Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1 (Korean: 싸이 6甲 Part 1; RR: Ssai Yukgap Part 1)[a] is the first extended play[1] by South Koreanpop singerPsy, though it is treated as his sixth major album release due to the cancellation of the release of his part 2. It was released on July 15, 2012, the same day "Gangnam Style" was released as the lead single. The EP has sold 106,594 copies in South Korea.
Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1 was released in a tin that had a fishbowl-like appearance. Inside the tin is a card that contains the album artwork, cards which contain artwork and lyrics for each of the songs (the artwork for "Gangnam Style" was different from the Germany-released single's art), a card for the credits, two cards of advertising from YG Entertainment and the CD. The whole ensemble is packaged in a white box printed with information.
In 2015, Psy revealed in his press interview for his 7th full length album that Part 2 was skipped due to his wishes to vent from the popularity of "Gangnam Style" and start anew with the lucky number 7 because he needed more studio albums rather than EPs, considering his lower numbers of full length albums in his career, and the long wait of three years and five months between part 1 and his next project.[2]
The track "Year of 77" samples Switch's "I Call Your Name" (featuring Bobby DeBarge) from their album Switch II (1979). This sample contains vocals from that song. He also translated a part of the lyrics from "La Di Da Di" by Slick Rick feat. Doug E. Fresh to use here. South Korean recording artist Roy Kim covered "Blue/Tree Frog" on the eleventh episode of Mnet's talent competition series Superstar K4, where he was crowned the final winner of the show.[3]
Track 2 is a remake of the song under the same title, which was originally performed by South Korean one-man project band Toy, from their sixth studio album Thank You released in 2007.[4][5]
The title of track 4 literally means "Seventy-Seven 101".
^"'컴백' 싸이, '육갑(6甲)' 파트2 없는 이유는…" [Psy 'comeback', the reason why there is no part 2 of '6'...]. TenAsia (in Korean). Naver. November 30, 2015. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
^The title of the album is a reference to the korean word yukgap that originally means sexagenary cycle, but is also used in a traditional korean swear word in the form of "a mentally disabled person tries to remember the yukgap(병신이 육갑한다)".
