Unpretty Rapstar Explained

Native Name:
Hangul:^์–ธํ”„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ ๋žฉ์Šคํƒ€
Presenter:San E (seasons 1โ€“2)
YDG (season 3)
Country:South Korea
Language:Korean
Num Seasons:3
Num Episodes:28
Runtime:2 hours
Network:Mnet
Related:Show Me the Money

Unpretty Rapstar is a South Korean rap competition TV show that airs on Mnet. It is known as the female counterpart of Show Me The Money.[1] The contestants compete with each other to get a chance to participate in the new song that the producers made.[2]

Season 1

Num Episodes:8
Network:Mnet

The Show premiered in January 2015 on Mnet and was hosted by Korean rapper San E.[3] In August 2015, it was confirmed that the show would begin airing its second season on September 11, 2015.[4] [5] The winner in Season 1 was Cheetah.[6]

Contestants

Winner: Cheetah (SMTM contestant)
First runner-up: Jessi (former Lucky J member)
Second runner-up: Yuk Ji-dam (SMTM3 contestant, Unpretty Rapstar 3 contestant)
Semi-finalists:

Eliminated contestants:

Competition events

An ice-breaker where all contestants and the host do a rap for their self-introduction, using the same beat. The rappers are allowed to initiate or respond to pre-game diss battles.

One-take video mission

The first mission in all seasons of Unpretty Rapstar was contestants collaborating with judges, producers, and fellow contestants to create a music video for an original rap song. The video is mostly filmed in one unedited take, and the rappers must also write and arrange the song. After the filming of the music video for the song is complete, the rappers vote for who did the best and worst, in a fully disclosed process. The winner of the mission receives an advantage for the next challenge or the next part of the track missions. Whoever is voted last by their fellow rappers receives a penalty of being excluded from the next mission, or from the song that was produced through the one-take mission.

Diss Battles

A series of one-on-one rap battles where the contestants put one another down through diss rap. Unlike rap battles in Show Me the Money, these are closed events with no MCs.

Season 2

Genre:Reality television
Presenter:San E
Theme Music Composer:D.O
Open Theme:"Don't Stop" by Heize, Kasper, Ash-B, Hyolyn, Gilme, Ahn Soo Min, Yezi, KittiB, Sua, Yubin & Truedy
Country:South Korea
Language:Korean
Runtime:90 minutes
Network:Mnet
Num Seasons:3
Num Episodes:10

Contestants

Winner: Truedy (signed with Mnet before show; SMTM6 contestant)
First runner-up: KittiB (rapper signed with Brand New Music after the show ended)
Second runner-up: Hyolyn (former Sistar member)
Third runner-up: Moon Sua (former YG Entertainment trainee; now member of Billlie under Mystic Story)
Semi-finalists:

Eliminated contestants:

Season 3

Genre:Reality television
Presenter:YDG[13]
Country:South Korea
Language:Korean
Location:Seoul, South Korea
Network:Mnet
First Aired:[14]
Num Seasons:3

The show premiered in July 2016 on Mnet as a spin-off of Show Me the Money. The show was hosted by rapper and producer YDG, and the winner of it was Giant Pink.

Contestants

Source[15]

Winner: Giant Pink (SMTM5 contestant)
First runner-up: Nada (former Wa$$up member, SMTM3 contestant)

Semifinalists:

Quarter Finalists:

Eliminated Contestants:

Additional Match Contestants:

Discography

See main article: Unpretty Rapstar discography.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kim. Dajeong. April 5, 2015. ko:์–ธํ”„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ ๋žฉ์Šคํƒ€์˜ '๋น›๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž'. http://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/View/at_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0002096243. OhmyNews.
  2. Web site: September 12, 2015. ko:์–ธํ”„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ๋žฉ์Šคํƒ€ ์‹œ์ฆŒ2 ํ—ค์ด์ฆˆ, ์˜ฌํ‚ฌ ๋ชธ๋งค ์• ํ”Œ ํž™ ๊ณผ์‹œ '์•„์ฐ”'. https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/18649141#home. JoongAng Ilbo.
  3. Web site: Sung. So-young. 'Unpretty Rapstar' gives rappers a voice. Korea JoongAng Daily. 2015-03-20. 16 March 2015.
  4. Web site: Park. Hyeon-min. ko:[๋‹จ๋…] '์–ธํ”„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ2', ์˜ค๋””์…˜ ์—†์ด ์ „์› ์„ญ์™ธ "9์›” ์ฒซ๋ฐฉยท10ํšŒ๋ถ„". http://news.nate.com/view/20150716n34278?mid=n0107. Nate News. SK Communications. 21 July 2015.
  5. Web site: ko:'์–ธํ”„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ ๋žฉ์Šคํƒ€2' ์บ์Šคํผ, ์–ด๋””์„œ ๋ดค๋‚˜ ํ–ˆ๋”๋‹ˆ...'์‡ผ๋ฏธ๋”๋จธ๋‹ˆ4' 2์ฐจ ๊ฒฝ์—ฐ์„œ ํƒˆ๋ฝ. http://news.donga.com/BestClick/3/all/20150817/73095788/1. The Dong-A Ilbo. 17 August 2015 . 2015-08-20.
  6. Web site: ko:'์–ธํ”„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ ๋žฉ์Šคํƒ€' ์šฐ์Šน์ž ์น˜ํƒ€, ํŒŒ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ 1์ฐจ ํ‹ฐ์ € ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ๊ณต๊ฐœ. http://www.busan.com/view/busan/view.php?code=20150728000150. 2021-04-07. Busan Ilbo. ko.
  7. Web site: Um. Dong-jin. ko:๋‹จ๋… ํฌ๋ฏธ๋‹› ์ „์ง€์œค, '์–ธํ”„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ ๋žฉ์Šคํƒ€2' ๋ง‰์ฐจ ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜. http://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=241&aid=0002461711. Naver. Ilgan Sports. 1 September 2015.
  8. Web site: Sun. Mi-Kyung. ko:'์–ธํ”„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ2' ์• ์‰ฌ๋น„ยท์•ˆ์ˆ˜๋ฏผ, ์˜๊ตฌ ํƒˆ๋ฝ..์˜ˆ์ง€ ์ƒ์กด-์ „์ง€์œค ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜[์ข…ํ•ฉ]. http://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=109&aid=0003164970. Naver. OSEN. 26 September 2015.
  9. Web site: Heo. Seol-hee. ko:'์–ธํ”„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ ๋žฉ์Šคํƒ€2' ์˜ˆ์ง€, ํƒˆ๋ฝ ํ•˜์ž๋งˆ์ž ํŒจ์ž๋ถ€ํ™œ์ „์œผ๋กœ '๋ถ€ํ™œ'. http://www.mydaily.co.kr/new_yk/html/read.php?newsid=201510310029721111&ext=na. MyDaily. 30 October 2015.
  10. Web site: Hwang. Mi-hyun. ko:[๋‹จ๋…] ๋Ÿฌ๋ฒ„์†Œ์šธ ํ‚ด, '์–ธํ”„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ2' ๋…นํ™” ๋งˆ์ณ..ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ ํ™•์ •. http://isplus.live.joins.com/news/article/article.asp?total_id=18810380. Ilgan Sports. DramaHouse & J Content Hub Co., Ltd.. 7 October 2015.
  11. Web site: ko:์–ธํ”„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ ๋žฉ์Šคํƒ€2 ์œ ๋นˆ, ๊ธธ๋ฏธ ํƒˆ๋ฝ์— ๋ง ์ž‡์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ "์–ธ๋‹ˆ๋ฐ–์— ์—†์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐโ€ฆ". http://news.nate.com/view/20151010n05179. Nate News. SK Communications. 12 October 2015.
  12. Web site: Lee. Jin-ho. ko:'์–ธํ”„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ ๋žฉ์Šคํƒ€2' ์• ์‰ฌ๋น„-์•ˆ์ˆ˜๋ฏผ ์†Œ๊ฐ "ํƒˆ๋ฝ? ํ•œํŽธ์œผ๋ก  ๊ณ ๋ง™๋‹ค"(์ผ๋ฌธ์ผ๋‹ต). http://enews24.interest.me/news/article.asp?nsID=882917. eNews 24. CJ E&M. 30 September 2015. 2015-09-26.
  13. Web site: Miryo, Yuk Ji Dam, Euna Kim, Jeon Soyeon, And Others Confirmed For "Unpretty Rapstar 3". Soompi. 2024-04-04. 2018-08-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20180804065330/https://www.soompi.com/2016/07/03/miryo-yuk-ji-dam-yuna-kim-jeon-soyeon-others-confirmed-unpretty-rapstar-3/. dead.
  14. Web site: "Unpretty Rapstar" Is Slated To Return With Season 3 This Summer. Soompi. 2024-04-04. 2018-06-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20180624042705/https://www.soompi.com/2016/06/07/unpretty-rapstar-is-slated-to-return-with-season-3-this-summer/. dead.
  15. Web site: ko:[ํ”ผํ”Œis]'์–ธํ”„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ3' ๋ผ์ธ์—… ์™„์„ฑ..๋ฏธ๋ฃŒยทํ•˜์ฃผ์—ฐยท์œก์ง€๋‹ด ๋“ฑ 10์ธ. http://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=241&aid=0002572685. https://archive.today/20160925232145/http://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=241&aid=0002572685. dead. 25 September 2016. Naver. Ilgan Sports. 4 July 2016.

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