Foreword: At 9 o'clock this morning, many guys clicked on the tweets we posted last night and found that they had been deleted. So many people have asked me in private messages about what is going on, and I need to respond.
This morning, Guangguang's team commissioned an intermediary to find me, saying that in our tweet yesterday, many of the screenshots circulating on the Internet were unconfirmed rumors, which had been suspected of violating the law, and if they were not deleted, they would use legal means to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.
I discussed it with the editor and deleted the tweet. In fact, from our personal point of view, we do not want to deliberately denigrate the light, but just want to restore the accusations of the light on the Internet.
But these screenshots are true and false, false and real, if there is really some content is a rumor with a defamatory nature of light and light, then our secondary dissemination is indeed a kind of harm to the parties. If Hikari and his team are tarnished because of our tweet reputation, I apologize deeply to them, sorry.
I had a lot of emotions when I first deleted the article, but now that I'm much more at peace and aware of my problems, I'll be aware of the legal risks when I write tweets in the future. Yesterday's tweet content I think other than screenshots, other content is no problem, so in today's article again, but also added a lot of new content.
In order for this article not to disappear twice, the article does not include even a screenshot of the online revelations. If this affects your reading experience, then I can only apologize, but I can only deal with it in this way, please forgive me.
Under the storm of public opinion that has intensified in recent days, Guangguang finally bid farewell to Free-Out, which he had single-handedly formed and painstakingly cultivated and developed, with a brief statement late last night.
And the topic of #Guangguang exiting the label also instantly rushed to the forefront of Weibo hot searches. Known as the "living fossil of the Chinese rap circle", the light ushered in the biggest crisis of his career.
At the same time, a Weibo account called "MC Guangguang Studio" 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.
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 exposed a lot of 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 private life problems, I believe that there must be some truth and some falsehood, and 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. Yesterday, after Guangguang personally announced his withdrawal from Free-Out and admitted to "acts and practices in private life", the authenticity of some of the revelations was confirmed.
However, for other extremely sensitive issues, the light side chose to deny. At the same time, Guangguang's studio is also actively defending its rights.
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.
At the same time that Hikari announced his retirement from Free-Out, there were also some dangerous signs 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.
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".
A day has passed, guangguang certification is still "Free-Out label manager", and the introduction still retains the sentence "Free-Out will definitely become bigger".
But at noon today, Ice Paper, the general of the Free-Out label, suddenly spoke up, saying that "the parties have withdrawn and no longer have the right to direct and interfere in the slightest." The team was reorganized, the label was not renamed, and the manager was officially taken over by me. ”
At this point, the "manager" conjecture caused by Guangguang's withdrawal from the label last night is over. However, there is inevitably gossip that Ice Paper is directed by the light that hides in the shadows due to negative events, and on the surface, Ice Paper is the main person, but in fact, the light controls the label, which is the so-called "curtain to listen to the government".
In addition, regarding the team restructuring, Ice Paper did not say who went and who stayed, and some fans were worried for a while.
Ice Paper was furious at the accusation of "hanging the curtain and listening to the government", and he made another supplementary speech in the comments section, and rarely said a foul language.
Instead of starting out, he used harsher language, saying, "No one can tell me to do things." I will discuss the label with the existing members, but in the end I will decide everything. ”
Apparently, Ice Paper took over after the light and light incident, and there may be drastic ideas for improvements to Free-Out.
Gao Tianzuo, another member of the label, also has his own statement. Because "there will be a period later" is easy to be misread, he replied to the question of "no retreat" in the comment area, "FO Ever", FO is the abbreviation of Free-Out, also harmonic For, in short, FO Forever, which means to stay in Free-Out forever. (Of course, you insist on saying Ever as "once", saying that this sentence means "FO has been", I can't refute it)
I have to sigh that although Ice Paper has a good reputation in the label and even the entire rap circle, and has released many works as a musician, his own job and main role in the label are after all producers.
In the Chinese rap label with rapper as the absolute core force, it is surprising that a producer has taken over the banner of the main manager. On the other hand, this also shows that Ice Paper is enough to convince the public in terms of ability and character to achieve such a high voice.
Looking at Free-Out's label Weibo, we can't find the time when Ice Paper joined the label, because he was too low-key in the early days, if it wasn't for "Heart Like Water" that made him popular, maybe now he is just a "more powerful producer".
Of course, in the earlier days, he was not low-key, but the person who won the top 8 in the country in "The Voice of China" was "Wei Ran", not "Ice Paper". According to some estimates, Ice Paper should have joined the then-infamous Free-Out in mid-2017.
At that time, less than half a year had passed since Free-Out was officially established. On December 24, 2016, The Euler Art Space in Nanjing hosted a performance called Free-Out X'Mas.
The guest lineup of the evening 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 (Gao Tianzuo) + Round_2. These three groups of performing artists formed the original Free-Out.
Since then, Free-Out opened an official Weibo on August 31, 2017, at this time, in addition to Guangguang, Gao Tianzuo, Round_2 and other elders, BustaZun, Da Nian, Yong En and other members have also joined the label, free-out began to take shape.
In October of the same year, Ice Paper appeared on the song's production list;
In November, Lil Howcy joined the label.
Another popular member, KC, also did not have a specific time to join the label, presumably joining Free-Out before mid-2018.
Since then, Free-Out's new speed is "one in a year", and in the 2019 Christmas Eve performance, they absorbed G.G Zhang Siyuan;
After the 2020 Rap Listen to Me finals, they recruited Kandi again.
Among them, "Free-Out 2019 Cypher" can be called the work that best reflects the team spirit, and it is also the starting point of Free-Out's popularity.
In 2020, Free-Out achieved a "full-army attack": Trouble.Z, Kc, Big Year, Lil Howcy, BustaZun and potential member Kandi all participated in "Rap Listen to Me", while former director Hikari served as the producer of the show;
Joannne and Round_2 went to "China New Rap 2020" and "China New Rap 2020". The only one who didn't participate in the show was, of course, the lowest-key Ice Paper.
Although it did not form an absolute dominance over the two shows, the high success rate was enough to make Free-Out included in the discussion of the first echelon label of Chinese rap.
The rapid development of the label in the past two years has also become the argument of netizens after the negative incident of guangguang - "although guangguang has a loss of private morality, it really has nothing to say about the label, and has fulfilled the responsibility of the person in charge."
It is precisely because of this that The task of Ice Paper is difficult: Free-Out's current development space is relatively saturated, and the problems and breakthroughs lie in "word of mouth".
Free-Out has actually had a relatively good reputation before 2020, and the highest praise of the aforementioned "Free-Out 2019 Cypher" reads that "the strength is far greater than the famous label is coming.".
However, after participating in the show in 2020 and gaining a lot of traffic, Free-Out began to bear the accusation of "rice circle".
What is even more frightening is that from the negative incident of Gao Tianzuo at the beginning of this year to the recent negative incident of light and light that detonated public opinion, the traffic and popular members of the label have continuously "collapsed", making fans feel disappointed and ruining the popularity of passers-by again and again, destroying the reputation accumulated by the label in the previous years.
This kind of chaos is very different from previous years, and perhaps Ice Paper, which joined in 2017, said today that "when morality shows signs of collapse, people and things are doomed to come to an end."
The state has the national law, the family has the family rules, the new world needs a new system... The goal is to be positive, to expect brothers and sisters to clean themselves and supervise each other" reason.
And Ice Paper, which has always been low-key, intoxicated with music production, and "not familiar with the world", can really shoulder the responsibilities of a manager?
Perhaps, as he says, "I redeemed myself through Free-Out, and the proper name Free-Out is the only reason I stayed", whether he can reverse the decline of Free-Out today, he will do his best to worry about it...