Eight years before “Gangnam Style,” Psy helped cover a song called “Dear American” at an anti-U.S. protest, multiple reports indicate.
In 2004, Psy allegedly rapped the following:
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The lyrics and English translation — which we're told by a Korean speaker is correct — were posted as a CNN iReport two months ago and picked up recently by Twitchy and Mediaite. His appearance at the concert is apparently well documented in Korean media.
The song was originally done by the band N.EX.T:
It's still not clear if Psy actually helped cover the song. But he does have a history of appearing at protest concerts. Anti-American sentiment began mounting in South Korea in 2002, when American soldiers struck two South Korean schoolgirls during a training exercise.
The Korea Daily blog has photos of Psy from some of these shows in the early 2000s:
