DID YOU KNOW?

that bangtan’s ‘am i wrong’ (2016)’ is sampled from keb’ mo’s original song of ‘am i wrong (1994)?

am i wrong, fallin’ in love with you

tell me am I wrong,

while your other man was out there

cheatin’ and lyin’, steppin’ all over you

and how they turned the blues love song to a sassy mid-tempo r&b swingers, reflecting about society while still maintaining the original sound, its brilliant, really.

fyi there has already been an established relationship between music and samples for decades particularly in hip hop, from its very conception, this genre has transformed loop sections of other tracks into some of the biggest songs of all time. like for example, warren g’s regulate (1994), is actually sampled from michael mcdonald’s ‘i keep forgettin’ released in 1982. jay z’s ‘99 problems’ (2003) main lines are actually from the same title track by ice t released ten years earlier. kanye’s gold digger (2005) is sampled from ray charles ‘i got a woman’ (1954), which was actually based largely on a song called ‘it must be jesus’ (1954) by the the southern tones. and there are many more, amazingly.



but whats mind-blowing to me is the fact that bangtan listed ‘am i wrong’ as their album track but crediting only kevin moore (keb’ mo’s real name) as the writer & composer when they have basically recreated the whole song . no one else took credit like how past artists would ㅠㅠ

i find that very very endearing and downright humble, the whole staff producers too. cool team~

edit: wiki listed the WRITERS: kevin moore (cover), sam klempner, james reynolds, josh wilkinson, rap monster, supreme boi, gaeko, pdogg, ADORA, the PRODUCERS: kevin moore (cover), sam klempner, james reynolds, josh wilkinson.

regardless, i still think theyre a cool team~~

but lets, lets talk about how savage



the world’s goin’ crazy

how about you how bout ya’

you think it is okay?

i don’t.. think so

even having ears, they don’t hear

even having eyes, they don’t see

in all of their hearts, there live fish

and the name is selfish selfish we’re all dogs, pigs, because we get angry we become dogs

storks vs crow-tits it’s a war errday

it’s a crazy world, yeah

drives us all crazy

that’s right, we’re all crazy

all right now lets shout out MAYDAY MAYDAY

and direct the rappers are



that’s right kid you’ve gone crazy

the fact that you’re not crazy in this crazy world makes you crazy

(there’s hate) the entire earth and the sky and all around HELL YEAH

(there’s hate) online or offline HELL YEAH if you see the news and feel nothing

if that comment means nothing

if that hatred means nothing

you’re not normal and that makes you abnormal

in case you dont know, yoongi was actually taking a jab at a government official who not long ago had made disparaging remarks during a meeting with newspaper reporters, at which he said that 99% of his country’s people are “like dogs and pigs.” i quote,

like what a preposterous. thought.

with whats going on in their very own country (as well as everywhere else around the world, for that matter) bangtan is basically saying how insane the world we’re living in is and how problematic the societal boundaries are. how ignorant and selfish ppl can be, because bystanders are just as wrong as the perpetrators, like we’re living everyday with these fallacious moral values up our faces and yet, why wont we say anything?

i think the whole world has gone crazy

i think the whole world is coming to an end

oh why

you don’t say?

which is why when namjoon said

are you ready for this

are you ready for this

are you ready for this

its almost like hes jeering back at everyone with the same offensive thoughts, challenging the system, like, look, look at us, look at how we’d roll and try to make the world better, look at how we’ll try to change things for the better, even when we know how ugly it can get, even when we’re not ready. WE ARE.

and when the vocal line goes



did i, what? say something wrong?

did i, what? lie about something?

going crazy, crazy

am i wrong? am i wrong?

wherever i go the world’s gone crazy

i lost it at jimins craaaayjiii cos it sounded exactly like he lost it right there askjhd they still find it in themselves to stay true like

even if i walk in this crazy world’s path

i still want to live longer

i still want to keep looking for it, my belief/faith

so yes, i think its brilliant that they went with ‘am i wrong’ and 21st century girl’ (which is also another exceptional track) as follow-up songs in their promotion. ‘am i wrong’ as well as at least half of the songs from their wings album are quite frankly, a perfect response to the rude government official and to every insult they have ever gotten. like, damn genius, what a clever way to make a COMEBACK

so yeah



lets fly higher than the sky! ♡

