BTS: Beyond the Story

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School of Hip-Hop 

Dewey Finn (played by Jack Black), the main character in the movie School Of Rock, is a nameless musician who under false pretenses gets a job at an elementary school in place of a friend who is a licensed teacher. 

When he realizes how talented the students are, he tries to put them together into arock band.

 The students, however, know nothing of rock music, and Dewey Ends up teaching them the history of rock-and-roll during class instead of the usual curriculum. 

If one were to switch rock music with hip-hop, this "School of Hip-hop" was what went on in the BTS dorm. 

RM created a playlist of artists including Drake, Nas, the Notorious B.I.G., and Tupac Shakur for his fellow members who were less familiar with the genre. 

RM says: 

______I made a list out of about fifty acts whom we could listen to together. We did cyphers to develop our rapping sensibilities and deliberately watched videos together. 

That RM had taken it upon himself to be the Jack Black of the dorm was because BTS was mired in a uniquely terrible situation in the world of idol music. 

Big Hit Entertainment had debuted a girl group called Glam a year before BTS, with a docuseries of their formation shown around that time on SBS MTV (now known as SBS M). 

Teaser trailers for their debut were also released on YouTube. 

But unfortunately, glam never caught on in popularity, and Big Hit Entertainment was saddled with a sizable financial burden. 

When a small-to-medium-sized entertainment company fails at an idol project, the consequences are more treacherous than anything that can be described in words. 

As SUGA describes the mood back then: 

______I thought the company was going to go under. 

But to RM, the biggest problem they were facing was that their group,which was about to debut, didn't seem to know in what direction they were supposed to go musically. 

RM says: 

______Bang Si-Hyuk and I would have the members listen to artists likeA$AP Rocky or Lil Wayne. But the members who joined later on knew Big Hit as a company created by the Bang Si-Hyuk who had made 2AM and 8Eight and had worked at JYP Entertainment. But now they were being asked to do hip-hop and rap, which must have presented for them some confusion.

The best RM could do was to talk to the debut-imminent group about hip-hop as much as possible. 

Right until their debut, RM, SUGA, and j-hope's School of Hip-Hop was holding nonstop classes. Some nights, they would come home after rehearsals ended at 11 P.M. and talk about music until 6 A.M. with no sleep. 

Thankfully, the students of this school were very diligent. 

V recalls: 

______There was a time when RM, SUGA, and j-hope would sit us four vocalists down and very seriously say, "I really think you should listen to this song," or "Let me teach this to you." RM put so much care into putting together the best songs in hip-hop history that I couldn't possibly say no to him. His care was so palpable that I felt I absolutely had to listen to these songs a lot, even if I happened to dislike them. 

The classes were slowly paying off. 

V says:

 ______Since then, I've come to a point where I'm proud of saying I listen to music the most among all the members. Listening to all that hip-hop back then made me fall in love with it. I would ask the hyungs to recommend more music, and I would find my own tracks to listen to as well.