In this Korean name, the family name is Ku.
Changmo
Changmo in 2020
Changmo in 2020
Background information
Born
Ku Chang-mo

(1994-05-31) May 31, 1994 (age 32)
Jeongseon, Gangwon, South Korea
GenreKorean hip hop
Occupations
  • Rapper
  • music producer
InstrumentsVocals, piano
Years active2013โ€“present
LabelAmbition Musik
Websiteinstagram.com/changmo_
Korean name
Hangul
๊ตฌ์ฐฝ๋ชจ
Hanja
ๅ…ทๆ˜Œ่ฌจ
RRGu Changmo
MRKu Ch'angmo

Ku Chang-mo (Korean: ๊ตฌ์ฐฝ๋ชจ; born May 31, 1994),[1] known mononymously as Changmo (์ฐฝ๋ชจ; stylized in all caps), is a South Korean rapper and music producer. He released his debut album MOTOWN on March 18, 2016.[2] In October 2016, he joined Dok2 and The Quiett's sub-label, Ambition Musik.[3]

Personal life

Education

Changmo was accepted into Berklee College of Music twice, having applied once when he was 18, and once when he was 19. However, as he could not obtain a scholarship on both occasions, he chose not to attend.[4][5]

Military service

Changmo enlisted in the army for his mandatory military enlistment on March 14, 2022,[6] and was discharged on September 13, 2023.[7]

Discography

Mixtapes

Title Details
Time to Get Money[8]
(๋ˆ ๋ฒŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ„)
Ready to Be a Star #DBJB
(๋ˆ ๋ฒŒ ์ค€๋น„ #DBJB)
  • Released: October 21, 2014
  • Format: SoundCloud streaming

Studio albums

Title Details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
[9]
Boyhood
Track listing
  1. Wish (๋นŒ์—ˆ์–ด)
  2. Meteor
  3. We Up (์œ„์—…) (feat. Okasian, Uneducated Kid)
  4. 2 Minutes of Hell (feat. Paul Blanco)
  5. My Hometown Seoul (๋‚˜์˜๊ณ ํ–ฅ์„œ์šธ)
  6. Da Wero (๋” ์œ„๋กœ)
  7. Dearlove (skit)
  8. Serenade (์„ธ๋ ˆ๋‚˜๋ฐ)
  9. 031576
  10. Remedy (feat. Chungha)
  11. Meet Me in Toronto (feat. Paul Blanco)
  12. Hotel Walkerhill (feat. Hash Swan)
  13. Start
 13
Underground Rockstar
Track listing
  1. "Moraesigye" (๋ชจ๋ž˜์‹œ๊ณ„)
  2. "Taiji" (ํƒœ์ง€)
  3. "Rockstar Lifestyle" (feat. 365lit, Posadic)
  4. "Beretta" (feat. Ahn Da-young)
  5. "Chronic Love" (feat. Jibin (Y2K92))
  6. "Vivienne"
  7. "Little Brothers" (feat. Lil Gimchi)
  8. "Hyperstar"
  9. "Hotel Room"
  10. "No Regret" (feat. Joe Layne)
  11. "Supernova" (feat. Dut2)
 26
Monolith
  • Released: October 1, 2026
  • Label: Morient, Genie Music, Stone Music Entertainment
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming
Track listing
  1. "UGRS Right Here!"
  2. "Me and My Clan" (feat. Paul Blanco)
  3. "Rats"
  4. "Memento Mori" (feat. Seori)
  5. "Tokyo Neon"
  6. "Call Me" (๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ๋ด) (feat. Dimo Rex)
  7. "Impulse"
  8. "Sangenjaya" (feat. Jeebanoff, Paul Blanco)
  9. "Gospel" (๊ฐ€์ŠคํŽ )
  10. "What You Know About Me?"
 TBA TBA

Extended plays

Title Details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
[9]
MOTOWN
  • Released: March 18, 2016
  • Label: Luminant Entertainment
  • Formats: Digital download
Track listing
  1. "Light Me Up"
  2. "Party"
  3. "Mine" (๋‚ด๊บผ)
  4. "Get Money" (๋ˆ ๋ฒŒ์–ด)
  5. "W A N G"
  6. "Nobody"
  7. "Same Girls" (์—ฌ์ž๋Š” ๊ฐ™์• )
 โ€” N/a
Time to Earn Money 2
(๋ˆ ๋ฒŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ 2)
  • Released: July 21, 2016
  • Label: Luminant Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Track listing
  1. "Money Made Me Do It" (๋ˆ์ด ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์–ด)
  2. "D.O.N"
  3. "Sanai" (์‚ฌ๋‚˜์ด) (feat. Don Mills)
  4. "Maestro" (๋งˆ์—์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ)
  5. "Beautiful" (์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›Œ)
  6. "Mosart"
 50
Time to Earn Money 3
(๋ˆ ๋ฒŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ 3)
  • Released: December 15, 2016
  • Label: Ambition Musik, CJ E&M
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Track listing
  1. "Ambition" (feat. Hash Swan & Keem Hyo-eun)
  2. "Rockstar"
  3. "Ah Yee Ya" (์•„์ด์•ผ) (feat. Beenzino)
  4. "My Mate" (feat. MyunDo)
  5. "Bling!"
  6. "Jagger"
 49
Gettin Money Moment
(๋ˆ ๋ฒˆ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„)
  • Released: May 24, 2017
  • Label: Ambition Musik, CJ E&M
  • Formats: Digital download
Track listing
  1. "Inkigayo" (์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€์š”) (feat. The Quiett & Dok2)
  2. "One More Rollie" (feat. Keem Hyo-eun & Hash Swan)
  3. "Show Me Love" (feat. Sik-K)
  4. "Two Face"
  5. "Five"
  6. "Bape"
  7. "High with Me"
  8. "Wait for Me"
 26
Reached Moment (DNSG)
(๋‹ฟ๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„)
  • Released: June 11, 2018
  • Label: Ambition Musik, CJ E&M
  • Formats: Digital download
Track listing
  1. "Intro"
  2. "Lilac" (๋ผ์ผ๋ฝ) (feat. Choi Jung-hoon of Jannabi)
  3. "Touch" (๋‹ฟ๊ฒŒ ๋์–ด)
  4. "Hood Boyz" (๋™๋„ค ๋†ˆ๋“ค) (feat. Paul Blanco)
  5. "Holy God"
  6. "Selfmade Orange" (feat. Superbee)
  7. "Interlude"
  8. "Can't You See I'm a Rockstar?" (feat. Paul Blanco)
  9. "Pingye" (ํ•‘๊ณ„)
 38 N/a
Wonderful Days
  • Released: January 31, 2024
  • Label: Ambition Musik, CJ E&M
  • Formats: Digital download
Track listing
  1. "Pure Rage" (feat. Street Baby, Kor Kash)
  2. "Heliot Emil"
  3. "FWB"
  4. "Too Hard to Find Real Love"
  5. "You're The Only One
 TBA TBA
"โ€”" denotes releases that did not chart.

Singles

Title Year Peak
chart
positions 		Sales Certifications Album
KOR
[14]
As lead artist
"Gangster" (feat. Livii) 2014 โ€” N/a N/a Non-album single
"WANG" 2016 โ€” MOTOWN
"Cigarette" (๋‹ด๋ฐฐ) โ€” Non-album single
"Maestro" (๋งˆ์—์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ) 42 Time to Earn Money 2
"Rockstar" โ€” N/a Time to Earn Money 3
"Bling!" โ€”
"One More Rollie" (feat. Keem Hyo-eun & Hash Swan) 2017 โ€” Gettin Money Moment
"Inkigayo" (์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€์š”) (feat. The Quiett & Dok2) 87
"Holy God" 2018 โ€” N/a Reached Moment (DNSG)
"Meteor" 2019 1 Boyhood
"Da Wero" (๋” ์œ„๋กœ) โ€” N/a
"Remedy" (feat. Chungha) 136
"Countin My Guap" 2020 91 Bipolar
"Swoosh Flow" 177
"GJD" (๊ด‘์žฅ๋™์—์„œ) 73 GJD
"Moraesigye" (๋ชจ๋ž˜์‹œ๊ณ„) 2021 159 Underground Rockstar
"Taiji" (ํƒœ์ง€) โ€”
"Hyperstar" 168
"Just the Two of Us" (์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋‘˜์ด) 2022 104 Non-album single
"FWB" 2024 200 Wonderful Days
Collaborations
"Blue Moon" (with Hyolyn) 2017 3 N/a Non-album singles
"Beer" (๋น„์›Œ) (with Hash Swan, Ash Island, Keem Hyo-eun, Leellamarz & The Quiett) 2019 43 N/a
"Band" (with Hash Swan, Ash Island & Keem Hyo-eun) 30
"Pay Day" (with Ash Island, Junggigo & KozyPop, prod. Gray) 2020 90
As featured artist
"I Came to Hustle" (๋ˆ ๋ฒŒ๋Ÿฌ์™”์–ด) (Marvel.J feat. Changmo) 2015 โ€” N/a N/a Graduation
"Forgive Me" (Marvel.J feat. Changmo & Don Mills) 2017 โ€”
"Are You with Me?" (์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด๋ผ) (So Ji-sub feat. Changmo) โ€” Non-album single
"Ambition and Vision" (Dok2 feat. Beenzino, Changmo, Keem Hyo-eun, Hash Swan & The Quiett) 100 Reborn
"Wine" (์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ทจํ•˜๋ฉด) (Suran feat. Changmo, prod. Suga) 2 Walkin'
"Too Cold" (Primeboi feat. Changmo, Huckleberry P, Justhis & Jay Moon) โ€” N/a Trailer
"Money on the Floor" (The Quiett feat. Don Mills & Changmo) โ€” Millionaire Poetry
"La La La" (Keem Hyo-eun feat. Changmo) โ€” Non-album single
"Blame" (ํƒ“) (NakJoon feat. Changmo) โ€”
"SaimSaim" (์‚ฌ์ž„์‚ฌ์ž„) (Coogie, Superbee & D.Ark feat. Changmo) 2018 7 Show Me the Money 777
"Hundred Million" (์–ต) (Superbee feat. Changmo) 31
"Selfmade Orange 2" (Superbee feat. Changmo & Paul Blanco) 2020 โ€” Rap Legend 2
"Yours" (Raiden x Chanyeol feat. Lee Hi and Changmo) 49 Non-album single
"Play" (Chungha feat. Changmo) 14 Play
"Backpack" (D.ark, Trade L, Young Chens & Baegie feat. Changmo, prod. Way Ched) 2021 128 High School Rapper 4
"RSVP" (Hyuna feat. Changmo) 2024 โ€” Attitude
Soundtrack appearances
"Put It Down" (Dok2 feat. Keem Hyo-eun & Changmo) 2016 โ€” N/a N/a Entourage OST
"I'm All Ears" (๋‚ด ๊ท€๋Š” ์—ด๋ ค) 2017 โ€” Voice OST
"I Always" โ€” Hit the Top OST
"โ€”" denotes releases that did not chart.

Other charted songs

Title Year Peak
chart
positions 		Sales Album
KOR
[14]
"Beautiful" (์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›Œ) 2016 29 Time to Earn Money 2
"Selfmade Orange" (feat. Superbee) 2018 177 N/a Reached Moment (DNSG)
"Wish" (๋นŒ์—ˆ์–ด) 2019 14 Boyhood

Awards and nominations

Award ceremony Year Category Nominee/Work Result Ref.
Gaon Chart Music Awards 2017 Discovery of the Year - Hip hop Changmo Won
Golden Disc Awards 2020 Best R&B/Hip-Hop Award "Meteor" Won [22]
Korean Hip-Hop Awards 2020 Artist of the Year Changmo Nominated
Hip-hop Album of the Year Boyhood Nominated
Hip-hop Track of the Year "Meteor" Won
Music Video of the Year Nominated
2021 Collaboration of the Year "Swoosh Flow Remix" Nominated
2022 Artist of the Year Changmo Won [23]
Hip-Hop Album of the Year Underground Rockstar Won
Hip-Hop Track of the Year "Hyperstar" Nominated
"Taiji" Won
Music Video of the Year Won
Korean Music Awards 2022 Best Rap & Hip-Hop Album Underground Rockstar Nominated [24]
Best Rap & Hip-Hop Song "Taiji" Won [25]

Notes

  1. ^ "Meteor" was certified platinum for 100 million streaming on June 11, 2020, and double platinum for 200 million streaming on September 9, 2021.[17]

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