K-pop group Stray Kids get grittier on “FARMING,” a hustle-driven cut from their new mini album “THIS & THAT.”
This one flips gaming slang into real hustle culture commentary. Changbin, Hyunjin, Bang Chan, Han, Restart, and Chae Kang Hae write it together, and the term itself, farming, borrows straight from gaming’s grind-for-XP language. Stray Kids trade the album’s softer moments here for something rougher, sitting alongside “I Do” as one of the project’s harder-edged tracks. Felix’s husky baritone anchors part of it, giving the hustle theme extra weight.
Production stays sharp and percussive, built around a driving beat that mirrors nonstop grind energy. Nothing here lets up. That restless, always-more mentality runs through every verse, no time for ballin’, just constant rolling toward the next goal.
FARMING works because it turns modern hustle culture into something you can actually feel in the beat.
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