Bryant once said, "Second place you're the number one loser." "For competitive sports, champions are really the only goal for everyone.
But in the rap circle, it has always been "Wen Wu first, Wu Wu second", and everyone has different standards in their hearts. The ranking of variety shows does not fully represent the real strength.
In 2020's "China New Rap", Li Jialong's success in winning the championship is gratifying and congratulatory, while the runner-up Wang Qiming has been criticized a lot, and in many people, he is not worthy of this runner-up, and even belittled to worthless.
If you really understand Wang Qiming's experience, you must know how outrageous these people's words are, let's take a look at the rap path of Wang Qiming, the "weakest runner-up in history" in Kuroko's mouth.
Wang Qiming is a native of Qijiang, Chongqing, a district of Chongqing today, but until 2011 he was a small county town around Chongqing.
Geographically, it takes an hour and a half to drive from Qijiang to downtown Chongqing.
If you've been lucky enough to be in Chongqing by train, you've heard the van master shout in the heroic Chongqing dialect at the train station: "Qijiang!" Qijiang can't go."
The details of this life were written into a song by Wang Qiming, and the title of the song was called "Qijiang Can't Go".
When he was a child, Wang Qiming was a typical problem teenager, he did not love to learn, and he always "provoked trouble" with his nearby friends.
In high school, Wang Qiming's academic performance has not been very good, and in his heart, he has never had the idea of studying well and taking a good school.
In his third year of high school, the class teacher advised him to make an effort before the exam, but after trying two lessons, he found that it was too late because he had fallen too far before.
After the failure of the college entrance examination, Wang Qiming's parents planned to borrow some money to let him find a school to study, but at this time, Wang Qiming already had his own plan in mind: he wanted to make money and wanted to support himself.
However, reality soon gave Wang Qiming a blow, no education, he did not get any good job opportunities, during the summer vacation, he helped the gym to hand out flyers, but also for the beauty shop to do sales.
Anyone who has distributed leaflets knows how boring this job is, and Wang Qiming has played the best trait of his personality in these boring jobs: optimism.
In the face of the helplessness and blank eyes of customers on the street, he is often able to take the initiative to talk to customers, and sometimes sing songs to attract customers' attention, so after a few months, his performance is not bad.
But such a job was never a long-term solution, and it wasn't long before he found a new job at the Qijiang Aluminum Factory.
In "China's New Rap", GAI once said that when he first met Wang Qiming, he carried steel in the factory.
This sentence is actually not very accurate, at that time Wang Qiming was responsible for the work in the aluminum factory, in fact, to test the temperature. These machines generally have seventy or eighty degrees, so even in the hot summer of Chongqing, he must have long sleeves and trousers when he works every day.
In his spare time, Wang Qiming often plays games with friends through YY voice. On the YY channel, he discovered a new sky: freestyle.
Before playing freestyle, Wang Qiming only had a rough idea of Hip-Hop music through stars like Jay Chou.
After discovering the happy land of freestyle, Wang Qiming began to sing madly every day, and at the beginning he was still a rookie, did not understand anything, and was scolded in the channel every day.
But perhaps because of his previous experience as a salesman, Wang Qiming was not concerned about this kind of language attack on the Internet. On his days off, in addition to eating and sleeping every day, he practiced freestyle a lot, and gave himself a name from "Ancient Puzzle Boy": Pheasant.
In the GO$H documentary, Wang Qiming described his crazy practice, and when he went to work, he would even face the factory tree freestyle when he was bored.
On YY, Wang Qiming also met a lot of friends, including The Pop, who gave him a lot of help, and later the Yunnan Battle King Xiaoqinglong, until now, they are very good friends.
After practicing freestyle online for a while, Wang Qiming, like all Battle MCs, wanted to meet the world offline. This time, Wang Qiming opened his "Chongqing Battle King" era.
In 2013, Wang Qiming's first offline battle competition was Iron Mic, who came to Chongqing for the first time.
However, the fledgling Wang Qiming was not afraid of the stage, and reached the final in the first competition, and finally lost to the experienced Bridge.
The following year, Wang Qiming made a comeback, he first played a difficult game with the pop in the Chongqing veteran competition "Dry", and finally won the double championship.
Then he stood in Iron Mic Chongqing without bloodshed, easily won the championship, and finally represented Chongqing in the national finals, and finally won the fifth place in the country.
In 2015, he won all the Battle championships in Chongqing, including "Dry One Vote", "Iron Mic", "8 Miles Underground" and "Dry".
Although in the Iron Mic National Finals, he finally regrettably lost to his friend Xiao Qinglong and won the second place, but this did not hinder Wang Qiming's position in the Chongqing Battle circle.
For Wang Qiming's Battle experience, interested friends can read this article by Kaige: Pheasant, low-key Battle King in Gosh, the real Grand Slam of Chongqing rap circle
At the "dry" in 2015, Wang Qiming's outstanding performance was also looked at by the elders of GO$H at that time, and GAI had the idea of wanting Wang Qiming to join the team.
Invited by GAI, Wang Qiming's first reaction was to be flattered, after all, he was still a newcomer. But hearing that he was going to Chongqing to join GO$H, Wang Qiming chose to refuse.
He didn't like working in the aluminum factory, especially when he saw that his leaders were content with the status quo, and he had long thought of leaving here. But after all, I am a local who works in the aluminum factory, with a stable income and no need to worry about life.
Because GAI did not accomplish this, he was a little too willing to go, and he offered that if Wang Qiming came to Chongqing, he could help solve the work problem. In this way, Wang Qiming came to Chongqing from Qijiang and joined the GO$H team.
After joining the team, Wang Qiming did not immediately start creating, but first went to work with GAI to work in a live broadcast company, and the first days were very hard, with only three hundred yuan per month.
Just when Wang Qiming was about to be unable to support it, under the introduction of a friend, Wang Qiming went to another live broadcasting company, and his career began to turn around, earning 9,000 yuan in the first month.
Stimulated by high income, Wang Qiming began to broadcast live with high intensity, broadcasting seven or eight hours a day. He originally had an optimistic personality, and he had the unique job of freestyle, and his salary naturally rose, at most more than 30,000 a month.
The live broadcasting industry is changing rapidly, and Wang Qiming did not realize that danger was approaching. Under the company's arrangement, Wang Qiming went to Shenzhen and did not work for more than 20 days, but Wang Qiming spent a lot of his previous savings, and his career also fell into a trough.
Regarding this experience, Wang Qiming wrote it into a song "Regret" to reflect on the mistakes he made because of his youth.
In 2017, Wang Qiming returned to Chongqing from Shenzhen to start making music, when "China Has Hip Hop" arrived as scheduled, and unlike GAI's hesitation, Wang Qiming had no resistance to the show itself.
However, fate played a joke with him again, because of the loss of his ID card, Wang Qiming could not sign up for the first season of the competition, and missed an opportunity.
But to be fair, it is not a good thing that it did not succeed in this competition. At that time, Wang Qiming was still too immature compared with GAI and Bridge.
At the same time as participating in the Battle competition, Wang Qiming's own writing works are actually not much, after joining GO$H, he was busy with his livelihood, and he failed to precipitate many works in time. It was probably not a good time to compete.
But even if he didn't compete, Wang Qiming got the shot in "China Has Hip Hop", which is stronger than many rappers who have not even shown their faces.
In 2018, Wang Qiming went to participate in "China's New Rap" with an EP "WATCH ME", and due to various things a year ago, he threw away the original AKA of the pheasant and replaced it with today's WATCH ME, to some extent, this is also a kind of growth.
Because the previous year's GO$H was very dazzling, on "China New Rap", Wang Qiming attracted much attention as soon as he appeared, a song "WATCH ME" and a familiar sentence "Le is the fog capital", which made people's hearts full of memories of the previous year.
In that season's competition, Wang Qiming did not go very far, and when he scored 12 into 9, he regretted being eliminated, which was a just-passed place for him, and also left a deep regret.
In the album "WATCH ME", there is a song "A Thousand Flips" that is deeply loved by listeners, and Wang Qiming himself is also very satisfied with this song, he originally planned to perform this song as soon as he arrived on the personal stage, but he never got his wish.
This year, Wang Qiming has experienced two years of precipitation, bringing a "One Hammer Amazing" to challenge "China's New Rap" again.
This time, Wang Qiming's music is more mature than in the past, and in the four parts of "One Hammer Amazing", there are both traps that can be shaken up, as well as very heartfelt boombap, and even less brilliant melodic rap.
Wang Qiming has also gradually found his own way of expression, and in the lyrics he is often able to capture the details of life and achieve resonance with the audience.
The most typical is the song "A Thousand Flips", which is full of memories of childhood life.
At the same time, he is also very good at leaving blank space, so that the audience can have their own imagination space.
In the song "No Remorse," he wrote about his parents' expectations of him: "Until one day, I stumbled upon that what they wanted most was not money at all. ”
The lyrics end abruptly here, and the rest is the audience's experience.
In terms of musical style, Wang Qiming is also actively trying, and "Sky Curtain" in the finals is a more typical drill.
Wang Qiming has come this way, even if there is an element of luck, it is inseparable from his own strength.
In fact, many people question Wang Qiming, and one reason is that many people will invariably compare him with other brothers in GO$H, which is both a blessing and an unfortunate thing.
But unlike GAI's jianghu atmosphere, Bridge's wanton and foggy avant-garde, Wang Qiming's music is not without its own characteristics, and his optimism and positivity are well integrated into his works, but compared with other brothers, Wang Qiming is not so sharp.
At the lakeside dinner before this year's "China's New Rap", director Che Che asked each rapper what he wanted to do most after the game, and the other rappers talked about their musical ambitions. When it was Wang Qiming's turn, he said that what he wanted to do most was to move and live in a better place.
This is Wang Qiming, always so full of life.