David "Yungin" Kim is the future of music in more ways than one he represents the multicultural melting pot that we call the music industry and with the rise of the non-traditional music markets taking over He represents the new trajectory of the music industry. With the rise of K-pop and the Asian market announcing itself as a new powerhouse hub for music consumption, one could say he’s in the right place at the right time to break down barriers that those before him thought were impossible. He leads the charge for engineers and producers coming out of the Asian market and announcing themselves here and ready to work. He has strong roots in the hip-hop community through his work with Hitboy ( the new generation Quincy Jones) which was highlighted by his recent run with legendary Rapper Nas on his recent albums.
David’s list of accomplishments is nothing short of what dreams are made of, with Nas being one of his favorite rappers and one of the first albums he bought being a Nas album to mixing and mastering six albums for Nas very few in the industry have had such a storybook career moment And if the story couldn’t have gotten any better he knows ties in his work with hip hop to his homeland with a collab with a member of K-pop’s biggest group BTS that ensures that his name will be mentioned when we gather to celebrate the next 50 years of Hip Hop. Kim has connected himself to his homeland and is now set to be one of the loudest voices coming out of the Asian market when it comes to music, and if his recent works are anything to go by we are in for a magical treat as the music institute class topper shows why adversity maketh a man is a statement that describes him.
HipHopTalks asked fans to send in Questions that they wanted to ask David Kim and we selected ten fan submitted Questions to ask him :
Q&A
HHT: who are the engineers you looked up to when you first started out?
DK: Young Guru, Noah “40” Shebib, and Fabian Marasciullo
HHT: What’s the last album you bought
DK: Magic 2( maybe this has changed to magic 3)
HHT: Out of all the projects you and Hit have worked on which two are your favorite and why?
DK: King’s Disease and KD2. They were so personal to me. King’s Disease won Nas his first Grammy after 14 nominations and KD2 just hit different. Every song on there is powerful.
HHT: How important is family to you?
DK: Family is everything to me. I was fortunate enough to have grown up with a loving, close-knit family and it’s given me the confidence I require to take on the world. My wife is my rock and my brother is my best friend. My parents have taught me sacrifice and hard work. They migrated to a foreign country with only $600 in their pockets and somehow made it work. That implanted the “no excuses” mentality in me.
HHT: what’s one new trend in music you wish would go away and one you wish would return to the craft
DK: I try to enjoy music as it changes and evolves, There not much I would change right now because I know that trends will keep repeating themselves. Just like real RnB is coming back, I hope that real lyricism becomes popular again.
HHT: Tell us about the Jhope and Cole collab how did you get involved in that project? (B) what was going through your mind because these two are massive superstars and you had the task of presenting the perfect mix to the world
DK: PDOGG, the producer of the song became a personal friend of mine through some previous work. He hit me up with this opportunity and I jumped on it because I’ve dreamt of working with Cole. When I got the session, I just went about my business and approached it like any other song. The cool thing about this session is that we jumped on Facetime on multiple occasions (PDOGG, J Hope, and I) and it was fun to go back and forth in my native tongue. Overall it was a super dope experience.
HHT: You seem to be a lover of golf how did that come about, and when is the surf club gonna start a tournament?
DK: I got into golf 2 years ago right as the pandemic was ending. All my friends were playing and my pop had been an avid golfer for nearly 30 years, so I decided to pick up the sticks and try it out. I could say golf changed my life in the last 2 years. It let me be competitive again (I grew up playing every sport). It also let me get outside and get some air, which did wonders for my mental health. Golf is both the most frustrating and most exhilarating sport I’ve ever played. It’s just you out there, nobody to blame, nobody to hide behind. All your flaws and insecurities are exposed and you have to decide what to do with them.
The Surf Club golf tournament has a nice ring to it, we gotta manifest that one
HHT: How important is it for you to incorporate your culture into your work
DK: My culture is something I’m learning every day. For such a long time I almost ignored my culture in order to assimilate into another but as I get older, I’m being tugged back to my roots. Lately, I’ve been working with a lot of Korean artists in the hopes that I can make a positive impact in my home country.
HHT: Do you have a wish list of artists you want to work with? (B) why do you want to work with them
DK: I’ve been asked this question many times and it's tough to answer.. the list of people I’ve worked with so far has exceeded my expectations already, so I’m just excited to see what my future holds.
HHT: What do you want your legacy to be when you decide to step away from the music industry?
DK: I hope to make a positive impact on at least one person. Whether it’s being motivated by my work or being a mentor figure to somebody, I feel like if I could make the world a better place by even a little bit, my mission would be complete.
The words that have guided David as he makes his name in the muisc is
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” by Wayne Gretzky and those are
The words that he wants fans to remember is take a shot and see what happens .
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