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Below the cut are the results of the Semi-Final of Unpretty Rapstar Season 3. While the vote and the points amassed over the season were taken into account, all of the pairings featured characters from the same mun, so at the end of the day, each mun picked which character they wanted to advance to the finale. To see who the final three are, click the Read More!

Cyrah vs. Roxy

Cyrah won overwhelmingly

Kannon vs. Yein

Kannon won, though Yein put up a fight

Haebi vs. Melody

It was insanely close, but Haebi won.

The finale will be posted on October 7th. 

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On May 18th, MNet released the following article regarding their newest survival show

We are proud to announce the third installment of one of our most popular series’, Unpretty Rapstar.

Unpretty Rapstar was survival show designed to put female rappers to the test, 15 contestants from various backgrounds were divided into 5 teams and pitted against each other for the chance of getting a solo record deal with MNet. One team, who managed to do the best throughout the season, was also given spots on a special tour. It is through collaboration with many big labels, along with independent artists and smaller companies, that we could pull the first two seasons off, so we sincerely thank everyone involved for their faith and support in this series.

Unpretty Rapstar 3 will follow much the same format as the previous two volumes of the show. While there are a few returning producers, we also have a few new ones joining, and are excited to see what they will bring to their teams

As in the firs two seasons, competitors of all ages, experience levels, ethnicities and backgrounds will be competing, and the show will feature a rotating panel of judges, and many different challenges. While competing on the show, contestants will stay in a dorm together with their teams, and the shared living spaces will feature cameras, for confessionals and an inside peek on the lives of these rappers and how they interact with their peers day to day. We are excited to announce that the public will be able to help their favorite competitors achieve success through live performances, which tickets will be sold to in the near future.

Each episode will feature performances of varying difficulties and directions, and will include challenges that will not only showcase the competitors’ talents, but also push them to do things they may not be experienced in to see how they will react and adapt.

The final lineup for the show is being finalized and will be announced soon, with the show itself premiering within the next few weeks.

While Unpretty Rapstar 3 will follow much of the same format as the first and second Idol Projects, we will be trying a few new things with this show, so please bear with us! Things might get a little bumpy here or there.

Applications will be released shortly, so if you’re interested in your female rapper competing in UPRS3,  keep an eye out for those! Without completing the application, your character will not be counted in the show.

The show will be run on the RivalsTV.

Of the 15 contestants, all empty spots will be ‘filled’ with NPCs. New characters can join the show at any time, and will replace a NPC. If a muse is dropped or unfollowed, however, that character will stay in the competition as an NPC.

The way we’re setting up the challenges/tasks/ranking system is in a way where you can catch up at any time if you’re willing to put the work in. There won’t be very many limited-time only events or anything, in an attempt to keep things fair and to be welcoming to new people joining (and to accommodate those on hiatus/with busy lives). More will be released about the points system in the days to come.

This is for fun. To keep things fun, and to keep an edge of suspense, the point counts will not be revealed. A weekly ranking will be released, and at the end of the competition, the admins will make a post will all the points (and how we got those points, so you know we’re being honest).

While there are NPC characters, and they might be thrown into the rankings, that’s just for fun. The NPC characters are not eligible for the top 5.

Please, no power-playing. Be realistic with your characters. All of these ladies are human, and none of them are perfect. Your character is not a perfect god who can do no wrong– they have flaws and things they aren’t the best at, and we want to see this showcased too. This task is mainly for fun and character-development.

Eliminations will happen every couple of episodes.

While this show shares the same name as the real life show, they are not the same. Both shows feature female rappers, but this show will have it’s own unique format that suits this rp and the competitive nature the best. We want to keep things as fair and as interesting as possible, and we want to make sure as many people can get involved as possible.

Any female rapper is welcome -- soloists, trainees, and group members. We do ask, however, that your character be a rapper. While we understand that some vocalists (i.e Hyolyn) have participated on the real show, we don’t see it fair to let that happen here. We will be running a show for vocalists in the future. If you have a question about whether or not your female character can compete, please message the main. NB and genderfluid characters are also welcome

Producers have been notified of their characters spots. If they decline, other producers will be found to take their place

Please track the tag ‘rivalsuprs’ to see posts for Unpretty Rapstar!

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On August 20th, the following track was released by MNet.

UNPRETTY RAPSTAR VOL. 3 TRACK FOUR

Yein -- Love Is Prod. By Andrew Woo

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On August 20th, the following track was released by MNet.

UNPRETTY RAPSTAR VOL. 3 TRACK THREE

Kannon -- Hello Fuckers Prod. By Sonique

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Episode Six Summary

Episode Six aired on August 19th, 2017 on MNet

Episode Six is another round of diss battles; the four most impressive winners from the past week face off for a track, and the two worst rappers go head to head in a deathmatch, in which the loser will be eliminated. The rappers not competing are the spectators, and decide who is the winner of each round.

First, the pairs are picked. The deathmatch pair is easy-- the producers all agree on who the two worst performing artists were in the past episode, and that ends up being Baby J and BB. They pick the four best rappers, which end up being Kannon, Cyrah, Yein, and (to everyone’s surprise), Yitta. The producers decide to tier it like a sports semi final-- first place against fourth place, second place against third place. The best rapper of the four in the diss round is Kannon, pitting her against Yitta. Cyrah takes second, and faces off against Yein.

They are given a day to prepare for the diss battles, and everyone who isn’t competing (producers included) decide to guess who will come out on top. Backing Baby J is Sonique and Melody. Backing BB is Haein. Backing Yitta is Hyosang and Andrew. Backing Cyrah is Eda, Riko and Hyuk. Backing Yein is Poet, JJ and Prophet. Backing Kannon is Sam, Jett, Roxy and Haebi. Many mention that Kannon’s fame came from diss raps, and it’s what she’s naturally good at. People are surprised that Haebi threw her support in Kannon’s corner after Kimberly tore her apart so badly in their diss battle, but Haebi explains that if Kannon wins against Yitta, Haebi would have been beat by the biggest winner. She would have been beat by the best.

First up are Kannon and Yitta. Kannon goes first. For her opening line she mockingly says ‘Middle finger up, F U pay me’-- one of Yitta’s lines in her debut song. Kannon explains that she’s seen all of Yiyeon’s music videos, where she is primped and gorgeous and everything is written for her and where all her gestures are even choreographed, but she still calls it hip hop. She says Yitta is pretending to be tough as a last ditch effort for fans, but she has no concept or substance beyond being a bad girl, and says she’s just a rap cosplayer waiting for Halloween. She says she’ll boil Yiyeon alive, thanking Yitta for facing off against her because it’s assured her a track. She finishes by saying she’s going to be thorough in the diss battle and gut Yiyeon with a knife, though saying she probably won’t be impressed with the bland insides. In a confessional, Yiyeon admits that she didn’t hear the lyrics-- she tuned out after hearing her own line from Boombayah, and was worried Kim didn’t like the song. Yitta starts her verse off with some ad libbing to the beat, which Kannon describes as ‘cringeworthy’. Kannon tries to get in her face, and Yitta tells her to back off before she actually hurts her, before then getting into the diss. She starts her diss by saying Kim is only in the business of making money, holding up a magazine photoshoot Kim did before getting signed to Alpha and saying she’s more prone to showing off her body than making music. She says that this diss was about to end just like Kim’s career did-- with everyone hating anything she does. She tells Kim to just quit while she’s ahead, because the men are waiting. Kim doesn’t seem impressed; in her confessional, she says it’s clear Yitta didn’t do her research, because none of the material she threw at her even made sense. Kim starts her next verse by pointing out that with more songs that Heirs releases, the less parts Yitta seems to be getting, and says it will be the same on the show-- she’ll be obsolete and edited out eventually. She says she hopes her lyrics cause long lasting trauma, and labels Yiyeon as just an attention seeker, though says maybe sucking on the show is what she wanted because she’ll get a lot of attention now, even if it’s bad. She says that Yitta doesn’t even have potential, and tells her to go home. The beat for Yitta’s second verse is the same as Kim used for one of her diss tracks that caused so much controversy around her. In fact, it’s the track Kannon had used in her diss against Yein. The camera shows a shot of Yein looking mildly amused as Yitta ad-libs before her verse again, making fun of Kim’s fall from grace. She starts the diss by saying Kim should try to fix her pronunciation instead of trying to sound cool, but then backtracks and says it’s useless. She says that foregoing skill to sound a certain way isn’t new or trendy, it’s just stupid. She says that Kim has no friends, mentioning that anyone who spends time with her is just disappointed, and it’s probably because Kim looks like a bitch. She tells Kim to just stop rapping, and plays on Kim’s stage name, saying she hopes Kim’s career blows up in her face again.  The rappers all agree with Kannon’s confessional-- they feel like Yitta’s disses were all too general and could be applied to anyone. If they weren’t general, then they were just inaccurate, and unsurprisingly, the win goes to Kim again, solidifying her title as the diss queen.

Next is Yein and Cyrah’s match. In a confessional, Yein reveals that she never for a second expects to win, but at least wants to give Cyrah a good fight before the older woman wins the crown. Yein goes first, holding up a promotional picture of Reign, and pointing out that everyone looks cool and alluring, but Cyrah just looks mad. She starts her verse, saying that like the photo, Cyrah’s very presence sucks all the life out of a room. She says that Bidam isn’t so good without her aura and attitude, and that she shouldn’t use that to carry her rap. She mentions that with everything going on around her and Haze, she’s the name on everyone’s lips, but Cyrah is becoming an unknown-- known more for being a girl group idol than a rapper, and known more as a piece of Reign than as an artist. Yein says she’s been building her career since she was young and has been maintaining it, but that Bidam built hers and then threw it all away.  Cyrah begins her verse; she starts by saying Yein is getting better but still needs a lot of practice, and suggesting that maybe she should go back to dancing, where she actually stands out. That’s when tragedy hits, though-- Cyrah messes up, either getting thrown off her flow or forgetting her lyrics, to everyone’s surprise. She tries to start back up again a couple times to recover, but each time stumbles over her lyrics. Yein looks somewhere between surprised and sympathetic, cringing a little.  Yein begins her second verse with a spoken part, telling Cyrah not to worry and that she’s sure Bidam will bounce back, but that this will not be her battle, sticking a sticker that says “last place” to Cyrah’s front. In her private interview Yein says she’d been planning on doing that anyway as a joke, as she’d been sure she was going to lose, but when Cyrah started messing up her lyrics, it just looked like Yein was a savage, which was not the intent, but a pretty good outcome. Yein says she’s untouchable and uncrushable like the Hulk, and that she dislikes everything about Cyrah’s rap and image. Yein then asks if she should follow Cyrah’s lead if she wants to be better, lifting up her shirt and flashing the entire studio-- an obvious allusion to the very sexual nature of a lot of Reign songs and choreography.  Cyrah doesn’t finish her second verse either, giving Yein the win. Yein admits that she never for a second saw that coming, and apologized for Cyrah for leaning in too hard-- her jokes ended up being a little too real.

Finally is the diss battle death match between Baby J and BB. Before the diss, Baby J makes a statement, saying that she respected BB before the diss battles the past week, but now she really doesn’t like her. She says she feels as though the way she went after Melody was childish, and that she thinks BB just came on the show to sail through it, and that’s why she’s going to be sent home. BB goes first. Almost off the bat she messes up, forgetting her lyrics, and not even trying to recover.  Baby J tries for her first verse. Before it starts, however, a confessional is shown. She admits that the past few days before the deathmatch had been pretty hard on her, between the chance of being eliminated, and the words Cyrah used to diss her. She makes it clear that she doesn’t want to go home and that she hasn’t been showing her best self, but that she’ll strive to do it from now on. She starts her verse, saying that even without the devil edit BB is an unpleasant person. She says that BB should thank the producers for even letting her on the show, but that’s when Baby J forgets her lyrics too, tripping up like BB did, and like she did in her match against Cyrah. Seyeon starts crying a little, prompting Melody to quickly jump up from her seat to run up and give Baby J a hug to comfort her, running back down to sit with her team again.  BB does her second verse, saying everything Baby J does is basic and bland, but saying that maybe it suits her, calling her cheap and untalented. Her next line seems to cause Seyeon a lot of pain, saying “Frontier debuted with Why Not, so Why Not just leave the music industry all together?”. The rest of her verse isn’t very easy to understand, between tripping over syllables and mumbling. It’s Seyeon’s turn again, and she said she’ll use all her talent to slash BB from the competition, without any effort on her part. She trips up a second time, forgetting her lyrics, but in an act of desperation, Seyeon freestyles, saying that the show is no place for BB, and that Seyeon actually had to work to make herself known and an idol. She says all the shit that she’s been through means that she can’t go home now and that BB has nothing on her, saying that staying on the show is her place. She tells BB to go back home, because this is not where she’s going to go home and she’s not going to give up now. Baby J says all she can do is the freestyle, but it’s enough, because BB doesn’t belong on the show.  It takes a long time for the rappers to decide who is eliminated, but at the end of the day, Baby J’s freestyle seemed to have saved her. While both rappers made mistakes in both of their verses, Seyeon seemed to have more of a will to be there, and after reading the lyrics, everyone agrees that Baby J’s were better, so BB is eliminated. In a confessional, Sonique states that she thinks Seyeon showed her real talent in the death match-- while she may not do the best under pressure because she’s nervous, she can create lyrics on the fly, and wants it more than anyone.

Before the producers of the tracks are announced, there’s a special segment of extra footage-- it seems Roxy’s group, and fellow artists under L3THAL, came to set to cheer her on and visit with their producers and labelmates too. Lance and Tommy meet all of the rappers, and then footage is shown of them sneaking off. Next show is the set where Prophet and Hyosang shoot their confessionals, but instead of them, Tommy and Lance are sitting there pretending to be their seniors. Lance is wearing weird sunglasses and jeans so ripped you can see his whole leg, saying things about McDonalds and how tired he is and how JJ is the smartest person alive. Tommy has taped pictures of dogs over top of his cat tattoos on his arm and spends a solid five minutes just talking about how much he loves dogs, and then about how much he loves Prophet.  The footage of their impostors are shown to Hyosang and Prophet, much to their amusement, and before they leave set, Lance promises that they’ll be back to take over Team Fish (formerly Team L3THAL) and that this time they’ll bring Arrow with them.

It turns out that Sonique and Andrew are the producers of the tracks. Kannon is paired with Sonique and Andrew is paired with Yein. The last shot is of the two winners recording their tracks.

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EPISODE SEVEN OUTLINE

For the seventh episode, the remaining rappers will put together a special stage to perform at the Idol Project 3 Guerilla concert. The track itself is produced by Team L3THAL Fish, and the best rapper (as voted by the concert audience) will receive a track produced by Jett.

TASKS

To earn points for your rapper, please complete the following tasks. These are not mandatory, and can be done at any time and still be counted. Refer back to last week’s tasks for more you can do, if you have not done them already

Weekly Confessional: post an interview or confessional about how your character is adapting to dorm life and the competition, along with their reactions to this week’s performances.*

Drabble: Write a short drabble (IC or OOC) about your character’s family-- be that positive or negative!

Threads: threads to do with the show can earn you points too. Para threads (200+ words) are worth more points than gif chats and one liners. Threads played out to their completion are worth even more points; if you finish a thread, submit the link to the last post in the thread to the Rivalstv blog.

Self Paras: self paras to do with the show (ie practicing, dorm life, self reflection, performances, calls home) can also earn you points. These can be done as often as you’d like as long as you provide some variety in the content.

Weekly Challenge: Each rapper will write a verse to perform at the Guerilla concert. Write a short para (IC or OOC) about your character’s reaction to all of this– we’d like to see something about the writing process, rehearsal, the actual performance, Idol Project and it’s performances, and the audience’s reactions.*

Tasks can be completed at any time. Episode-specific tasks are indicated with a little ‘*’ above, so when you complete them (even if you end up doing it in a few weeks or something), be sure to mark it as ‘EPISODE SEVEN’, be it as a title or in the info before your self para or something like that. Any completed tasks and challenges can be tagged ‘rivalsuprsdone’

WEEKLY PERFORMANCE

For this week’s main challenge, the rappers will be writing verses to perform as a special stage at the Idol Project 3 Guerilla concert. We have picked the rappers each competitor will correspond with, based on ic skill, personality and ranking in the competition thus far. Those are provided below the cut.

A summary of episode six will be posted on September 2nd.

The special performance they will be performing is UPRS3′s performance of “She’s Coming” at the SMTM5 Finals. It will be produced by Team L3THAL Fish. I have consulted with the muns, and based on points earned in the past weeks and my knowledge of the characters, their voice claims and the irl rapers, I assigned eahc rapper to a rapper on the stage. Below are the rapper assignments:

Soyeon -- Melody

Juhyun -- Riko

Janey -- Baby J

Giant Pink -- Cyrah

Grace -- Yitta

Nada -- Roxy

Yuk Jidam -- Kannon

Kassy -- Haein

Miryo -- Haebi

Euna Kim -- Yein

Since it is the live version and not the final MV, Kassy will be included. Here is the special performance:

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EPISODE TWO OUTLINE

Episode Two of Unpretty Rapstar is finally here! The second episode revolves around the one-take MV, and will still focus on the competitors sizing each other up and getting a feel for each other. They will be given a track, have to write their parts for it, and perform those all in one take. The worst four rappers will be edited out of the final video.

TASKS

To earn points for your rapper, please complete the following tasks. These are not mandatory, and can be done at any time and still be counted. Refer back to last week’s tasks for more you can do, if you have not done them already.

Weekly Confessional: post an interview or confessional about how your character feels about the track, their part, the one take mv, how they/their team did, and the rappers who got edited out.*

Drabble: Write a short drabble (IC or OOC) about the most important person in your rapper’s life, and how that person has affected your character’s career.

Threads: threads to do with the show can earn you points too. Para threads (200+ words) are worth more points than gif chats and one liners. Threads played out to their completion are worth even more points too; if you finish a thread, submit the link to the last post to the RivalsTV blog. Extra points are awarded if the threads are within the teams (producers or rappers)

Self Paras: self-paras to do with the show (ie practicing, dorm life, self reflection, performances, calls home) can also earn you points. These can be done as often as you’d like as long as you provide some variety in the content.

Weekly Challenge: A track was given to the rappers, and they had to write short pieces to perform. The producers put them all in order, and the had to film a one-take mv. At the end of the MV, the four worst rappers (chosen by the producers) will be edited out of the final product. Write a short para (IC or OOC) about your character’s reaction to all the other character’s pieces, their part, the mv, the track, and who got edited out. Producer teams can do challenges too, but will not be awarded points.*

Tasks can be completed at any time. Episode-specific tasks are indicated with a little ‘*’ above, so when you complete them (even if you end up doing it in a few weeks or something), be sure to mark it as ‘EPISODE TWO’, be it as a title or in the info before your self para or something like that. Any completed tasks and challenges can be tagged ‘rivalsuprsdone’

A summary of episode two will be posted on July 13th. Information about the MV is provided under the cut.

The one-take MV track will be “Don’t Stop”-- the MV from Season Two of Unpretty Rapstar. It will be produced by Team Alpha. I consulted with muns, and based on points earned last week and my knowledge of the characters, their voice claims and the irl rappers, I assigned each rapper to a rapper in the MV. A NPC will get Truedy’s part because I absolutely refuse to have to assign someone to that racist asshat. The four that will be edited out will be two npcs, and Eos and BB-- Eos because she has gone inactive, and BB because she is on hiatus and has not participated in the show so far (I’m trying to be as transparent as possible about why I picked who I did.) Below is the rapper assignments.

Heize -- Riko

Kasper -- Haein

Ash-B -- Yitta

Hyolyn -- Yein

Gilme -- Kannon

Soomin -- Melody

Yezi -- Cyrah

KittiB -- Haebi

Sua -- Baby J

Yubin -- Roxy

The version of the one-take mv being used is the final version, not the version shown to the rappers on the first episode of Unpretty, that included Hyolyn lipsycing rather badly, so Yein won’t be at a disadvantage.

Here is the one-take MV:

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Episode Five Summary

Episode Five aired on August 7th, 2017 on MNet

Episode Five is the long awaited diss episode, pitting the rappers against each other in 1 on 1 diss battles. The rapper deemed to have performed the worst by the producers is to be eliminated at the end of the episode, and the two worst beyond that will go head to head in an elimination round the next episode. The bests of the week will advance to diss for tracks.

The rappers file into the main set for unpretty, and sit down, waiting for the host to announced the next challenge. Like the previous episode, the rappers were given the opportunity to pick who they wanted to face off against. Kannon picked first again, and she (again) picked Haebi, stating that she wanted to redeem herself from the past episode. Eos picks Yein. Haein picks Riko. Melody picks BB. Yitta picks Roxy. And that leaves Cyrah and Seyeon together. Everyone makes it clear that they feel very bad for Seyeon, and many worry about how she’ll pull through.

There are a few shots of all the rappers working on their disses and picking beats. Kannon expresses how for her, the entire show rests on this. Diss raps are what she’s best at, and she doesn’t feel like she’s done herself justice thus far. Haein expressed how important it is to her to beat Riko, as Riko is mainly a vocalist and it would be a little humiliating to lose to a vocalist.

Not much time is spent on the preparation, so that most of the episode can focus on the diss battles themselves. Sonique seems to be the producer most looking forward to it, having won her own battle two years prior. No one else is that invested, though-- they’re eager to see how everyone does, but their feelings are best expressed by JJ’s words; rap and hip hop and music are about self expression and love, and while dissing is definitely part of the culture, it’s not a large part, and having it as such a large part of the show makes it seems disproportionately important for those who just watch the show and don’t follow hip hop.

Like the previous episode, the diss battles go in the same order as the pairs were chosen, with Kannon and Haebi going first. Kannon wins the coin toss and gets to hit Haebi first, and she’s off to a great start; her beat is the instrumental to the most famous song of Haebi’s ex-boyfriend-- a high profile relationship that ended about a year prior. Her first verse is mostly just reefing on Haebi’s background; how she seems to have come from such great roots, but how she sold out, and nothing she’s performed in the past 10 years has been memorable or impressive-- basically insinuating that Haebi has gone soft and lazy at DS, and has lost all her talent. Haebi strikes back with her first verse; she states that while she’s been working hard and studying her craft, all Kannon has been doing has been trying to repair her image and going up against people who are way out of her league. She also says that the winner of Unpretty is going to be someone clever and reserved, not a bitch who runs her mouth, and that Kim can’t blame the edit for her bad attitude. In Kannon’s second verse, she says it’s embarrassing having to square up with Haebi because her skill is nowhere near Kim’s own. She points out how even when she wasn’t doing well and was choking, she was still keeping up and on occasion outperforming Haebi. She ends the rap telling Haebi she should go back to DS and ask someone to help ghostwrite her rap for her, since none of it has been particularly good (in her opinion).  In the last verse of the head-to-head, Haebi starts by going after Kannon’s attitude and past music again, but she’s clearly flustered by Kim’s last piece, and messes up on her lyrics, missing a big chunk and going quiet. Kannon adds insult to injury, egging her on and asking her if she’s done while Haebi stands there and struggles. Haebi tries to finish it off, though, going after Kannon’s technique. The diss ends, and unsurprisingly, the win goes to Kannon-- Haebi messed up and most of her second verse goes unperformed. Kim is praised for her creative and clever lyrics, and the producers agree that on lyrics alone, Kannon would still have won.

Yein and Eos are the next to go, and after winning the coin flip, Yein goes first. Her first line would later be praised as one of the most clever lines to come out of the diss battles-- she opens with “At this show, skill is unnie, so from here on out I’ll just drop the formalities and refer to you by name”. As someone younger than Eos, she in a nutshell insinuated that Eos’ lack of talent meant a lack of respect from her. That line on its own seems to really startle Eos, and Yein isn’t done; she wonders if maybe Eos was signed for her dance ability, because she personally doesn’t see any rap ability at all. She finishes off by saying that she’d rather call up Taeyang, because she’s a better rapper-- Taeyang being Juliette’s rapper, and widely criticized for not being very good at all. Eos begins by trying to criticize Yein on her rap with Haze, but doesn’t even get a sentence in before she trips up, still flustered by Yein’s first verse. She can’t even get through one word after that without stumbling over her words. Yein comes back for more. As an idol who’s widely criticized for not having typical looks and for being less-than-good-looking, Yein uses that, saying that even compared to her, Eos is something else. She says that they’re right in front of the Unpretty version of Show Me The Money’s fire pit, and the only lower Eos could get is hell. Yein points out that Eos was nearly edited out of the last survival program she was on, and that she isn’t fierce no matter how much she tries to be on the show. And that even with a big company backing her (Yein was currently signed to no one at the time of the diss, after leaving Spotlight), Eos couldn’t hold a candle to Yein-- the only thing Eos could beat her in was being ugly. Just like the past verse, Eos can’t get past her fist sentence before messing up and starting to cry. In her confessional, Yein is frustrated; she mentions how she put a lot of work into preparing for the 1 on 1, and it isn’t fair to have a partner who won’t even try. Yein wins.

Haein and Riko are the next to go. Haein gets to go first; her first verse mainly just questions why Riko is even there, especially with Cyrah on the show too-- she calls Riko the lesser rapper of the two, and says that Riko is a much better vocalist than rapper. She refers to Riko as the least celebrated member of her group, and wonders how much work it takes from Radioactive’s sound engineers to make Riko audible-- a crack at Risae’s shyness and timidness. Risae opens her verse with a mocking “F-R-O-N-T-I-E-R Girl” and gets some laughs for that, making fun of Haein’s debut song (or at least poking fun at it). Her verse has a similar tone to Haein’s, pointing out that she is the least popular member of her group, and even after two debuts, Risae didn’t even know who she was until she came on the show. She ends her verse saying she hopes that being under two companies will mean both will pour their resources into making Haein relevant. Haein claps back, saying that Risae’s brand is more about looks and less about talent. She’s a vocalist, but takes a second seat to Winnie. She’s a rapper, but plays second fiddle to Cyrah. And even though she’s the visual, Keke get’s more recognition for her looks. Haein states that Riko is used to coming in second, so it shouldn’t be too bad when she comes second to her in the diss battle, since she’s accustomed to it. Riko points out that Haein used to be a trainee at Radioactive before going to Spotlight, and mentions that while to the public it might have been said that she chose to leave for creative differences, that might not be the whole truth. She says she watched Haein train and if she was in charge, she wouldn’t have even signed her she was so bad-- she tells Haein to go back to Superstar K where she belongs-- a show full of hopefuls, where it rarely works out. Riko wins the diss battle. In a private interview, Haein is tearful, saying now that she’s lost to a vocalist she isn’t sure she can be taken seriously as a rapper. Poet is interviewed, and comments that they saw a whole new side of Riko in the diss battle. 

Melody and BB are the next to go. Before the diss battle even starts, BB asks if they can wait, saying she’s prepared something. She leaves Melody standing on the stage and the rest waiting for a while, before coming back in a white gown and heels for some fucking reason. In a confessional, BB states that she thinks Melody has had beginners luck thus far in the competition, and wanted to present herself nicely for when Melody loses.  Melody wins the coin toss, so she gets to go first. She starts by saying BB wouldn’t be as big as she is now if she wasn’t with such a big company, and that while maybe BB got big and is financially sound, she wasted all that money worrying about her appearance instead of focusing on her craft. Melody points out that there’s a ten year difference between the two of the, but that somehow she still has more respect and dedication to their craft, whereas BB seems to just be looking for big names to feature on her tracks and get her attention. Her last line is one that gets a good laugh-- “you can stuff your chest, but your head will still be empty”. BB pauses before her rap to pick up a bouquet she hid just offstage. The wedding march plays and she approaches Melody, and when the music changes, she throws it at the younger girl’s feet (prompting the teen to kick it offstage). The start of her verse is spoken, condescendingly asking Songyi if she thinks she has what it takes to be a rapper. She starts off for real asking where Zumi is, and how out of seven members of Toxxik, they decided to send the least talented one. She tells Melody that she doesn’t have talent, just her father’s influence, and that instead of coming from practice and skill, her fame has come from funding and name-dropping. Songyi goes for her second verse, and while she’s a little more lackluster than before, allegedly because BB’s diss affected her, she doesn’t buckle under that like Haebi did, instead finishing her verse. She accuses BB of paying a real rapper to teach her how to sound good without ever really putting the time or effort in to actually be good. She goes for BB’s personality, saying she can’t tell the difference between her back in front (basically calling BB an asshole). She finishes off by admitting that she got support from her father, but support in the form of tutelage and advice, not funding and bribing, but then asks BB how much she had to pay MNet to even let her on Unpretty 3. BB goes offstage before her verse again, this time to retrieve a backpack she’d hidden offstage and tossing it at the younger girl. BB tries to go for a rapid-fire fast style of rap this time, but most of her words are slurred and rushed and hard to make out-- it’s only by looking at the submitted lyrics that the producers really understand what she’s trying to say. While none of it comes out properly, the lyrics are read off by a show producer, and BB goes for Songyi’s intelligence, calling her ditzy and saying that she should stick to fake aegyo and fanservice instead of trying to keep up with people out of her league.  Melody ends up winning the match-- it is revealed that she tripped up and missed lyrics in her second verse, but she improvised and freestyled little pieces; no one noticed she made parts up until they looked at her lyrics. BB looks about ready to throw a fit over losing, but Hyuk is the one who addresses her, telling her it’s a rap competition, and she shouldn’t need a five-act play and ten props to distract from how lacking her rap is. In a confessional, BB reveals that she resents Hyuk for playing favorites and being soft on his daughter, though extra footage shows that most of the producers feel the same way Hyuk does.

Roxy is very confident in her chances of winning-- thus far in the competition, Yitta has yet to perform well at all, and is not a very proficient writer when left to her own devices. Roxy wins the coin toss and gets to go first. Roxy calls her a pretty flower that can’t bloom in such harsh conditions, and says that while Yitta acts tough, it’s just a cover for how terrible she really is. She says that Yitta has hit her limit, and that her fake-fierce facade is almost as cringeworthy as her lyrics.  Yitta surprises everyone-- usually with diss battles, the contestants take a few seconds after the other person to get set and start their rap, but Yiyeon jumps on Roxy almost immediately after the other woman finishes-- whether it is because she’s eager or using it as an intimidation technique is unclear. She recognizes that she’s pretty and young, and gets a lot of hate for being an idol rapper, but that despite all of that she’s still talented and is tired of routinely getting underestimated. she says she doesn’t have to pretend to be cool or a star, because she already is one, unlike Ruby who has been active for years and still doesn’t have as large of a following. She ends it by saying she has tons of opportunities, but this show is Roxy’s only gig. Roxy starts her verse by mocking Yitta calling herself sexy and hot, followed by “what the fuck is this”. She says that after seeing Yiyeon debut with heirs, she was excited and supported her, but after seeing Yitta on the show, all she wants to do is vomit. She says that she looks like a barbie doll, but can never become Noah-- a Helix member who won at a young age.  Just like with her first verse, Yitta jumps on Roxy’s as soon as she’s done. Yiyeon says that no matter what she does on the show, she’ll get hate, so she’s going to make the most of that and make Ruby “eat shit”. She says that no one knows who she is-- that in her group, Lance is the one who gets the award and accolades, and despite acting like tough shit, she still comes second to a guy who spends his time crying over a haircut. In a surprise turn of events, Yitta actually wins the diss-- literally no one saw it coming.

Last but not least is Cyrah versus Baby J-- everyone was anticipating it, though also praying for Seyeon. She wins the coin flip, though, so she gets to go first. Seyeon says they’re the examples of a bad rapper against a good rapper. She points out that she’s busy and promoting in two different groups with two different companies and she’s only in her teens, whereas Reign doesn’t do nearly as much as their juniors does and Cyrah’s just waiting for any opportunity to be busy and relevant again. She says that Cyrah came to the show waiting to be acknowledged, but there’s nothing she can do if she’s not even good.  Cyrah comes back hard. She calls Seyeon a stupid little girl, telling her to get rid of the two companies protecting her and come back to face her. Bidam tells her to look at herself in the mirror without all the glamour and see if she likes what she sees. She wonders why the concept Seyeon chose for unpretty was a bumbling dumbass who can’t do anything right. She continues telling Seyeon to get rid of her attitude, because she doesn’t have the skill to back it up, and that Seyeon’s lack of ability only enrages her. Finally, she finishes by wondering how it can be Seyeon’s fourth year as a rap trainee if she sounds like a novice, saying that despite what Idol Project says, DS’ basement suits her best. Seyeon goes again, and she’s clearly upset. She tries to do her verse, but keeps missing lyrics and fumbling, trailing off and mumbling. Not much of anything can be heard, and she struggles while Cyrah eggs her on and mocks her, asking her if she’s going to do anything.  Cyrah does her second verse, and it isn’t any nicer than the first-- she tells Seyeon to just step aside and do a girl group dance while someone else writes her rap parts for her, since she clearly has no aptitude for it. She says from head to toe Seyeon is fake, and that her destiny is for her group to fall apart and for her to train for the rest of her life. She compares Seyeon’s rap to the sound one makes after they’ve been punched, and calls her pitiful. Cyrah very clearly wins the diss battle, and for the rest of the episode, it seems like Seyeon is just trying to fold into herself and make herself as small as possible.

Without much discussion, the producers decide to eliminate Eos, deeming her the worst of the losers.