The debut album that lays bare the beginning and development of my life in music.I started out as someone who simply listened to HIPHOP. Before I knew it, I found myself writing lyrics.As I dug deeper into myself through music, I was forced to confront my attachment to the past, my own arrogance, and the things I had lost through my selfishness and the ways I had failed to honor those who had been there for me.Through music, I met many people, said goodbye to some, and learned from all of them.Meeting KAKKY from Kobe was one of those encounters.He listened to my music when I was still an unknown artist and offered me his beats. I didn't want that connection to go to waste. That feeling became the starting point for making this album with beats from G-KANKAKU.The album took two years to make.In the beginning, many of the songs sounded like I was clinging to the past. But as I kept writing, I gradually began to look forward. Little by little, I regained my energy.Swimming through the waters of music, meeting different people and learning from everything I encountered, I finally found my way back to who I truly am.The ranchu goldfish depicted on the cover is a reflection of myself swimming through that journey.The ranchu is known as the"king of goldfish," yet it is also a breed that has been repeatedly altered and refined according to human desires.The artist behind the cover, Guerrilla Gou, saw the posture of a rapper in that distorted form.The quirks in your voice. Your past. Your contradictions.It is precisely the things that push you beyond the boundaries of what others consider normal that become the core of an expression only you can create.yu-kyou is about embracing the weight of that distortion, refusing to hand over the definition of yourself to anyone else, and ultimately embodying that very concept of HIPHOP.Growth and struggle are, in a sense, a spiral.yu-kyou.This is not the destination.This is where it begins.