G-Dragon and T.O.P co-wrote majority of the lyrics to the album, noting that as "rappers [...] we'd like to tell more stories for our fans to listen."[7] In an attempt to create their own style away from their band, the duo opted for a more hip-hop genre to contrast the group's current genre of electronic music, though G-Dragon does acknowledged the influence of R&B, acoustic, and electronic music. The two have admit to becoming "much more diverse [in their] attempts" to create their own style, as well as "how the music develops and the images that the melody and rap portray[s]." They later went on to say that "the reason we mixed such a variety of genres is because we wanted to bring out more of our character that we don't get to show when we're Big Bang."[7] When recordings were done, 11 tracks were recorded, including a collaboration with singer Park Bom.[8] The duo would later mention that after recording the album, they became "attached" to all of their songs as they "worked on each and every one of the songs in...[the]...album by staying up many nights."[7] T.O.P's solo song, "Turn It Up" was also included in the album as a bonus track.
Promotion and release
In support of their album, the duo released three singles: "High High", "Oh Yeah", and "Knock out".[1] All three singles preceded the release of the album and were commercial successes: "High High" was a chartopper[2] while "Oh Yeah" and "Knock Out" peaked at #2 and #3 respectively.[3][4] They also performed at a Christmas party hosted at a club in Kangnam of Seoul for SK Telecom's "Christmas T Social Party"[10] in addition to the SBS music show "Inkigayo".[11] Pictures of the two on the set of their music videos were also released online.[12] The album was released on Christmas Eve, and debuted at number one[13] with pre-orders of 200,000 copies.[14]
GD & TOP announced that they would make Japanese debut in November by releasing a single album "Oh Yeah" under YGEX. "Oh Yeah” is a song off of their Korean album released in December last year with a featuring by 2NE1's Bom. A Japanese version of “High High” will also be included in the release.[15] Although their promotions were put on hold due to the breakout of G-Dragon‘s marijuana case, they eventually pushed back the release of the single to January 7. A short version of the "Oh Yeah" MV was released on December 12[16] and the full version was released 8 days later, on December 20.[17] GD&TOP also featured in English artist Pixie Lott's Japanese album, the song titled "Dancing On My Own".
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