{"id":24886,"date":"2022-04-05T14:21:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T21:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=24886"},"modified":"2023-01-16T00:10:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:10:15","slug":"bigbangs-t-o-p-says-goodbye-to-yg-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bigbangs-t-o-p-says-goodbye-to-yg-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"BIGBANG&#8217;s T.O.P says goodbye to YG Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the oldest groups in K-pop, <strong>BIGBANG<\/strong>, made a nostalgic <strong>comeback<\/strong> with the song \u201c<strong>Still life<\/strong>\u201d, which surprised the fandom with the special video. However, VIPs are worried about <strong>T.O.P<\/strong>&#8216;s departure from the agency that saw him debut with the boy band.<\/p>\n<p>The idol&#8217;s <strong>contract<\/strong> with <strong>YG Entertainment<\/strong> ended on February 7th, 2022, so it was possible that he would not participate in BIGBANG&#8217;s comeback. However, the company announced that this would happen, since T.<br \/>C<br \/>\n<br \/>O.P had finished recording the video.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>During the night of April 5 in South Korean time, the singer of \u201c<strong>Turn it up<\/strong>\u201d published a <strong>letter<\/strong> through his personal Instagram account, saying goodbye to YG Entertainment for the 16 years of being with them during his career with BIG BANG.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/icedrgn1888\/status\/1511313473132986373\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">T.O.P. Gratitude Letter to YG, his home for 16 years, and to us, VIPS. I love you, Choi Seung Hyun. \ud83d\udc9b<\/p>\n<p>STILL LIFE STILL HERE<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YG_GlobalVIP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@YG_GlobalVIP<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BIGBANG_StillLife?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BIGBANG_StillLife<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BIGBANG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BIGBANG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%EB%B9%85%EB%B1%85%EC%9D%B4_%EB%8F%8C%EC%95%84%EC%99%94%EC%8A%B5%EB%8B%88%EB%8B%A4?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\ube45\ubc45\uc774_\ub3cc\uc544\uc654\uc2b5\ub2c8\ub2e4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rj1Z7KQfdd\">pic.twitter.com\/rj1Z7KQfdd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ice Dragon (@icedrgn1888) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/icedrgn1888\/status\/1511313473132986373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>I look forward to the day when I&#8217;ll be able to come back as a man of inspiration in the near future<\/strong>\u201d, T.O.P wrote. In addition, he mentions that he will start a new important path in his life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>Finally, he gives thanks to the fans who have followed him since the beginning of BIGBANG and his solo career. Even though T.O.P has officially <strong>withdrawn<\/strong> from YG Entertainment, the artist will continue to release music for his fans, according to an interview he conducted with <strong>Prestige<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>He himself confirmed that the premiere of his <strong>solo<\/strong> album will be soon, since he wants to show who he is. In addition, he indicated that there will be different types of musical genres within the production.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;<em><strong>All the songs are from my pure heart: I spent a lot of sweat and effort to make this album possible (&#8230;) For the first time since my debut 16 years ago, my first full album will be released and it will be created as a movie<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, he reported for the magazine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the oldest groups in K-pop, BIGBANG, made a nostalgic comeback with the song \u201cStill life\u201d, which surprised the fandom with the special video. However, VIPs are worried about T.O.P&#8216;s departure from the agency that saw him debut with the boy band. The idol&#8217;s contract with YG Entertainment ended on February 7th, 2022, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":24892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24886","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\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}