A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 262

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Regression Manual for an Idol Who Lost Their Original Intentions Chapter 262

I even found and played my mixtape from that era to Nijeous, who couldn’t believe my words.

It was truly fortunate that back then, even though I had profanity constantly on my lips, I didn’t particularly like using vulgar language in my lyrics.

“Hyungs, are my lyrics really that bad?”

Nijeous changed targets and grabbed Raizo and Toohyeok to ask, but knowing that public evaluation was quite an important factor in music chart performance, the two avoided eye contact instead of taking Nijeous’s side.

“Then let’s have only Nijeous rewrite his lyrics. Should we all work on the hook together, or should each of us make one and adopt the best one?”

“Let’s each make one and listen to them, then combine the good parts. We don’t necessarily have to adopt just one.”

Raizo’s opinion was accepted. Another appointment was set for three days later.

“Should we all have lunch together before we part ways?”

“Sounds good. I don’t have any schedule after this anyway.”

“I agree too.”

Nijeous was still upset about his lyrics being rejected, and despite his high energy earlier, he kept his mouth tightly shut.

When I asked for understanding from Toohyeok and Raizo with eye signals, the two who caught on to what I was trying to say nodded their heads.

“Gyuchan, what do you want to eat?”

“Huh, can I really decide?”

I felt relieved watching Nijeous jump up as if he’d never been sulking and shout for sushi. It’s fortunate that kids this age can be easily appeased just with food.

After briefly finishing lunch under the guise of building camaraderie, I trudged back to the dormitory.

“I’m exhausted to death. I just want to work on music, but why are there so many things to worry about?”

As I flopped down on the sofa and muttered like I was lamenting, Gyeon Hajun asked.

“Why, aren’t the team members cooperating well?”

“Yeah, if they’re already like this just writing lyrics for their own parts, not even deciding on the hook or order, I’m scared of what it’ll be like later. On top of that, having to be conscious of the cameras is killing me, really.”

Leading Rev in their early debut days would probably be better than this music collaboration mission.

Moreover, I haven’t even gotten over the mountain that is Toohyeok yet. What other trials await me in the hook, order, and recording process, haha.

“I respect you, youngest. You’ve been living like this constantly on edge and racking your brain.”

When I gave a thumbs up to Ryu Jaehee, Jaehee smiled proudly and replied.

“It’s fine as long as you know now.”

Yeah, please continue to work hard in the future. This hyung seems like he’s had enough just from experiencing DTB.

“But what’s this?”

Seo Yehyeon, who discovered the snacks I’d brought home in an armful, raised his eyebrows and asked.

Since Yehyeon has eyesight and intelligence, he’s not asking because he doesn’t know these are snacks.

“There was no rule about not eating DTB food today. So I bought some.”

“Hey hey, no way! Don’t eat it! It’s 11 PM! Do you know how fattening it is to eat at this time? You’re filming a survival show right now! What’s the point of going there looking like an idol! You’ll look like a dumpling on screen!”

“Okay, okay. I won’t eat any. Happy? Let the kids eat it.”

I bought it because it was quite pitiful to secretly eat popcorn while avoiding Yehyeon’s eyes, but it’s fine as long as I don’t eat any.

“Eden hyung keeps reminding me of our dad on payday.”

Kim Dobin spouted nonsense again while quickly securing the snack bags before Yehyeon could put them out of reach.

Thinking of Nijeous who had been getting on my nerves, I could laugh off this level of nonsense from our precious Dobin. Still, our fake youngest is much better.

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[DROP THE BEAT SEASON 4 Ep.2]

-Finally here, the joy of my Friday life

-Feels like episode 1 had 12 episodes worth of aggro, can episode 2 really meet my expectations

-What was that rabbit hat in the trailer lolol I was dying of curiosity for a whole week

[110 rappers who passed the first preliminary round!]

[The second preliminary round for them: Rapper Evaluation Battle]

[Given time is only 60 seconds!]

[Must get PASS from four or more producers to pass!]

Yoon Eden with pink-dyed hair, wearing a beige knit vest over a loose-fitting shirt with light jeans and round silver-rimmed glasses, walked into the waiting room.

[Wow, it’s an idol.]

[I thought he mistook the filming location. What’s with pink hair at a hip hop survival show. And those clothes… it’s not like he’s here for a music video shoot.]

[I felt bad seeing an idol rapper come dressed like that. Is he disrespecting hip hop?]

[Isn’t he hot…?]

The screen captured the rappers’ reactions as their attention was instantly focused, along with their inner thoughts.

[The ONE who captures everyone’s attention upon entrance]

-This crazy refreshing Eden wasn’t a one-time thing??? This time it’s innocent Eden???

-Is it a concept of a delinquent who wants to become a model student

-Is he going with an attention-seeker concept now instead of idol rapper?

[Yoon Eden: Dream of me. I’m Yoon Eden, leader and main rapper of idol group Rev.]

Yoon Eden’s calm greeting echoed along with scenes from their latest song music video.

-Ah!!! He said the group greeting was embarrassing so he rarely did it even on live broadcasts!!!!

-I’m glad I watched episode 2… innocent Eden with group greeting and glasses and pink Eden… now I can die without regrets…

-If I had said I wasn’t the idol rapper Yoon Eden but underground rapper ED, I could’ve swept up all the hip-hop heads, but I targeted the wrong audience tsk tsk

Returning to the interview screen, Yoon Eden brushed back his slightly disheveled pink hair and smiled with a crooked grin.

[Q.Underground rappers’ wariness?]

[Yoon Eden: For those who look down on idol rappers, I’m really curious whether you ‘didn’t’ become idols or ‘couldn’t’ become idols. If it looks that easy, why don’t you try challenging it?]

-Just looking at him now shows being an idol isn’t easy

-Wow, that’s fucking intense lol

-The fact that he doesn’t look annoying while saying that is also a skill

-Wow, dealing area damage with just looks alone without saying a single curse word ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└He probably doesn’t just mean looks though?

[Q. A word about your determination going forward]

[Yoon Eden: I’ll make it so that being worse at rap than an idol rapper won’t be an insult anymore. If you want to use those words as an insult, I hope you surpass me first-.]

-And then gets eliminated in the second preliminary!

└Then real shit lololol

-No, you’re an exception among idol rappers, don’t you feel bad for the guys who’ll get schooled

Someone approached Yoon Eden who was sitting and waiting. The screen that was filming someone’s back switched to the opposite angle, zooming in on the name tag ‘G-TE’ attached to their top.

[G-TE: Hey, who do we have here? Long time no see?]

[Yoon Eden: Who are you?]

-Ah fuck that counterattack is insane…

-Like an introvert who got dissed after an extrovert pretended to be close

-What, do they know each other? Never imagined this combination

-Those guys probably grabbed each other by the collar and fought before? Their relationship was really bad

└I remember the ED Unshark real-life fight lololol

└Who won?

└Can’t you tell just by looking?

Yoon Eden, who had been staring intently at G-TE for a moment, opened his mouth.

[Yoon Eden: Is that Hyeongjin?]

[What exactly is the relationship between these two?]

Yoon Eden’s wide eyes and dilating pupils were captured in a close-up on screen.

The shots alternated between G-TE showing a slightly resentful expression and Yoon Eden looking surprised.

[I think they were from different crews. Same-age rivals?]

[They are the same age, but their relationship… wasn’t good from what I remember. How should I put it? They were dying to tear each other apart?]

[They fought whenever they met, those guys. Unshark, I mean G-TE, always told Yoon Eden to get out of the underground scene and just be an idol, and Yoon Eden always deliberately mispronounced G-TE’s rap name to annoy him. I still remember what he used to call him. Unsik, Jaws Bar…]

Brief interviews with contestants who remembered G-TE and Yoon Eden’s past followed. The interviews subtly portrayed them as rivals.

-Jaws Bar is insane lololololol

[Yoon Eden: You changed your rap name? If I remember correctly, it used to be Unsik?]

[G-TE: And you became a full-fledged idol while I wasn’t looking.]

[Yoon Eden: Why? You recommended it to me. To become an idol.]

[The relationship between the two seems unchanged from then to now]

-So the real reason Yoon Eden went the idol route was because of G-TE…?

└G-TE you bastard, how could you let such talent leak into the idol industry

└Wow, one person strayed from the path, breaking the rival confrontation, and now they finally meet again on Show Me – it’s a complete narrative

-Thank you G-TE for encouraging our Eden to become an idol

└Where do you see encouragement? Anyone can tell he was being sarcastic

└It’s fine, our Eden probably filtered it as encouragement in his brain anyway

-G-TE has good guts, looks like he’d fly away if Yoon Eden hit him once

-That bastard still calls him Unsik lololol

[G-TE: If you ran away, why are you crawling back into the hip hop scene? Just keep doing heart dances and live like that.]

[Yoon Eden: Ah, yes. Let’s strip away the ranks and face off as rapper versus rapper. Let’s see who’s more disadvantaged when you take that off.]

The two’s interviews were cross-edited.

-True self-strengthening

-Did they get criticized for forcing an evil edit jealousy narrative last season and switch to a rival narrative this season lol Objectively G-TE doesn’t have the skills to compete with Yoon Eden lol

└Maybe they were similar back then, I listened to Yoon Eden’s old mixtapes and his skills have improved a lot now

└What are you saying, even back then G-TE couldn’t compete with Yoon Eden

└G-TE’s skills have also improved tremendously compared to before

[What will be the fate of these two rappers who unexpectedly faced each other in the second preliminary round?]

[Yoon Eden: I’ll go first.]

Yoon Eden’s back view as he waved and strode toward the backstage faded out, then switched to the group of producers watching the stage with intrigued faces.

-Why did they change the judging system anyway, the odds got even worse

-Is it even possible to get all passes here?

When Yoon Eden appeared on stage, the producers’ reactions – some surprised, some covering their mouths, some bursting into laughter – were shown one by one on screen.

D.I’s stunned expression was shown in close-up, followed by a brief individual producer interview.

[D.I: That kid… why did he come out like that? Is he sick? He’s not usually like this…]

[G1: He’s an interesting friend, anyway.]

[AJA: When you come out like that, the judging standards become stricter, naturally. I’m not saying to follow TPO, but there is a line, you know.]

-Yongcheol panicking at his close friend’s rebellion

-G1 is right that it’s just interesting, why is AJA the only one being all serious?

-Sigh -old-fashioned-

[Moltic: Are you ready?]

[Yoon Eden: Ah, wait a moment. Let me prepare mentally.]

Yoon Eden turned around to show his back to the judges, fumbled with something on his head, then turned back around.

The smiling face of the popular rabbit hat placed on top of his cotton candy-like light pink hair looked truly innocent.

[A rabbit hat suddenly appears!?]

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