11 tracks · 35 min
As the leader of Korean superstar group BTS, rapper-producer RM (aka Kim Nam-joon) is not always free to follow his musical curiosities or to explore deeply personal experiences. When he writes, records and performs within BTS, he is doing it as part of a larger group, and the sacrifices that come with that are made in favour of something more collective. But RM has much to say as an artist outside of his BTS persona, and in the first 11 years of the group’s career, he has found the space to say it, releasing his own solo material in the form of two mixtapes (2015’s RM and 2018’s mono.), a 2022 solo album debut (Indigo) and now Right Place, Wrong Person. While Indigo was a vulnerable reflection back on RM’s twenties, Right Place, Wrong Person is somehow even more raw in its sounds and sentiments. The 11-track album is a diary-like study of healing wounds (“I just hope you remember me/The best grave in your cemetery”) and hard-won liberations (“I like my broken self/Bitch, that's the shit”) delivered in eddies of spoken-word verse, husky vocals and RM’s signature lyrical rap. Pre-release track “Come back to me” acted as a disclaimer of what was to come. A slow-burn exhale of a s…
