G-Dragon talks about his decade-old friendship with Taeyang

In the fourth part of an Asiae interview with Big Bang’s G-Dragon in which the idol shared his feelings on his concert scandal, his trainee days at SM, and his first year at YG, G-Dragon talked about Taeyang, a fellow Big Bang member who GD befriended at thirteen.

When they were both young, the two were cast in Jinusean’s A-yo music video.

G-Dragon said,

When I first met Youngbae (Taeyang’s real name), he wasn’t somebody I could just pass by. I thought to myself, ‘Uh! Who is this?‘ We quickly grew close. We have opposite personalities so we have never fought, even to this day. When I was young, I was shy; after I went through puberty, I gained more confidence. Youngbae was really energetic when he was young but now he’s serious and quiet. Youngbae was so outgoing that when he met Yang Hyun Suk he said, “I want to be part of YG.” So Yang Hyun Suk told him, “You should come over yourself.”

Taeyang entered YG Entertainment one month after the MV filming event. He went straight to Yang Hyun Suk’s office, informing him that he hadn’t gotten a call from Yang Hyun Suk over the past month. Yang Hyun Suk decided to take him in as a trainee, much to G-Dragon’s happiness.

Cleaning is more fun with a friend. We had so much fun together. We have a lot of memories. Now, we look back on those times and we can laugh and cry. It’s nice to look back.

Because we were the youngest, we went through some hard times. We were the backups for the sunbaes. For example, at Se7en hyung’s concert, Wheesung hyung would perform as the opening guest. If Wheesung hyung couldn’t make it because of his busy schedule, we would get on stage instead. We would have to bring our own clothes. We would ride the train to the concert with the audience that was attending the concert. Afterwards, we would come back on the train. We would hear people say, “Aren’t those the boys we saw on stage?” We looked cool on stage but to be seen on the subway was kind of embarrassing.

Once, a manager hyung was supposed to pick us up for a concert. He said he’d come pick us up at a train station at 11AM. It was 6PM and he was still nowhere to be seen. We didn’t know his phone number. Back then, if they told us to wait, we would wait. We kept waiting and then it was time for the last train to leave so we went home. The next day, we saw the manager hyung and asked him what happened. He told us he forgot. The dancers decided to come so he had to pick them up and he forgot about us. We went back to cleaning but we were really upset.

It seems like these idols’ trainee days are pretty harsh, but in the end it must’ve paid off – G-Dragon was undoubtedly one of the major kpop artists of 2009. What do you think?

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