High School Rapper 3 () is the third season of a popular South Korean survival hip-hop TV show, High School Rapper. The new season was announced on December 5, 2018. It aired on Mnet starting from February 22, 2019. The show featured young rappers born between 2000 and 2003.
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The contestants were sorted by the grade they attend in school.
On the first episode of the show, 32 high school students handpicked by the show's producers among 8,000 applicants met each other the first time.
Students in the same grade had to compete each other with freestyle rap, and the other grades got to vote on the best rapper among that grade. Then, the students voted first place in their respective grades were given the opportunity to take turns and choose their own teammates.
Unlike last year, there were three preliminary high school students and many high school seniors, so they were divided into groups (high school 1+ preliminary high school 1), high school 2A, and high school 3B.
Each winning contestant became the leader of a team, each picking 7 contestants to join them.
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Each team of contestants rapped and were scored by the mentors: Giriboy & Kid Milli, Hangzoo & Boi B, The Quiett & Code Kunst, and GroovyRoom.
Only 3 contestants could move on to the next round.
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â Yoon Seok-jun had a headache and was not able to perform.
The teams (now with 3 members) choose their mentor duo.
Once the teams chose their mentors, the mentors were allowed to save one eliminated contestant to join the team.
The teams split into pairs and create a rap based on a poem or novel. The pairs face off, eliminating half of the contestants based on scores from the audience.
The mentors are allowed to save one contestant from each of their eliminated pairs.
The teams split up to rap with one of their mentors for a collaboration rap. The scoring for each stage is out of 200 points from a group of 8 guest judges: H2ADIN & WEBSTER B, Coogie & Zizo, Ja Mezz & KillaGramz, and Nada & Giant Pink.
The total scores from the guest judge's 200 points and the audience's 300 points were totalled, and the 2 lowest scoring contestants/pairs were eliminated.
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This is the semi-final round, where each of the 9 remaining contestants has a solo stage (with or without a featuring artist). Only 5 seats remain open to proceed to the finals.
During the last 20 seconds of each performance, the audience voting was hidden, and the full score was revealed at the end of the semi-final.
During the semi-final, there was a scoring error, where the last 20 seconds of Kwon Young-hoon's performance weren't fully counted. Since he was overtaken for the last available seat in the finals, the mentors agreed that he should be allowed to advance with the other 5 contestants. His original score of 362 became 376.
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This is the final round, where each of the 6 remaining contestants has a solo stage (with or without a featuring artist).
The results were followed by a special stage performance from some of the contestants that had been eliminated.
Later, a winner single was released.