TOP is generating excitement among fans with hints of a solo return to the music scene.
On January 23, the former BIGBANG rapper is now making waves as Thanos in the Netflix thriller Squid game 2– sat down for a candid chat with the British media NME.
This acting project marked his return to the entertainment industry, about seven years after he was forced to stop all his activities when he was jailed for smoking marijuana in 2016.
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In 2017, he received a 10-month suspended prison sentence and, despite being a police officer conscripted for compulsory military service, was removed from his post.
TOP was instead set to become a public official in 2018 until he was dismissed the following year.
The “DOOM DADA” singer has remained out of the public eye ever since. Ultimately, he left BIGBANG after featuring on the group’s digital single, “Still Life,” in 2022 to spare them from further harm, as he revealed in a previous interview.
However, T.O.P continued to work on creating and writing his own music. After the success of the Netflix series, he hinted at his desire to finally share it with fans in about eight years.
“What I hope to do currently is share with the TOPs of the world—myself as a musician—why I will share my music [for the first time] in almost a decade,” he said during the ZOOM interview.
“TOP musician would be the character I want to play 1737604971.”
He poured his soul into his music and standing in front of the microphone, which he considered the only way to breathe.
“Over the years, I spent a lot of time thinking and regretting what I had done, and I also spent a lot of time in self-reflection. I think those years allowed my musical universe to change greatly,” TOP said.
“I feel like my music has become richer and expanded in scale as well, so I’m pretty confident that my fans will feel that I’ve matured musically.”
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