YOUNG POSSE
Five girls treating K-pop like somebody left the studio door open and dared them to touch the rap equipment.
Sunhye, Yeonjung, Jiana, Doeun, and Jieun debuted with macaroni, came back supersized, stole a Grand Theft Auto map, and kept writing themselves into the credits.
Meet the Members
Sunhye
Leader · Rapper · Vocalist
Yeonjung
Dancer · Rapper · Vocalist
Jiana
Vocalist · Rapper
Doeun
Rapper · Dancer
Jieun
Vocalist · Maknae
Quick File + RaeRae Take
Sunhye, Yeonjung, Jiana, Doeun, Jieun
October 18, 2023
DSP Media + Beats Entertainment
TELEPOSSE 👾
Macaroni Cheese
Korean hip-hop, playful pop, member-written rap
Current file: young tape
Read the “Mister 2026” reaction
Released in July 2026, young tape loosens the normal comeback structure and lets combinations of members take smaller rooms. “kawa” belongs to Doeun and Jiana; “NO SLEEP” gives Yeonjung a solo; “I know” pairs Sunhye and Jieun; “NEED U” is Doeun alone; and “0nline_x3” gives Jieun her own space. This is the kind of side project that tells us who members are when the full five-person brand is not shouting around them.
Song Reviews
LOSE YOUR SHXT
YOUNG POSSE and BENZO turn a burger shift into a Korean-Chinese bass emergency. Song first, video second, full credits and callbacks included.
we don’t go to bed tonight
The full digicore review: member-written lyrics, Seoul after dark, deliberately fried vocals, Korlio’s video, and the four stem tracks that turn the release into a remix invitation.
Mister 2026
KARA’s choreography reference gets handed to a group raised on internet-speed genre collisions.
kawa
Doeun and Jiana prove the smaller young tape combinations are not filler quests.
History: food crimes, XXL ambition, and an actual point of view
DSP Media announced a new girl group produced with Beats Entertainment in 2023. The name comes from the Latin posse—“to be able”—and was framed as young people gathering with a purpose. They debuted October 18 with Macaroni Cheese. The title was silly, suggestive enough to trigger arguments, and written from an idea Sunhye developed in composition class. It also announced the group’s biggest strength: they were willing to be specific, even when specific looked ridiculous.
XXL expanded the scale in March 2024, pulling openly from 1990s hip-hop visual language. Ate That arrived in August with a video built like a PS2-era crime game and made the group’s references impossible to dismiss as a one-comeback accident. Collaborations with Verbal Jint, NSW yoon, Token, Lil Cherry, Dbo, 10CM, and others kept their rap lane connected to working artists rather than idol mood-board shorthand.
By 2025’s Growing Pain pt.1: FREE, the music could be rougher and more personal. The 2026 material continues that widening: “Lose Your Shxt,” “Mister 2026,” and young tape do not all sound alike, but they share a preference for character over polish.
The essential discography
Debut EP. Food metaphor, cartoon logic, member writing, immediate controversy.
Bigger boom-bap frame, bigger visual joke, and the project that made casual listeners take the rap direction seriously.
West Coast references meet video-game crime cinema. Their most complete early-era world.
A broader emotional and sonic range, including collaboration with 10CM and the harder “FREESTYLE.”
“Lose Your Shxt,” “Mister 2026,” and the member-led young tape material.
TELEPOSSE
The fandom name combines telepathy with POSSE: the group and fans are connected heart-to-heart without needing every thought spoken. The official fandom emoji is 👾, which fits a group whose videos keep drifting into games, animation, and weird little alternate universes.
What makes them worth a rabbit hole
YOUNG POSSE will not be everybody’s group. Their references can get messy, their humor can cross into uncomfortable territory, and some concepts raise fair questions about age and creative supervision. But bland they are not. Their catalog rewards people who care about rap lineage, member credits, visual parody, and the difference between borrowing a genre’s clothes and trying to participate in it.
Tea with receipts
“SOJU,” minors, and the translation fight
The underwear phrase has a Korean slang context. The alcohol concept still needed adult supervision.
“XXL,” hip-hop love, and cultural appropriation
The music has real rap effort. Black fans still asked why borrowed aesthetics kept doing the branding work.