MTV Hustle

*MTV Hustle*
MTV Hustle
Genre	Reality; Rap
Presented by	Gaelyn Mendonca
Judges	Raftaar; Nucleya; Raja Kumari;
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	16
Production
Production company	Colosceum Media
Original release
Network	MTV India
Release	10 August 2019 –; present

MTV Hustle is India's first rap reality show.^[1] Judged by Raftaar, Nucleya and Raja Kumari, it premiered on 9 August 2019.^[2] Hosted by Gaelyn Mendonca, it airs on MTV India.^[3]

Auditions

From the online registrations 40 auditionees were selected for studio auditions, out of which only 15 rappers made it to the Top 15. In the auditions, the rappers were judged on the bases on their writing, rapping flow and overall performance.

Series

Color Key: Raja Kumari; Nucleya; Raftaar

Season	Premiere Date	Finale Date	Winner	Runner Up	Host	Judges
Season	Premiere Date	Finale Date	Winner	Runner Up	Host	1	2	3
1	10 August 2019	TBA	TBA	TBA	Gaelyn Mendonca	Raja Kumari	Nucleya	Raftaar

Season 1

MTV Hustle 1 premiered on 10 August 2019 on MTV India. Judged by Raftaar, Nucleya and Raja Kumari, it is hosted by Gaelyn Mendonca.^[4]

Final 15 - Contestants

	Stage Name	Exit	Place
Santhanam Srinivasan Iyer	EPR
Arpan Kumar	King Rocco
Deepak Singh	M-Zee-bella
Rahul Karn	Shloka
Rohit Kumar	RCR
Agrita Dhawan	Agsy	Episode 18	6
Gaurav Mankoti	Void	Episode 18	7
Riya Panchal	Raeza	Episode 18	8
Lakshya Bhardwaj	Firaag	Episode 17	9
Himanshu Joshi	Himan	Episode 16	10
Sagar Shetty	Shetty Saa	Episode 14	11
Akshay Kumar	Zack	Episode 12	12
Hemant Dhyani	MC Heam	Episode 10	13
Nikita R Sharma ^[5]	Star Nick	Episode 8	14
Neeru Pal	NeeRu Pal	Episode 6	15

Male

Female

Summary

Contestant	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9		Week 10
Contestant	Episode 1–2	Episode 3–4	Episode 5–6	Episode 7–8	Episode 9–10	Episode 11–12	Episode 13–14	Episode 15–16	Episode 17–18		Episode 19–20
EPR	Top 15	BEST	HIGH	SAFE	SAFE	HIGH	HIGH	HIGH	Finalist
M-Zee Bella	Selected	SAFE	BEST	SAFE	SAFE	BEST	BEST	HIGH	Finalist
Shloka	Selected	SAFE	HIGH	BEST	HIGH	SAFE	HIGH	HIGH	BEST	Qualified	Finalist
King Rocco	Top 15	SAFE	SAFE	LOW	HIGH	HIGH	HIGH	BEST	Qualified		Finalist
RCR	Selected	SAFE	SAFE	HIGH	HIGH	HIGH	HIGH	HIGH	Qualified		Finalist
Agsy	Top 15	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	BEST	SAFE	HIGH	BTM2	ELIM
Void	Top 15	SAFE	HIGH	SAFE	HIGH	LOW	HIGH	LOW	ELIM
Raeza	Selected	SAFE	SAFE	HIGH	HIGH	HIGH	BTM2	SAFE	ELIM
Firaag	Selected	SAFE	LOW	LOW	HIGH	LOW	SAFE	LOW	ELIM
Himan	Selected	SAFE	SAFE	BTM2	SAFE	BTM2	SAFE	ELIM
Shetty Saa	Selected	SAFE	HIGH	LOW	SAFE	LOW	ELIM
Zack	Selected	SAFE	SAFE	LOW	BTM2	ELIM
MC Heam	Selected	SAFE	HIGH	SAFE	ELIM
Star Nick	Selected	SAFE	BTM2	ELIM
NeeRu Pal	Selected	SAFE	ELIM

Notes

Week 2	Best Performer	Safe
Week 3; 5-8		Received 4 Green Buzzers	Safe	Received 4 Red Buzzers	Bottom 2	Eliminated
Week 4		Received 3 Safe Buzzers	Safe	Received 0 Safe Buzzers
Week 9		Received 4 Green Buzzers	Immune (Direct entry in the Finale)	Received 4 Red Buzzers
Week 10	Winner		Runner-up		Finalist & Eliminated during the Final

Summary

Key	Green Buzzer	Red Buzzer	Best Performer	Safe	Bottom 2	Eliminated

Week 3 (Episode 5–6)

Order	Rapper	Judges			Guest Judge	Judges Decision	Public Voting	Studio Audiences' Decision
Order	Rapper	Nucleya	Raftaar	Raja	Salim	Judges Decision	Public Voting	Studio Audiences' Decision
1	Agsy					Unsafe	Safe	-
2	EPR					Safe	-	-
3	Shloka					Safe	-	-
4	Firaag					Unsafe	Safe	-
5	King Rocco					Unsafe	Safe	-
6	Himan					Unsafe	Safe	-
7	Void					Safe	-	-
8	Star Nick					Unsafe	Bottom 2	(114 dB) Advanced
9	M-Zee-Bella						-	-
10	RCR					Unsafe	Safe	-
11	Raeza					Unsafe	Safe	-
12	Zack					Unsafe	Safe	-
13	MC Heam					Safe	-	-
14	NeeRu Pal					Unsafe	Bottom 2	(109 dB) Eliminated
15	Shetty Saa					Safe	-	-

Week 4 (Episode 7–8)

Face-off No.	Order	Rapper	To Face-off Against:	Remix of Song	Judges			Judges Decision	Public Voting	Studio Audiences' Decision
Face-off No.	Order	Rapper	To Face-off Against:	Remix of Song	Nucleya	Raftaar	Raja	Judges Decision	Public Voting	Studio Audiences' Decision
1	1	M-Zee-Bella	Shetty Saa	Naah	^[a]			Safe	-	-
1	2	Shetty Saa	Not eligible	Proper Patola	^[a]			Unsafe	Safe	-
2	1	King Rocco	RCR	She Move It Like				Unsafe	Safe	-
2	2	RCR	Not eligible	Ae Dil Hai Mushkil				Safe	-	-
3	1	Himan	Not eligible	Kamariya				Unsafe	Bottom 2	(107 dB) Advanced
3	2	Shloka	Himan	Jiya Tu					-	-
4	1	Agsy	MC Heam	Lahore				Safe	-	-
4	2	MC Heam	Not eligible	Shehar Ki Ladki				Unsafe	Safe	-
5	1	EPR	Not eligible	Suit Suit				Safe	-	-
5	2	Void	EPR	Bekhayali				safe	Safe	-
6	1	Firaag	Not eligible	O Saki Saki	^[b]			Unsafe	Safe	-
6	2	Zack	Firaag	Tareefan	^[b]			Unsafe	Safe	-
7	1	Star Nick	Not eligible	Paagal				Unsafe	Bottom 2	(104 dB) Eliminated
7	2	Raeza	Not eligible	Chogada				Safe	-	-

^ Shetty Saa forgot the lyrics during performance. So, M-Zee-Bella was automatically safe.
^ Both Firaag & Zack forgot the lyrics during performance. Therefore, neither of them were saved by the Judges.

Week 5 (Episode 9–10)

Order	Rapper	Judges			Guest Judge	Judges Decision	Public Voting	Studio Audiences' Decision
Order	Rapper	Nucleya	Raftaar	Raja	Naezy	Judges Decision	Public Voting	Studio Audiences' Decision
1	EPR					Unsafe	Safe	-
2	Agsy						-	-
3	Firaag					Safe	-	-
4	M-Zee-Bella					Unsafe	Safe	-
5	Shetty Saa					Unsafe	Safe	-
6	RCR					Safe	-	-
7	Himan					Unsafe	Safe	-
8	Void					Safe	-	-
9	King Rocco					Safe	-	-
10	Shloka					Safe	-	-
11	Raeza					Safe	-	-
12	MC Heam					Unsafe	Bottom 2	(101 dB) Eliminated
13	Zack					Unsafe	Bottom 2	(121 dB) Advanced

Week 6 (Episode 11–12)

Order	Rapper	Judges			Guest Judge	Judges Decision	Public Voting	Studio Audiences' Decision
Order	Rapper	Nucleya	Raftaar	Raja	Brodha V	Judges Decision	Public Voting	Studio Audiences' Decision
1	RCR					Safe	-	-
2	Shloka					Unsafe	Safe	-
3	M-Zee-Bella						-	-
4	Raeza					Safe	-	-
5	Agsy					Unsafe	Safe	-
6	Shetty Saa					Unsafe	Safe	-
7	Firaag					Unsafe	Safe	-
8	King Rocco					Safe	-	-
9	Himan					Bottom 2 ^[a]	N/A	(113 dB) Advanced
10	EPR					Safe	-	-
11	Void					Unsafe	Safe	-
12	Zack					Unsafe	Bottom 2	(105 dB) Eliminated

^ Himan was chosen by the Judges to be in the Bottom 2 with Zack, the least voted contestant by the Public.

Week 7 (Episode 13–14)

Order	Rapper	Judges			Guest Judge	Judges Decision	Public Voting	Studio Audiences' Decision
Order	Rapper	Nucleya	Raftaar	Raja	Shekhar	Judges Decision	Public Voting	Studio Audiences' Decision
1	King Rocco					Safe	-	-
2	M-Zee-Bella						-	-
3	RCR					Safe	-	-
4	Shetty Saa					Bottom 2 ^[a]	N/A	(112 dB) Eliminated
5	Agsy					Safe	-	-
6	Firaag					Unsafe	Safe	-
7	Void					Safe	-	-
8	Shloka					Safe	-	-
9	Himan					Unsafe	Safe	-
10	EPR					Safe	-	-
11	Raeza					Unsafe	Bottom 2	(113 dB) Advanced

^ Shetty Saa was chosen by the Judges to be in the Bottom 2 with Raeza, the least voted contestant by the Public.

Week 8 (Episode 15–16)

Order	Rapper	Judges			Guest Judge	Judges Decision	Public Voting	Studio Audiences' Decision	Judges Choice to go directly to the Finale
Order	Rapper	Nucleya	Raftaar	Raja	Bobby	Judges Decision	Public Voting	Studio Audiences' Decision	Judges Choice to go directly to the Finale
1	King Rocco						-	-	Didn't make it
2	Void					Unsafe	Safe	-	-
3	M-Zee-Bella					Safe	-	-	1st Finalist
4	Himan					Bottom 2 ^[a]	N/A	(103 dB) Eliminated	-
5	Raeza					Unsafe	Safe	-	-
6	EPR					Safe	-	-	2nd Finalist
7	Shloka					Safe	-	-	Didn't make it
8	Agsy					Unsafe	Bottom 2	(110 db) Advanced	-
9	RCR					Safe	-	-	Didn't make it
10	Firaag					Unsafe	Safe	-	-

^ Right after Himan's performance, Judges decided Himan to directly be in the Bottom 2.

Week 9 (Episode 17–18)

Order	Rapper	Judges			Guest Judge	Judges Decision
Order	Rapper	Nucleya	Raftaar	Raja	Brodha V	Judges Decision
1	Void					Not qualified
2	King Rocco					4th Finalist
3	Firaag					Eliminated
4	Agsy					qualified
5	RCR					5th Finalist
6	Shloka					not Finalist
7	Raeza					Eliminated
8	EPR	Finalist
9	M-Zee-Bella	winner

Guests

Week	Episode(s)	Guest Judge	Episode	Guest Appearance
Auditions	1-2	Naezy	none
3	5-6	Salim Merchant	6	Raga
4	7-8	Tanishk Bagchi	8	Zara Khan
5	9-10	Naezy	10	KKG (Kaala Kurta Gang)
6	11-12	Brodha V	none
7	13-14	Shekhar Ravjiani	13	Rasmeet Kaur
7	13-14	Shekhar Ravjiani	14	Shivang Dubey
8	15-16	Bobby Friction	15	L-Fresh the Lion & MC Mirrah
8	15-16	Bobby Friction	16	Sourabh Acharya & Matz
9	17-18	Brodha V	17	Fotty Seven
9	17-18	Brodha V	18	Slow Cheetah & Spitfire

Development

This will be a revolution.
— Nucleya ^[6]

MTV Hustle is the need of the hour, giving an edge to the current rap rage in the country. It's not a reality show, it's a real show- right from the lyrics, beats and the compositions, everything is original and created by them.
— Raftaar ^[7]

References

^ "MTV's Hustle aims to foster aspiring Indian rappers". The Hindu.
^ "Raftaar to judge 'MTV Hustle' along with Nucleya & Rajakumari!". ABP Live.
^ "MTV launches new rap reality show, strengthens slate for young audiences". Live Mint.
^ Tagat, Anurag (2019-08-09). "MTV Hustle: India's rap revolution gets a reality TV boost with Nucleya, Raja Kumari, Raftaar". Firstpost. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
^ "Seen it yet? MTV Hustle contestant Nikita Sharma's message for feminists has the internet buzzing". DNA India. August 24, 2019.
^ "Raftaar and DJ Nucleya on finding the best rapper among the excellent". Mid-day.
^ "Rap with Raftaar". Telegraph India.

External links

MTV Hustle on Voot

[6] Shetty Saa forgot the lyrics during performance. So, M-Zee-Bella was automatically safe.

[7] Both Firaag & Zack forgot the lyrics during performance. Therefore, neither of them were saved by the Judges.

[8] Himan was chosen by the Judges to be in the Bottom 2 with Zack, the least voted contestant by the Public.

[9] Shetty Saa was chosen by the Judges to be in the Bottom 2 with Raeza, the least voted contestant by the Public.

[10] Right after Himan's performance, Judges decided Himan to directly be in the Bottom 2.

[1] "MTV's Hustle aims to foster aspiring Indian rappers". The Hindu.

[2] "Raftaar to judge 'MTV Hustle' along with Nucleya & Rajakumari!". ABP Live.

[3] "MTV launches new rap reality show, strengthens slate for young audiences". Live Mint.

[4] Tagat, Anurag (2019-08-09). "MTV Hustle: India's rap revolution gets a reality TV boost with Nucleya, Raja Kumari, Raftaar". Firstpost. Retrieved 2019-08-31.

[5] "Seen it yet? MTV Hustle contestant Nikita Sharma's message for feminists has the internet buzzing". DNA India. August 24, 2019.

[11] "Raftaar and DJ Nucleya on finding the best rapper among the excellent". Mid-day.

[12] "Rap with Raftaar". Telegraph India.

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