Source: Dispatch Dives In — Did BTS's Suga and Big Hit Entertainment Really Know Nothing About Jim Jones?
I didn't find other news in English yet so although it's koreaboo I guess that's the best the currently is. It's from Dispatch article though so should have some credits ^^
The article is pretty long so this is going to be TDLR version since i read it through, but you can also from the source link. Dispatch questions two things: 1. That the producer didn't know the speech was from Jim Jones and didn't know anything what it was about 2. Suga is not a producer in the track.
For the 1st point Dispatch took a look on Splice, which is largest sampling platform in USA and looked into what kind of search terms you need to use to find speech by Jim Jones. His speeches can be found at least with search words "religion" and "jim jones", but not by "speech". The sound files about his speeches all state Jim Jones in the file and are part of following "album" (and i have to say that having album like that with that description is pretty insensitive as well, with "raw character" and "emotionally charged").
So in conclusion it's unlikely that the one who picked the file would been able to do so without at least seeing that the file was part of religious speech and about Jim Jones.
2nd point was about Suga's role as producer. BigHit claimed in their apology that Suga is not the producer, however following info was in the credits of the song, which seem to make BigHit's claim untrue or either the credits untrue.
- Nevertheless it doesn't seem like this scandal will die just yet, especially with Dispatch being involved and coming out with this research. And from the beginning I thought BigHit's apology wasn't the best, and it if turns out it included some lies in behalf of Suga, that's going to be even more problematic for them.
EDIT: Doesn't look like the images work, I can see them while editing but not in the post when I save it. Hopefully the links of them work and if not you can find them in the source.
I didn't find other news in English yet so although it's koreaboo I guess that's the best the currently is. It's from Dispatch article though so should have some credits ^^
The article is pretty long so this is going to be TDLR version since i read it through, but you can also from the source link. Dispatch questions two things: 1. That the producer didn't know the speech was from Jim Jones and didn't know anything what it was about 2. Suga is not a producer in the track.
For the 1st point Dispatch took a look on Splice, which is largest sampling platform in USA and looked into what kind of search terms you need to use to find speech by Jim Jones. His speeches can be found at least with search words "religion" and "jim jones", but not by "speech". The sound files about his speeches all state Jim Jones in the file and are part of following "album" (and i have to say that having album like that with that description is pretty insensitive as well, with "raw character" and "emotionally charged").
So in conclusion it's unlikely that the one who picked the file would been able to do so without at least seeing that the file was part of religious speech and about Jim Jones.
2nd point was about Suga's role as producer. BigHit claimed in their apology that Suga is not the producer, however following info was in the credits of the song, which seem to make BigHit's claim untrue or either the credits untrue.
- Nevertheless it doesn't seem like this scandal will die just yet, especially with Dispatch being involved and coming out with this research. And from the beginning I thought BigHit's apology wasn't the best, and it if turns out it included some lies in behalf of Suga, that's going to be even more problematic for them.
EDIT: Doesn't look like the images work, I can see them while editing but not in the post when I save it. Hopefully the links of them work and if not you can find them in the source.