In 2020, we used to say that rap variety shows are "three-legged standing". And in 2021, the former Big Three is only left with "Rap Listen to Me" still sticking. When programs such as "Black Afraid Girl" and "Junior Rap Planning" have entered the market segment, only "Rap Listen to Me" still maintains the background of the past rap variety show:
Wu Yang selected the most 93 contestants in several shows, and only had an age requirement of 18 years old or older, with no upper limit on age and no gender limit, which also made "Rap Listen to Me" the last safe haven for "older male rappers" (not talking about Mercy teacher).
In terms of producers/mentors, "Rap Listen to Me" is still a big deal, and the 6 mainstream singers + 4 rap recommenders are a little darker than last year, but they are also the largest of several shows.
Since there are a large number of contestants and mentors, the program team also released two pilot films in advance to introduce the format and contestants. The combined length of the two films is more than 100 minutes, which is actually the volume of the first phase of the main film, and the program team is much more sincere than last year's pilot film in this regard.
But they said so much, the useful information is one: the first round of this year is 93 to choose 40, two groups of mentors each choose 20 people, the specific way is to shoot the light 10 seconds before the end of the performance. If you are hungry for the people selected by the opposing team, you can even use the reversal right to forcibly snatch people over, but each group has only 3 reversal rights.
To be honest, after watching such a long pilot film, my expectations for the show are still very high, after all, it is a new year, and I have the opportunity to start all over again and reverse the wind evaluation of last year's high and low. As a result, my prediction was half right, and it was indeed reversed, but the high open became the low open, as for how to go, I don't know, but it is not optimistic.
The first contestant, Lincoln ANLE, put G-Funk on the stage, and this style of music appeared relatively less frequently on rap variety shows, which was also a courageous attempt. He did a good job and was invited, and the pharaoh commented that his G-Funk was so pure that he "has seen palm trees grow on the stage", and sure enough, he had to look at the old man with cold humor.
Xiao Li PISSY debuted in the second place is what I did not expect, last year's "China New Rap 2020" we have already seen his top technical strength, if it is not to meet the experienced Kafe.Hu, PISSY will not stop the team cooperation competition.
In this year's show, PISSY shows another side of him, this "Mountain" opening can bring people into the atmosphere, let people feel the sincere emotions of PISSY. The depth of lyrics is also reflected in this song, worthy of the name of the man on CCTV.
Brother Duckling's "Iceland" is a big contrast to "Mountain", based on Brother Duck's own frequent talk about duan, combined with this seemingly meaningless title "Iceland", I have reason to speculate that this is a song written for the RNG team that flew to Iceland this year to play the League of Legends mid-season.
Back to the point, this "Iceland" has a great improvement compared to the performance of Brother Duckling last year. From the funny responsibility of "China New Rap 2019" to the conflict responsibility of "Rap Listen to Me 2020", Brother Duck always gives people a feeling that gimmicks are greater than strength, but this year's "Iceland" does reflect that he has seriously studied technology.
Yihang's song is very rocky, but it also suffered from the loss of the inconsistency between the fields, and it was helpless to be determined. Too handsome flowers remind me of last year's Spitter, just like the unbridled Mustang-like explosion typhoon, showing some technical flow operations.
Hu Yanbin believes that he needs to learn how to retract freely, "focusing your strength on the point you want to express the most", which is a very pertinent evaluation. From the rear picking, I could see that the handsome flower liked the shell very much, and I had a hunch that he would still enter the shell team.
The contestants in the pilot film and the positive film have repeatedly mentioned the "giant dry", and the program has repeatedly output many times, I can only say, is this to engage in a magic flashmaster Pro Max Plus? But Ju Dry obviously does not have a unified style, it is a loose organization, shouting slogans to raise the gas, the magic flash bully is really a combination... This propaganda is really a bit blunt.
Hearing Feeeleven's song, my first reaction was that he should be Gong Linna's lifelong enemy, because he added subtitles at the beginning of the paragraph I can't hear very clearly, Teacher Gong's standard is to want to speak clearly, it is estimated that when he encounters Mumble Rap, he is going to shoot to kill, but when Teacher Gong sees Feeeleven, he doesn't seem to care about this anymore...
Feeeleven also became the first player to have the team use the reversal right to compete, and I admit that he does have his own Vibe and has his own unique research on Flow, but this sub-force style I personally can't appreciate.
The two female rappers in the back have participated in "China Has Hip Hop" and "China's New Rap" respectively, but they are the ones with the least sense of existence. The melody rap of Niu Niu is relatively ordinary, and it is a plot that I did not expect to be able to tear up in an instant when talking to the shell.
However, her crying "K Four Nine (K9999) You Know" did impress me, on the one hand, the name K9999 represents an era; on the other hand, many rappers are also ordinary people, and they will be very excited to see their idols, and I myself spoke to Pharaoh in person for the first time, and I understand this feeling.
DADOLL is the Dawa Yangzong of that year, compared to Niu Niu in "China Has Hip Hop" no shot, she is good at "China New Rap" Freestyle grabbed Mai Sai to show her face, although it is a level (breath and Freestyle) very poor image.
DADOLL reappeared in the show this time, the shape and temperament have changed qualitatively, and also found its own musical concept and Vibe, but in the chorus part, you can still hear the familiar feeling of out-of-breath, and the chorus is repeated too many times, a little bit of auditory fatigue.
Zhou Qingjian and Jerry Z, who appeared later, also played melodic rap, it seems that the operation of this show last year, in the minds of many people, it is indeed "Melody Rap Listen to Me", and this year's format itself and the mentors are still showing goodwill to melody rap, making the existence of rap recommendation officers seem very embarrassing.
At half-time, the two teams realized that the number of invitations was a bit large, so they raised the bar. The next KIWI Liu Weihang had a performance accident, playing the flower work of throwing wheat and throwing wheat off the stage, in fact, I saw this action in the rehearsal of the pilot film, I felt that it was too dangerous, and sure enough, there was an accident when the official recording was made.
In addition, the 2020 eight-mile championship IceCraz also made a mistake of forgetting words. Ginez, Ginma, Sun Jingdong and others were also not invited because they "did not jump out of the frame", "did not control the accompaniment", "did not have hipHop" and other reasons. When I watched this paragraph, I thought that making such a long preparation must be to launch a strong player, which is already a common trick of rap variety shows, and it is true.
The 2021 Eight Mile Championship Wiz_H made a brilliant debut, conquering the mentors with the strongest technical flow performance. Interestingly, Wiz_H had a phrase where the rhyme foot was "New Rap", and he made a "boo" gesture himself, skipping the rhyme foot. Hu Yanbin commented that he was a hexagonal warrior and was very good in every aspect. In a trance, I saw a little shadow of JD (no pejorative).
The last appearance is the much-talked about Young13DBaby, who, although also melodic rapping, is noticeably more skillful in his control, giving a sense of Smooth. Because he is close to the identity of the CDC, it is most likely to be taken away by Xie Di's group, and the result is indeed the same.
The first episode of the show ended here, and the trailer introduced the situation after the end of the 90s Invitational: both teams had 3 coins left, and they could invite players to a round of 60s Battle, but there was an "invitation, but neither wanted to choose". What's even more exciting is that Brother Duck made the powder keg again, directly indicating that he wanted AJ Lai Yuzhe to diss idol identity. What happened specifically, why diss, as a suspense for the next issue.
After watching this issue, my biggest feeling is that I can't grasp a very amazing point, or the explosive point created by the program team is not very appetizing to me. Judging from the reactions of the mentors and players, the explosive characters should be too handsome flowers, Feeeleven, Wiz_H, but I did not make any waves, but PISSY in a bunch of songs or fried or sung, a heart-wrenching "Mountain" can move me more.
In addition, in the case that other rap variety shows are pursuing "reducing the overall number of people at the beginning so that the initial stage can be a complete 2-3 minute track", "Rap Listen to Me" still stubbornly selects 93 people to come in, and sets the upper limit of the first round of performances to 90 seconds, then it is inevitable that there will be no good works left...