A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 367

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 367

What made me realize that this season of DTB was quite hot was the flood of concert invitation requests pouring in from all directions.

It didn’t sit well with me that people who had zero interest in hip hop were now going crazy for it just because hip hop had become trendy, but what could I do for the revival of hip hop?

Stagnant water is bound to rot, after all.

Since he had acknowledged me anyway, I thought about inviting my paternal grandfather to the DTB concert as well, so he could recognize not just idol Yoon Eden but also rapper Yoon Eden, but I gave up because he’d probably get furious and tell me to quit immediately if he saw others spitting out F-words out loud.

Good lyrics pass by too quickly when rapped, so you can’t savor them unless you concentrate, but “fxxk” is used as an ad-lib so it’s clearly audible.

What was unexpected was that my cousin hyung contacted me asking if I could give him invitation tickets, so I figured he must have found DTB 4 quite entertaining. When we were young, whenever I subtly promoted hip hop to him, he’d say that kind of noisy music wasn’t his taste.

My cousin hyung asked for two tickets, but I could only give one invitation ticket. They were really stingy with the invitation tickets. That meant they minimized the seats taken away for invitations.

At least Yongcheol hyung distributed invitation tickets to the crew hyungs, so I could get tickets for my acquaintances. Of course, this was limited to guys who had some interest in hip hop from the beginning. I had no invitation tickets to spare for guys who treated hip hop as a trendy item.

Was it Shin Heeun? When I sent that friend an invitation ticket, he was so grateful he was dying of appreciation. MoonK, who I had launched a confession attack on, didn’t show such an amazing reaction even after receiving an invitation ticket, which was a bit disappointing.

‘The pressure for Season 5 must be considerable.’

I glanced at Gongchul and BQ9, the producers of the winning team from this season who were in charge of the concert opening, and thought.

Just as DTB Season 4 inherited the momentum from Season 3 and hit big while exploding with potential under considerable attention, Season 5 would also be held on top of Season 4’s still-hot enthusiasm.

Though I don’t know if they’ll be able to surpass Season 4, which received praise for exceeding Season 3.

As far as I remember, Season 5 didn’t have that kind of spice contestant who would go all out when it was time to go all out, like me.

But the future could change sufficiently, and there was no guarantee that contestants trying to copy my buzz from Season 4 wouldn’t appear.

For example, in DTB Season 5 before regression, there were many overpowered participants who copied Yupi, who was the winner of DTB 4 before regression.

There were tons of them who couldn’t control their level and dropped out in the second preliminaries, and those who gave viewers secondhand embarrassment with their try-hard cool acts.

“This concert really cut down on the invitation tickets they give us too. Last season’s concert was generous enough to give to acquaintances, but this season I heard so many complaints.”

“It makes sense they’d cut them. The venue is bigger than last season’s concert, but the tickets sold out in a few minutes.”

“I don’t know. I’ll have to watch until the next season to tell. Whether this is happening because idol fans are attached, or whether the hip hop scene has actually grown this much.”

I could hear Wonbaek and AJA’s conversation nearby. Come on, if I were some global world star idol who influences even hip hop’s fate, I wouldn’t feel wronged hearing such words.

Hmm, or maybe not. Since we’re a group that even made it onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart, maybe global is accurate?

“Eden, how about moving up the order for 【Killing Beat】? There was an opinion that it would be better to put it as a team producer stage rather than a TOP 8 stage. The producers all said it was fine for now.”

【Killing Beat】, which was a group music mission song, had quite a few opinions that it would be a shame not to perform it again, so instead of Nijeous and Raizo who didn’t make it to TOP 8, my team producer BQ9 and Toohyeok’s team producer Moltic filled the verses.

“Was Toohyeok hyung okay with it?”

“I wanted to hear your opinion first before asking him.”

“I don’t mind. Please go with Toohyeok hyung’s opinion.”

I passed the choice to Toohyeok. BQ9, who was listening next to me when they said Toohyeok was also okay with it, grumbled.

“Damn, if they were going to change it, they should have changed it yesterday. This will confuse my order.”

“It was a bit awkward since we put Killing Beat at the very front of Toohyeok hyung’s playlist, not in my order. Killing Beat is an intense song, but Toohyeok hyung’s final song is almost gentle. It kills the mood completely. He’s probably carrying quite a burden since it’s right after the producers’ performance anyway.”

“The damn annoying thing is keeping quiet for several days of rehearsal and then changing it around the time the run-through ends.”

Well, it was better than changing it on the day of, but since the point BQ9 raised was something I agreed with too, I nodded my head instead of answering.

If we were just presenting the competition songs we sang on DTB as they were, it wouldn’t matter much whether the order changed or not, but 【Killing Beat】 and 【LOST part.1 Remix ver.】 had major modifications, so I couldn’t help but be concerned.

“Seeing them change the order like this the day before, I hope there won’t be any sound accidents.”

BQ9, who had been messing with his hair, muttered cynically. That was brief – BQ9, who noticed my gaze fixed on him, asked in confusion why I was looking at him like that.

“My group’s younger member says it’s like setting a flag whenever he says things like this. I’m curious whether your words will actually cause a sound accident tomorrow.”

“What’s that about. But if it happens, don’t say it’s because of me.”

“Of course. It’s not like you caused it.”

We went up on stage as a group for the final greeting. Looking at the empty audience seats from the stage always gave me a strange feeling.

Wondering if all these countless empty seats would be filled, yet knowing that the next day I’d face a scene packed with audiences.

After successfully finishing the run-through rehearsal without a single mistake, we returned to the dormitory.

“Wow, I’m nervous.”

When I shared my thoughts about tomorrow’s concert, the members each threw in a comment.

“No way. Isn’t it excitement instead?”

“For someone who said they’re nervous, your expression doesn’t look nervous at all? Yoon Eden, do you perhaps not know the meaning of the word ‘nervous’?”

“Why is someone who didn’t say they were nervous even at Rev’s first concert acting like this now?”

“At DTB concerts, even if you forget lyrics on stage, you can somehow cover it up with freestyle, right? Hyung, you’re good at freestyle.”

Damn, do you know how high the skill level is to immediately cover up forgotten lyrics with freestyle without it being obvious? Kim Dobin’s imagination was truly abundant.

“I was trying to be modest. If I said I’d tear it up tomorrow, the expectations of our members who are coming to watch the concert might get too high.”

“I don’t really have expectations. I’ve been watching your rap for years. I saw it on DTB broadcasts too.”

Seo Yehyeon shook his head briefly, denying my words. Hearing such words made me feel stubborn about making Yehyeon listen to my rap and praise me.

All the audience members coming tomorrow should be grateful to Yehyeon. I’ll rap the hardest I’ve ever done.

“This one thing is a shame. If we had also performed 【Good dawn】, the stage would have been quite interesting.”

Unfortunately, because Gyeon Hajun’s schedule overlapped with the concert rehearsal schedule, 【Good dawn】, the final round 1 competition song I sang with Hajun, was removed from the playlist.

“We can sing it later at Rev’s concert. Anyway, we lost in round 1 with that song on DTB.”

“As I keep saying, that wasn’t because Juni’s featuring made us lose, but because I showed too much of my idol side on that stage.”

It seemed like losing round 1 to Skoen due to that fight money difference was still quite a shock to Gyeon Hajun.

“But everyone’s really looking forward to hyung’s new solo song premiere at the concert. You didn’t prepare a new song, did you?”

“I was planning to release mine as a full album after you or Juni release your solos first.”

“Everyone will be disappointed.”

“What can I do? I don’t have a prepared song.”

Shrugging my shoulders, I went through the 【LOST part. 2】 lyrics again. This song is the most difficult. Since there’s no hook, I have to memorize everything without any repeating lyrics.

It’s the song with the best performance, so I can’t remove it from the playlist either.

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The DTB 4 concert, the most beloved season in the hip hop survival 【DROP THE BEAT】 series, opened its curtains.

The team producers and rappers who made it to TOP 8 in the competition were the main stars of the concert.

The TOP 8 consisted of eight rappers: winner Yoon Eden, runner-up Skoen, and Yupi, Seven Kick, G-TE, Geek Seung, A01, and Toohyeok.

Currently, those receiving attention at quasi-celebrity level thanks to DTB 4 were Skoen, G-TE, Seven Kick, and Yupi. Winner Yoon Eden was already a celebrity to begin with.

This was quite different from season 3, where only about the TOP 4 received attention.

Thanks to the increased recognition of the participating rappers, the DTB season 4 concert showed fierce ticketing competition and achieved a complete sellout record, despite having much more seating than the previous season’s concert.

Compared to season 1, which couldn’t even fill a small art hall, this was tremendous success.

The DTB season 4 concert began with an opening stage by Gongchul and BQ9, the producers of the winner’s team.

The producers were also rappers whose names alone would be recognizable to anyone with some interest in hip hop, so the stage response was very enthusiastic.

What ignited the concert hall, where the atmosphere had been sufficiently warmed up by the producers’ stage, was the MC’s introduction of the next performance.

“【Killing BEAT】? Isn’t that the producers’ stage order? Why is a competition song coming out already?”

“Are Raizo and Nijeous coming out?”

“They must have remade it as a producers’ version. Oh, Yoon Eden and Toohyeok are coming out!”

Thunderous cheers echoed throughout as the most talked-about winner made his appearance.

“Give me the beat right away.”

Moltic wiped the sweat dripping down his forehead and made the request into the microphone. The beat immediately started flowing in response to his request.

Originally, the song should have started right away with Yoon Eden’s hook, but what echoed through the concert hall wasn’t Yoon Eden’s voice, just the beat.

Strictly speaking, it wasn’t Yoon Eden’s mistake.

This wasn’t the beat for 【Killing Beat】, but the beat for Yupi Team’s competition song from the team music source mission, 【Panorama】. BQ9 frowned, saying the thing he’d been worried about had happened.

While the rappers on stage and the audience listening to a different song than what they’d been told about were all confused, a deep voice naturally broke down the beat and jumped in.

Yoon Eden was smoothly handling the intro that had been G-TE’s part with freestyle. The relaxed rapping that rode the rhythm was closer to G-TE’s style than his own.

Fortunately, the MR for 【Panorama】 cut off abruptly before he could even finish one verse.

“Okay, then Let’s….”

In that silence, he deliberately drew out the pronunciation of “Let’s” for a long time, then as soon as the beat for 【Killing Beat】 started, Yoon Eden returned to his own style and poured out the hook.

[Kill the Beat, shattered awareness, skill, the towering wall blocking my path

Killin’ the Beat Go for broke, aim the gun barrel on the beat]

【Panorama】, the song by his biggest rivals G-TE and Yupi. And then 【Killing Beat】 that immediately followed.

Hot cheers poured out at what seemed like an intentional direction rather than a sound accident.

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