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Daniel Armand Lee ( Korean :  이선웅 ; born July 22, 1980), better known by his stage name Tablo ( 타블로 ), is a Canadian hip hop rapper, songwriter and record producer of South Korean origin. Tablo is best known as the leader and producer of South Korean hip-hop group Epik High , and the founder of independent music label Highgrnd, which housed bands Hyukoh and The Black Skirts .

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104-399: A 4-year contract with them and that his first solo album would be released on November 1. Although Tablo signed as a solo singer under YG Entertainment , he indicated that it did not mean that Epik High disbanded, nor that they would necessarily sign with YG as a group. On October 14, 2011, Tablo released the song "Airbag" from his new upcoming album. On October 21, 2011, YG announced that

156-441: A black cover, was published on December 21, 2016. On June 8, 2019, Tablo posted on his personal Instagram posing the question: "What if Tablo had an English-language podcast?" . The podcast premiered with the release of three episodes on August 8, 2019. The Tablo Podcast is produced by Dive Studios . The last episode of The Tablo Podcast aired on September 4, 2020, though two follow-up episodes were released in 2021 to promote

208-596: A dark age to justify itself. I can't think of one, myself... The truth is that the short story form has reliably inspired brilliant performances by our best writers, in a line unbroken since the time of Poe. Wolff's 1984 novella The Barracks Thief won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for 1985. Most of the action takes place at Fort Bragg, North Carolina . Three recent paratrooper training graduates are temporarily attached to an airborne infantry company as they await orders to report to Vietnam . Because most of

260-502: A friend's ID number to create the website, violating Naver's terms of service. However, many members of the fansite joined another community called "We Demand the Truth from Tablo 2" ( 타블로에게 진실을 요구합니다2 ), which has a membership of over 33,000 netizens despite proof provided by both the university and the police that Tablo did indeed graduate from Stanford University. On September 27, 2011, YG Entertainment announced that Tablo would be signing

312-401: A myriad of hip hop artists including Beenzino , Verbal Jint , Mino of Winner , along with B.I and Bobby of iKon . On August 31, 2015, Tablo released a teaser clip for a collaboration track with American rapper and co-founder of Pro Era , Joey Badass . Their collaborated song, "Hood," was released September 5, 2015. On January 26, 2017, he collaborated with Gallant and Eric Nam on

364-572: A number of anthologies. Its publication coincided with a period in which several American authors who worked almost exclusively in the short story form were receiving wider recognition. As writers such as Wolff, Raymond Carver and Andre Dubus became better known, the United States was said to be having a renaissance of the short story. (Their 20th-century North American version of realism was often labelled as Dirty realism for its gritty veracity.) Wolff repudiated this characterization. In 1994, in

416-547: A positive reception from critics, with Tablo's writing praised for a first-time author. After the group's contract with Woolim Entertainment expired in 2008, Tablo, alongside his group members, founded their own independent label, Map the Soul, and went on to release an album of the same name . Through their independent label, the group went on to release two more albums; [e] in 2009, and Epilogue in 2010. In November 2013, Tablo revealed in his interview with HiphopLE that "Map

468-484: A rhymer. His major and enduring love affair with making hip hop music was sparked later in life, however; after hearing Drunken Tiger rapping, the group Epik High was formed in 2000 at an early time in the culture's local evolution. Tablo has since claimed to be the first emcee to have used the "rhyming rifle" technique. With the hip hop scene in Korea and Korean emcees being known for their fickle tendencies, Tablo has through

520-454: A teenager, he frequently ran away from home. Ostensibly, Tablo asked a friend to live out his dream, but when that friend died of cancer, it became an impetus for him to re-enter the music industry. Tablo later admitted his family forced him to enroll in Stanford, and even after the release of his second album, was still persuading him to return to the United States to attend Law School. While he

572-527: Is Tablo's Dreaming Radio . He was the DJ for this same program until 2016. In March 2014, Tablo carried out a collaboration with China's top female singer Bibi Zhou . On October 18, 2014, Epik High released their music video for " Born Hater ", after the video was delayed by YG due to the Pangyo Techno Valley Festival Tragedy . The track is from their eighth album, Shoebox , and features

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624-596: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Daniel Armand Lee Tablo became employed as a lyricist while still in high school. Under the supervision of Tobias Wolff , Tablo graduated from Stanford University with honors in English literature and creative writing. He then moved to South Korea, where, in 2001, he formed Epik High alongside DJ Tukutz and Mithra Jin . The group has since released 10 full-length albums and 1 EP, with Tablo having produced and co-written all

676-467: Is writing fiction or non-fiction, Wolff's prose is characterized by an exploration of personal/biographical and existential terrain. As Wyatt Mason wrote in the London Review of Books , "Typically, his protagonists face an acute moral dilemma, unable to reconcile what they know to be true with what they feel to be true. Duplicity is their great failing, and Wolff's main theme." Elsewhere Wolff said of

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780-601: The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction . Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015. His academic career began at Syracuse University (1982–1997) and, since 1997, he has taught at Stanford University , where he is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences. Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama ,

832-599: The Rea Award for the Short Story . Wolff has received the O. Henry Award on three occasions, for the stories "In the Garden of North American Martyrs" (1981), "Next Door" (1982), and "Sister" (1985). In 2008, he was awarded The Story Prize for Our Story Begins . Some of Wolff's work has been adapted to film. This Boy's Life was adapted as a feature film directed by Michael Caton-Jones in 1993. It starred Leonardo DiCaprio as

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936-602: The School of Humanities and Sciences. He has taught classes in English and creative writing , and also served as the director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford from 2000 to 2002. Wolff is widely known for his work in two genres: the short story and the memoir . His first short story collection, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs , was published in 1981. The collection was well received and several of its stories have since been published in

988-516: The Soul" was shut down due to one of its executive member embezzling the label's funds. In 2010, it was announced that Epik High would go on hiatus after DJ Tukutz enlisted in his mandatory military service, whilst Tablo and Mithra would be working on solo careers until DJ Tukutz's return. However, in mid-2010, a group of Internet users raised doubts about the academic background of Tablo, who majored in English and Creative Writing at Stanford University . Led by two fan sites , most notably "We Demand

1040-551: The Truth from Tablo" ( Korean :  타블로에게 진실을 요구합니다 ), some netizens claimed that Tablo could not have graduated from Stanford University with both a bachelor's degree and master's degree in English and Creative Writing, respectively, in just three and a half years. It became front-page news in South Korea in June 2010 when one of the fansite's managers, who went by the username "whatbecomes", claimed that Tablo's academic record

1092-746: The Truth from Tablo" increased to as many as 190,000 within a few days, as numerous netizens refused to believe Tablo or the documentary. Tablo and members of his family received death threats and he became a virtual recluse. Tablo ultimately left Woollim Entertainment during the Tajinyo incident, not wanting to spread harm to the agency or to Infinite , who had only recently debuted when the controversy broke out. On October 9, however, police confirmed that Tablo had indeed graduated from Stanford, having requested information beyond what Tablo had already provided, directly from Stanford University. South Korean police filed an arrest warrant domestically and with Interpol for

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1144-633: The age of six but later switched to violin , which he played for 10 years. His music teacher, who had been a pupil of Isaac Stern , used to lecture him saying: "Music is communism, but you're playing democracy". Tablo wrote the lyrics to legendary singer Kim Gun-mo 's song "Rainy Christmas" when he was sixteen years old, as Kim took an interest in Tablo after reading a poem of his. During his early life, Tablo suffered from bouts of depression . Whenever he faced hardship, hip hop music served as an outlet. However, Tablo's father disapproved of his career choice, so as

1196-493: The album, effectively causing the disbandment of CB Mass (and the creation of Dynamic Duo without Curbin). Tablo and Epik High were finally signed by Woollim Entertainment, which at the time focused on underground hip hop and modern rock, and the group officially debuted in 2003. The group's first album, Map of the Human Soul , was released on October 21 of that year; however, due to hip hop's lack of popularity in South Korea at

1248-415: The arrest of "whatbecomes", who was revealed to be a 57-year-old Korean-American named Eungsuk Kim living in the United States. In addition, twenty-two netizens received summons indicating they had been sued by Tablo for criminal defamation . The fansite was shut down soon after by its host site, Naver , following the results of the investigation, which also revealed that whatbecomes had fraudulently used

1300-423: The faculty with Raymond Carver and was an instructor in the graduate writing program. Authors who had studied with Wolff as students at Syracuse include Jay McInerney , Tom Perrotta , George Saunders , Alice Sebold , William Tester , Paul Griner, Ken Garcia, Dana C. Kabel, Jan-Marie Spanard, and Paul Watkins . In 1997, Wolff transferred to Stanford, where he is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in

1352-490: The first month of release. The album ended up becoming South Korea's third best-selling album of 2007. However, many songs from the album were banned from several TV channels, and the album buying age was restricted to 19+ due to some songs dealing with issues the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in South Korea deemed inappropriate for younger listeners. The group later went on to release their next album, Pieces, Part One , which

1404-408: The introduction to The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories , he wrote: To judge from the respectful attention this renaissance has received from reviewers and academics, you would think that it actually happened. It did not. This is a rhetorical flourish to give glamour, even valor, to the succession of one generation by another. The problem with the word "renaissance" is that it needs

1456-504: The men in the company fought together in Vietnam, the three newcomers are treated as outsiders and ignored. When money and personal property are discovered missing from the barracks, suspicion falls on the three newcomers. The narrative structure of the book contains several shifts of tone and point of view as the story unfolds. In 1985, Wolff's second short story collection, Back in the World ,

1508-512: The new album, titled Fever's End ( 열꽃 ), had been split into two parts. The first part was released along with the recent announcement, and the second part was released on the planned release date. On September 27, 2012, YG officially announced through yg-life.com that Epik High would have their comeback in October 2012, after a three-year hiatus as a group. Their first single, "춥다" ("It's Cold"), featured SBS's K-pop Star finalist Lee Hi and

1560-625: The nomadic and uncertain life Wolff and his mother led after his parents divorced. His mother's subsequent marriage to a man who was revealed as an abusive husband and stepfather deeply affected their lives. In Pharaoh's Army (1994) records Wolff's U.S. Army tour of duty in Vietnam . He published a third collection of stories, The Night in Question , in 1997. His fourth short-story collection, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (2008), includes both new and previously published stories. Whether he

1612-401: The personal nature of his work: "I have to be able, with a straight face, to tell myself that something is nonfiction if I say it's nonfiction. That's why, although there are autobiographical elements in some of my stories, I still call them fiction because that's what they are. Even though they may have been set into motion by some catalyst of memory." In 1989, Wolff was chosen as recipient of

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1664-416: The release of Epik High Is Here . Tobias Wolff Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won

1716-404: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Lee&oldid=1236172382 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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1820-420: The second son of Rosemary (Loftus) from Hartford, Connecticut, and Arthur Samuels Wolff, an aeronautical engineer who was a son of a Jewish doctor and his wife. The father had become Episcopalian, and Wolff did not learn about his father's Jewish roots until he was an adult. (Wolff was raised and identifies as Catholic, like his mother.) His parents separated when Wolff was five and his elder brother Geoffrey

1872-506: The single release of "Cave Me In", and music video which was shot in Hong Kong. "Cave Me In" premiered worldwide on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 Radio Show and was trending globally on YouTube and Facebook for over 72 hours upon releasing. In September 2022, he collaborated with Jackson Wang for a new track "Imagine" on the hip-pop competition series, Rap Of China. Tablo married Korean actress Kang Hye-jung on October 26, 2009. Their daughter, Haru,

1924-1002: The songs. His debut solo album, Fever's End , was released in 2011. Outside of Epik High, Tablo is a record producer and songwriter for other artists and involved in collaborative projects such as Borderline, Eternal Morning, and Anyband . His music incorporates numerous styles, ranging from trance , trip hop , to rock . Tablo is also the author of the best-selling book Pieces of You , published in both English and Korean, and Blonote. He made his film debut acting in Nonstop (2005). In 2016, Tablo left his radio show, MBC FM4U 's Tablo's Dreaming Radio , after eleven years to focus on YG 's music sub-label Highgrnd. Tablo moved to Jakarta , Indonesia in 1980 shortly after his birth. Due to his father's work, he spent around 3 years living in Jakarta before his family relocated again several times to Switzerland and Hong Kong for his father's career until Tablo

1976-513: The teenage Wolff, Robert De Niro as Wolff's abusive step-father Dwight, and Ellen Barkin as Wolff's mother Rosemary. In 2001, Wolff's acclaimed short story "Bullet in the Brain" (from The Night in Question ) was adapted as a short film by David Von Ancken and CJ Follini; it starred Tom Noonan and Dean Winters . Tobias Wolff's older brother is the author Geoffrey Wolff . A decade before Tobias Wolff published This Boy's Life , his brother wrote

2028-402: The time, the album was a commercial failure. It wasn't until the release of their second album, High Society , that the group started to gain popularity. Epik High's third album, Swan Songs , was originally intended to be their last album; however, upon release, the album reached the top of numerous charts, and swept the year-end hip-hop awards. One of the lead singles from the album, "Fly",

2080-451: The university registrar re-print his documents on camera, and many of Tablo's acquaintances and former professors from Stanford attested to the validity of his academic background on camera. The documentary was shown in two parts: Tablo Goes to Stanford and Tablo and South Korea Online , which aired on MBC October 1 and 8. However, despite the documentary and Stanford's administration clearly siding with Tablo, membership at "We Demand

2132-451: The years kept alive his legacy and career through numerous shows, appearances on influential overseas (American most notably) hip hop artists work, such as EPMD . In 2008, Tablo published a collection of short stories he had written, titled Pieces of You . The English translation was published in 2009. In 2016, his second book "BloNote" was published in Korea with a pink book cover. The English version, translated by Tablo himself and with

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2184-405: Was "not making any sense" and showed what he believed to be inconsistencies in Tablo's transcripts. Even though Tablo posted his official transcript and other legal documents online, many netizens refused to believe him, and called for other documents such as his immigration statement and diploma to be released. Tablo visited Stanford University in late August to disprove these allegations by having

2236-522: Was also a commercial success. In late 2008, Tablo published a book entitled Pieces of You . Although the stories were originally written in English, the book was first published in Korean. The Korean translation sold 50,000 copies in its first week of release and topped the bestseller's list in Korea. The original English version was released in February 2009 and also met with moderate success. The book garnered

2288-544: Was at Stanford, Tablo associated with an underground hip hop group, 4n Objectz. Tablo met future bandmates Mithra Jin and DJ Tukutz while active in the underground hip-hop scene. The three came together to form Epik High , with Tablo as their leader. Under the tutelage of Movement crew members, especially the trio CB Mass, they attempted to record their first studio album alongside hip-hop duo and close friends TBNY (composed of Yankie and TopBob); however, CB Mass member Curbin allegedly embezzled Epik High and TBNY's funds for

2340-467: Was born on May 2, 2010. Tablo has an older sister, Lee Sun-joo, who graduated from Cornell University and an older brother, Lee Sun-Min, who graduated from Brown University and Columbia University . Tablo has been a long-time fan of hip hop music, citing an almost lifelong affair with the culture itself. While listening to hip hop at an early age through artists such as Run-D.M.C. and acquiring Cold Crush tapes, he concurrently gained recognition as

2392-447: Was featured on the soundtrack of the video game FIFA 07 . Due to the numerous offers to remake "Fly", as well as "Paris", the second single from the album, a CD sampler was released in Japan. In 2007, the group released their fourth studio album, Remapping the Human Soul , and managed to push Epik High to the number one spot for best upcoming artist after selling almost 90,000 copies in

2444-721: Was found to have forged his transcripts and recommendation letters, he was later expelled. Wolff served in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1968, when he trained for Special Forces, learned Vietnamese, and served as an adviser in Vietnam. He holds a First Class Honours degree in English from Hertford College, Oxford (1972). After returning to the United States, in 1975, he was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University , where he earned an M.A. While continuing to write, Wolff taught at Syracuse University from 1980 to 1997. He published his first short story collection in 1981. At Syracuse he served on

2496-626: Was published. Several of the stories in this collection, such as "The Missing Person," are significantly longer than the stories in his first collection. Wolff chronicled his early life in two memoirs. This Boy's Life (1989), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography, is devoted to the author's adolescence in Seattle and Newhalem , a remote company town in the North Cascade mountains of Washington. The memoir describes

2548-529: Was released on October 9, while their comeback album, titled 99 , was released on the 19th. On December 30, 2012, during the SBS Gayo Daejun , Tablo joined fellow Epik High bandmate Mithra Jin, Dynamic Duo and Simon D for Cypher 2012 , a remix of popular hip hop tracks of the year, to much acclaim. In October 2013, Tablo joined KBS variety show The Return of Superman with his daughter Haru. On April 21, 2014, Tablo returned as radio DJ. His show's name

2600-562: Was six, when they returned to South Korea briefly. His family moved again to Canada when he was eight. Tablo attended St. George's School in Vancouver , British Columbia . He then transferred to Seoul International School . As a coterminal student at Stanford University , Tablo simultaneously attained a Bachelor's Degree in English literature and a Master's Degree in creative writing in four years. Tablo started playing piano at

2652-572: Was twelve; he lived with his mother in a variety of places, including Seattle, Washington, when he was an adolescent. After she remarried, they lived in Newhalem , a small company town in the North Cascade Mountains , where his stepfather, Robert Thompson, worked at Seattle City Light . His father and brother lived on the East Coast during this period. Geoffrey knew nothing about where his brother

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2704-562: Was until he entered Princeton. As a child, Wolff had a local paper route and was a Boy Scout. After attending Concrete High School in Concrete , also in the North Cascades, Wolff applied to and was accepted by The Hill School , located 35 miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had applied under the self-embellished name "Tobias Jonathan von Ansell-Wolff III", adopting part of one of his father's personas, Saunders Ansell-Wolff 3d. When Wolff

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