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We want to catch up on Throwback Thursday.

We want to share with you, what we think is one of the most personal songs KG(Kang Gary) has ever penned, Change. This is from their album, Hexagonal.

Change has several dimensions but what makes it even more interesting is the way each dimension seems to contradict another.

One the onset, it seems to talk about the obvious changes happening in their career - they are becoming an "aged" performer, an old-timer, a veteran. Along with this is their change in label. After four years with J-Entercom, they signed with Jungle Entertainment, a "change" that would later on prove to be an important one in terms of their penetration to the mainstream market.

There is, however, a second layer to the "change". KG raps about how "change" makes things insignificant and useless since nothing remains. He starts to wonder if anything is ever worth doing given that no matter how you try to hold on to things, it will disappear. They have worked hard to establish their name as musicians but now that they are, people see their worn out shoulders and hear the weary voices in their melody.

Again, he contradicts this with the third dimension. Here, he seems resolved about the necessity for people to move on. He insists that those that are left behind simply must be forgotten so people can live. Here, he raps about the necessity of abandonment.

Then there's the fourth layer, about people being unable to catch up to things which questions whether people really need to "abandon" things as they change when they can't seem to change "enough". "By the time you know love," KG said. "Love has already changed." He wonders whether people really reach a point when they get the life they are supposed to live which seems to frown at people's propensity to forget things that have passed.

The fifth layer is a probably the most painful one, it's when people achieve their dreams, they get the "change" they want only to realize that the "change" they worked so hard for can't help them keep the people in their lives healthy and happy. He has a lot of money but his mother has cancer. It's also a reaffirmation that if there is anything in KG's life that remains sacred to him, it's his mother. He mentions her sparingly in his songs but it's always so meaningful. It's oftentimes a one-liner, but it's a line cuts through the heart.

It's a telling tale, a painful question, one which he leaves hanging till the end of the end of the song.

By the sixth layer, he surrenders to change. He said, "We have to live with change... always losing... always gaining something."

A song with six dimensions in an album titled Hexagon (shape with six edges and six vertices). It is songs like this that makes you realize just how brilliant of a songwriter KG really is.