32 million copies and won him a Grammy for engineering has most definitely etched his deep imprint and impression in the K-Pop music industry and successfully accomplished his objective and mission.
Since April of 2011, Riley has been featured and highlighted in major Korean Pop magazines, blogs and music editorials, Billboard, mainstream news and hundreds of social media sites for his solid work with various artists including Jay Park and has a high profile media presence reflecting his accomplishments on line. He since has been producing and composing music for top artists at SM Entertainment, South Korea’s largest Entertainment & Media Group.
K-Pop music hit the USA masses on October 23rd of 2011 at Madison Square Garden when a 9-piece Korean pop super group Girls Generation a/k/a SNSD made their United States debut with a sell-out concert sponsored by SM Town performing their hit song “The Boys” produced and co-written by Teddy Riley and to date has 8 different remixes. “The Boys” stateside earned a Top 5 slot on the Billboard K-Pop Hot 100 chart shortly after their USA debut and ranked 2nd on Billboard’s World Album Charts.
The video was released on October 18, at which time had over 11 million YouTube views and to date over 60 million as the Girls Generation also inked a deal with Universal Music Group/Interscope Records.
“So before everyone gets too excited with recent quotes published in a few major Urban music magazines and sites with a posting of a news conference recently held in Seoul, Korea by another USA Hip Hop producer who “mistakenly” stated that something like this has never been done before and he is breaking new ground bringing K-Pop to the USA, please note that as Public Relations Strategist for Icon Teddy Riley, I just want to kindly but firmly get the facts straight! I ensure all of you that this mission has not only been accomplished and well received first by my client, but a mountain of success has already been marked and identified as a piece of legendary history in the making with his name on it,” says Monica Anders.
fuck swizz beats. who would actually want this shit? and why are you reporting on it?