User:Violetzq/Code Kunst

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In this Korean name, the family name is Jo.
Code Kunst
코드 쿤스트
조성우
Birth nameJo Sung-woo
Born (1989-12-18) December 18, 1989 (age 34)
Incheon, South Korea
Genres
Occupation(s)
Years active2013–present
LabelsAOMG
Websiteaomgofficial.com/codekunst
Height: 5'8 (178 cm)

Jo Sung-woo (Hangul: 조성우; born December 18, 1989),[1] better known by his stage name Code Kunst (Hangul: 코드 쿤스트), is a South Korean composer and music producer. He joined the record label HIGHGRND in September 2015,[2] and released his third studio album Muggle's Mansion on February 28, 2017.[3] In June 2018, he moved to the record label AOMG.[4] In July 2018, it was confirmed he would be appearing as a judge alongside Paloalto on the reality survival show, Show Me the Money 777.[5]

Life and career[edit]

The word "Kunst" means "Art" in German, therefore the stage name Code Kunst has a meaning of "the music I produced will become arts."[6] Code Kunst started his music career relevantly later in his life, after serving in the military. He adds a lot of vocal chopping in his music which became one of his unique music styles.[6]

Code Kunst grew up looking at drawings drew by his mother, and that helped him visualize music.[7] As a music producer, Code Kunst believes that after listening to a song he should be able to envision images in his head and be inspired with new imaginations for his own creativity. This is an essential component for his music producing process.[8] September, 2015, Code Kunst joined the label HIGHGRND under YG Entertainment due to the impact of Tablo, and released his third album Muggle's Mansion in February, 2017. He left HIGHGRND and joined AOMG in June, 2018. He is also a member of Legit Goons crew, which consists of composers, rappers, engineers, and filmmakers.

Rapper Mac Miller and his music played an important role in Code Kunst's music producing career. Code Kunst claims that Mac Miller was the inspiration to one-third of his music.[8] Code Kunst admires Mac Miller's ability to harmonize with the producers' work and once expressed the wishes to collaborate Mac Miller. Mac Miller passed away on September 7, 2018,[9] the news was devastated to Code Kunst.[8][6]

Working together for a very long time, Code Kunst is very close with members from the VisMajor Company founded by Deepflow, including Nucksal and Dunmills. He also developed deep relationship with members in AOMG. He said in the program Running Man that Woo Won-jae is a very close friend of him in AOMG.

Survival Shows[edit]

In 2018, Code Kunst collaborated with various Korean hip-hop artists including Nafla, Loopy, Kid Milli, etc. In September 2018, Code Kunst officially appeared in the Korean Hip-Hop survival show Show Me the Money 777 as one of the judges. He then was nominated by Korean Hip-Hop Awards for Best Producer in 2019.[10] Code Kunst believes that remaining innocent is very important for a musician. He tries to remain young mentally, and his enjoyable personality can often be seen from his appearance on reality shows.

Loopy and Kid Milli from his team won second and third place in Show Me the Money 777. The song Good Day that was a huge achievement, making first place on various music sites in Korea including Melon, Genie Music, Mnet, and various other Korean music platforms.

In 2019, Code Kunst, along with Jay Park, Simon Dominic, Woo Won-jae, and Gray, appeared as judges on the audition program Signhere started by Korean Hip-hop label AOMG and MBN.[11]

Same year in 2019, Code Kunst appeared in another Hip-hop reality survival program High School Rapper 3[12]. Code Kunst was in the same team with The Quiett. Together they produced Go High (feat, Changmo, Woo Won-jae) sang by female rapper Lee Young-ji, who came as the final winner to the show.

Trivia[edit]

  • He mentioned in Radio Star that when he just began composing music, he used to get bleeding nose because he stayed up for too many nights making music. He enjoyed it because he thought that was what 'real artists' do. He thinks he had 중이병 (a narcissistic allusion that 8th-grade-age teens have) back then.[6]
  • He also joked in High School Rapper 3 that he has an IQ of 163.
  • He loves cats and has two cats named Seeroo and Panda, they are often seen in his instagram posts and live videos.
  • When asked about his ideal type of girls, he picked Kim Min-hee and Sunmi because he thinks they have a natural eastern beauty.[13]

Albums and Collaborations[edit]

Code Kunst released his first album Novel in April, 2014.[14] He then collaborated with Tablo and Joey Badass in September, 2015, before he joined the music label HIGHGRND. The soundtrack's name is Hood.[15] When it comes to collaborations, Code Kunst thinks the most important factor is to have fun working together. He had great time working with Tablo and Joey Badass and claimed that Tablo, Joey Badass, and C Jamm are some of the artists most fun to work with.[13]

He said in the interview in 2019 that he is now preparing his collaboration with Woo Won-jae.[16]

Muggle's Mansion[edit]

Code Kunst's album Muggle's Mansion was released in 2017, February 28th. It is Code Kunst's third album. In this album, he collaborated with a variety of Korean artists such as Lee Hi, Mino (rapper), Hyukoh, Tablo, Dok2, Loco (rapper), Bewhy, Nucksal, Loopy, etc. The word "Muggle" has two meanings, one meaning can be traced to Harry Potter in which "muggles" are a group of ordinary people without magic. On the other hand, Code Kunst believes ordinary people can also have unusual stories and sounds. Getting together to make music un-ordinary music is the ambition and concept for this album.[17] Muggle's Mansion was nominated by the Korean Hip-Hop Awards for Album of the Year.[18]

Filmography[edit]

Television[edit]

Year Program Network Notes
2018 Show Me the Money 777 Mnet (TV channel) Judge
2019 Running Man (TV series) SBS (Korea) Episode 458-459
Baek Jong-won's Alley Restaurant SBS (Korea) Episode 83
Laborhood on Hire TVN (South Korean TV channel) Episode 04
Signhere AOMG, MBN (Korea) Episodes 1-10, judge
Radio Star (TV series) MBC (KOREA) Episode 632
High School Rapper 3 Mnet (TV channel) Judge
해볼라고 JTBC Episode 09

Radio[edit]

Year Program Network Notes
2019 라디오 경청 EBS (Korea) Host: Chungha
Dreaming Radio MBC FM4U Lee Hi, Woo Won-jae
Simon Dominic, Woo Won-jae
Gray (singer), Woo Won-jae

Discography[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
[19]
Novel
Track listing
  1. We Are feat. Blnk-Time
  2. Ash feat. JJK
  3. Next
  4. Organ feat. Nucksal
  5. Betting feat. Don Mills
  6. You Can't Control Me
  7. Time's Up feat. Geegooin & Hangzoo
  8. Up feat. C Jamm
  9. This Song (이 노래) feat. Brasco
  10. Take It Away feat. Young Jay
  11. Hate You feat. Gugustar
  12. Prologue
 — —
Crumple
Track listing
  1. Rap Concert feat. Wutan
  2. Golden Cow feat. C Jamm & DJ SQ
  3. Good Bye Novel
  4. Edison (에디슨) feat. Nucksal
  5. Dig! (Oasis Pt. 3) feat. Ja Mezz
  6. Queen feat. Blnk-Time
  7. My Rules (나만의 룰) feat. Giriboy & Ugly Duck
  8. Directors feat. Don Mills, Geegooin & Hangzoo
  9. Correct (그렇다고) feat. Paloalto
  10. 1218
  11. What I Feel feat. Donutman & Owen Ovadoz
  12. The City of the Blind (눈먼 자들의 도시) feat. Nucksale
  13. Love Scene feat. Mayson The Soul
  14. Mido (미도) feat. Blnk-Time, Bassagong & Jayho
  15. Dope
  16. Life is Crazy feat. New Champ
  17. Address (주소) feat. Hwaji
  18. Thank You & Fxxk You
  19. Overdose feat. Rosemi
  20. Bottlecap (병뚜껑)
 34
Muggle's Mansion
Track listing
  1. Artistic
  2. Perfume (향수) feat. Nucksal
  3. This Is feat. C Jamm
  4. Fire Water
  5. Fire Water feat. G.Soul & Tablo
  6. StrOngerrr feat. Loco & Mino
  7. More Fire
  8. Born from the Blue feat. Justhis
  9. Cruz feat. Loopy, Punchnello, Ugly Duck
  10. X feat. Lee Hi
  11. Parachute feat. Oh Hyuk & Dok2
  12. Beside Me feat. BewhY, YDG & Suran
  13. Lounge feat. Hwaji
  14. White AnxiEty feat. Colde
  15. Don’t shoot me MAMA feat. Car, the garden
 26
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Extended plays[edit]

Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
[19]
Hear Things
Track listing
  1. Intro. Excelsior
  2. Advance
  3. Coex
  4. Haze feat. BewhY
  5. 1-2 feat. C Jamm
  6. Indifferent
  7. Lemonade feat. Blnk-Time
  8. Ya Know feat. Dwij, Tommy & BewhY
  9. Code Kunst
  10. Do Not Hand Up The Music (음악을 끊지 말아줘) feat. Sleeq
 — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Singles[edit]

Title Year Peak chart
positions 		Sales Album
KOR
[22]
"Lemonade"
feat. Blnk-Time 		2013 — — Hear Things
"1-2"
feat. C Jamm 		—
"Betting"
feat. Don Mills 		2014 — Novel
"Edison" (에디슨)
feat. Nucksal 		2015 — Crumple
"Golden Cow"
feat. C Jamm & DJ SQ 		—
"Hood"
feat. Tablo & Joey Badass 		— Non-album single
"Parachute"
feat. Oh Hyuk & Dok2 		24 Muggle's Mansion
"Beside Me"
feat. BewhY, YDG & Suran 		2016 92
"Fire Water"
feat. G.Soul & Tablo 		2017 — —
"Rain Bird"
feat. Colde & Tablo 		2018 — Non-album single
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

See Also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "코드 쿤스트 프로필" (in Korean). Naver.
  2. ^ "Code Kunst signs with High Ground". Korea Herald.
  3. ^ "코드 쿤스트, 신곡 'FIRE WATER' M/V 티저 공개" (in Korean). Ten Asia.
  4. ^ "[공식입장]AOMG, 코드쿤스트 전속계약…'대세 레이블 입증'". Chosun News.
  5. ^ "'쇼미777' 측 "그레이X비와이 출연불발, 더콰이엇X창모-코드쿤스트X팔로알토 합류"". MSN News Korea.
  6. ^ a b c d AOMG - [코드 쿤스트 (CODE KUNST)] MBC, '라디오스타' - 2019. 06. 19.... | Facebook, retrieved 2020-01-31
  7. ^ [CODE KUNST : 9¾ DOCUMENTARY] EP 01 엄마의 그림들 (Mother's Drawings), retrieved 2020-01-31
  8. ^ a b c 맥 밀러의 마지막 날을 눈물로 보낸 코드 쿤스트 / BIG FAN, retrieved 2020-01-24
  9. ^ "Mac Miller", Wikipedia, 2020-01-24, retrieved 2020-01-25
  10. ^ "한국 힙합 어워즈 2019". www.koreanhiphopawards.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  11. ^ "MBN, 첫 힙합 예능 'SignHere' 론칭한다…KBS 출신 남성현 PD 첫 작품". 스타투데이 (in Korean). Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  12. ^ "[HD스압포토] '고등래퍼3' ① 더 콰이엇-코드 쿤스트, 힙합 어르신 납시오!(제작발표회)". 제니스글로벌뉴스 (in Korean). 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  13. ^ a b Picking at the mind of producer Code Kunst!, retrieved 2020-01-31
  14. ^ "코드 쿤스트 - 나무위키". namu.wiki. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  15. ^ Adrina (2015-09-07). "Hype's Now Playing: Tablo (타블로) X Joey Bada$$ X Code Kunst – Hood". Hype Malaysia. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  16. ^ "微博". m.weibo.cn. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  17. ^ 코드쿤스트 X 넉살 인터뷰 [DF Interview], retrieved 2020-01-31
  18. ^ "LEGIT GOONS - 나무위키". namu.wiki. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  19. ^ a b "Gaon Album Chart". Gaon Music Chart. Archived from the original on 2015-08-27.
  20. ^ "2017년 09월 Album Chart".
  21. ^ "2017년 03월 Album Chart".
  22. ^ "Gaon Digital Chart". Gaon Music Chart. Archived from the original on 2017-03-09.
  23. ^ Cumulative sales of "Parachute":
  24. ^ "2016년 31주차 Download Chart".

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