Star YG producers launch new label

Kush and Teddy(inbox)

Teddy and Kush, two star music producers from the nation’s top management company, YG Entertainment, are launching their own label.

YG CEO Yang Hyun-seok has been encouraging them to break from the company and develop better skills as music producers, according to a media report. Yang will plan and direct the label’s launch.

The two have produced many K-pop hits, including girl band 2NE1’s “Lollipop” and “I Don’t Care,” and boy band Big Bang’s project album, “Made.”

Teddy, who debuted with YG’s hip-hop band 1TYM in 1998, has been working with the company since. With the band’s last album, released in 2005, he began his career as a music producer.

Kush debuted with reggae-based duo Stony Skunk in 2003 and began working as a producer for YG in 2010.