-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. Drve-through.
D. T. [ Laughter ] -Oh, yeah, yeah.
Drve-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 ] [ 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 ] [ 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!