Revealed: 06 Nov. 2025, 17:00
Singer G-Dragon speaks throughout a welcome dinner for the 2025 Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) summit at Lahan Choose Gyeongju in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang, on Oct. 31. [YONHAP]
Ok-pop celebrity G-Dragon revealed in a latest interview that he was so disheartened by a drug allegation probe two years in the past that he thought-about retiring from the music trade.
The chief of the influential Ok-pop group Massive Bang opened up concerning the emotional toll of the investigation throughout an look on MBC’s present affairs program “Sohn Suk-hee’s Questions,” which aired Wednesday.
“I used to be concerned in a sure incident a couple of 12 months earlier than releasing ‘Energy,'” G-Dragon mentioned, referring to his 2023 investigation on suspicion of violating the Act on the Management of Narcotics. The singer was in the end cleared of all expenses in December 2023. “There was nowhere to voice my private opinions or emotions. Regardless that I used to be a sufferer, the state of affairs spiraled uncontrolled, leaving me feeling disheartened and empty.”
G-Dragon, a style icon and extremely regarded singer and songwriter, returned to the music scene after a seven-year hiatus along with his new single, “Energy,” final November.
He defined that the track encapsulates his experiences from that tough interval.
“I did not even wish to maintain a press convention to state my place,” he mentioned. “I assumed, ‘Is it proper for me to make a comeback?’ I might have simply retired and lived as an peculiar particular person, however there was no motive to try this both.”
He described “Energy” as a “humorous satire on the media.”
“The one factor I might do throughout that tough time was to specific myself by music,” he added.
G-Dragon is at present on his “Übermensch” world tour. Following exhibits in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Saturday and Sunday, he’s scheduled to carry the ultimate concert events of the tour on the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul from Dec. 12 to 14.
Yonhap
