As the popularity of the tenth season of "Show Me The Money" continues to rise, there is more and more controversy surrounding the show, the biggest of which is song Minhao's appointment as the producer of this season.
The tenth season of Show Me The Money was reinvented in its previous model, but the producers invited in this season raised questions from viewers.
Compared with previous seasons of the show, the program team has drastically reduced the number of rapper mentors and invited more music producers to participate, and the result is that the only mentors who are really rapper activities are Song Minhao and Gaeko.
It is precisely because of the scarcity of rap instructors that netizens will compare Song Minhao with Gaeko, and the biggest wave of public opinion is after the release of Cypher, the producer of the tenth season of "Show Me The Money".
Many netizens expressed their appreciation for Gaeko after watching the video, while many also expressed their views questioning Song Minhao.
What's more dramatic is that one of the contestants in this season is the rapper who competed with Song Minhao, Basick, and in the fourth season of "Show Me The Money", Basick finally won the championship trophy, and Song Minhao was the runner-up.
It is for this reason that after six years, the two met again, Basick is still competing as a contestant, and Song Minhao is already the mentor of the show.
After comparing the encounters between the two, some netizens expressed strong dissatisfaction and even doubted whether Song Minhao was qualified to serve as the producer of the tenth season of "Show Me The Money".
Song Min-ho, born in 1993 in Yongin, South Korea, has had a strong interest in music since childhood. In high school, he and his friends ZICO, Park Jing, Han Hae, and The Right to participate as a reserve member of Block B, but due to his father's opposition and some conflicts with the company, Song Min-ho eventually quit Block B.
In 2011, Song Minhao went to another company, where he debuted through the lyrical group B.O.M, with the stage name "Tagoon". By chance, Song Minhao at the event met a member of Block B who had already debuted in the background.
Watching their former teammates perform in another group, the members of Block B were very sad.
For Song Minhao, it is also a great pity that he did not have to participate with his partners with the same interests, so that on the day of the encounter between the two sides, Song Minhao and the members of Block B cried in the background.
Unfortunately, Song Minhao's group B.O.M results were not ideal, and finally went to the end of dissolution. In 2013, Song Minhao participated in YG's trainee training and officially became a member of TEAM A through YG's debut reality show "WHO IS NEXT".
In the same year, Song Min-ho and the group members Kang Seung-yun, Kim Qin-woo, Lee Seung-hoon and Nam Tae-hyun participated in the YG selection program "WIN" as TEAM A, and the final result was that Song Min-ho won the A group, obtained the debut qualification, and debuted under the name of WINNER. Since then, Song Minhao has ushered in the first spring of his musical career.
Song Minhao officially debuted through the group's first album "2014 S/S", in which the main single "Empty" was popular all over Korea.
It was only this time that Song Minhao' debut was really stable and officially started his career, and it was also through the combination of Winner that all over Asia recognized this handsome rapper with a unique voice.
In December of the same year, Song Minhao won his first award, the Best Newcomer Award at the 2014 Mnet Asian Music Festival, which made Song Minhao's popularity continue to increase.
However, Song Minhao, as an idol, has not been satisfied with the status quo, because many people have prejudices against Idol, so the Internet often sees comments questioning Song Minhao.
Unfortunately, due to the physical discomfort of the member Nam Tae-hyun, the entire group activity was forcibly suspended by the president, which is not optimistic for Winner, in this era of continuous replacement of boy bands, if their own group is hidden by snow, it will soon be replaced by other boy groups.
In order to get more attention and prove himself, Song Minhao chose to participate in the fourth season of the most controversial show, "Show Me The Money".
In fact, to participate in this show as Idol is bound to take a lot of risks, and the hostility of Korean underground rappers to Idol has almost developed to a deformed point.
It can be said that Song Minhao must have the consciousness to participate in "Show Me The Money", but also to break the prejudice of idol, he changed a flat-headed shape, more than the appearance, he wants people to pay more attention to his rap.
It's just that Song Minhao didn't expect that the hostility of the contestants was far greater than he thought, and many of the contestants had great malice towards Song Minhao, the most famous of which was BlackNut, who even said: "Anyway, the winner is Song Minhao!" ”
This sentence was like a virus that spread rapidly, and many contestants repeatedly paraphrased this sentence, and even once appeared on the hot search list.
This result is obviously not what Song Minhao wants to see, what he wants people to see is his efforts, and a sentence "Anyway, the winner is Song Minhao" will make the unsuspecting audience really think that Song Minhao is the internal candidate, and the seemingly joked sentence makes his efforts disappear.
In the 1V1 session, a lyric by Song Minhao, "Open your legs like an obstetrician and gynecologist", was accused of insulting women, and for a time the questioning and insults against him were overwhelming.
Some netizens even asked Song Minhao to withdraw from the game, and the last storm was also quelled in a long apology posted by Song Minhao on Winner's official Facebook.
However, judging from Song Minhao's participation in the program this time, the overall advantages outweigh the disadvantages, because no amount of prejudice can change the reality that Song Minhao has strong strength.
In fact, Song Minhao was active as an underground rapper before his debut, and his basic skills were even far stronger than most of the contestants, and several years of stage experience made Song Minhao's stage performance sublimated.
Especially in hip-hop competitions, in addition to your song performance, typhoons are also an important part. In the initial gymnasium audition, The auditor Song Minhao met was his brother, ZICO.
This is obviously arranged by the program group to create public opinion, in fact, the purpose of the program group has indeed been achieved, and the contestants will doubt whether ZICO, as a brother, will give Song Minhao a backdoor, which will undoubtedly put a lot of pressure on Song Minhao.
Even after a minute of talking about the prepared Acapella, Song Minhao was still nervous, and of course the result was to get the promotion necklace.
After that, Song Minhao also cut through thorns all the way, and constantly broke through obstacles with strong performance all the way. But after leaving TV, the pressure on Song Minhao, who was not on the stage, was far from imaginable, which is why Song Minhao was able to write the song "Timidity" in the semifinals.
The song "Timid" is the song that can best let the audience experience the feelings in Song Minhao's heart, the lyrics are written very sincerely, and the arrangement of ZICO is also very touching, and it is not only the rhythm that falls with the keys, but also the heartbeat. The desire to succeed and the apologies to the family are vividly expressed in this song.
The song "Timid" also became the first song in Song Minhao's music career with a hit rate of more than 100 million. Good songs will naturally resonate, and it is also after "Timidity", both netizens and players have expressed unprecedented kindness to Song Minhao.
Although Song Minhao did not win the championship in the show in the end, his music has been recognized by everyone, and even some viewers who did not watch the result thought that Song Minhao was the champion, so that the real champion Basick was still laughing at himself that the champion was Song Minhao.
After participating in the fourth season of "Show Me The Money", Song Minhao participated in the variety show "New Journey to the West", and through his continuous efforts, Winner finally regained his vitality.
In 2016, Song Min-ho and Nam Tae-hyun's lead song "PRICKED" won number one on several Korean music charts, followed by the release of the mini-album "EXIT:E" through the group, with the title songs "BABY BABY" and "SENTIMENTAL".
In the same month, he received the 5th Gaon Chart K-POP Awards hip-hop division discovery of the year.
After that, Song Minhao starred as a guest in the fifth season of "Show Me The Money" and performed the song "Machine Gun".
The appearance of Song Minhao this time is even more surprising, his rap skills have improved more than last year, and the use of rap tone and the stable performance of fast mouth are amazing.
Interestingly, In the same year, Song Min-ho and Bobby (the winner of the third season of SMTM) created a small team called "MOBB" for the same year.
The group is named after the duo's stage names (MINO, BOBBY), and if you're a hip-hop fan, you should know that there was a very famous group called Mobb Deep in the last century, which was homaged in Eminem's autobiographical film 8 Miles, and the duo's combination name also has a homage component.
Since it is a popular idol, the MOBB group has only released a few singles, and it has already attracted a lot of attention. After forming MOBB, Song Minhao devoted himself to the combined Winner activities for the next few years.
And what made Song Minhao on the hot search again was that after five years, he once again participated in the tenth season of "Show Me The Money", and the biggest difference from the past was that this time Song Minhao no longer participated in the recording as a player or guest, and this time his identity changed to a producer.
But the drama happened, but in this season, Basick, who competed with him at the same time and won the championship, signed up again, and the program team seized this opportunity to deliberately let Song Minhao review Basick.
Judging from the trailer released in the first round, Mnet has carried out a demon clip, first of all, to make Song Minhao's situation look awkward, and even to edit the part of Basick's forgetting words and making mistakes, so that many people are worried that if Basick is eliminated in the first round of Acapella, Song Minhao is bound to be attacked by the whole network.
Fortunately, after the show was officially broadcast, Basick's mistakes were partially confirmed to be only the design of the bridge, and finally Basick won the promotion necklace.
Looking back at Song Minhao's experience, his music career can be said to be ups and downs, from the beginning of Block B to the current Winner, he has experienced multiple periods such as quitting the group, disbanding the group, and the Snow Hidden Group, which is definitely a lot of pressure for Song Minhao.
Even after the success of the group, it still needs to face the questioning and insults that come from the face. The controversy surrounding Song Minhao still exists today.
Although he broke the public's prejudice against popular idol in 16 years, but now, this prejudice has returned - "Is Song Minhao qualified to be a producer?" ”
Whether it is Facebook or Weibo, many netizens have issued similar questions, just like in 16 years. Some people also think that Song Minhao has taken advantage of YG's superior resources, so he can get here.
But what many people don't know is that as early as the previous issues of "Show Me The Money", the program team issued an invitation to Song Minhao to serve as a producer, but out of consideration for his own qualifications, Song Minhao felt that it would take a few more years to precipitate, so he chose to refuse.
Now Song Minhao felt that it was time to serve as this producer, so he chose to agree to the program team.
Without any aura or emotion, only look at Song Minhao from the perspective of a musician, he is also a very good musician.
First of all, his basic skills are very solid, rap tone is also very changeable, can be transformed into a thick timbre, can also be transformed into a playful timbre, this is because he has tried a variety of styles of songs, so the field of expertise will be wider.
From the perspective of lyrics ability, there was already "Timidity" in front of Zhuyu, and Song Minhao was already very skilled in the mobilization of feelings. In terms of stage performance, long-term stage experience allows Song Minhao to play freely on the stage.
Even the arranger Song Minhao is involved, and Song Minhao's "XX" album released in 2018 is fully produced by him, so Song Minhao is actually fully qualified to play the role of producer.
Hopefully, Song Minhao can break all prejudices and prove his ability like the fourth season of Show Me The Money.