xikers · member profile
MINJAE
Kim Min-jae · 민재
the leader and one of the group’s central rappers. This page keeps the official facts separate from fandom shorthand, then explains what to listen for and what to watch.
Before debut
MINJAE was introduced as part of KQ Fellaz 2, the ten-trainee team that became xikers. KQ rolled out paired trainee interviews in August 2022 and followed them with performance and pre-debut material, including “Geek.” That period matters because fans met the members as learners before the debut mythology arrived.
The group’s name combines an unknown coordinate—x—with hikers, travelers moving through it. That is more than logo trivia. It explains why the group’s videos keep throwing the members into games, houses, roads, and strange rule systems. Each member has to remain recognizable while the world around him changes.
xikers career
2023 · The door opens
MINJAE debuted with xikers on March 30, 2023 through HOUSE OF TRICKY : Doorbell Ringing. “TRICKY HOUSE” introduced the group’s mischievous lore; “ROCKSTAR” made the performance ambition impossible to miss.
2023–2025 · Building the house
Successive HOUSE OF TRICKY releases let MINJAE grow through Korean promotions, international touring, Japanese activity, and a catalog that moved among hip-hop, rock, horror, and playful youth concepts. A ten-member group can hide a performer if the arrangement is careless; xikers increasingly learned how to use contrast instead.
2026 · Route Zero
ROUTE ZERO : The ORA begins a new album series and presents all ten members in the current chapter. The title track “OKay” rejects rules set by the outside world and turns that refusal into a haunted-house sprint.
Voice, movement, and the part MINJAE plays
MINJAE is easiest to hear by following the rap architecture. His delivery often acts like a hinge: he can introduce the track’s attitude, redirect its momentum, or pull a noisy arrangement back into focus. He also participates in lyric writing, including “OKay,” which makes him part of the group’s musical construction as well as its on-camera leadership.
Formal K-pop position lists often pretend every contribution fits permanently into one box. xikers does not promote with a simple fixed-position chart on its current official Japan profile; it publishes names and birth dates. So this page describes the work visible and audible in performances without inventing a company title.
Era map
TRICKY HOUSE
The debut era established the group as young travelers pulled into a rule-bending world. For MINJAE, these early stages are the cleanest place to see the raw pre-debut skill become professional camera work.
DO or DIE / HOMEBOY
The second mini album showed that xikers could move between high-speed performance and a warmer youthfulness without changing groups between tracks.
WITCH and later HOUSE eras
Darker styling and more theatrical video language gave MINJAE room to develop a clearer on-screen identity beyond “one of ten rookies.”
ROUTE ZERO
The 2026 reset is the current checkpoint: a mature performance team, a complete ten-member lineup, and songs that carry the old chaos into a new map.
Fandom notes
Fandom: road𝓨. The name treats fans as the road xikers travels, not spectators standing beside it.
Best first watch: start with the official “OKay” MV, then watch a full-stage version. The MV shows concept identity; the stage shows exactly how MINJAE functions inside ten-person formations.
Do not flatten: line counts from one title track are not a career summary. xikers distributes attention differently by song, and B-sides often reveal skills the main single does not prioritize.
RaeRae’s take
He has the exhausting job of looking like he knows where ten people are going while the concept keeps removing the map. What I like is that his leadership does not flatten the chaos. He lets xikers be weird, then makes sure the weirdness lands on the beat.
The reason to make individual pages is not to cut a group into ten isolated brands. It is to make the group easier to binge. Once MINJAE stops being “one of the guys in the haunted hallway,” the songs gain another layer.
Official source
KQ does not currently list a separate public personal social account for MINJAE on the official profile. I am not linking impersonators or fan accounts and calling them official. Use the xikers official profile for the current photo and birth date, then return to the group hub for verified group socials, releases, reviews, and tea.
Sources
xikers Japan official profile · NME debut interview · Crunchyroll interview · Official current discography