Don't Fall in Love with a Rapper

"Related upcoming novel: Back to 808 | Second-Generation Story: One More Second"

Xie Muyi was young and foolish when she started dating a rapper. At the time, she thought, Come on, dreadlocks and oversized clothes are so cool!

But the day before he was supposed to meet her parents, she hesitated and sent him a breakup text on the spot: Sorry, you're not the type my parents would like.

She thought the cool guy wouldn't care one bit about a nobody like her. Then one night, while she was in a depressive music-app mood, Xie Muyi opened the app and discovered that her ex had released six diss tracks about her. What made her angriest was that they topped the charts one after another and became hits.

The artist left a comment: Thanks to all my ex-girlfriends.

A few years later, her best friend invited Xie Muyi to a mystery-box live house. In the crowded venue, she got separated from her friend.

Holding up a photo, she tapped the college-looking guy next to her on the shoulder. "Hi, have you seen a girl who looks like this?"

The guy gave her a conflicted look, then casually pointed in a direction.

Before the show started, Xie Muyi finally reunited with her friend.

But when she looked up, the guy was onstage with a microphone, staring at her with an enigmatic smile. "The next unreleased song is, as always, dedicated to my ex-girlfriend: 'The Type My Parents Would Like.'"

Xie Muyi: Damn, this college kid looks a lot like my ex, the one who used to whisper sweet nothings when we were together, then wrote diss tracks about me after we broke up?

"Back to 808"

One day, You Qi got into an online spat with someone called Chequer. Their mutual disses escalated into a feud between their two labels, and it became a huge deal.

It started because the other guy's music was insanely good and his singing was awful. You Qi offered a cutting review: "Your song is like a used motorcycle sitting in the trunk of a Cullinan."

Chequer replied instantly: "Your lyrics read like the sex stories I wrote in elementary school."

One reason the feud blew up may have been that Chequer was releasing a song for the first time. Most of the time, the name was associated with a top producer and label head.

After years of working behind the scenes and keeping a low profile, few people knew she was a woman.

Sometimes Nan Fang herself had her doubts, especially when the team was working on a song and mistakenly put her name before a male vocal part.

She was going to have it changed, but then she got into an argument with someone. She only noticed his name afterward, so she decided to let the mistake stand and found someone else to record a diss track in reply.

Then, when they met backstage at a music festival, she invited him to dinner, just like when they were seventeen. Two bowls.

Theme: He believed what Danbao said: everything is part of the process.