Suboi ignored a series of rappers with quality skills or great appeal to "choose" Shayda from the casting round of Rap Viet season 4. This was a risky choice for Suboi.
Rap Viet season 4 changed the rules to increase the surprise and drama in the Conquest round. In addition to the right to use the golden hat to increase the rate of recruiting candidates, the coaches now have the "golden key" and the privilege of "first choice". With first choice, the 4 coaches will secretly choose a candidate right from the casting round. The candidates themselves will not know that they are the chosen ones, until they step onto the stage.
The weight of first choice will nullify both the golden lock and the golden hat. Because of this surprise, episode 1 of Rap Viet season 4 had 2 comebacks at the last minute. BigDaddy snatched 7dnight from B Ray's hand. After that, Suboi The coach smiled last because he decided to give the sole privilege to female contestant Shayda.
Who is Shayda?
After the first episode of Rap Viet season 4, Shayda became an online phenomenon. The audience dug up this contestant's information and determined that Shayda had been active in music for a long time and had several products that attracted hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. However, putting Shayda on the Rap Viet map, this is an unfamiliar name and has not been mentioned in the Rap Viet casting round this season.
Suboi giving Shayda her first choice was a surprising decision. 7dnight received the same privilege from BigDaddy, but this was the contestant that the audience mentioned the most from the beginning. The outstanding contestants in the casting also included Gill, Robber, Dangrangto, Puppy, Queen.B, Willistic... all of whom are rappers with achievements or are "well-known" in the industry.
To discuss the first choice of the 4 coaches when watching the casting, there will be many scenarios drawn up but surely with Shayda it was a surprise.
On the Rap Viet stage, Shayda performed a combination of rap and melodic rap. As for melodic rap, this is the rap color that has been popular in the Vietnamese music market in recent years. Rappers who play the melodic system will combine rap and vocal (singing voice), creating a melody when rapping. Audiences often confuse melodic rap with a pure singing part.
Shayda's performance first caught the audience's attention because of the smooth interweaving of rap and melody. The female contestant has a pretty good vocal foundation, so she doesn't need much support from auto-tune. However, Shayda's performance lacked the unique features of pure rap, such as flow, delivery, and meticulousness in rap lyrics, leading to controversy online. From there, Suboi's choice for Shayda was questioned about its ability to succeed.
Suboi’s belief in Shayda is not because this female contestant has great appeal, can bring “fame” to Suboi’s team, or because Shayda has outstanding skills. Shayda’s performance in the first round showed that the female rapper still has many shortcomings, especially in terms of lyrics and writing varied melodies. What Shayda has is that she has many things in common with Coach Suboi.
Shayda's appearance and voice, somewhere, resemble Suboi's image.
Shayda needed Suboi's hand to create more "weird" and crazy lyrics, more unpredictable flow, and the femininity, even sarcastic when needed of a female rapper. Four years ago, tlinh in Rap Viet season one also started the game with a simple rap. The further in, the more tlinh transformed and Suboi's influence became more and more obvious.
Be careful of "repeat mistakes"
Shayda's singing voice is more prominent than her rapping skills. This is Suboi's biggest challenge when bringing this contestant to her team and training her for the rest of Rap Viet season 4. Last year, Quang Anh Rhyder had a similar start to Shayda, also a contestant who stepped onto the rap stage, but with more singing performances.
Rhyder has been heavily criticized by the audience. However, The Voice Kid champion still trudged on thanks to the excessive protection of coach Andree Right Hand. Rhyder made it to the finals, despite the criticism and is an unprecedented case in Rap Viet. If Shayda follows the same path as Rhyder, the criticism will repeat itself a second time and it is difficult to predict what will happen.
Regardless, Shayda is still a contestant with high potential and is taking the right steps to create something in Rap Viet and the music game in the future. The past developments in Rap Viet prove that rappers with strong vocals and pursuing the melodic rap style all have a very bright ending.
As long as they create performances with clear melodic colors and smooth transitions between rap and melody, contestants will have a better chance of making an impression than a pure rapper.
The success of MCK, tlinh, Vsoul has inspired many rappers to try their hand at melodic rap. At Rap Viet right now, JustaTee is still present and is the driving force for many generations of melodic rappers to succeed. Of course, at Rap Viet season 4, not only Shayda but many of her opponents also have strong vocals, so the battle will be fierce.
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