Karik had 4 exciting matches in the Confrontation round. Therefore, the coach's team's low score was a shocking result not only for him but also for the audience.
The Breakthrough Round that just aired on Rap Viet consists of 6 groups divided based on the score of each team in the previous Confrontation round. The team with the lowest score must give the first 3 names to the first groups A, B and C respectively. This means that in those 3 groups, the coach with the lowest score falls into a passive situation, unable to arrange the team according to the desired strategy.
Before the results were announced, both Karik and BigDaddy were confident that they would win. Even when JustaTee asked who would win first place, the two coaches immediately called their names. However, the results were not as both expected. The most regrettable case was Karik. He had an exciting and fierce Confrontation round in the spirit of a rap and hip hop show, but still got the lowest score. So what was the reason?
Karik suffered injustice?
The score of the Confrontation round is calculated based on the total score of the 6 winning contestants in each team. The person who creates this score is the studio audience after each competition. Accordingly, Karik is at the bottom with 294 points. Next is BigDaddy with 325 points, Suboi with 329 and the highest is BRay with 330 points.
When JustaTee declared: "The person with the lowest score is the one who is most confident in himself", Karik could not believe what he heard and shouted: "It's me?".
That result was also unbelievable to the majority of viewers who have been following Rap Viet recently. On social networks, viewers debated the show's scoring method and thought it was unfair. Karik had an excellent Confrontation round, at least in terms of the number of contestants retained. 8 contestants entered the Confrontation round with 4 performances and the number of rappers who successfully advanced to the next round of this team was 7, the most among the teams.
In addition to the 5 contestants who were retained thanks to winning 4 matches and the 8Bar round, Karik also had 2 students, V# and Tieu Minh Phung, who were rescued by BigDaddy and BRay respectively with golden hats. For any coach in the Confrontation round, an achievement like Karik's is admirable.
That achievement is not only the ability of the contestants but also the result of a reasonable strategy from the coach. Karik puts contestants who are equally talented, have the same energy or are lacking in skills into the same pair so that they can complement each other and have their own highlights.
And according to the audience, because the matches were all attractive and evenly matched, the scores of the two contestants in the same match were "nine out of ten". Except for Billy100 who scored a rather low 39 points, the rest of the contestants who entered the Breakthrough round of Karik's team, including Mason Nguyen, Lower, Danmy and Manbo, all had scores not too different from their opponents. Therefore, using the audience's scores for the contestants in the Confrontation round to decide the pairing in the Breakthrough round was considered unfair to Karik's team.
Karik's problem
From the first rounds, Karik affirmed that his spirit of coming to Rap Viet is to "fight". Candidates who are strong in rap, hip hop, have many old school colors, fighting spirit, strong energy, and confidence are more likely to be in his "sights" than rappers who sing well. For example, Coolkid, a rapper with catchy music and good singing, was selected by 3 coaches and Karik was the only one who said "no". Karik explained: "Your rap is very convincing. But the problem lies with me, not you. I am more old school and pure rap".
That was most evident in the 4 matches of his team in the Confrontation round. Many viewers even expressed that it was not until episode 7, when Karik's team's Confrontation round aired, that Rap Viet really began for them. After many rounds of singing more than rapping, it was the free, explosive, liberal spirit, full of hip hop that Karik's team brought that helped the audience find what they needed in a rap show.
Even the two girls on his team, V# and Danmy, clearly conveyed that spirit. It was an exciting match between a dusty V#, pure hip hop, variable flow, diverse delivery and Danmy with a strong Kpop color. But even Danmy, a girl who tends toward market colors, catchy hooks, under Karik's request, had to make an effort to rap. They had a rap battle that met the expectations of the male coach.
In the Breakthrough round, Karik continued to emphasize the path he was on. Even judge Thai VG commented that Karik's team's music was hip hop standard, "real-music" performances.
Karik brought Mason Nguyen, Lower and finally Queen B to the Rap Viet stage in turn. As soon as Mason expressed his desire to make cute music, Karik immediately rejected it. “I reject cute music. People are used to Mason's catchy music, so if you change to cute music, it will disappoint not only hip hop people but also children. It is also not in the spirit of the show. We have to do something that the audience has never seen Mason do,” Karik emphasized.
All 3 performances from Mason Nguyen, Lower and Queen B are pure rap, shining with rap and conquering the audience with rap. The additional materials can be type beats, performance but the music of the contestant from Karik's team focuses on rap skills, instead of abusing singing like many other performances.
Queen B, the girl who helped Karik get his first win in the Breakthrough round after defeating the versatile and unpredictable contestant Saabirose. The problem Karik asked Queen B to solve was to maintain her existing energy, pure and intense rap but with more variety in delivery and performance. Karik's calculation was correct.
Of course, making catchy music, focusing on catchy hooks, and even singing a lot by some contestants on other coaches' teams is not wrong when each person has their own choices, criteria, and target audience. But at least in a rap competition, a spirit like Karik is highly appreciated.
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