Primary (musician)

Primary became active in the South Korean hip hop scene in 2004 with collaborations with Dynamic Duo and Garion. He also gained musical experience while attending Seoul Jazz Academy. In 2006, he debuted with an album named Daily Apartment in collaboration with Beenzino, under the name P' Skool. As part of the promotions for the album, Primary donned a cardboard box mask with a bird beak in order to be more memorable. The band is now inactive, but often play at live performances for Dynamic Duo and Supreme Team.^[5]

Primary and Dynamic Duo's Gaeko created a track for Quincy Jones's 2011 visit to Korea which Jones sung at a press conference and expressed his appreciation for.^{[6][unreliable source?]} In 2011 Primary released the first part of the album Primary and The Messengers and continued to release the subsequent four parts through October 2012.^[2] The album in total includes collaborations with 23 separate artists.^[7] He successfully broke into the top ten on various Korean music charts with the album's track "? (Question Mark)" in November 2012.^{[8][unreliable source?]} Primary performed a special stage with Dynamic Duo at the 2012 MBC Gayo Daejun.^{[9][unreliable source?]}

On August 31 and September 1, 2013, Primary held a sold-out joint concert with Zion.T at the Lotte Art Center in Seoul.^{[10][unreliable source?]} Primary also participated at the 2013 Infinite Challenge Song Festival, performing with Park Myeong-su and producing a song for Park Ji-yoon. The songs he made for the event, "I Got C" and "Mr. Lee". were later have found to have crossed the line from sampling into plagiarism in their use of Dutch artist Caro Emerald's songs "Liquid Lunch" and "One Day". Primary later officially credited Caro Emerald's composing group Grandmono for the songs. All of the proceeds from the song "I Got C" were later donated.^{[11][full citation needed]} Primary later produced the song "Without You" for Infinite H.^[12]

On March 24, 2020, Amoeba Culture announced that their exclusive contract with Primary had been terminated.^[13]

On April 22, 2020, he established his own record label Paktory Company.^[14]