DJ Target reveals new series of The Rap Game will have never seen before challenge
DJ Target has unveiled that the upcoming game-changing season of The Rap Game UK will have a major live challenge.
The highly anticipated return of the hit BBC show is bringing a wave of new twists that promises to test contestants like never before.
DJ Target, 44, will host alongside British rap heavyweights Krept and Konan, revealing that this season will raise the bar with a major live challenge.
For the first time in the show’s history, contestants will perform on stage at a major UK music festival, marking a bold new milestone for the competition.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, DJ Target revealed: “There is a moment where the guys, for the first time ever we take them to one of the major UK festivals, and they perform on stage as one of the challenges and that, like for me, I had goosebumps at the time because it was like, we’ve never done it before and they absolutely smashed it.
“You have to watch it to really grasp it – but yeah, that’s one of the many things that we’ve done this year that we haven’t incorporated in the past.
“We’ve obviously done live performances or performance to an audience before but this year, we’re just like, well, let’s go for bigger and better,” he continued.
The Rap Game sees emerging artists compete for a cash prize and the help to launch their music careers.
Alongside Krept and Konan, the trio serve as mentors to a line-up of new rappers from across the UK and with season 6 dropping November 5th – The Radio 1Xtra host gave a sneak peek into what fans can expect from this year’s contest.
“This year is going to be one of those seasons where we might find a real superstar. This year we wanted to kind of lean more into the artistry and the creativity of the artists. We have done this five times over now.
“We know that, you know, rappers can come on the show and maybe be able to write some bars to a challenge and deliver those bars. Great. That’s amazing. Don’t get me wrong, not taking away from that.
“But now we want to see what’s behind the rap challenge. Is there an artist behind there? Is there somebody who we can leave in the studio and they can come up with a smash record?
“So, yeah, we find out from the very beginning there’s some serious talent in this competition and I don’t want to give away too much. I don’t want to ruin it.
“But there’s just some stuff we haven’t seen on the show before in terms of talent, in terms of their creativity, in terms of their approach to music yeah, it’s super exciting.”
The BBC radio host also opened up about the judging process detailing the intense commitment he, Krept and Konan pour into selecting rankings each week.
According to DJ Target, the trio can often debate contestants performances late into the night – sometimes carrying discussion over to a WhatsApp group chat when they can’t settle things in person.
Winners Of The Rap Game UK
- Season 1 (2019) – Kiico
- Season 2 (2020)- Graft
- Season 3 (2021) – Saidu
- Season 4 (2022) – Big Jest
- Season 5 (2023)- LR Loose
“There’s other weeks where either the challenge has been so close or we’ve just got preferences individually over who we think did better or what we preferred.
“So sometimes it’s a back and forth, for ages, and we’ll meet, we’ll sit down and discuss it,” he explained.
“Then the discussion comes to an end, because they’ve got to head off and then we’ll continue it on our WhatsApp group and we’ll be discussing it well into the night.
“So it’s always exciting and fun to do that part.
“Sometimes it’s actually horrible to do that part, especially this year, it was so hard because some weeks were like, nobody deserves to be fifth or sixth.
“Who deserves to be fifth or sixth? Everybody’s done such a good job.”