In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.
Loptimist (๋žํ‹ฐ๋ฏธ์ŠคํŠธ)
Born
Lee Hyuk Ki

(1985-04-07) April 7, 1985 (age 41)
OriginSouth Korea
GenreKorean hip hop
OccupationsRapper, Music Producer
Years active2004โ€”present
LabelsSoul Company
Jungle Entertainment
Kemistreet Records
Leestrument

Lee Hyuk Ki (Hangul: ์ดํ˜๊ธฐ), better known as Loptimist (Hangul: ๋žํ‹ฐ๋ฏธ์ŠคํŠธ), is a South Korean rapper.[1] He debuted in 2007 with the album, 22 Channels. He signed to record label Soul Company in 2008 and left in 2011 to join Jungle Entertainment.[2] Loptimist has been praised for "broadening the spectrum of the hip hop genre."[3]

Discography

Albums

Title Album details Track list
22 Channels Released: February 24, 2007

Label: Tyle Music

  1. Intro
  2. New Vision
  3. Black Cancer (Feat. Dead'P)
  4. Ocean To Ocean (Feat. Unknown Prophets)
  5. ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ์ƒ˜ (Feat. ๋‚˜์ฐฐ of Garion & ๋Œ€ํŒ”)
  6. WETHEREAL (Feat. Phebruary)
  7. 85 Paradise (Feat. Sol Flower)
  8. Hard Hittin (Feat. UnderClassMen)
  9. Love (Feat. BlackLiszt)
  10. No Doubt (Feat. Deepflow)
  11. Dear.Unknown (Feat. Wimpy of ๋‘์‚ฌ๋žŒ)
  12. La Repondeur -Interlude (Feat. Deaf Switch & Toon)
  13. KO Is The Name (Feat. The Legendary K.O.a.k.a. K-Otix)
  14. Struggle To Rise (Feat. Sick Status)
  15. Nostalgia (Feat. Addsp2ch)
  16. Last For One (Feat. Baechigi)
  17. ๊ฐ€๋‚œํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ ๋…ธ๋ž˜ (Loptimistic Remix) (Feat. UMC)
  18. Illest Form (Feat. UnderClassMen)
  19. Coffee Break
  20. The Triumph (Feat. Simon Dominic)
  21. Like They Used To (Feat. D.Randle of The Legendary K.O. a.k.a. K-Otix)
  22. Keep On Rockin (Feat. SIDE-B)
  23. Hidden Agenda (Feat. Braille)
  24. Outro
Mind-Expander Released: April 29, 2008

Label: Soul Company

  1. Intro : K.O Blessing
  2. Triple Flow (Feat. ๋„‹์—…์ƒจ & RHYME-A-)
  3. Amnesia (Feat. Simon Dominic & Lady Jane)
  4. ์ง‘์‹œ์—ฌํ–‰ (Feat. ๋ฆฌ์Œ)
  5. One Night Dream (Feat. Blackliszt)
  6. ์ด๋นจ (Feat. Mad Clown)
  7. Ticket (Interlude)
  8. Ticket to London
  9. ๋„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•œ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ‰๋‹ค (Feat. ์ƒ›๋ณ„)
  10. Coastal (Feat. DJ Wegun)
  11. ๊ธˆ๋ฉ”๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ (Feat. Leo Kekoa)
  12. ๊ฐˆ์ฆ (Feat. P&Q)
  13. D.A.R.K (Feat. ARK (Tablo, Mithra Jin, Yankie))
  14. Ghostwriter (Feat. Kebee & ๊ฒฝ์„  of Heritage)
  15. ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฐ ํŽธ์ง€
  16. Dedicated to MC (Bonus Track)
Lilac Released: March 10, 2011

Label: Soul Company

  1. ๋‚จ์ž์˜ ๋ฉ‹ (Feat. Loquence)
  2. ์ž์œ ๋กœ (Feat. Paloalto & Jinbo)
  3. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ
  4. ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ๋ณธ๋‹ค (Feat. D.C)
  5. Coastal 2 (Feat. DJ Wegun)
  6. ์ƒํ™œ์˜ ๋‹ฌ์ธ (Feat. RHYME-A-)
  7. Sunshine (Feat. B-Free & Crucial Star)
  8. Boogie Night (Feat. Makesense & D.C)
  9. ๊ทธ๋•Œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š”
  10. ๋ผ์ผ๋ฝ (Feat. ๊น€๋™ํฌ)
  11. ์—ฐ์–ด (Feat. Eluphant)
  12. Lee on your mind
  13. Love is Over (Feat. Paloalto, Dead'P, & ๋‚จ์˜ˆ์ง€)
  14. Boogie Night Remix (Feat. The Quiett, RHYME-A-, & D.C)
Veranda Released: October 31, 2014

Label: Kemistreet Records

  1. Veranda
  2. ์œ ๋ถ€๋‚จ ์ง„ (Feat. D.C)
  3. ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋˜ ๊ธธ์— (Feat. ๊น€ํ•˜์–€)
  4. Echo
  5. ์”จ (Feat. Carmine Ioanna)
  6. 303 drum
  7. ์ž˜๋์–ด (Feat. ํƒ of Baechigi, ์ง€์ข…ํ™˜, & DJ SQ)
  8. Nest
  9. ์ด๋ฏธ (Feat. Paxy)
  10. ๋– ์˜ค๋ฆ„
  11. ์˜์‹ฌ๋ณ‘ (Feat. Teth & ์ง€์ข…ํ™˜)
  12. Memoria
  13. Ma Day
  14. ๋ฒ ๊ฐœ
  15. ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋˜ ๊ธธ์— Remix (Feat. D.C)
Amazing Gift Vol. 3 Released: November 20, 2014

Label: Kemistreet Records

  1. L is back
  2. ์˜์‹ฌ๋ณ‘ (Inst.)
  3. ์Œ์•…๊ฐ€
  4. ์‚ฌ๋ˆ
  5. ํ‡ดํ•™
  6. ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋˜ ๊ธธ์— (Inst.)
  7. ์—ฐ์–ด (Inst.)
  8. ์Šฌ๊ธฐ๋กœ์šด ์ƒํ™œ
  9. ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ๋ณธ๋‹ค (Inst.)
  10. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ (Inst.)
  11. ์ด๋ฏธ (Inst.)
  12. ๋ผ์ผ๋ฝ (Inst.)
  13. ๋‹ค์ด์–ดํŠธ
  14. ์ž์œ ๋กœ (Inst.)
  15. ์˜คํ† ๋…ธ๋ฏธ
  16. ๊ฐ์ž
  17. ๋ฒผ๋ฝ

Singles

  • "Love Is Over" (2010)
  • "Amazing Gift Vol. 1" (2011)
  • "Ma Day" (2014)
  • "์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋˜ ๊ธธ์—" (2014)
  • "์˜์‹ฌ๋ณ‘" (2014)
  • "๋Œ์•„๋ณด๊ธฐ" (2014)
  • "๋‹ค์‹œ๋Š”" (2015)
  • "์•„๋ฅดํŽ˜์˜ค" (2015)
  • "Me" (2016)
  • "Seoul Bossa Nova" (2016)
  • "Yam Scene" (2016)
  • "Che Bella" (2016)
  • "Early Bird" (2016)
  • "Beat Language" (2016)

Awards

Hiphopplaya Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result
2007 Rookie of the Year[4] Loptimist Won
2009 Producer of the Year[5] Loptimist Won

References

  1. ^ "๋žํ‹ฐ๋ฏธ์ŠคํŠธ(Loptimist) ์†Œ๊ฐœ" [Introduction to Loptimist]. Mnet (in Korean). Retrieved 2016-05-27.
  2. ^ "๋žํ‹ฐ๋ฏธ์ŠคํŠธ, ์ •๊ธ€ ์—”ํ„ฐํ…Œ์ธ๋จผํŠธ์™€ ๊ณ„์•ฝ" [Loptimist signs contract with Jungle Entertainment]. Hiphopplaya Magazine (in Korean). 2011-05-01. Retrieved 2016-05-27.
  3. ^ "Hip hop producer Loptimist joins JUNGLE Entertainment". Allkpop. 2011-05-01. Retrieved 2016-05-27.
  4. ^ "Hiphopplaya Awards 2007". Hiphopplaya Magazine (in Korean). 2008-04-08. Retrieved 2016-05-27.
  5. ^ "Hiphopplaya Awards 2009". Hiphopplaya Magazine (in Korean). Archived from the original on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2016-05-27.