Hip-hop duo Supreme Team calls it quits

Rappers Simon D and E-sens of hip-hop duo Supreme Team announced on Monday that they would be going their separate ways.

The two artists said they would pursue solo careers.

Longtime hip-hop artist E-sens revealed that he decided to pursue a solo career after his contract with the duo’s former agency Amoeba Culture was terminated. 

“The rappers have parted ways,” a representative from Amoeba Culture stated to the media. “But since Supreme Team actually started off as a project band, I don’t know if you could call it a break-up.”

The representative added that Simon D also intended to pursue a solo career. While no detailed decisions have been made so far, the two do not appear to have parted on bad terms.

“E-sens is trying to do what makes him happy in pursuing a solo career, and I respect that,” Simon D wrote on Twitter. “We are just not performing together as a team, that’s all. Our 10-year relationship will definitely not change.”

The two rappers most recently made their way back to their fans after two years with the long-awaited comeback album “Thanks 4 the Wait,” which was released in March. This was the duo’s first release since group activities were suspended when E-Sens was charged with marijuana use in 2011.

The duo started off in the underground hip-hop scene in the early 2000s before going on to debut as Supreme Team in 2009 with the album “Supreme Team Guide to Excellent Adventure.” That same year, the duo received the Rookie of the Year award at the Mnet Asian Music Awards and began to be widely recognized as a hip-hop duo, closely following in the footsteps of fellow label mates and rap duo sensations Gaeko and Choiza of Dynamic Duo.

By Julie Jackson (juliejackson@heraldcorp.com)