BTS Eighth Member | The Life: Year 2014

Chapter 35- B-Free

!! Warning -> misogynist and homophobic phrases !!

Underlined + Italycised = French

August 21st, 2014:

We had gone to MCountdown this morning and done an interview before coming back to the company to keep practicing all our title tracks since we would be performing them at the SBS MTV Sharing Concert in a few days. We were currently taking a break and while the boys quickly ate, I scrolled through Twitter.

Fans were still growing #JusticeForY/N and it was interesting to see what they came up with honestly. The movement had started as Big Hit not taking care of me, but it had developed into this whole movement saying that the company and fans didn't appreciate me enough. Today, it looked like they had shifted to another event that had apparently disrespected me with the hashtag #HipHopIsntMysogny. I was confused as to why this was trending with my name, and it seemed as though other people, non-Kpop fans, had also joined. As I scrolled, I kept seeing this name, B-Free, and I had no idea who that was, let alone how they were related to me.

"Who's B-Free?" I ask to no in particular.

I look up and see all the boys freeze and shoot each other looks, especially Namjoon and Yoongi.

"Why?" Namjoon asks.

"I don't know, fans keep talking about them with the whole 'justice for Y/N' thing," I shrug, "it looks like they said things about me, but I have literally no idea who they are".

I see Jungkook shake his head to Yoongi who had opened his mouth to speak. Yoongi gives Jungkook a look and speaks anyways.

"I guess you were gonna find out eventually," he sighs, "B-free is a rapper that dissed us when Namjoon and I went on a hip-hop radio show. It was... like almost a year ago now, I think? In November of 2013 if I remember," Yoongi explains.

I nod slowly, still not understanding the connection, "so how is he connected to me specifically?"

"You might as well look up the video," Namjoon says, "Just warning you... it's not at all pretty".

I hesitantly look up the video, it was quite long, like 15 minutes. I start watching it. I immediately get upset at this man for first joking about our name, then questioning the boys if what we did really was hip hop, and then it gets to the "issue" of the boys wearing makeup and apparently being more girl-like than man-like.

(In video)

MC – "Hip hop is somewhat manly and has a macho culture. If you look at Deepflow. He has a very manly appearance. Rappers write things in their lyrics like in The Cohort's album, there's this verse that goes "gay like appearance, hurry and turn it back to a man". Like these kinds of verses. However, these kinds of things, when Bangtan goes up on stage, when you guys get makeup done... when you guys do these things––"

Then someone, who I had guessed was this B-free dude, interrupts him.

B-free – "No, no. It's not makeup. It's a girl. It's like being a girl. Isn't dressing like a girl, dressing up as one? Like smokey makeup and stuff. What do you think about it?"