Namjoon Kim Nam-joon (Korean: 김남준; born September 12, 1994), known professionally as RM (formerly Rap Monster), is a South Korean rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He... RM (musician) - Wikipedia <RM: Right People, Wrong Place> For the first time, RM—or just Kim Namjoon—steps forward, and opens the door to speak to his audience. 🗓 Dec 5, in Cinemas Worldwide 🛎 1st... RM (@rkive) • Instagram photos and videos RM (아르엠) is a leader/member of the South Korean boy group BTS, rapper and producer under Big Hit Music. He made his official solo debut on December 2nd, 2022 with the... RM (BTS) Profile and Facts (Updated!) - Kpop Profiles RM (BTS) profile, age & facts (2024 updated) | kpopping RM | BTS Wiki | Fandom RM Lyrics, Songs, and Albums | Genius RM of BTS Is Embracing the Silence - The Atlantic What Makes BTS Kim Namjoon (RM) the Great Leader of the ... RM, the leader of K-pop band BTS: ‘We work so hard in Korea ... The Real BTS: Who is Kim Namjoon? All about RM, the ... - MEAWW RM Email Facebook X LinkedIn Copy link Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › RM_(musician) RM (musician) - Wikipedia Kim Nam-joon (Korean: 김남준; born September 12, 1994), known professionally as RM (formerly Rap Monster), is a South Korean rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He... People also ask Why is Namjoon called RM? Namjoon debuted with BTS in 2013 under the name Rap Monster. As of 2017, he now goes by RM because it fits him better as an adult. As the leader of the group, RM is responsible for connecting the group’s aspirations to its business, mediating discords among members, and shaping the musicality of the group along with other members and producers. RM Lyrics, Songs, and Albums - Genius genius.com/artists/Rm See all results for this question Who is Kim Namjoon? Kim Namjoon, known under his stage name RM and formerly Rap Monster, is a South Korean rapper, songwriter, producer, and composer under Big Hit Entertainment and HYBE Labels. He is best known as the leader and main rapper of the worldwide sensation boy group BTS. RM was born on September 12, 1994 with the name Kim Nam-Joon. RM (BTS) profile, age & facts (2024 updated… kpopping.com/profiles/idol/RM See all results for this question Why did Namjoon change his stage name to RM? On November 13 2017, Namjoon wrote a message on the group’s official fan cafe announcing he changed his stage name from Rap Monster to RM. Namjoon stated that “RM” could mean anything you wanted, like for example “Real Me”. RM (BTS) Profile and Facts (Updated!) - Kpo… kprofiles.com/rap-monster-facts/ See all results for this question Is Namjoon a BTS leader? No. Of course not. 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Refine this search kim namjoon namjoon quotes kim namjoon birthday namjoon bts how tall is namjoon kim namjoon girlfriend Kpop Profiles https://kprofiles.com › rap-monster-facts RM (BTS) Profile and Facts (Updated!) - Kpop Profiles RM (아르엠) is a leader/member of the South Korean boy group BTS, rapper and producer under Big Hit Music. He made his official solo debut on December 2nd, 2022 with the... kpopping https://kpopping.com › profiles › idol RM (BTS) profile, age & facts (2024 updated) | kpopping May 24, 2024 · Kim Namjoon, known under his stage name RM and formerly Rap Monster, is a South Korean rapper, songwriter, producer, and composer under Big Hit Entertainment and HYBE... Birth Date: September 11, 1994bts.fandom.com https://bts.fandom.com › wiki › RM RM | BTS Wiki | Fandom Overview Early life Name Career Artistry and impact Discography Filmography Concerts Endorsements Kim Nam-joon (김남준), better known by his stage name RM (short for Real Me, formerly known as Rap Monster (랩몬스터) and Runch Randa (런치란다)), is a South Korean rapper-songwriter and record producer under Big Hit Music. He is a member of the boy group BTS, and has the positions of leader and rapper. As a solo artist, he has released his first mixtape RM, on March 20, 2015 and his second mixtape Mono, on October 23, 2018. He then made his official solo debut with his first studio album Indigo on December 2, 2022. See full list on bts.fandom.com Kim Nam-joon was born on September 12, 1994, in Dongjak-gu, South Korea, and grew up in Ilsan-gu, where his family moved when he was four or five. He is the elder of two siblings and has a younger sister. As a child, RM largely learned English by watching Friends with his mother. As a student, he actively wrote poetry and often received awards for his writings. He posted his work to an online poetry website for roughly one year, where he received moderate attention. Through this, RM grew interested in pursuing a literary career but decided against it. At the age of 11, RM became interested in hip-hop music after hearing Epik High's "Fly" in fifth grade. He found that the song had provided him comfort, and, due to this, decided to look further into the genre. Following an introduction to American rapper Eminem by his schoolteacher, RM grew interested in lyricism, printing lyrics he felt were "cool" and sharing them with his friends. RM transitioned to writing lyrics then, stating that his poetry became lyrics when it combined with music. In 2007, as a first-year middle school student, RM began rapping in local amateur hip-hop circles, creating his first self-composed recording for the first time using the program Adobe Audition (then called Cool Edit). He later participated in his first concert in 2008. RM eventually became more active in the underground Korean hip-hop scene under the moniker "Runch Randa", releasing a number of tracks and collaborations with other underground rappers, such as Zico. See full list on bts.fandom.com RM selected the name "Rap Monster" during his time as an idol trainee. Though commonly misunderstood that the name means that he "raps like a monster", it actually derives from the lyrics of a song he wrote, inspired by San E's "Rap Genius". The lyrics contained a segment where San E declares he should be called a "rap monster" as he "raps non-stop". He adopted the stage name because he felt it was "cool". RM has described himself as having a love-hate relationship with the name, feeling that it was not selected for being of "incredible value" to him. He formally changed his stage name to "RM" in November 2017, as he determined that "Rap Monster" was no longer representative of who he was or the music that he creates. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight RM stated that "[the name] could symbolize many things. It could have more spectrums to it. "Real Me" was provided as a possible current meaning. See full list on bts.fandom.com 2010-2013: Big Hit Entertainment and debut with BTS In 2009, RM auditioned for Big Deal Records, passing the first round along with Samuel Seo but failing the second round as he forgot all his lyrics. However, following the audition, rapper Sleepy exchanged contact information with RM, who he later mentioned to Big Hit Entertainment producer Pdogg. In 2010, Sleepy contacted RM, encouraging him to audition for Big Hit CEO Bang Si-hyuk. Bang offered RM a spot at the record label, and, without his parent's knowledge, RM accepted the offer immediately. The interaction caused Bang and Pdogg to start production of a hip hop group, which eventually became idol group BTS. RM joined Big Hit Entertainment shortly after at age 16. During his career as an idol, he enrolled at Global Cyber University. RM trained for three years with fellow rapper Min Yoon-gi and dancer Jung Ho-Seok, who later became known as SUGA and j-hope respectively. During his three year trainee period, RM performed on five pre-debut tracks credited to BTS in 2010 and 2011. He also worked as a songwriter for girl group Glam and helped pen their debut single, "Party (XXO)", an explicitly pro-LGBTQ song which was praised by Billboard as "one of the most forward-thinking songs out of a K-pop girl group in the past decade." On June 13, 2013, RM made his debut with BTS, and has since produced and written lyrics for a variety of tracks on all of BTS' albums. On August 29, 2013, RM performed the intro track to BTS' first extended play O!RUL8,2?, which was released as a trailer ahead of the EP's September 11 release and marked his first solo released collectively as "BTS". 2014-2016: First solo collaborations, RM, and Problematic Men On August 5, 2014, Big Hit Entertainment released a trailer for BTS' first studio album Dark & Wild, which was set to release on the August 20. The rap track, later released as collectively under BTS "Intro: What Am I To You", was a solo performed by RM. Through reality television show American Hustle Life that was used to produce Dark & Wild, RM formed a working relationship with Warren G, who offered to give BTS a beat. In an interview with Korean magazine Hip Hop Playa, Warren G stated that he had befriended BTS through the program and had kept in touch with the band after they returned to South Korea. On March 4, 2015, RM released a single with Warren G entitled, "P.D.D (Please Don't Die)" ahead of his first solo mixtape RM, following an offer by Warren G to collaborate. This track reflected how RM felt towards those who hated and criticized him at the time, which he used to find very upsetting. That same March, RM collaborated with hip hop project group MFBTY along with EE and Dino J as a feature for the song "Buckubucku". He featured in the music video for "Buckubucku," and also had a cameo in another MFBTY music video for their song, "Bang Diggy Bang Bang". RM first formed a lasting working relationship with MFBTY member Tiger JK during a TV show in 2013 when Tiger JK was promoting his song "The Cure", telling the rapper that he grew up listening to him. was cast as a regular on the Korean variety program Problematic Men where cast members are given a variety of puzzles and problems to solve and work through them by talking about their own thoughts and experiences. The program began airing on February 26, 2015, however RM left the show after 22 episodes due to BTS' 2015 Red Bullet world tour. On March 17, 2015, RM released his first solo mixtape, RM, which ranked 48th on Spin's "50 Best Hip Hop Albums of 2015". The mixtape featured a variety of topics such as RM's past on the track "Voice" and the idea that "you're you and I'm me" in the track "Do You". When discussing his work on the track "God Rap", RM described himself as an atheist, believing that the only thing that determines his fate was his own self. The entirety of his work on the mixtape took around four or five months, with RM working on it in between BTS' activities. The following year, RM recalled that he had largely written about the negative emotions he had been carrying, such as anger and rage, but stated that the songs are not "100% under [his] sovereignty" and that he felt many parts of the mixtape were "immature". He also added that he hoped his next mixtape to be something he worked on by himself. Following the mixtape, RM featured along with Kwon Jin-ah on Primary's "U" that April. That August, RM collaborated with Marvel for Fantastic Four's soundtrack in Korea, releasing the digital single, "Fantastic" featuring Mandy Ventrice through Melon, Genie, Naver Music, and other music sites. In August 2016, vocal duo Homme released a single titled "Dilemma" which was co-produced by RM and Bang Si-hyuk. 2017-2021: Second mixtape Mono and further collaborations In March 2017, RM collaborated with American rapper Wale on a special socially-charged track called "Change", released as a free digital download along with an accompanying music video filmed about two weeks prior to the track's release. The pair first formed a relationship over Twitter with Wale reaching out to RM in 2016, having seen RM's cover of his track "Illest Bitch". RM decided on the topic of "Change", saying that though the two rappers were extremely different, their commonality lay in the fact that both America and Korea had their political and social situations and both of them wanted the world to change for the better. That December, RM featured on a remix of Fall Out Boy's song "Champion". The track reached number 18 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles and helped RM reach number 46 on the Emerging Artists Chart for the week of January 8, 2018. On December 27, RM made history as the first K-pop artist to chart on the Rock Digital Songs chart, coming in at number two on the list. In 2018, RM released his second mixtape entitled Mono that October, which he referred to as a "playlist". He became the first Korean artist to rank number one on the Emerging Artists Chart in the United States with the playlist. The playlist was critically well-received, with RM laying "his deep insecurities bare on songs like 'Tokyo' and 'Seoul'". The track "Seoul" was produced by British electropop duo Honne. He first discovered RM after seeing him recommend their music on Twitter and eventually met him in Seoul following one of their concerts. The interaction caused the duo to want to collaborate with RM. That November, RM also collaborated with Tiger JK on his last and final album as Drunken Tiger before retiring the name, featuring on the track "Timeless". Tiger JK originally expected RM's lyrics to contain self-praise, which was the trend of rap at the time, but RM wrote the lyrics to leave behind the historical meaning of Drunken Tiger's name. On March 25th, 2019, Honne announced that RM had provided a feature on their remake of "Crying Over You ◐" alongside singer BEKA, which released on March 27th. Honne had originally released "Crying Over You ◐" in 2018, with just BEKA providing a feature. The song was originally slated for a January 2019 release but was postponed due to "unforeseen circumstances". Chinese singer Bibi Zhou was added to the Chinese release, appearing with RM and replacing BEKA. The same day as release, Big Hit Entertainment released the song "Persona" as a trailer for BTS' upcoming studio album Map of the Soul: Persona, performed as a solo by RM. Persona debuted at 17 on Billboard's YouTube Song Chart. Three months later, on July 24, 2019, RM featured on the fourth official remix of Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road," entitled "Seoul Town Road", "infuse[ing]...his English-language verse with a surprisingly good Southern twang". On December 29, it was announced that RM would be featuring on Younha's forthcoming track, "Winter Flower", to be released on January 6. RM also features on "Don't", the title track of Korean singer eAeon's second solo album released on April 30th, 2021. See full list on bts.fandom.com RM is a baritone. In 2017, American hip-hop magazine XXL released a list entitled "10 Korean Rappers You Should Know", which included RM. Writer Peter A. Berry promises that "Rap Monster rarely fails to live up to his name." He describes the young star as "one of the region’s most dexterous rappers, capable of switching flows effortlessly as he glides across an array of diverse instrumentals." Crystal Tai from South China Morning Post stated RM received a lot of praise for his natural flow and lyrics and that he's got some "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy mixed with Earl Sweatshirt and Chance the Rapper" in him. In January 2020, he was promoted from associate to a full member of the Korea Music Copyright Association. In a survey conducted by Gallup Korea, RM ranked as the 12th most preferred idol of the year for 2018. He ranked 11th in 2019. In 2018, RM was awarded the fifth-class Hwagwan Order of Cultural Merit by the President of South Korea along with the other members of BTS, for his contributions to Korean culture. In December 2020, the Arts Council of Korea named him one of its ten 2020 Patrons of the Arts, in recognition of his donation of 100 million won to the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art for the printing and distribution of various rare art books to schools and libraries in rural and mountainous regions. See full list on bts.fandom.com Studio albums •Indigo (2022) Mixtapes •RM (2015) •Mono (2018) Digital singles •"Bicycle" (2021) See full list on bts.fandom.com Film Variety shows Music shows Music videos Others See full list on bts.fandom.com Concert participation •2015 All Force One: Hot & Cool (2015) •SUGA | Agust D TOUR (Guest; August 6, 2023) See full list on bts.fandom.com On April 3, 2023, Bottega Veneta revealed that they have selected RM as their first-ever brand ambassador. •K’hawah Coffee (2015) See full list on bts.fandom.com Genius https://genius.com › artists › Rm RM Lyrics, Songs, and Albums | Genius RM, born as Kim Namjoon, is a multi-talented musician who debuted as Rap Monster in 2013 and changed his stage name to RM in 2017. He is the leader of the global... The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com › culture › archive RM of BTS Is Embracing the Silence - The Atlantic Dec 2, 2022 · Kim Namjoon, better known by his stage name RM, had guided his fellow BTS members through the vagaries of early-pandemic life —a canceled world tour, delayed music... KPOPPOST https://www.kpoppost.com › what-makes-bts-kim-namjoon-rm-the-great What Makes BTS Kim Namjoon (RM) the Great Leader of the ... Apr 3, 2022 · Learn why BTS Kim Namjoon (RM) was chosen as the leader of the global Kpop group and what makes him a great leader of this era. Discover his role, achievements, and... EL PAÍS English https://english.elpais.com › culture › 2023/03/15 RM, the leader of K-pop band BTS: ‘We work so hard in Korea ... Mar 15, 2023 · RM, leader of the South Korean band BTS in Milan, where he attended a Bottega Veneta show. Photo: Cortesía de BIGHIT MUSIC. Kim Nam-joon, 28, seems genuinely surprised... MEAWW https://meaww.com › the-real-bts-who-is-kim-namjoon-about-rm-leader The Real BTS: Who is Kim Namjoon? All about RM, the ... - MEAWW Jun 16, 2022 · RM, whose real name is Kim Namjoon, is a singer, rapper, songwriter, and producer who has not only made songs for BTS but also for artists like TXT, Fall Out Boy, Lil Nas... 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