By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter

Hip hop stars ''T'' (Yoon Mi-rae), 27, and Tiger JK (Seo Jeong-gwon), 34, are married with a four-month-old baby boy, it was belatedly reported Thursday by Yonhap News.

Drunken Tiger rapper Tiger JK and T, former member of group Uptown and R&B duo Tashani, were secretly wed last June, according to the two's management agency Jungle Entertainment. It was the wish of Tiger JK's late grandmother, to whom the rapper dedicated a song in his 7th album, to watch the couple tie the knot while she was alive.

The two had a small ceremony attended only by family members in a Buddhist shrine in Gyeonggi Province. T fell pregnant in July, the same month Drunken Tiger's 94-year-old grandmother passed away. Their son was born nine months later in March. The hip-hop family lives with T's mother.

''My grandson is a precious gift from their grandmother,'' Tiger JK's father and music critic Seo Byeong-hu, 66, was quoted as saying. The official announcement of the marriage was delayed due to the grandmother's funeral and Tiger JK's trip to the United States. T is currently under postpartum care.

While it was never publicized, the two had been dating for seven years prior to the marriage. Tiger JK debuted in 1991 with ''Year of the Tiger'' and has seven best-selling albums under his belt, a rare longevity for local hip-hop artists. Ever since debuting with Uptown, T went on to sing in a duet and then went solo, releasing her third album ''Gemini'' in February. The two are leaders of the Hip-Hop Crew Movement along with singers and rappers like Epik High, Dynamic Duo, Leessang, Yang Dong-keun.

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