50 Fun Facts About Suga

Suga long told fans his stage name was short for which basketball position, his favourite?

Shooting guard was a cover story: Suga later said the name really honours boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard. He found the true origin too much of a chore to explain.

Under which alias did Suga release his 2016 and 2020 mixtapes and the 2023 album D-Day?

Agust D is Suga spelled backwards plus DT, initials that stand for his hometown's nickname. He adopted the alias for his first mixtape.

On his 25th birthday Suga kept a promise to fans by donating what food to 39 orphanages?

Beef went to the orphanages in the name of ARMY, the BTS fanbase. Back in 2014 Suga had promised to buy his fans meat if he ever found success.

Suga's autobiographical solo First Love, on the BTS album Wings, is a rap serenade to which childhood instrument?

A piano from Suga's childhood is addressed like an old friend in the song, which unfolds like a monologue. He plays the instrument and produces mainly hip hop and R&B.

In 2021 Suga re-composed Over the Horizon, the signature ringtone of which electronics company's phones?

Samsung unveiled Suga's version of its ringtone that August at the Unpacked 2021 event.

Which BT21 character, a mischievous little cookie who is afraid of milk, was created by Suga?

Shooky leads a cookie team called the Crunchy Squad. On his 26th birthday Suga gave 329 dolls of the character to the Korea Pediatric Cancer Foundation.

The treatment centre Suga funded at Seoul's Severance Hospital in 2025 serves children with which condition?

Autism is the focus of the centre, which Suga funded with a 5 billion won donation. He has also worked there as a volunteer music instructor.

Which streaming service premiered the documentary Suga: Road to D-Day on the day his debut album arrived?

Disney+ carried the film, which follows Suga on a music road trip across different countries as he makes the album.

Which singer's 2022 lead single That That was written and produced with Suga, who features on it?

Psy made the song the opening release from his album Psy 9th and filmed its video on a cold, wet beach in Incheon. It won Best Collaboration at the 2022 MAMA Awards.

Suga gave 100 million won to coronavirus relief in February 2020 for which hard-hit city, his hometown?

Daegu, where Suga was born, was among the South Korean cities worst affected by the outbreak at the time. A year later he gave the same sum to a hospital there for children with cancer.

Which American singer's album Manic includes an interlude named after Suga, who raps on it and co-produced it?

Halsey said she asked Suga onto the track because he is so introspective about the unusual lives they both lead. The pair reunited in 2023 on a new version of her song Lilith.

A 2023 version of the song Lilith featuring Suga was released as the anthem of which video game?

Diablo IV has a main villain who shares the song's name. The anthem version was first performed at The Game Awards 2022, and the full cut with Suga followed in June 2023.

Which late rapper's posthumous album Fighting Demons includes Girl of My Dreams, a song with Suga?

Juice Wrld first worked with Suga on All Night, from the BTS World soundtrack, in 2019. Their second song together reached number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The video for Suga's lead single from D-2, casting him as a king and his double, draws on which Korean film?

Masquerade follows a lowly acrobat who stands in for King Gwanghae. Suga said the king in his video represents his old self and the double his new one, who shoots the king in the final scene.

Which single from Suga's mixtape D-2 samples traditional Korean military music and reached the US Hot 100?

Daechwita borrows the name and sound of marching music once played by wind and percussion bands, sampling a performance by the National Gugak Center. The single peaked at number 76 in the US.

Suga's 2023 single Haegeum shares its name with which traditional Korean instrument heard on the track?

A two-stringed fiddle called the haegeum plays on the track, and the title doubles as a pun on liberation, the theme of the song. Suga wrote and produced it alone.

Which BTS bandmate trades verses with Suga on a drill-based track from his 2023 album D-Day?

J-Hope raps in a hushed near-whisper against Suga's urgent delivery as the pair call out misinformation spread about them online and in the media.

Which Japanese composer plays keyboard on Snooze, a track from Suga's album D-Day?

Ryuichi Sakamoto shares the track with singer Woosung of the Rose. Paste ranked the song first on its list of the best K-pop songs of 2023.

Which D-Day track recalls painful moments in Suga's life, such as his mother's heart surgery?

Amygdala takes its name from the almond-shaped part of the brain that processes fear and emotional memories. NME's five-star review picked the song as the standout on the album.

Which 2020 single by IU, featuring and produced by Suga, debuted at number one on the Gaon Digital Chart?

Eight is named for the last digit of 28, the Korean age both singers shared when they made it. It won Best Collaboration at the 2020 MAMA Awards.

A sampled speech by which American cult leader was removed from a track on Suga's mixtape D-2 after an apology?

Jim Jones, who directed his followers in a 1978 mass murder-suicide, was heard in the original sample. The label said the producers had not known where the speech came from and reissued the track without it.

Which South Korean label did Suga first join as a music producer before training there for three years?

Big Hit Entertainment took Suga on in 2010 and launched him in BTS three years later. Underground rappers at first accused him of selling out by becoming a K-pop idol.

Suga debuted with BTS on M Countdown performing which track from the single album 2 Cool 4 Skool?

No More Dream introduced BTS on the Mnet music show in June 2013. Suga has since written and produced tracks for every one of the group's albums.

Which South Korean president awarded Suga and his BTS bandmates the Hwagwan Order of Cultural Merit in 2018?

Moon Jae-in honoured the group for promoting Korean culture, then in 2021 appointed its members special presidential envoys for future generations and culture.

Suga became a brand ambassador in January 2023 for which Italian fashion house, fronting its menswear campaign?

Valentino made Suga the face of its Maison Valentino Essentials line, a campaign built around the label's wardrobe staples.

Which condition put Suga in hospital for surgery in December 2013, forcing him to miss year-end music festivals?

Appendicitis struck six months after BTS debuted. Suga was readmitted later that month when the surgical site became inflamed.

Suga stepped back from BTS promotions in November 2020 after surgery to repair which part of his body?

Shoulder trouble, a torn labrum on his left side, kept Suga out until January 2021, when he rejoined BTS on stage at the Golden Disc Awards.

Suga's 2010 track 518-062, made with his underground crew, commemorates which South Korean pro-democracy movement?

The Gwangju Uprising is also known as the May 18 Democratization Movement, hence 518, and 062 is the city's telephone area code. Suga produced the song with the crew D-Town.

On his 2016 mixtape Suga adopts the character of Tony Montana, the gangster from which crime film?

Scarface gave Suga a persona for a track about success, ambition and envy. Bandmate Jimin joined him to perform it at a Seoul concert in August 2023.

What is the birth name of Suga, which a children's treatment centre he funded in Seoul now carries?

Min Yoon-gi, born in March 1993, is the younger of two sons and belongs to the Yeoheung Min clan.

Suga released his first solo mixtape for free in August 2016 through which audio streaming platform?

SoundCloud hosted the free release because Suga felt a commercial album would trap him inside a framework. A reissue reached paid download and streaming services in 2018.

Which reggae and hip hop duo's song Ragga Muffin first got Suga interested in rap?

Stony Skunk released Ragga Muffin in 2005, and Suga said it sounded unlike anything he had heard before. The duo, Kush and Skull, split up in 2008.

Which hip hop trio made Suga decide to become a rapper and later had him produce their track Eternal Sunshine?

Epik High released the Suga-produced song on a 2019 EP. That year the trio's leader, Tablo, also co-wrote and produced Song Request, a single Suga rapped on.

Which singer's 2017 hit Wine was Suga's first production for another artist outside BTS and his own projects?

Suran heard a rough draft at his studio and asked for the song, which peaked at number two in South Korea. It won Best R&B at the 2017 Melon Music Awards, where Suga took the Hot Trend Award.

Which American singer guests on Burn It from Suga's mixtape D-2 and featured Suga on his own Blueberry Eyes?

Max put Blueberry Eyes on his 2020 album Colour Vision. He also joined Suga on stage during the 2023 solo tour to perform their D-2 duet.

Which Suga solo recounting his teenage years opens part two of the BTS series The Most Beautiful Moment in Life?

Intro: Never Mind came out ahead of the EP in November 2015 and later opened the compilation Young Forever. Suga still performed it in the encore of his 2023 solo shows.

Suga's solo track Interlude: Shadow, on Map of the Soul: 7, takes its title concept from which psychologist's ideas?

Carl Jung wrote of the persona, shadow and ego, the ideas that shape the album. Suga's track, about the fears that come with fame, was released first as the album's trailer.

Which solo song did Suga record for the BTS compilation album Love Yourself: Answer in 2018?

Trivia: Seesaw likens falling in love to the up-and-down motion of the playground ride. Suga played an acoustic version on his 2023 solo tour.

Which BTS song from the 2020 album Be did Suga rework under the same title for his album D-Day?

Life Goes On is the tenth and final track on D-Day and samples the BTS original. Suga played it alone at the keys on his 2023 tour.

Honsool, a track on Suga's mixtape D-2, takes its title from a Korean term for doing what alone?

Drinking alone is the literal meaning of honsool. Suga wrote and produced the track with Pdogg.

Suga earned a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year through his credit on which Coldplay album?

Music of the Spheres includes My Universe, the Coldplay and BTS single that Suga co-wrote. He later released his own remix of the song.

Korean media nicknamed Suga The Hand of which legendary king for producing commercially successful songs?

Midas turned whatever he touched to gold in Greek myth, a fitting image for a producer whose credits run from IU to Coldplay.

Suga began writing lyrics by age 13 while learning which music-production technology?

MIDI was his way in: by 17 Suga had a part-time job composing and arranging music at a recording studio.

Suga's 2023 D-Day Tour played the US, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea and which other country?

Japan was added a month after the first dates were announced, with three June shows at the Pia Arena MM in Kanagawa.

Suga co-wrote and produced the 2019 single We Don't Talk Together, featuring Giriboy, for which singer?

Heize released the single that July, and its full title carries a production credit for Suga.

Suga rapped on Song Request, which won Best Collaboration at the 2019 MAMA Awards, for which South Korean singer?

Lee So-ra's single debuted at number three on the Gaon Digital Chart in January 2019. Suga co-wrote it with Tablo, who also produced it.

Suga closed his 2023 D-Day Tour with three encore shows at which arena in Seoul?

KSPO Dome hosted the final nights in August 2023, when a different BTS bandmate joined Suga on stage each evening.

What is the name of the talk show web series Suga launched on YouTube in December 2022?

Suchwita features Suga candidly interviewing a different guest in each episode.

Which ticketing company scrapped the public on-sale for Suga's 2023 US tour dates after presale demand ran too high?

Ticketmaster released every seat during the first fan-club presale, saying demand had exceeded the tickets available. Fans criticised how the sale was handled.

Suga hosted a weekly five-episode radio show in April 2023, promoting his album D-Day, on which streaming service?

Apple Music aired the premiere on April 17, four days before the album came out.