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This song is kind of an autobiography of Yoongi that he wrote himself. The lyrics are going in chronological order. It starts from the time that he decided to make music at the age of 13.

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(Reference from Amino Army: Credits to its respectful owners. Half or more than half of the content below doesn't belong to me)

I think I was 13 when I first started making beats with MIDI on my computer. I was also 13 when I first wrote lyrics. And then I started working in a music studio in Daegu. It would be more accurate to say that I worked rather than I worked on music. But that was how I learned to compose and arrange.

Some might say that I did music as an underground rapper but it will be more accurate to say that I just did music in Daegu. As I worked in the studio, I sold beats I made and eventually started rapping.

Not many years passed since I joked I was going to do music. The best place you'd end up is at the music academy when you do music in Daegu. The thought of "I'll be the principal" pissed me off. This is my one and only life so whatever it may be, I should try becoming the No.1 for once.

Since I've done everything on my own from one to ten, my greed seems to be getting a little bigger. I also have the kind of personality where I really can't abide doing things roughly. I focus on the highest point of completion.

Life is long, but I have the ambition to reach the peak with my music.

You can see it form the lyrics that I wrote for Hip-Hop lovers.

The young me used to write my 16 bars on the corner of my textbooks. Thanks to that, I threw away my secure life and went to a studio in Namsan-dong, Daegu. All night, I sharpened my blunt pen tip. At the end of my efforts, instead of having language marks for school. I filled up my rhymes, which made my dreams come true.

I couldn't reach No.1 with studies. But I thought I could with music.

My parents were against the idea for about half a year. They are really strict. They've been through a lot so they didn't want me to suffer too, they wanted me to be along the lines of a civil servant, even if it's ordinary, they wanted me to have a stable job. But now they support me the most while saying "I'm proud of my son, he's chasing after his dream."

My teachers were completely against it just like my parents. Especially my 1st grade (high school) Maths teacher. The teacher said he played drums when he was a student, he knows how hard life it would be, to make a living from music. So he was really against it. Even though he was a strict teacher, there was a lot that I could learn from him.

JIMIN - "My teachers were quite supportive. My tutor from the 3rd grade of the middle school still remembers me and cheers for me. I can still remember what the teacher said to me you should make music for the rest of your life."

I envy you. All I got was "You're not going to succeed" and "What are you going to do with music?! The music won't do any good for you." Even though I've heard many negative comments, it became a driving force for me to work harder, I thought "It doesn't matter how stressful it would be, I will be successful in my music career." I got this far all thanks to them.

Everyone asks me, what is hip hop? Then I confidently answer, my everything. As a result, my life has buried itself into music. If loving this culture is a sin, I'll die over a hundred times.

I used to work as a studio engineer while composing and performing at the same time in Daegu. But there was no one when I performed. 50 people were a lot. I lost money every day, I didn't even have money to eat after performing.

I had had enough of it. If I want to make the kind of music that satisfies myself only, it would be better for my mental health to make it alone at home. (laughs) I came up to Seoul because I wanted to let many people hear my music. It's also the reason I became an idol.

I attended an all-boys school so I had to cut my hair short. But I said, "there is an audition so I don't want to cut my hair." And I got scolded severely.

There are many people from my crew that gave up doing music. A Hyung that told me "I like music but I don't think I have enough talents to do it" made a hip hop entertainment instead. There are also Hyungs who now work in a company or own a BBQ restaurant.

(A/N: I still laugh at this audition of Suga. After many years when the other members of BTS showed him this picture of him during the audition, he folded it and threw it away, which makes me laugh so hard.)

It's the rapping competition organized by Bang Sihyuk. Bang Sihyuk is that guy who worked with that Baek Jiyoung that- Hyungnim, isn't that the guy who wrote "like being shot by a gun". So that's how I entered the competition with my crew hyungs.

Bang PD said that at the audition I was really confident even arrogant about the music I made at that time.

Looking back at my audition, I knew nothing, then. I thought that my music was always right and many people would like me. I was wrong. Since then, my opinion about music has changed a lot.

They said we should pass the preliminary round first to reach the final round. Ok that's easy peasy. The beat they gave us to rap, I changed the entire thing. I started re-arranging the beats. Look at this, who would do this. If you were me, would you do this? Listen, which company would, huh? Say no to this genius.

When I look back, I've seen and learned a lot between those times. At the time, I thought everything I did was the best, including my music, so I think I grew a lot.

But I'm worried that I'm not as sharp as I was before, so I'm worried that I lost my original color.

I was like, "I'm a person who's been continuously doing music since I was young, but now that I've become an idol people are going to look at me differently, right?"

But those were all idle thoughts. No matter how you look at it there are things that have changed, but it seems like I agonized about it and hung this heavy meaning on it for no reason. I was in this severe, serious mode. (laughs).

The things that at the time felt as though they were molds that caged me now feel more like a fence. My heart has become more comfortable. I've also done away with some of my stubbornness about music. How should I say it? It feels like my outlook has become much wider compared to before. My self-confidence has become more robust.

I entered Seoul on 2010 November 7th. There's nothing much about Gangnam, the confidence of Daegu hillbilly. Coolly, I ate my dinner out, what the fuck my eyes spun when I saw the bill. My one month allowance was merely 30 (300,000 won) shit.

There was a time I had to live with just 300,000 won ($262) a month. I couldn't eat three meals a day. It was hard and I wasn't that rich, but I think I enjoyed it. Why? My inferiority complex and the desire of wanting to do well quick was strong after debut. It wasn't like a total failure, just my high ideals made it hard.

Back in high school, I spent my days playing around and having fun with my friend. I went to my old school, took a walk, sorted out my thoughts, and got to know what I need to do.

I started working part-time jobs since when I was in the 3rd grade of high school. I delivered a post in the early morning during which I shattered my shoulder, washed dishes at restaurants, and so on.

That is how things go around in the field of music. I was just too busy paying for the transportation fee and food with the little sum of money I owned through that job.

There was a small Jajjang noodle restaurant that costs 2000 won next to the studio as well as another noodle store that costs 1000 won. Every day, I was in trouble choosing; If I eat 1000 won noodles, I could go home by riding a bus. If I eat Jajjang noodle that costs 2000, I would have to go home walking for two hours. It was a harsh situation, but I was able to withstand that time thanks to my passion for music.

When I go to school, all of them are from wealthy families. They waste more money than my one month allowance on liquor. And what? what? they pretend they got no money. Shut the fuck up ass***e shut your bloody mouth.

The mass media creates all the fuss about making people think 'thin, skinny' as the absolute standard of beauty. But on the other side of the Earth, there are people who starve to death. Shouldn't we be aware of those things more?

If I become an inspiring and clean person, I believe I can make people turn their heads on those things more.

I don't quite want to return to that period of time. It actually wasn't all that joyful during the debut time. There were many things I didn't quite understand but still had to do it so I accumulated a lot of stress.

So I want to say to myself, "Don't think too much. Even if you feel very painful right now, it will all change soon so just endure it a bit."

In the past, I really hoped to be recognized. I will think, "I'm working so hard, why aren't people understanding me?"

Now I want to say that as long as you work hard, the result will naturally emerge.

I turn 20 and the scene of our graduation hall is crap. Those ass****s who gamble all night? They've here in their foreign brand cars, well that makes me quite jealous. Envious

As I wrote in Spine Breaker there are 2 categories of students in school: The rich and the poor. From this divide, I suffered first-handed.

ok ok ok watch closely. Leave your doubtful comments about whether I'd debut. Watch me after a year ass****, look at what I'll be doing. You would see me on TV and then decide to contact me

(Fact: 724148 is a song where he is talking about his pre-debut days. Not just about his trainee days, but about his life when he was a producer at Daegu. As he had little money he used to ride buses a lot. 724 is a bus number that runs through Daegu, and 148 is the bus that he rode at Seoul. So you can see for yourself that these 6 numbers are quite meaningful to him.)