A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 258

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Regression Manual for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 258

The DTB Season 4 trailer was released three days ago.

The video uploaded to Wnet’s official YouTube account immediately became the hottest topic as soon as it went live.

DROP THE BEAT Season 4 [DTB4 Trailer First Release]

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[The return of hip hop survival DROP THE BEAT!]

[Record-breaking competition rate! Record-breaking challengers have gathered!]

The waiting scene of the First Preliminary Round crowded with people appeared on screen with subtitles through a drone shot.

After showing each of the four producer teams posing and sitting on sofas once, the cut transitioned to the actual filming footage.

[Even fiercer competition!]

[BQ9: If you have complaints, don’t argue with us, just speak through rap. But you couldn’t do it even when given the chance.]

BQ9’s serious expression alternated with shots of participants standing with their heads deeply bowed, hands clasped together as if praying, while sneaking glances at each other.

[??: Wow, this isn’t right.]

[??: You, come out.]

[??: Ah, are you asking me to have a match right now? Are you ignoring me?]

[??: I think you’re misunderstanding something, but this is a survival show. This is an individual competition, you know?]

The tension between rappers with blurred faces was shown briefly in choppy, disconnected cuts.

[If you don’t eliminate, you get eliminated]

[If you don’t take, you get taken]

[Brutal rap battles with prize money and pride on the line!]

Scenes flashed by at such rapid speed that it was hard to predict what situation or who would appear.

[Moltic: Why exactly did you come out?]

Moltic’s figure sitting on the sofa and leaning forward to ask gradually faded, then the screen turned black as a voice filled with laughter echoed.

[??: I came to leave some graffiti behind.]

As the letters “DTB 4” appeared on the screen where subtitles had disappeared, the qualifying necklace that had become DTB’s symbol dangled on screen.

[June 28th Friday 11 PM First Broadcast]

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Ludumi • 16 hours ago

Oh BQ9 is so tough? If it were me, I would’ve cried and gone home after hearing that

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└9565

As expected, the skills from making Tiger’s lyrics so sharp with just diss tracks in the previous season don’t just disappear, right? ㄷㄷ

└Pie π

I thought only D.I. would appear as a producer, but BQ Nine is coming out too?

Taehoon Kim • 14 hours ago

I wonder if Season 4 can surpass the glory of Season 3

Personally, Season 3 was such a legend that I think it’ll be hard to surpass

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└qkrehdgk0705

Either Wnet will sharpen their knives and make missions extremely radical to show crazy developments, or some crazy guy will appear to make Season 3 forgettable

JOY • 10 hours ago

I’m curious to see who Deopnet will send to their doom with another evil edit this time lol

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└Tamremon

Flodic the ‘Martyr of Evil Editing’

└duddjghldhkrhdqn

Honestly, a guy who was considered a championship candidate had his image plummet due to evil editing, which played a big part in his elimination. His main round 2nd stage performance wasn’t at a level to lose to R-NZ

└op652alk21

How much experience difference is there between Flodic and D.I., yet Wnet is crazy for evil editing to make it look like Flodic was one-sidedly jealous of D.I.

└Mulbwa

Are you monitoring comments? Wnet, we’re sick of jealousy narratives, bring rival narratives next time

RideorDie • 14 hours ago

Shit, Eden, do you have a knack for making people flutter with just one line?

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Full Moon • 9 hours ago

What’s that last part? Is it plagiarizing Hyoryun-jwa’s lyrics or is he appearing himself?

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└Yeom-jwa

Seeing all the fangirls attached to the comments, it seems like he’s appearing himself

└dasalkfa77

First round preliminary eyewitness account is up ㅇㅇㄷ that’s right

└Holy shit

Ah fuck, I can see the future where it becomes a popularity vote and turns into chaos. I was already pissed about that during DTB 3

Nyang Nyang • 3 hours ago

Let’s go, Korea’s hip hop number one Yoon Eden

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└adlfk

Korea’s hip hop number one my ass when you only have one solo song

Go release a solo album and then try to compete ㅉㅉ

└A A A

Yeah, but they’re just idols anyway lololol

(…)

Five Dreams Forever @fiveonezero

Sigh, I don’t know. It’s good that Eden is doing what he wants, but it’s an individual survival + hip hop survival, so I’m not exactly thrilled

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Rave @REeeve

Getting stressed watching our kid being looked down on as an idol rapper and getting evil-edited on DTB

Vs getting stressed watching hip-hop fans curse about fangirls clinging to the hip-hop scene and muddying the waters

Vs getting stressed watching another fucking meme attached to our kid following Hyoryun-jwa

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Rave @REeeve

Unless Eden shows off his abs there, there’s no reason to watch this;;

1001Dream @thousandonemong

Thinking about that first preliminary round look that went viral on communities back then makes me a bit tempted, but knowing that Yoon-rida isn’t someone who’ll stick to that style… I’ll just watch the first episode with beret Eden and then only watch through clips after that

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“For someone who was calling for complete editing cuts, you sure delivered a perfect quote for the preview, hyung.”

I let out a deep sigh at Ryu Jaehee’s giggling and replied.

“That was recycled featuring lyrics. When they ask for a word of determination, I can’t exactly say ‘I’ll crush all those bastards who look down on idol rappers.'”

Being an idol could be used as ammunition against me, but now that the diss battles were over, with the main competition ahead, there probably wouldn’t be anyone looking down on me as an idol rapper anymore. Probably.

After tomorrow’s filming ended, I’d be able to watch the first episode. Probably together with the members as a group like we did with .

Anyway, even if I appeared in the first preliminary round, it would only be for less than a minute, so watching with the members wouldn’t matter.

The problem was the second preliminary round. The elimination was such a shock that I can’t even remember if I managed my expressions or not, and showing that to the members would be a bit…

Kim Dobin strongly insisted that we had to eat DTB food while watching DTB, so we needed to decide on the menu today in advance, but after Seo Yehyeon’s ‘recite the calories’ attack, he lost his fighting spirit and our DTB food became water.

If he had just kept his mouth shut, I would have bought at least a chicken when I came tomorrow, tsk tsk.

I should just buy it without telling Seo Yehyeon, spread it out, and stuff it in my mouth before he can stop me – then Yehyeon wouldn’t be able to throw it in the trash bag by the sink and would let us eat it obediently.

Don’t you know this yet, you fool Kim Dobin.

“Yoon Eden, you really can’t buy chicken or anything like that tomorrow! Got it?”

When Seo Yehyeon comes at me like this, I can’t buy chicken for the sake of maintaining harmonious relationships with the members.

When Yehyeon goes that far, if I ignore his words and buy chicken anyway, it’ll definitely reduce my initial intentions score for causing conflict.

“Jun, Yehyeon hyung only said not to buy chicken, so maybe pizza would be okay?”

At this suddenly good idea, I whispered to Gyeon Hajun, and Hajun replied hesitantly.

“Well, Yehyeon hyung would probably grab his neck and collapse.”

Somehow Yehyeon heard that too and was expanding the list of forbidden foods, saying pizza, pig’s feet, hamburgers, Chinese restaurant food – none of that was allowed.

Tsk, I should have just bought it without saying anything. I did something no different from Kim Dobin.

The next day.

The long-awaited first episode day and the first filming day of the group music mission round.

“Today I need to wear an outfit that shows maximum leadership. Isn’t there an outfit that makes people want to follow you the moment they see it?”

“Why are you suddenly talking about leadership? Is there something that would emphasize that you’re Rev’s leader?”

At my serious muttering, Ryu Jaehee asked with a curious voice.

“I’m the group leader for the music mission. This hyung is number one in fight money holdings from the diss battles. By the way, if you tell anyone else and it leaks, you’ll have to pay 400 million won, so keep it absolutely secret.”

I answered with a thoroughly proud face, pointing at myself and adding a warning.

“Whoa, it’s already the music mission. Have you decided on all your team members?”

I shook my head at Ryu Jaehee’s words. It would be meaningless even if I decided.

I don’t choose the team members – the remaining participants look at the group leaders and beats and decide which team to join.

It was natural that Ryu Jaehee didn’t know since it was a rule that changed in Season 4.

For reference, up until Season 3, it was the format Ryu Jaehee knew where group leaders chose their team members.

And in Season 3, they gave beat selection rights in order of fight money amount held, but in Season 4, they gave lottery priority.

That means the beats were completely random luck-based.

Then what the hell was the merit of being a group leader, what the hell did we fight so bloody hard for fight money for – viewers cursed them out so badly that they changed it back to the original way from the next season.

They should have just done it the same as the previous season, instead of making someone with already terrible lottery luck miserable by trying to create stimulating developments.

“Hey, Dobin.”

I grabbed Kim Dobin, who had the best luck among Rev members, and requested.

“Pick one number from 1 to 5.”

“4.”

I asked Kim Dobin, who called out the number without hesitation while showing four fingers.

“Why?”

“Because I’m Rev’s fourth member.”

Kim Dobin smiled with his characteristic sideways 3-shaped mouth.

“CEO, please pick one number from 1 to 5.”

-4?

“Oh, thank you.”

After finishing the call with the CEO, who has the best natural luck among people I know, today’s lucky number was set as 4.

“Okay, I’ve chosen the number, now what should I wear?”

“Wear that guerrilla instructor hat you got before, hyung.”

“Rather than making people follow me, wouldn’t that just trigger PTSD? And it’s still a bit early to wear that…”

I could already see and hear the hate comments and sarcasm I’d receive if I wore it as someone who hadn’t served yet.

“What about a uniform?”

“Wouldn’t that be too intimidating for others? Come up with something that can show a friendly image too.”

Leaving behind Ryu Jaehee who couldn’t escape from ‘cool’ ideas, Gyeon Hajun who said I was already a leader so I should go as my natural self, Seo Yehyeon who suggested the boring idea of recycling a suit, and Kim Dobin who had no thoughts, I ended up choosing the outfit myself.

Due to the stylist noona’s dissuasion, I couldn’t wear the hat I had prepared and headed to the filming location.

“Those ranked 1st to 5th in fight money holdings, please come forward.”

At the MC’s words, I stepped forward boldly. I pushed up my sports goggles toward the gazes directed at me and grinned.

A leader flag stuck in the pocket of full mountaineering gear that anyone would want to follow. It was perfect.

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