On December 24, 2016, a performance called Free-Out X'Mas was held here at the Euler Art Space in Nanjing.
The guest lineup of the night was very luxurious, with the popular Red Flower Club, the low-key technical flow of Andy, and the senior Wang Qian Boc, but the most suitable for the name of this performance was MC Guangguang + TZ+ Round_2. These three groups of performing artists formed the original Free-Out.
From the moment the label was formed, the manager Guangguang has been doing his best for the dedication and development of the label. He put "Free-Out will definitely be bigger" in the Weibo introduction has never changed, and Free-Out will be mentioned in performances everywhere.
But just today, Guang Guang used a brief statement to bid farewell to Free-Out, which he had single-handedly formed and painstakingly cultivated and developed. Even before we published the article, his certification was still "Free-Out label manager", and the introduction still retained the sentence "Free-Out will definitely become bigger".
At the same time, a Weibo account called "MC Guangguang Studio" was "established overnight" and released the only Weibo, the content is still a statement, but the payment was changed to "Nanjing Fenyin Culture Media Co., Ltd." and "MC Guangguang Studio".
At the same time, the statement was tougher, and apart from apologizing for "acts and practices in private life," all other controversies were refuted.
As of press time, the topic of #Guangguang exiting the label has rushed to the fourth place in Weibo's hot search. With the current trend, it will not be surprising to rush to the top of the hot search.
Something like this when the manager leaves the team, Chinese the rap circle has not happened, but it has happened in a "reverse" way.
In 2019, most of the members of the rap club sent microblogs to say that they had withdrawn from the team, leaving only Xie Di alone. In 2020, these members formed the new label "Chengdu Group", and Xie Di did not participate. Therefore, it is not the others who have retreated, but the Xie Emperor, who seems to be staying, has truly withdrawn.
At that time, this huge change occurred, and everyone knew the reason very well, because Xie Di ran to the United States alone and sent a lot of Gangsta content on INS, and his personal extreme behavior was likely to affect the label, so he used this method to "reverse exit".
And this time, the same is true of the light, but compared to The Xie Emperor in the foreign Gangsta, the light is too much negative news in the country.
Since the beginning of last month, the Douban group has successively exposed various scandals of Guangguang, including but not limited to drug use detention, dating in the case of talking about girlfriends and suffering from HPV, and flirting with female fans in WeChat and Weibo private messages.
For these problems of private life, we have always been cautious until there is more tangible evidence. But in recent days, there has been a sharp increase in relevant information.
At the same time, Guangguang personally did not publish a blog in time to clarify, which also intensified the suspicion of netizens about it. Today, with Guangguang personally announcing his withdrawal from Free-Out and acknowledging "acts and practices in private life", the authenticity of these revelations has been partially confirmed.
However, for highly sensitive issues such as drug use, Guangguang chose to deny it. As for the specific exposé content of netizens on Guangguang, you can go to Weibo or Douban to search for yourself, because the amount of information in the picture is already very rich.
At the same time that Hikari announced his retirement from Free-Out, there were also dangerous signals in his career. He and members of Free-Out only appeared on iQiyi's "Rapper of the Week" last week, and the show has already taken them off the shelves in the past two days.
Ironically, in that episode, the Free-Out crowd also specifically talked about the topic of "what would happen if Free-Out didn't have light", and the members swore that "there would be no Free-Out without light".
Now that the light is really gone, who should carry the banner of Free-Out has become a topic worth discussing. In terms of popularity, Gao Tianzuo is a choice, but he was also plagued by negative news at the beginning of the year.
Judging from word of mouth, Ice Paper has the best wind rating, but the low-key personality of his personality may be minimal. No matter who takes the baton, Free-Out will undoubtedly face the current situation of serious injuries, and even a collapse is possible.
When it comes to works, we have to talk about Guangguang's qualifications. In fact, during this period, many self-media maintained a very cautious attitude towards the negative news of Guangguang, which is inseparable from Guangguang's qualifications, works and public personalities.
From "Diss Branch" to "Red Mountain and River Edition", Guangguang has maintained a distinct patriotic stance for more than ten years, and he is known as the living fossil of Chinese rapping, he has never put up a shelf, is keen to promote his descendants, and the quality of his works is also very good.
For a long time, the self-proclaimed "low-key king" of Guangguang was a great image of "underground hero" and "rap conscience", coupled with his technical strength enough to serve the public, not only the audience worshipped him, but even many rappers also favored him and expressed enough respect.
Because of this, this time he was exposed to so much black material at one time, which will give people a sense of unreality.
However, even if Guangguang has good public morality and has been an example for many people, he cannot hide his lack of private morality. As for whether there is a violation of the law, we all need to wait for a more official response.
Before the advent of "China Has Hip Hop", drug use and grass powder were indeed the norm in this circle, but "normal" did not mean "correct". After the start of the show, these phenomena seem to have decreased, but with the development of the market and the increase in popularity, some rappers not only did not give up, but continued to indulge themselves.
In front of people, they create a good image and a pleasing persona; after people, they do dirty things and deceive the trust of fans. It is precisely because of the emergence of this rapper that Douban netizens have a steady stream of black material to expose.
Free-Out suffered a heavy blow this time, and can't help but remind people of the role of "rice circle powder" behind the big events in the rap circle. As a popular label that has risen in the past two years, Free-Out and the Living Dead, and even earlier, the Red Flower Society, are facing the problem of the invasion of rice circle fans. And these several labels have repeatedly encountered storms, and behind them are the fuel of rice circle fans.
On the one hand, these rice circle fans may become the "prey" and development object of rappers; on the other hand, they have a high probability of exposing rapper after having a relationship with rapper, thus causing a great negative impact on the label.
But at the same time, these labels do rely on rice circle powder to gain a high popularity, the two have been integrated, there is no possibility of separation. As a result, this could become an endless loop without a solution.
Finally, back to the light. No matter how many bad things he did, he was still one of the most legendary rappers in the history of Chinese rap; but equally, no matter how legendary he was in rap, he couldn't hide all the bad things he had done.
With the severity of the black material this time, the development of the career may have some irreversible effects. And a generation of legendary rappers actually appeared on Weibo hot search in such an embarrassing way, which may never have been imagined...