BTS' SUGA thanks COVID-19 for letting him finish mixtape, which includes a Jim Jones sample

May 29, 2020 18:28




- BTS rapper SUGA went live on thursday to talk about his new mixtape under his Agust D moniker, D-2

- SUGA commented that because of schedule changes caused by COVID-19 he had time add two extra songs and film a music video for 'Daechwita'. "A luck that COVID-19 brought. Not because of, but thanks to COVID-19, we have 'Daechwita'. If we were still touring I wouldn't have been able to shoot the music video."

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- During the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea, SUGA donated 100 million won (US$82,297) to the Hope Bridge Korea Disaster Relief Association, according to the association.

- D-2's third track 'What do you think?' opens with a sample of one of Jim Jones' sermons


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- Jim Jones was the cult leader who led a mass murder-suicide of his followers in his commune at Jonestown. Of the 909 people who lived and died in Jonestown in November 1978, the vast majority (around 70%) were Black people.

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