Is YG officially booted out of the big3? (1 Viewer)

[mirella]

That's true for a majority of the groups out there and every 3rd gen YG group owes a lot of their popularity and brand to the company
Doesn't mean they can't walk away or that they shouldn't

Yeah obviously Blackpink doesn't need YG now. They are big enough to stand on their own. I'm not saying they shouldn't leave; in fact I think most of YG's acts would do better elsewhere. I guess WINNER and iKON wouldn't technically exist without YG thanks to the survival shows, but their sound and music is practically their own. B.I composes all of iKON's music and even at debut WINNER diverged from the YG hiphop boy group image.