Chapter 147 I am the Rap King
The night before the recording of "I Am the Rap King".
In the hotel room.
"Brother Lin, we're going to challenge the master tomorrow. Are you nervous?"
Dong Chen looked at Lin Zhixing who was lying on the bed watching the game on his mobile phone and asked curiously.
“Not nervous.”
Lin Zhixing shook his head. He was nervous about participating in the competition because his music library was limited and the stars competing with him were very talented and had high status.
Now with four royal cards in hand, the contestants are just a motley crowd gathering together feathers to make a duster, and they can't be nervous at all.
"That's right. After all, this is the area you are best at, Brother Lin!"
Dong Chen scrolled through his phone and said with a smile, "I saw posts on Weibo predicting the final ranking of I Am The Rap King."
Lin Zhixing asked casually, "What place am I in?"
Dong Chen said: "Second place."
Second place? Lin Zhixing turned to look at Dong Chen and asked in surprise: "Who is the first place?"
"Zhou Dan."
Seeing that he didn't recognize Lin Zhixing, Dong Chen explained, "He is quite famous in this circle. From being rejected by The Voice of China to now being on the same stage with the mentor who once rejected him, his ranking in the competition is higher than that of the mentor. His experience is quite touching."
"oh."
Lin Zhixing nodded, turned his gaze back to the screen, and asked again, "What's the predicted ranking for the guy named Zhao Fan?"
“Third place.”
"Third place? Is it because he has many fans or is he really good?" Lin Zhixing was very surprised.
"Zhao Fan is the one with the best performance in his team."
Dong Chen explained in detail: "There are three teams in this program. You know that Pan Shuai is the leader, and there is another mentor you are also familiar with."
"Who is it?"
"Shen Fei!"
"Shen Fei?"
Lin Zhixing raised his eyebrows in surprise and asked, "Is it Shen Fei who was our mentor in "The Birth of a Group"? "
Dong Chen smiled and nodded, "Yes, many of her songs also have rap elements. The program team probably invited her because they wanted to pair a man with a woman."
Lin Zhixing nodded, "Very good, Sister Feifei is also an acquaintance."
The program team wants to invite popular stars, regardless of whether they sing rap or not. Jane Zhang doesn't sing rap, but she has also been a mentor on a rap program.
"The remaining mentor is Dong Zuanhua, who is quite famous in the mainland. His masterpiece "Drawing Dragons" was a big hit and he even performed on the Spring Festival Gala. This alone sets him apart from other rappers."
"The Zhou Dan I just mentioned is from Shen Fei's team, and Zhao Fan is from Dong Diamond's team. They are both the top seeded players of their respective teams."
Lin Zhixing nodded after listening to it, "Okay, I understand."
Dong Chen continued to ask: "Brother Lin, do you want me to introduce you to other contestants?"
Lin Zhixing waved his hand and said, "No, I'm going there to sing. I'm not interested in meeting those people."
…
【bite!】
【Congratulations to the host, mission (1) has been completed.】
It’s too difficult! Lin Zhixing slammed the phone in his hand on the bed and glanced at the sports bracelet on his wrist. His heart rate was as high as 96 beats per minute. He just barely passed.
I blame myself for being too naive at the time. This task is comparable to scoring a goal for the Chinese national football team. It is really exhausting.
Just as I was about to go wash up, the phone suddenly rang. It was Zhang Sihui calling.
"Hello, Sister Hui."
"Xiao Lin, I talked to the Optoelectronics Communications Company, and they are willing to pay a maximum of 10 million yuan."
Lin Zhixing curled his lips after hearing this. This price was too cheap. His lowest expected price was 25 million. The gap was too big and hard to accept.
"Okay, what about the other two communication companies?"
"One company is willing to pay 18 million, and the other company wants to wait and see how popular your song is. If the popularity meets their expectations, they are willing to accept 30 million."
"Okay, I understand. Let's sing first."
Lin Zhixing hung up the phone and thought to himself, "If the song becomes popular, it won't be 30 million."
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The day of recording "I Am the Rap King".
Five o'clock in the afternoon.
Accompanied by Dong Chen, Lin Zhixing came to the recording building of "The King of Rap".
Just five minutes after I handed the song accompaniment to the staff, I arrived at the lounge when there was a knock on the door.
"Come in."
"Hi, Xiaolin!"
"Brother Pan, Sister Feifei!"
Lin Zhixing was very surprised that the two of them came to see him together, and hurried to greet them.
"Long time no see!"
Shen Fei smiled with narrowed eyes. She was wearing a hollow black hip skirt with stockings and high heels, and her image was still so majestic.
"Long time no see, come and sit down."
Lin Zhixing quickly moved two chairs and asked them to sit down.
Pan Shuai, who was dressed fashionably, said with a smile: "I just heard from the staff that you are here. We will meet you before the game."
Shen Fei looked at Lin Zhixing who was becoming more and more stable, smiled and gave him a thumbs up, "Your level has improved again. I often see your news on the Weibo hot search list!"
"Sister Feifei, thank you for the compliment."
Lin Zhixing smiled and waved his hand.
After a few pleasantries, Shen Fei said, "I heard that the program team invited you to come to challenge the club temporarily. Is there anything you don't understand about the rules? You can ask me."
Lin Zhixing actually had a question, "I want to ask, for this challenge, I can nominate anyone, right? Regardless of ranking."
Shen Fei shook her head and explained, "This show is different from 'I Am the King of Singers'. In the show you participated in, you can nominate anyone to compete."
"The challenger of this program is a singer who comes to compete. After singing, the singer with the worst performance will be eliminated and take up the place."
"Oh, that's it."
Lin Zhixing nodded after listening to this. The rule is the same as the previous two seasons of "I Am a Singer", which is the last-place elimination system.
The plan to eliminate Zhao Fan immediately failed. This grandson is lucky.
Shen Fei gave a rough explanation again, "The other rules are similar to 'The Birth of a Group', there will also be live broadcasts and highlights, there will be 100 public judges, and one vote from the mentors will count as 10 votes. The final will have online voting, but it is not available at this stage."
"Yeah, okay."
We chatted for a while longer.
Pan Shuai and Shen Fei had work to do, so they left.
Lin Zhixing saw them out the door. Pan Shuai patted Lin Zhixing on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Don't forget our agreement!"
Lin Zhixing smiled and nodded, "Brother Pan, don't worry!"
…
Just a few minutes after sitting down, there was another knock on the door.
"Come in!"
The door was pushed open, and a man wearing black glasses and a slicked-back hair walked in. Lin Zhixing felt that he looked very familiar, and after a closer look, he recognized him.
The host of "The Birth of a Group" "Hua Shaoyang".
Hua Shaoyang pushed his glasses and said with a smile: "Big star, you can't remember who I am?"
"No, Brother Hua, please sit down!"
Lin Zhixing smiled and waved his hand, inviting him to his seat. "Are you the host of this show?"
"Yes."
Hua Shaoyang smiled and nodded, then gave a thumbs up, "I can still remember clearly the scene when you shouted on the stage that you would be invited by the program team to come again."
"It's only been a short time since that show, and you've already participated in 'I Am the King of Singers' and are now on the stage of 'I Am the King of Rap' tonight. You're really amazing!"
Lin Zhixing smiled and said modestly: "My luck is a little better."
After chatting for a few minutes, Hua Shaoyang stood up and patted him on the shoulder, "I hope you have a good result tonight. I am very optimistic about you!"
"good!"
…
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7:40 pm.
There are still twenty minutes before the competition starts. The audience and the public judges have already taken their seats in the studio and are listening to the arrangements made by the on-site director.
The four members of the "Diamond Team" headed by Zhao Fan were chatting and smoking in a separate lounge.
"That guy named Lin Zhixing is really crazy!"
"That's right. He hasn't even participated in a single show yet, and this place has become his territory!"
"Don't tease me. I want to laugh when I mention this. He should be born in the Year of the Dog. He pees to mark his territory, right? Hahaha!"
"Fuck, there's a picture."
Zhao Fan, with a yellow buzz cut and a baseball cap on his head, took a puff of his cigarette, slammed the butt into the ashtray, and stood up and said, "This kid is too arrogant. I'll teach him a lesson later!"
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The other side.
Lin Zhixing also came out of the lounge and happened to meet Zhao Fan and four others in the corridor.
"Ouch, who did I see just now? I think I saw the Rap Emperor on the ground!"
"Hey, the Earth Rap Emperor, that nickname sounds really impressive!"
"That nickname is impressive, but I wonder if he's a good singer?"
It’s interesting, on other stages, even if people don’t get along with each other, they won’t say it out loud.
This circle is indeed unusual.
Lin Zhixing listened to the people barking dogs behind him but ignored them. There was no point in satisfying his desire to talk now and he would attack the dogs indiscriminately later.
【bite!】
[System mission is enabled with simple difficulty. Successfully challenge the opponent and destroy their arrogance. Completion will reward you with a random song from Earth.]
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Eight o'clock in the evening.
With a gesture from the on-site director, the scene suddenly became quiet, and the live broadcast room of "I Am the Rap King" was officially opened.
There were many viewers who came to watch Lin Zhixing's game and had been waiting in the live broadcast room for a long time. At one time, they poured in like a tide and the barrage of comments filled the screen.
"First, the sofa!"
"I'm here to see Brother Oh Ye, come on Brother Oh Ye!"
"I Am The Rap King cannot exist without Oh Ye Ge, just like pancakes cannot exist without green onions!"
"Show these rappers how powerful you are and put an end to their arrogance!"
"Eat melons, I'm here to watch the fight for territory!"
…
In the director's office.
“Ouch!”
Director Hou Pingliang looked at the real-time data in the live broadcast room and smiled from ear to ear. "I really didn't expect that the appearance of a challenge singer would directly increase the initial popularity of the live broadcast room by 300,000. If I had known this, I would have invited him earlier!"
The female assistant beside him smiled and nodded, pointing at the computer screen and said, "That's right, now the names of other singers can't be seen on the barrage, it's all filled with his fans!"
"But it's not too late to invite him now. The song 'Happy Worship' just brought his popularity to its peak. The data for this issue will definitely be quite good."
“I hope so!”
…
On the gorgeous stage.
The host, Hua Shaoyang, wearing a bright blue suit, came on stage to rounds of applause. "Good evening, audience friends!"
"good!"
After the opening words, inspiring music with their backs sounded, and the three mentors waved and came out, each followed by his or her team members. The opening effect was very good.
The design of this stage is somewhat different from other music variety shows.
There are sofas on both sides of the stage. The sofa on the left is where the mentors sit, and the sofa on the right is where the contestants sit.
The color of the sofa distinguishes the teams. Pan Shuai has a green sofa, Shen Fei has a red sofa, and Dong Zuanzi has a black sofa.
This brings the singers closer to their opponents and mentors during the performance.
Lin Zhixing is currently serving as a guest singer and has no seat. He is waiting quietly behind the scenes. According to the arrangement of the program team, his appearance order is to be the finale, the second to last.
Soon, the singing session began.
Three teams, each with four members, will go on stage in the order indicated by the lottery on the stage screen.
The contestants took turns to perform on stage.
Lin Zhixing listened carefully behind the scenes at first, but he couldn't listen to it anymore after two songs.
Only the tune is barely listenable, the lyrics are hard to describe.
Also, I don’t know if it was arranged by the director or if the audience themselves had no ability to appreciate songs. As long as the stage lights were bright enough, the rhythm of the music was exciting enough, and the lyrics were spoken fast enough, they thought it was great and started cheering from the audience.
In the end, Lin Zhixing simply stopped listening and sat quietly in the waiting room waiting to perform.
"Next, please welcome singer Zhao Fan to perform the song "I Have Procrastination"!"
Hmm? Hearing the familiar name, Lin Zhixing left his chair and went back to the backstage to watch, wanting to see what level this grandson was at.
A rhythmic musical prelude sounded.
Zhao Fan, dressed in hip-hop clothes and with many necklaces hanging around his neck, raised the microphone and sang during the main song.
"I go to work at 8am and I go to bed at 7am"
"I ordered a takeaway at 10 o'clock, and the delivery fee was 20 yuan."
"I slack off at work and act sloppy after get off work"
“No matter how long the holiday is, I always feel it is very short”
"Let me hand in the song on the 9th, don't worry, I'll work on it on the 8th"
this……
Lin Zhixing felt numb as he listened to the diary-like lyrics, and he tapped out a sea view apartment with his toes.
Can this be performed on stage? How much money did you give to the production team?
Before he could recover, he was soon devastated by the chorus of the song again.
On the stage, Zhao Fan sang so happily that he threw his baseball cap off the stage. He felt like he was the most handsome guy that night.
“I just love to procrastinate.”
“I always procrastinate, I always procrastinate”
Do you have procrastination? I think you are mentally ill.
After being struck by the singing, Lin Zhixing glanced at the audience below the stage, and they were actually waving along excitedly.
So scary…
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"Okay, thank you Zhao Fan for the wonderful performance!"
The host, Hua Shaoyang, raised his voice and said, "Now, please invite the guest singer to come on stage. Singer Lin Zhixing will perform the song "My Territory". Please welcome him with applause!"
As the applause broke out, the song information appeared on the stage screen.
【My Territory】
【Singer: Lin Zhixing】
【Lyrics: Lin Zhixing】
【Composition: Lin Zhixing】
【Arranger: Lin Zhixing】
"Oh yeah brother is here, he's coming with original creations!"
"Wow, he really wrote about my territory like on Weibo?"
(End of this chapter)
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