Dead'P (데드피), in the track "Rap Game Control," also expressed frustration over idols portraying themselves as "hip hop" and the integration of mainstream K-pop culture into the underground hiphop scene. Later, rapper Aphelia created a diss track called "Zicontrol", specifically speaking of his frustration with Zico's guaranteed popularity as an idol compared to the difficulty of being a hip hop artist alone. In it, Deepflow accused Zico and Jay Park of only being in hip hop for the money. In August, Zico was dissed in Deepflow (딥플로우)'s response to Swings' "King Swings", a diss track over the instrumental from "Control". Zico performed at Phantom's concert on May 17 and at the ONE Hiphop Festival on September 7. That year, he also entered Dong-ah Institute of Media and Arts as a Drama major. In December, he co-produced D-Unit's third mini-album. In October, he produced and released a second mixtape, Zico On The Block 1.5. At the 2012 Mnet Asian Music Awards he participated in a hip hop collaboration called "Beats Rocks The World" with artists including Loco, Double K, Davichi, and Dynamic Duo. On October 24, he began co-hosting SBS-MTV's The Show with Block B member P.O. He also performed at the All Force One hip hop festival on July 21, alongside Dok2 and Beenzino. In 2012, he appeared on stage featuring in girl group Wink's song "Stay in Shanghai" on Inkigayo on February 19. Zico made an appearance at Swings' It's My Year II concert, performing "I'm Still Fly" and "Cocks". He attended the 2011 MTV EMAs in Belfast, Northern Ireland as part of Block B and on November 27 began hosting the SBS-MTV interactive radio show "Studio C!" with rap duo Mighty Mouth. He promoted with her on Korean music shows from July to August. That year he featured in Hyuna's debut mini-album Bubble Pop! on the track "Just Follow". Still, I do acknowledge that as as a producer that creates songs meant for the public, it was a shortcoming of mine to not have paid more attention to the regulations". "It's not that we don't consider the regulations when we're producing the songs, but I did often think that our freedom of expression was being interrupted. The Korean Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and public broadcast channel KBS banned the songs "LOL" and "Did You or Did You Not" from minors. Zico had produced their debut mini-album Welcome to the Block. Zico debuted as the leader of Block B on Apwith their first promotional single "Freeze".
In 2010, he released his first mix tape, "Zico on the Block." The mix tape was well received by the Korean hiphop scene.
He also featured in IU's song "Marshmallow" as well as Cho PD’s “Expectations for K-Hip Hop” and Jung Seul Gi’s “Outsiders". He joined Stardom Entertainment in 2009 as well. In 2009, he officially debuted in a duo with Park Kyung named 'Harmonics' in Korea with the digital single "The Letter". He auditioned for SM Entertainment as a teen. He was part of a hip hop crew with Rap Monster, and also promoted as Nacseo in the Japanese underground hip hop scene alongside the crews "Dope Squad" and "Undisputed".
He began his musical career as an underground rapper, going by the name "Nacseo" (낙서), meaning 'doodle' or 'scribble' in Korean. In the lyrics of his song "Release," he mentions that he spent a year studying abroad in both Canada and China, as well as three years in Japan. He was a Vocal Performance major at Seoul Music High School. Zico was born in Mapo, Seoul on September 14, 1992. In 2014, he appeared in the second season of the television show Fashion King Korea, along with fellow Block B member P.O. He is also a producer of both K-pop and Korean hip hop music. Zico is notable for his successful crossover skills in the Korean hip hop scene, maintaining an underground reputation along with mainstream appeal as a Korean idol. Woo Ji Ho (Korean: 우지호 born September 14, 1992), known as Zico (Korean: 지코), is a South Korean rapper, producer, singer-songwriter and leader of the boy group Block B, signed under the label Seven Seasons.
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