T.O.P Is Back on the Charts With Nothing to Hide on His First Full-Length Album

T.O.P knows exactly what he was doing when he opens his first-ever solo album with a baby voice cooing, “I may be 99 percent angel, but that one percent gets me in trouble.”

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It’s unexpectedly disarming, slightly devastating, but also funny, and ultimately sets the tone for TOP SPOT – ANOTHER DIMENSION. Despite the innocent intro, the opening track “SELF CRUCIFIXION” brings a boom-bap beat and a sampled soul singer pleading to “set me free,” before a torrent of news clips, pulled from Korean and English broadcasts, discuss highs and lows throughout 20 years in the entertainment world.

While T.O.P’s voice is temporarily buried beneath the headlines and as others step forward to define him — marijuana charges, a hospitalization following a medication overdose, being named the first Korean civilian for a lunar mission — the audio drops out and he reclaims the mic by the song’s end: “What am I doing these days? I make my music. Our music.”