Five pine young people
Underground has different meanings for every rapper, some are where dreams begin, some are hells they want to escape, for laziness, Underground is a rental house of 500 yuan per month, and for Sweet, it is Building 2 of No. 15 Jingouhe Road in Wukesong, Beijing, which is where he grew up and where his rap dreams sprouted.
Sweet, whose original name was Liu Yongtao, was born in Beijing in 1992. His childhood memories include the oil-stained railings of the tube building, the mottled walls painted half green; the slender walkways that don't shine all year round, the cluttered alleys, and, of course, the afternoon he went out on a boat trip to the countryside with his parents, and the album by The most important Nas.
The rapper who had the greatest influence on Sweet
Nas was known as an American street poet, and Sweet first learned the name through a big brother who listened to death metal downstairs from their house. In order to listen to songs, the eldest brother often goes to Tianjin to buy a mouth plate, because he is only interested in rock and roll, so the singing disc was given to Sweet as a piece of by the big brother, and then the big brother saw that Sweet liked rapping, so he gave him half a Nas album lllmatic in the mp3 of 64 trillion, and sweet, who was only 14 years old, was crazy according to his words.
Sweet couldn't read the lyrics, so he used the Oxford Dictionary to translate word by word, and this sentence shocked him with a straight-forward lyric. The big brother who understands music always said that he wanted to form a band, but he had not released a song so far, but Sweet planted the seeds of rap in his heart because of that half album.
How we should exert our youth
Childhood experience will have a great impact on people's lives, the more disrespected the child, the stronger the desire to prove themselves, eat low-security Grown-up Sweet has no money to buy the nike worn by classmates, even the clothes are torn, naturally suffered a lot of white eyes. Not being respected is a matter of habit for children who grow up in the tube building.
Since you don't respect me, I will find a way to make you respect, so some of the friends in the tube building have learned to speak with their fists, and they have mistaken the fear in the eyes of others as respect. Sweet was also called by a friend to participate in a stubble fight, he stood in the last row and scolded a few words, and received 100 yuan and a bag of Jade Creek. Some of Sweet's friends slowly became addicted to the feeling and grew stronger, eventually ending up at the police station.
No one wants to really live in underground
Probably because there are other ways to vent the restlessness of adolescence, but also through other ways to win respect, Sweet did not end up with them, he released his first album "Seven Disobedience Eight Indignation" when he was in high school, and later admitted to Chinese university. He began to compete in battle in 2008, the first battle he participated in was the second "Dragon and Tiger Fight" competition, he only heard that everyone had a cool stage name before he came on the field, so he temporarily used the name of a character in the GTA, Sweet. Although he did not win any place in that game, when he left, Sun Xu, a rap og in Beijing, gave him a thumbs up, which gave him great encouragement at that time.
Two years later, he joined Iron Mic again, when he was different from two years ago, no one dared not to take this young boy seriously, although he finally lost to Ma Jun in the finals, but also proved himself. Later, he participated in the 2011 Iron Mic, Natural Flavor and other battle competitions, the ranking is very good, at that time he was in the Beijing battle industry, the opponents are few. Later, he was invited to France to participate in international rap competitions.
Just try 100 times harder
It was difficult to feed himself by playing rap, an artist-like lifestyle, not to mention that Sweet's father was still bedridden. He did HR after graduating from college, and he also did live broadcasting, and he earned his father's medical expenses while saving up for the expenses needed to get married, because his father's last wish was to see him do the wedding. The pressure is natural, but as long as you work 100 times harder, he attracts a lot of viewers through improvisational freestyle, and even does the top few on the platform, earning 100,000 yuan a month. He also bought a house with the money he earned through live broadcasting, and he can now earn a living by collecting rent, which also allows him to get rid of the shackles of creation in the future.
It seems that lenders can only shine on the stage of "Rap New Generation", and Sweet has also participated in the program recording of "China Has Hip Hop" and "China New Rap", but there are not many shots. Sweet has more listeners through Rap New Generation, and he's already content. Now his only wish was to bring a few of his poor brothers with him, because he had learned very early from Nas's song that brothers had to help each other.
Sweet often mentions words like "that suburb" and "time rewind" in his freestyle and his songs, and he misses the time he spent playing with his parents in his childhood, and he is also grateful to the person who first heard the nas album in the summer of 15, because rap allowed him to find his way when he was confused, took him out of the predicament, and according to Sweet, "rap is everything to me".