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Buzz Feed
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Tablo wants to protect RM, their new song 'Stop the Rain'. Here's how fans are reacting after hearing the song.
The Epik High leader Tablo has gatekept the song for a long time. Stop the Rain is a very emotional song for both artist, highlighting their struggles. But Tablo was most worried about RM from BTS since their huge fanbase. But before releasing the song, Tablo and his teammates interviewed with Tablo and Cardboard RM, where the fans could hear a small snippet of the song. The serious interview was not serious at all, it was pretty chill and happy. Tablo makes the atmosphere pretty relaxing. The connection between Tablo and RM has always been very deep since they have always talked about music all the time. This song is about everything they have gone through with different perspectives on life. Tablo assures the fanbase that there's no need to worry; it shows how strong they are. The song also signifies the detachment of pain. Here's how fans reacted after the release of 'Stop the Rain'
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Breaking Down RM and Tablo's 'Stop the Rain': Podcast
The post Breaking Down RM and Tablo's 'Stop the Rain': Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Listen via | | | This week, as promised, Kayla and Bethany of Stanning BTS are back to discuss the recently-released Tablo and RM track 'Stop the Rain,' which dropped on May 2nd and features deeply personal, pre-enlistment verses that delve into heavy themes. Listen the the episode above or wherever you get your podcasts. Get Jin Tickets Here Also, the big news continues as Jin's Echo (out May 16th!) is teased via a seven-track highlight medley. Kayla and Bethany break down their first impressions, speculating on the sounds of songs like the potential opener 'Don't Say You Love Me,' the angsty 'Loser,' and the surprisingly-country 'Rope It,' anticipating the album's diverse offerings. It's not out just yet, though, so more on that album next week! Plus, the hosts announce their upcoming 'Iconic Hangout' set for Tuesday, May 27th and featuring a specially-condensed 'Jin Jeopardy' to celebrate his new music! It's an episode packed with deep lyrical analysis and exciting solo music anticipation. And if you're still buzzing about Jin's solo tour announcement (we definitely are), get tickets to the '#RUNSEOKJIN_EP.TOUR' here. Listen to Kayla and Bethany dive in to the latest news from Jin and RM, and be sure to subscribe and review wherever you listen. ARMY faithful can also pick up the Stanning BTS T-shirt, now available in two colors at the Consequence Shop. And as always, check out all the great shows on the Consequence Podcast Network! Are you 18 years of age or older ? Popular Posts First Look at Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale in Madden Movie Drummer Chris Adler Opens Up on What Led to Firing from Lamb of God Morris, Alligator in Happy Gilmore, Dead at Over 80 Years Old Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp Derides André 3000's New Piano Project: "Complete and Utter Crap" Say It in Ghor: How Andor Brought a Brand New Language to Star Wars Billy Strings Announces Fall 2025 US Tour Dates Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Tablo on His Revealing New Collaboration With BTS' RM: ‘It Felt Like a Diary'
In January 2023, Tablo told Rolling Stone that 'another Tablo x RM collab is in the pipeline.' Fans assumed that this collaboration between the Epik High frontman and the BTS leader would happen sooner rather than later. But two years after the rapper originally hinted about the upcoming song, the artists are ready to share their evocative single, 'Stop the Rain,' which will be released at midnight Eastern time on Friday. 'I've been holding onto this song for two years,' Tablo tells Rolling Stone in an exclusive Zoom interview from Seoul. 'One of the reasons was because as I was listening to the song, I realized that both of us were talking about very personal things. It really felt like entries in a diary or some sort of confession. It only occurred to me then, which is crazy that we weren't really aware of where we were going with the song.' More from Rolling Stone Here's Where to Buy BTS Member Jin's '#RUNSEOKJIN_EP.TOUR' Tour Tickets Online BTS' Jin Announces First Solo Tour BTS' Jin to Release Solo LP 'Echo' in May Toward the end of 2023, while Tablo was still pondering what to do with the song, RM, 30, enlisted in the South Korean military, which is mandatory for all able-bodied men. 'Once he enlisted, there was no way for me to get in touch with him for a while,' Tablo, 44, continues. 'I thought maybe this song should come out when he's around, or maybe not at all. There are many songs in my vault that I haven't released for the same reason. So I just held on to it.' He says that he spoke with RM 'a few times' after the younger artist enlisted, but never brought up the subject of the song. 'And then a few months ago, he hit me up and said, 'Hyeong [a Korean term used by a younger man addressing his older brother or close male friend], where's the song we finished recording a while ago? Why don't you drop it?' I explained to him that I felt maybe his lyrics were very personal and I didn't know if he wanted it out. And he said, 'What are you talking about? Drop it!'' Smiling, Tablo adds, 'That's why I've been in a complete rush to get things together and finalize the mix. That's why this song is dropping now.' Tablo is intentionally releasing the song a month before RM is discharged from the military, sparing RM from having to answer questions about his lyrics, which are unflinching in their depiction of despair, and their shared feeling — at different times in their lives — that they might not live long enough to grow old. Over a languid beat, RM raps, 'When I was a kid/I was convinced that I was destined for the 27 club/I'm 29 sinkin' in a bathtub.' The 27 club refers to a collective of prominent musicians who coincidentally died at the age of 27, including Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and the K-pop star Jonghyun of Shinee. Having lived through TaJinYo — a yearslong smear campaign orchestrated by hundreds of thousands of anti-fans who hated him — Tablo didn't want RM to be targeted by spiteful people intent on sensationalizing his lyrics. The personal topics they address on 'Stop the Rain' include mental and physical abuse, as well as suicidal ideation. The song is in English, except for one line in Korean near the end: '다시 덫 뒤에 덫,' which alludes to a cycle of feeling trapped. 'If it was just my song with only me on it, I would have been OK with releasing this song right away,' Tablo says. 'But with RM on it, it's a different story. I worried about how it could impact him. I didn't want him to be harmed in any way.' Tablo's less concerned with how listeners may react to his own lyrics, which reveal the abuse he says he lived through as a child: 'Raised by shame/Raised by the rod/Bloody calves sacrificed in the name of God/They claimed it was love/Felt like heartbreak to me.' Before his family immigrated to Canada, Tablo went to school in South Korea during a time when teachers had impunity to smack their students. (Corporal punishment in schools wasn't banned until 2010.) 'My sister was talking about this in front of my daughter, and Haru asked if I had been hit,' he recalls. 'My sister said, 'Oh, your dad got slapped all the time.' So we had this conversation, which was interesting, because this song kind of touches upon it. But I wasn't just hit by one person. I was hit by my dad. I was hit by my mom. I was hit by my brother. I was hit by my teachers. And when you came home and told your parents that your teacher beat you, you would get hit again for getting beat in school. I was like a ping-pong ball.' As a parent, Tablo says he has worked hard to break this cycle. Hitting a child isn't something he ever did. But he sometimes finds himself speaking to his daughter in a way that is reminiscent of 'past generations flowing through me.' 'I grew up in a certain way, and sometimes say the exact same things I hated [hearing when I was a child],' he says. 'But my daughter is very open with me and tells me exactly what she feels' — which gives him the opportunity 'to apologize and stop.' He says the core memories from his own childhood made it into 'Stop the Rain,' with rain offering hope, renewal, and cleansing that can alleviate some of the despair. 'Even as a child when people asked me what I liked the most, I would always say rainy days,' he says. 'They would assume that it was about the rain. But it's not. Rain allows me to realize how lucky I am to have a roof over my head. How lucky I am to be able to be holding an umbrella with or for someone. It makes me hyper aware of how rare and amazing sunny days are, and to see a rainbow is just a bonus. I like writing about rain, not because it sounds moody and cool, but because for me it has always symbolized this duality.' So it's not surprising that rain is a recurring theme in Tablo's work with Epik High ('Rhapsody of Rain,' 'Rain Song,' 'Umbrella,' 'Rain Again Tomorrow'). Or that he's drawn to RM's solo song 'Forever Rain,' where the K-pop idol contemplates how a heavy rainfall offers him a bit of anonymity from peering eyes. RM has often praised Tablo's artistry and spoken of how much Epik High has impacted his own growth as a musician. But Tablo is just as quick to stress the importance of RM and BTS, not only for the group's music, but for the way they've broken cultural and musical barriers. It's because of this mutual respect that their collaborations go beyond merely guesting on a track. Each is involved in writing what they will sing, and offering ideas on how to make the song stronger. This is how they worked on 'All Day,' a cut from RM's 2022 solo album Indigo. And with 'Stop the Rain,' Tablo agreed with RM's suggestion that the song would flow better in English, rather than Korean as originally planned. 'The way he treated both these collabs made me feel kind of honored that he was putting so much effort into it,' Tablo says. 'He cared enough to make it a great song. There was another bridge that made the song longer. He said, 'What do you think about taking it out?' And until he said that, I was content with how it was. But he was right. An example that I wanted to tell you about is that there's a line in the song that at first was something like, 'I can never stop the rain.' And then RM said, 'I think we should change that line. What do you think about, 'I'm tryna stop the rain.' And I was like, 'Yo, that's way better!'' He adds: 'I thought about how when I was younger working with other artists on their songs, if I didn't think something was really the best choice, I would just let it fly and remain quiet. I thought that was what you're supposed to do. But in retrospect, maybe I should've said something, too, and given them the opportunity to rethink an idea. That's a true collaboration. I will always be grateful to RM for caring enough to go out on a limb like he always does.' Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Forbes
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
BTS Leader RM Keeps His Winning Streak Perfect With A New Smash
RM and Tablo debut 'Stop the Rain' in the U.K. top 10, marking another solo hit for the BTS star as ... More the track starts at No. 9 on downloads and No. 10 on sales. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - OCTOBER 28: RM of boy band BTS poses for photographs at the W Magazine Korea Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign 'Love Your W' at Four Seasons Hotel on October 28, 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Han Myung-Gu/WireImage) RM has been the leader of BTS for many years, and like his six bandmates, he has also enjoyed great success as a soloist in addition to the many smashes that the outfit has produced. He's been especially busy during the band's hiatus, as several members fulfill their mandatory military enlistment. In the past year or so, RM has been racking up hits under his own name. He's relatively new to the charts in the United Kingdom, at least under his own moniker, and he continues to add to his growing list of commercial successes this week as BTS fans look ahead to the second half of 2025, which may see the septet releasing new music. RM recently joined fellow South Korean musician Tablo on the track 'Stop the Rain,' and the hip-hop tune has quickly become a bestseller in the U.K. This frame, the collaboration opens on two tallies, managing to debut inside the top 10 on both of them. 'Stop the Rain' starts at No. 9 on the Official Singles Downloads chart and enters at No. 10 on the Official Singles Sales list. All four of RM's tunes that have reached either list have cracked the top 10, though 'Stop the Rain' marks a new all-time low for the musician. RM's first two successes — 'Come Back to Me' and 'Lost' — both peaked at No. 1. Those tracks arrived in May and June 2024, respectively. In September, RM joined Megan Thee Stallion on 'Neva Play,' which also reached the top five on both tallies. 'Stop the Rain' is Tablo's first bestseller in the U.K. This is a fairly quiet frame in terms of exciting new songs debuting — at least according to the charts in the U.K. 'Stop the Rain' narrowly manages to open inside the top 10, yet it stands out as the highest-ranking new title and the only new cut to land in the uppermost region. At the moment, the song appears to be a standalone cut, one which further underline's RM's ability to sell music and help musicians from his home country reach Western audiences in ways they might not be able to do on their own.
Forbes
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
BTS Leader RM Hits No. 1
RM and Tablo's 'Stop the Rain' hits No. 1 on U.S. iTunes and may be headed for the Billboard charts ... More in a few days. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - APRIL 03: RM of BTS during the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 03, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo byfor The Recording Academy) RM and Tablo have officially done it. Their collaborative single 'Stop the Rain' has climbed all the way to No. 1 on the iTunes Top Songs chart in the United States, giving both acts a smash, this time together. The track is now the bestselling at the moment (as of May 3) on what is often considered the most important sales platform in the country, and big things may be coming for the title. Given its massive first-day performance, 'Stop the Rain' looks likely to debut on several Billboard rankings next week. Actual sales figures aren't shared by iTunes, but the fact that it's been living inside the top 10 for a day and is now running the show suggests that it's a near-lock for the Digital Song Sales chart. It might even hit No. 1. 'Stop the Rain' could also make its way onto some genre-specific tallies. Depending on how strong those sales figures are, it might reach the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs or Hot Rap Song tallies. It will almost certainly make it to the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales and Rap Digital Song Sales lists. If interest remains high throughout the next few days, the song might even sneak onto the Hot 100. That would be quite the coup, especially for Tablo, though RM has landed on the tally multiple times in the past, both on his own and, of course, as a member of BTS. The joint single arrived on Friday (May 2) and wasted no time racing up the iTunes list. For a while, it was held back a few spots from the summit, as Rascal Flatts and the Backstreet Boys ruled with their collaborative rendition of 'What Hurts the Most,' but now the tides have changed. 'Stop the Rain' showcases a much darker, more introspective side of both artists. The track is built around themes of pain, guilt, and low self-worth, which is not commonly spoken about by South Korean stars. The single leans into old-school hip-hop influences, and shows the love that both musicians have for the art form.
