Photo: 1theK (원더케이) · CC BY 3.0 · credits
Tier 3 · vertical & regional
MC Sniper
Person · male · South Korea · Jecheon · born 1979
South Korean rapper
Also known as MC 스나이퍼
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1970s
Biography
English biography66 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1342496616
Biography
Kim Jung-yoo (Korean: 김정유, born February 8, 1979), better known as MC Sniper (Korean: MC 스나이퍼), is a South Korean rapper. He is known for writing controversial lyrics that challenge social injustice and mainstream society. He was a contestant on Show Me the Money and a producer on both seasons of Tribe of Hip Hop. He released his first album, So Sniper..., on May 17, 2002.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put MC Sniper head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mcsniper2015.pngcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q626471genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q626471seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Sniperbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Sniper
Why this artist is in the database
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Image: 1theK (원더케이) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q626471 · MusicBrainz: 1e11420e-dacb-44c6-8447-25d16653c9c9
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