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    Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Choi Seung-hyun showed an early interest in hip hop. He trained as an underground rapper before being scouted by YG Entertainment to join their new boy group Big Bang. Although initially rejected for his weight, Choi lost 20 kg in 40 days and successfully auditioned. He debuted as T.O.P., one of Big Bang's two rappers. The group achieved mainstream success with hit songs like "Lies" and "Last Farewell".

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    Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Choi Seung-hyun showed an early interest in hip hop. He trained as an underground rapper before being scouted by YG Entertainment to join their new boy group Big Bang. Although initially rejected for his weight, Choi lost 20 kg in 40 days and successfully auditioned. He debuted as T.O.P., one of Big Bang's two rappers. The group achieved mainstream success with hit songs like "Lies" and "Last Farewell".

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    Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Choi Seung-hyun showed an early interest in hip hop. He trained as an underground rapper before being scouted by YG Entertainment to join their new boy group Big Bang. Although initially rejected for his weight, Choi lost 20 kg in 40 days and successfully auditioned. He debuted as T.O.P., one of Big Bang's two rappers. The group achieved mainstream success with hit songs like "Lies" and "Last Farewell".

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    Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Choi Seung-hyun is the great nephew of Korea's pioneering abstract

    art artist Kim Whanki and grew up in contact with art due to his family. [3][4] Since a young age, Choi became
    interested in hip hop.[5] He and fellow future Big Bang member Kwon Ji-yong were "neighborhood friend[s] from
    middle school" and often danced and rapped together.[6] Although Kwon later moved away and the two
    "became distant", Choi was contacted by Kwon when YG Entertainment, Kwon's record label, was scouting for
    possible candidates to create a boy group. [6] By then, Choi had already performed on many underground stages
    at hip hop clubs[7] and established a reputation as an underground rapper with the stage name Tempo. [8] In 2003
    under the name of Tempo, he was the winner of KBS Radio’s Rap Battle.[9] After contact, Choi subsequently
    recorded several demos with Kwon and sent them to Yang Hyun-suk, CEO of YG Entertainment, who later
    asked he to audition.[8] Choi was initially rejected by the record label, which deemed him too "chubby" to fit the
    "idealistic version" of an idol.[8] He later "went home and exercised really hard because I wanted to join YG
    Entertainment,"[8] losing 20 kg in 40 days.[8] Six months later, Choi returned for another audition and was signed.
    Given the stage name of T.O.P. (Korean: 탑) by senior YG artist Seven,[10] he became one of two rappers
    alongside G-Dragon (Kwon's stage name) in Big Bang. The two were paired with four
    others: Taeyang, Daesung, Seungri and Hyunseung and a documentary leading up to their debut was aired to
    promote them.[11] Hyunseung was later dropped by Yang, and Big Bang made its official debut with five
    members.[12] Their first studio album, Big Bang Vol. 1 - Since 2007, received lukewarm receptions,[13] and
    included T.O.P.'s first solo song "Big Boy". The group achieved mainstream success with the release of the
    song "Lies" (Korean: 거짓말; Revised Romanization: Geojitmal) from the extended play Always (2007), which
    topped several charts upon its release. The singles, "Last Farewell" (Korean: 마지막 인사; rr: Majimak Insa)
    from Hot Issue (2008) and "Day by Day" (Korean: 하루하루; rr: Haru Haru) from Stand Up (2008), became
    chart-toppers as well.[14][15]

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