K-pop 101: Why Do Artists Keep Singing "Niga"?

Don’t worry, it has nothing to do with the N-word. Niga (니가) in Korean literally means ‘you.’ More specifically, 니 (ni) means ‘you’; 가 (ga) is a particle that indicates the noun attached to it is the subject of the sentence. K-pop, which stands for Korean popular music, is an increasingly global phenomenon. Even before Psy’s “Gangnam Style” properly put K-pop on the map (for Western audiences), artists had been trying to tap into the international market since the early 2000s. Artists like BoA