Playlist: Verbal Jint, Hyun-Young & Sool J, ALi, Dal Shabet, Blady

Verbal Jint - My Type 2

Verbal Jint first cooked up My Type for Cheetah and Jessi for the Unpretty Rap Star series. He has completely overhauled it for My Type 2,  replacing the solid groove with various syncopated rhythms, Spanish guitar, tinkling piano and muted brass. Davichi's Kang Min Kyung and Sanchez from hip-hop outfit Phantom sing the sweet melody. Both versions are great tbh.

Hyun-Young and Sool J - Honey

This slow jam is actually from the end of last year but I just stumbled over it. Rainbow's Hyun-Young sings a gorgeous melody, rapper Sool J adds a bit of grunt.

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ALi - Goodbye Mr Kim

This 60s-style number could double as a Bond theme. ALi has a big voice with a husky edge. It's perfect for this  retro treatment which is capped off with a Hammond organ sound. Doesn't hurt to have EXID's Le on board for the rap.

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Dal Shabet - Obsessed

Dal Shabet came back with Joker, a nice swing jazz track and fantastic '40s chorus girl deck of cards costumes. It did pretty well for them and the EP also contains this little beauty - a great mid-paced track with throbbing and quacking synths. It's co-written and produced by Dal Shabet's SuBin (who co-wrote and produced the whole EP). Pops in Seoul has a good chat with the ladies, talking about the EP, SuBin's role in it, and their suggestions for a Dal Shabet playlist.
And for all of you who hanging to see the ladies perform Joker in animal onesies: wish granted.

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Blady - Oochie Walla Walla

Dal Shabet stole some of Blady's thunder: Blady released Come to Me, a nice swing jazz number with a Latin twist about the same time as Joker. These guys are rookies, with only one original member left over from their first release, so they were no match for Dal Shabet's star power. But Come to Me was pretty appealing and their EP has some other good tunes, like this totally nuts track Oochie Walla Walla, where '60s girl group vocals are mashed up with a bunch of random dance rhythms from the past 10 years. They have some pretty cool chorry to go with it.