Yaeji

Yaeji on Her Four Journals, “Kimbap Lab”, Basketball, and more.

April 7, 2023

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Yaeji is a New York City-based musician whose debut album ‘With A Hammer’ is out today on XL Recordings after a great run of singles; “Passed Me By,” “Done (Let’s Get It),” and “For Granted”. Her new record is a follow up to her 2020 mixtape ‘WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던’ and 2017 EP’s (‘Yaeji’ and ‘EP2’) which included hit tracks like “Raingurl” and “Passionfruit”. Last September she played the Marc Jacobs Heaven party with Doja Cat, Charli XCX, and more, and now she’s back with her first ever North American tour which will end in May with two sold out shows at Brooklyn Steel. She also has her own bespoke lifestyle webstore called ji-mart that you can find here. Lucky for us, Yaeji is here to tell us what she’s been into.

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observing myself as though i am another person

I’ve been used to suppressing myself my whole life that i find it difficult to know how im actually feeling or what im actually thinking sometimes. It made it harder to love myself or do things that are good for me. But i always knew how to show love and care to others around me. i realized (quite recently) that i can show the same love and care if i treat myself like another person. I’ll just be sitting down listening to her(me) for a long time, no judgement. It’s a seemingly simple act, but something i havent made the space for until now

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“Kimbap Lab”

I’ve been cooking more and trying to order delivery less if poss.. But when i do order food its HERE. i would eat kimbap from Kimbap labs 7 days out of the week if i could. My go-to order is the “Spicy Pork Kimbap Roll” - it’s a roll with a generous amount of Jaeyookbokkeum style pork in it. My choice of side is kimchi(which the kimchi here slaps) and for sauce i highly recommend the seaweed purée.

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small business vlogs by young artists

In my downtime i like to have vlogs playing. Sometimes vlog on my iphone, anime on my ipad at the same time. Some of my recent favs have all been small business owners, mostly younger femmes. Here are some of my recs: Radia Rahman, Uncomfy Co, Megan Wang

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“Nichijou”

Nichijou literally means daily life, and in this anime u get a super zoomed in comedy of daily happenings and mishappenings to the extremest degree. Theres a whole skit that’s dedicated to Yuuko dealing with murdering a mosquito all night in the wildest ways u could ever dream of. 10/10

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BASKETBALL

I was in varsity bball in highschool but was in charge of water bottles. Even tho i suck at it, i love it so much i just want to be in close proximity to it as much as i can. U can find me occasionally balling at random courts across brooklyn, wearing air jordan 11 retro ‘win like 82’. I dont have a favorite team in the NBA, but im rooting for everyone who gives it their all (/I LOVE STEPH CURRY).

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journaling (i keep 4)

I am a pretty obsessive documenter. I seem to have bad memory, which got me into keeping record of things as much as i can. I’ll be taking photos on my iphone, videos on my camcorder (for onion vlogs i make every month), and i keep FOUR diaries with all different purposes. 1: sorta like a gratitude journal. Simple bullet points of things i “liked, lacked, learned, longed for” and thank yous. 2: a “throw up” notebook where i throw up all my thoughts. 3: a simple scheduler thats a weekly format hobonichi. 4: an hourly day-to-day diary that i fill up retroactively to learn any patterns and habits. Kinda like self-research.

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