G-DRAGON Kwon Ji-yong (Korean: 권지용; born August 18, 1988),[1] best known as G-Dragon (지드래곤), is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Dubbed the "King of K-pop",[A] he rose to prominence as the leader of the South Korean boy band BigBang, which went on to become one of the best-selling boy bands in the world.