Need money? ‘Detention Center Drugs’ Yoon Byung-ho, working on a collect call in prison… Release of a song

MUSIC Jan 31, 2025

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Rapper Yoon Byung Ho (stage name: Bully Da Bastard), who is currently imprisoned on drug charges, will be releasing a new single, ‘Already’, at midnight on the 31st.

According to his agency FTW Independence Records, this song is a song that Yoon Byung Ho worked on before his imprisonment. The agency explained, “Yoon Byung Ho did not lose his passion for creation even in difficult situations,” and “This single is a work filled with his sincerity and passion.”

Along with the news of the release, it was reported that Yoon Byung Ho has not stopped working on music even in prison. It is said that while he was incarcerated, he made collect calls to his family and asked them to record verses he wrote, and he is preparing a new song based on those voices. The recorded voice file will undergo professional post-processing and be released as an official sound source.

Yoon Byung-ho, who appeared on Mnet‘s ‘High School Rapper 2’ (2018), was indicted on charges of purchasing, possessing, smoking, and administering narcotics such as marijuana, fentanyl, and methamphetamine from January 2018 to July 2022. He is currently serving a sentence of 7 years in prison as of December 2023. In August 2022, he was also indicted at the Incheon Detention Center for administering psychotropic drugs containing the ingredient zolpidem through an unknown method.

Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com Reporter jhj@donga.com

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