-Looking good, bud. Looking good.
Welcome back to the show. I'm happy you're here.
You have -- the album is finally out.
-Yeah. -It is out -- "D-DAY."
-"D-DAY." [ Cheers and applause ]
-The documentary is out.
The global tour just kicked off last week.
How does it all -- [ Cheers and applause ]
How does it all feel?
[ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah. They love you.
I love you.
Before you were known as Suga,
I read this somewhere -- tell me if this is true --
you were a food delivery -- delivery guy?
[ Laughter ]
You were very good?
Why? [ Laughter ]
What made you good? You just...
[ Laughter ] That helps.
Yeah, but now you're who you are.
Congratulations. I mean, you're -- you're --
[ Cheers and applause ]
I'm a Knick fan.
And I saw you yesterday at the playoffs.
-Yeah. -Yeah, there you are.
This is...
[ Cheers and applause ]
Looking good. Exciting news.
You were named an NBA ambassador.
[ Cheers and applause ]
What -- What does that mean?
What will you be doing as part of that?
[ Laughter ]
-No! -No, no.
[ Laughter ]
Did you want to be -- Did you want to be
a professional basketball player ever?
[ Laughter ]
Are you the best basketball player in BTS?
[ Audience shouting ]
-Are you kidding me?
-[ Laughing ] Really?
-I think your name actually -- is it true? --
came from basketball?
Right? How you got Suga?
-Yeah. Shooting guard -- shoo-ga.
-Shooting and guard, so "shoo-ga."
-"Shoo-ga." -Yeah.
And then, can you explain Agust D?
-Yep. -How? I don't --
-Reverse. D.T. Suga.
[ Cheering ] -Oh.
-Yeah. My hometown name is Daegu.
-Ah, D.T. Suga.
-Daegu town Suga. Reverse.
Agust D. -So that's your hometown, D.T.?
-Yeah, D.T. -D.T. So, D.T. Suga.
D.T. Suga is pretty cool, too. -Mm-hmm.
-But you want to go Agust D?
-No. Drive-through. D.T.
[ Laughter ]
-Oh, yeah, yeah. Drive-through.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I understand, yeah.
Yeah, I understand. But when -- when you're --
When you're Agust D, are you different than when you're Suga?
You are. Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-You can call me Agust D or Suga or Yoongi.
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
You answer to all that. -Mm-hmm.
-It's a great record.
Congratulations on this. What does --
What does "D-DAY" mean to you?
Wow. It's a big deal.
[ Cheers and applause ]
And the song you're performing tonight is "Haegeum."
-Mm-hmm. [ Cheers and applause ]
Not yet. Soon. Soon.
Not yet, not yet. Soon, soon, soon.
But you were telling me that "Haegeum" has two meanings.
-Mm-hmm. Yeah.
-What are the meanings of Haegeum?
Do you -- Do you know how to play haegeum?
-No. [ Laughter ]
-Are you sure? Because...
-Wow.
I stole it from your dressing room.
No, no. [ Laughter ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Scraping ]
[ Laughter ]
Give me that, give me that, give me that.
Yeah, yeah, no. [ Laughter ]
Let me try.
Quest, can I get a beat?
♪♪
[ Light scraping ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Off-key notes play ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
Wait! I got some sound!
-Yeah.
-I got -- -You did.
-You kicked off your giant world tour last week.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Yeah.
-Look at this right here. This is you.
[ Cheers and applause ]
How did it feel to be back on stage?
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
The documentary I enjoyed, it's on Disney+.
It is called "Suga: Road to D-DAY."
-Yeah. -And we get to see
behind the scenes of how this album
was put together.
Did it bother you having all the cameras around,
or are you used to it?
[ Laughter ]
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, you're right. Yeah. [ Laughter ]
I do want to show everyone a clip from the documentary.
Here's a peek at "Suga: Road to D-DAY."
Take a look. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Suga is a musical genius.
When I've listened to his music on his own,
he's always doing something I would never expect.
So I always expect the highest bar from Suga.
-[ Rapping in Korean ]
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
Now, you were...
[ Cheers and applause continues ]
You're nice enough to be performing live
to close our show out. And let me tell you,
it is a performance like you've never seen.
It is unbelievable. [ Cheers and applause ]
I love it.
There's lasers, there's dancing, there's everything.
It is so good. It is like a Grammy performance.
So thank you for being here and doing that.
It means a lot to us. Thank you for doing it.
But I was asking you earlier,
do you have any traditions or any superstitions
or something you do before every show
or something you do even to relax, and you --
Can you tell everyone what you -- what you told me?
[ Laughter, cheers ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
I figured, hey...
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Oh! -It's not vinegar. That's real.
-It's real. -It's real.
-It's real. -It's real. Congratulations.
-Yeah. -Good luck.
Thank you for being here. -Yeah.
Suga, everybody! Agust D!
[ Cheers and applause ]
When we come back, Suga, a.k.a. Agust D,
is performing a song from his new album, "D-DAY."
Stick around, everybody. Whoo!