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Tablo on His Revealing New Collaboration With BTS' RM: 'It Felt Like a Diary'

Tablo of Epik High tells us about working with BTS' RM on the new song 'Stop the Rain,' being released a month before RM ends his military service

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. 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.

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