When it comes to deformed rap groups, people who generally know more about rap music have some impressions, the style is hardcore, the strength is very strong, it is the banner of Chinese hardcore rap, Chinese hardcore ranking top six, etc., but in recent years, it seems that the wind evaluation of this team has encountered unprecedented Waterloo, why is this so? What happened to make this big guy in the circle who could have been comparable to all kinds of first-line rappers fall into a situation where everyone shouts and fights. After some understanding, Red Dark was shocked to find that the story here was far more intriguing than everyone imagined.
Founded in 2008 by Tianjin rapper 7JZ, the members include Huwati in Xinjiang, KAYZ in Guilin, SSIN (Mourning Four Apricots, hereinafter referred to as Apricots) in Tangshan, and DEAN K (Xu Xiaoyu, hereinafter referred to as K) in Heilongjiang. At this time, the deformed child was full of hostility, filthy words were rampant, claiming to be the emperor of the underground, and growing barbarically. In that era, everyone made songs without copyright, without revenue, and making music was entirely based on hobbies, because of the lack of cohesion, in 2010, the group began to decompose naturally. First, KAYZ immigrated to the United States and became a American drifter; founder 7JZ suspended the music road because he was facing a job search and future direction; Huwati broke off contact with other team members due to the situation in Xinjiang at that time; Apricot began to run a local rap group in Tangshan, Mister; and only K, still considering how to run the deformed child. So he single-handedly ran the first official album of deformed children, "Bacteria". And it was this 2011 album that laid the status of deformed children in hardcore rap, which shocked people in the circle, and the title song "Revolution" also became a classic of the year, a sentence "Deformed children come you all listen", so that countless people remember this team, the deformed children at that time, the scenery is the same. It has influenced a group of young people.
But not long after the album was released, the team disbanded, 7JZ was busy with work, Apricot married and had children, KAYZ lived overseas, and Huwati disappeared. K also graduated from college facing employment. On the eve of Chinese rap is about to burst out of the cage, the deformed child loses to reality.
In the blink of an eye, 2015, the deformed child who had been silent for several years suddenly returned to everyone's vision, and it all started with a rap competition. At this time, a mysterious organization arose in the rap circle, known as the "Bathhouse Gang", which was founded by Bigdog, a big dog in Wuhan, and half of the rap circle at that time was pulled into this organization. And K and Apricot, also because of it, came together again. Once the Bathhouse Gang held a singing competition, in which contestants gathered a series of future rap stars such as Pict, Huang Xu, and Ai Ge. In the context of strong enemies, K and Apricot for the first time combined to perform on stage for the deformed child, they went all the way through the thorns, singing and soaring, in the semi-finals with Pict, Pict sang his hottest "KID" at the time, originally thought that the victory was a safe victory, and as a result, a revolutionary confrontation stunned the other side. The audience ruled that one-sided shouting deformity won, but later the organizers announced that both sides were promoted in order to give the big guys in Xi'an some face. In the end, Pict won the championship in this competition, and the deformed child was third.
Although it did not win the championship, this appearance made everyone present remember the name of deformed child, and a fierce hardcore rap team that did not play cards according to common sense has since stepped out of the network, killed into reality, and become a serious eight-hundred-dollar rap label.
After that, everything began to develop in a good direction, and the deformed child was officially established as a two-person group, and the reputation was getting bigger and bigger, at this time K was in control, he designed a new logo, and made a comprehensive brand packaging for the team. From music production, album design, video editing, promotional copywriting almost everything. With the accumulated word of mouth and unique visual presentation, gained a vote of fans, K is very kind, no shelf, and the circle of rappers and fans are maintaining a good relationship, under his leadership, deformed children are very prestigious, for a time, a variety of cooperation and various performances began to continue. Apricot is also very satisfied with this situation, he expressed gratitude to K, saying that K is his nobleman, and K also opened his heart to Apricot without reservation, and the two were like brothers, and they were related to the best stage of history. But in the face of K, who is all-powerful in all aspects, Apricot's heart is still a little unhappy.
In 2017, there was hip-hop turned out, so that a group of rappers suddenly became famous under the injection of capital, and although the deformed children were not directly involved, they also indirectly became the beneficiaries of this tide, and this was all due to one person - pharaoh. It is said that Pharaoh's debut in the new rap was eliminated because the prelude was too long, but it also made the song "Hardcore Head to Toe" sung in the show an overnight hit, and this song was a collaboration between Pharaoh and K. Then the song Pharaoh sang wherever he went, and all of them starred in the finale, and this wave of operations directly brought the deformity to the fire. Because the pharaoh's drainage deformity's fan base began to liven up, the voice was boiling. So K hit the iron while it was hot and created a second album "Les Misérables" for the deformed child. The pattern and intention of this album are very high, and it has been widely praised, and the tragic deformity has become the spiritual sustenance of many fans, and even some fans have tattooed the logo of the deformed child on the body. Subsequently, commercial performances and variety shows have found them, and everything seems to be going well, but there is often a crisis hidden under the beautiful surface.
K's concept and way of running is undoubtedly successful, but his big package makes Apricot very unbalanced, he feels that the deformed child is K's deformity, his ideas and propositions have been suppressed, and there is a feeling of sending people under the fence. Especially when every time he performs the finale track K singing HARDCORE HEAD TO TOE, his heart is not a taste, he hates, he hates the core of the deformed child is K, he hates that the popular song does not have him. Of course, K also found this, in order to make apricots can find balance, he highlighted apricots in the team, recognized his talent, gave him a sense of existence, did a lot of personal publicity for him, and also gave apricots a lot of care in life, these intentions are good, but also laid the groundwork for the future disintegration.
In the following days, the deformed children began to tour, with the accumulation of previous fame, the venue was overcrowded, and the tacit cooperation of two people on the stage made the audience adrenaline secrete violently. At this time, the acceptance of "hardcore rap" by young people in China has been very high, in this context, K and Pharaoh hit it off, planning to make a domestic hardcore rap alliance, so the "winter tough guy" turned out. This alliance includes hardcore rappers and labels such as Pharaoh, Ghost Bian, Deformed Child, Danzhen Beijing, Theo, etc., and has a wide audience. The first single after its establishment, "Winter is Coming", with the heat of the power tour, directly out of the circle, was discussed by all young people who like hip-hop.
At this point, in fact, if the deformed child continues to follow this path, perhaps it is only a matter of time before the head is mixed, and often things do not develop as people wish. The contradiction between the two is also fermenting a little bit, seemingly accidental, but in fact inevitable. K grew up well-off, homely, and an idealist, and his vision was to build a well-known hardcore rap group that would run the brand well for 7JZ, and as for everything else, it wouldn't matter. But Apricot grew up in a harsh environment, he is sensitive and suspicious, compared to an idealized deformed child, he pays more attention to immediate interests, money and women are his most primitive drivers, and the two people have different values and different needs for music, which is doomed to irreconcilable contradictions between the two. At this time, the deformed child has slowly come to a crossroads, the left is the ideal, the right is the desire, where to go in the future, the steering wheel in whose hand, has become the key.
As the time spent together increased, some of the small frictions between K and Apricot began to increase, starting with some physical collisions between each other during the performance, and then the music diverged, and Apricot began to be more and more resistant to the positioning of the deformed child's original hardcore rap, he believed that the hardcore belonged to the past, and his style represented the future. Finally, the big drama of the Magpie's Nest Dove Slowly opened with the conspiracy, initially, it was just some secret small operations, Apricot secretly brushed himself with traffic, brushed messages, constantly strengthened himself, weakened K's influence, and caused an illusion that everyone paid attention to deformed children because they liked him. At the same time, he convinces K to concentrate on making music, preparing a new album, and the daily affairs are authorized to be managed, and out of trust in his teammates, K unguardedly agrees to him, and he does not know that this decentralization is the beginning of the team's avalanche.
At this time, Xingxing can finally get his wish to transform the deformity with his own method, he changed K's past style, began to stir up the wind everywhere, made a big fuss in the rap circle, DISS Haier brothers, DISS kindergarten killer, DISS CAPPER, and mouthed a wild claim that he is china's nuclear king, and constantly sent some head-scratching video blogs out of place. This round of operation down many people did not react, the sudden style of acting let the deformed child get the topicality, but unlike before, this time attracted more ridicule and disgust, after brushing a wave of existence, he began to do his own single in the name of the deformed child, but different from the tonality of K, the apricot-dominated deformed child's male and female love, bed sex, is completely the projection of apricot's inner desire. Since then, the entire fan base has begun to smoke miasma, filled with the smell of rice circles, apricots are not idle, every time they go to a place to perform, they have to sleep with a fan, and claim that they all have rain and dew, as if they think of themselves as emperors. These various practices made the reputation of the deformed child begin to decline, but it was not so obvious, and at this time, the unknown K did not know what was happening, and was concentrating on planning the third album of the deformed child, "Renaissance", in order to make the brother satisfied, he also deliberately increased the weight of the apricot in this album, and he did not know that while he was wishful thinking about the future development of the team, the apricot had made a decision: the perfect deformed child was the deformed child without K.
At the beginning of the epidemic, everyone was isolated at home, K and Apricot discussed to make a song about the fight against the epidemic, this proposal was immediately rejected by Apricot, saying that it was meaningless to write at this time, so K gave up. As a result, two days later, Xingxing turned around and took TangShan's little brother out of a song praising Huoshenshan Hospital in the name of deformity, and rubbed a wave of traffic and heat, which made K very angry. In the following months, Apricot's conspiracy and trickery took turns on the shelves, using a bunch of trumpets to frantically step on K to praise himself, K found that no matter what songs he sent and did, there were always some yin and yang weird messages below. In the face of the confused K, apricot began to carry out PUA, "don't put the hardcore" "you do those are useless" "you see now fans like me to get a little melody" "you are outdated", constantly hit and denigrate the results K has done, clearly hinting that K wants to hand over the team, in the face of more and more arrogant apricots and recent strange phenomena, K finally realized that things are not right, this day, he found that the deformed Weibo, NetEase Cloud and other account backgrounds can not go up, before in the K management team, The accounts under the name of the deformed child are operated by two people, and both sides can log in to publish songs and messages, and there are no restrictions on each other. And now, Apricot has changed the passwords of all the accounts, completely occupying the team, a fact has been put in front of the eyes, K has completely lost control of the deformed child.
Finally, the contradiction broke out, one day Apricot changed the name of all platform accounts from "deformed child" to "mourning four apricots", which completely touched the bottom line of K, and had a big fight with apricots, and this time, apricots finally showed their fangs, "mourning four apricots are deformed children, deformed children are mourning four apricots, you want you to be so ok, do not want you to go." This sentence completely poked K, he did not sleep that night, he could not imagine why his most trusted brother would be so to himself, all the way to the team that had been painstakingly managed to end up with such an ending. In the end, he figured it out, no matter how he thought about the two people, it was useless, Xingxing's heart had always been only himself, and now his ambition could not tolerate anyone around him, infighting was inevitable, such a team would not have problems today, and there would be problems in the future.
Finally, in July 2020, K announced his withdrawal from deformed children.
In the face of K's withdrawal, fans have talked about it, K has a line, did not disclose the original committee to everyone, just said that the withdrawal is a personal reason, please continue to support apricots in the future, and apricots have been eager to announce that the future will be a better deformity, eating is difficult to see people are shocked, and finally apricot's behavior annoyed a number of deformed old fans, many people opposed and attacked, in the face of these voices, apricots began to delete messages, kick people, after a round of purge, Only fans who obeyed Xingxing's words and some new fans who did not know the truth were left in the group. But the incident did not subside, just at the same time, the apricot before the behavior of the flowers and grass finally put him into trouble, a girl who was good with him at this juncture sent a long text denouncing him for cheating on his feelings, for a time the black material such as cheating in marriage and seducing the girl was pulled off, attracting many passers-by to watch, and the image of the deformed child completely plummeted. In the face of sudden public opinion, Apricot was a little overwhelmed, and began to pretend to be pitiful, saying that he was an orphan, seeing that everyone did not eat this set, saying that he was an open marriage, and that it was allowed to soak up his wife outside, and the result was that he was even more scolded, and he did not invite him to start the disaster, saying that K was behind the scenes, it was K who secretly manipulated everything, the purpose was to destroy him, to destroy the deformed child. K was blown up, and he originally wanted to get together and disperse, and he sent a long article, telling him the origin of the matter with the apricot. As soon as this article came out, it caused an uproar, the fans who were still wavering before fully turned against each other, the rappers in the circle supported K, Apricot took a few little brothers and the old fans to start a full war, and launched a round of air-to-air scolding on the Internet, in this farce, the deformed child is no longer the representative of the hardcore rap, but has become a complete joke.
After the storm, K faded out of the rap circle, and apricot did not let the "better deformed child" go further, not only the aesthetic collapse and tastelessness, but the work was the same as ever. Recently, Apricot was once again picked up for stealing songs, offended a number of big names in the rock circle, was besieged, and let him self-proclaimed "China's nuclear king" name was ridiculed by the group, in 2021, Apricot's deformity has become completely infamous.
Along the way, the deformed child's story can't help but make people feel sorry and regret, it is jealousy, hatred, desire and greed that change everyone's initial appearance, so that an IP that has been operating for more than 10 years will eventually go to destruction. Let two talented young people tear each other apart, this brother's anti-purpose plot may be happening in all corners of the world, maybe this is the shackles of human nature. Perhaps, if K had not handed the steering wheel to Apricot at the crossroads of ideals and desires, would the ending have been better? Maybe, maybe nothing will change, if the end is inevitable, then what is the difference between the end now and the end later? At the end of desire, there is a dead end. Would the end of the ideal be better? No one knows that there is no turning back in life.