{"id":151701,"date":"2025-11-05T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=151701"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:44:00","slug":"g-dragon-gets-real-about-his-song-power-and-past-drug-controversies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/g-dragon-gets-real-about-his-song-power-and-past-drug-controversies\/","title":{"rendered":"G-Dragon gets real about his song \u201cPOWER\u201d and past drug controversies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 5, 2025, <strong>G-Dragon<\/strong> sat down on<strong> MBC\u2019s Sohn\u2019s Questions<\/strong> and finally spoke about the storm he went through after false drug allegations in November 2023. The rapper explained that every test came back negative, and the case was dismissed, but he had no real place to say how it felt. He did not want a press conference, and he didn\u2019t want to say he was innocent. The K-pop star felt stuck, even wondering if he should retire, then realizing there was no real reason to leave.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gdragonintl\/status\/1721402426190868948\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Full translations of G-Dragon&#39;s interview today!<\/p>\n<p>Q: What is the reason of you voluntarily appear?<br \/>GD: I went as I have to find out, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Do you admit drug use allegations?<br \/>GD: About me, there is no truth regarding the crimes related to drugs. Since I&#39;m here to clarify\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/16m4K5BEmW\">pic.twitter.com\/16m4K5BEmW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; G-DRAGON INTERNATIONAL (@gdragonintl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gdragonintl\/status\/1721402426190868948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But that introspective time turned into writing. He poured the confusion and frustration into new music, which is why the \u201cPOWER\u201d video hits like a statement. When the host <strong>Sohn Suk Hee<\/strong> called it an open criticism, he agreed there was a message he needed to deliver. He had survived a scare, and he wanted to show what that survival sounds like.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cAll I could do was music. As I started writing again, I found myself channeling those experiences, and it felt like I had \u2018found my purpose\u2019\u2014that\u2019s what \u2018POWER\u2019 came to mean for me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ETERNALLYFORGD\/status\/1986064061277376700\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Son Seok hee\u2019s Questions: GDRAGON Interview \u2b50\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc66: To me, those ten years went by so fast, but how were the past ten years for you, GDragon?<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc32: Hmm\u2026 There were some years that passed quickly, and others that went by more slowly.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc66: \u201cI feel like I\u2019m a harmful influence on\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xc5qtr2GWh\">pic.twitter.com\/xc5qtr2GWh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GDay (@ETERNALLYFORGD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ETERNALLYFORGD\/status\/1986064061277376700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For G-Dragon, the November 2023 incident didn\u2019t define him, as this recent interview showed a songwriter and artist who found purpose again. On the work front, G-Dragon has been promoting his most recent album, \u201c<strong>\u00dcbermensch<\/strong>,\u201d along with a world tour of the same name. Most recently, the \u00dcbermensch World Tour made record-breaking numbers after selling out the Taipei Dome in Taiwan with over 80,000 fans attending the November 1 and 2 concerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 5, 2025, G-Dragon sat down on MBC\u2019s Sohn\u2019s Questions and finally spoke about the storm he went through after false drug allegations in November 2023. The rapper explained that every test came back negative, and the case was dismissed, but he had no real place to say how it felt. He did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":151702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[1041],"class_list":{"0":"post-151701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-g-dragon"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}