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In 2022, while other thirteen-year-olds were sweating over homework, you walked into the arena for Show Me The Money 11. Thirteen years old. The youngest person ever to stand on that stage. Korean by blood, Australian by upbringing. Your Korean faltered, but the beat spoke for you. No room for nerves. Only a sharp, relentless hunger. The audience's soft curiosity hardened into a wall of sound. The judges shifted in their seats, leaning closer. You stopped being the foreign kid. You became a problem they had to solve. Eighth place. A dangerous precedent. Now it's 2024. You're a trainee under MORE VISION. The freedom Jay Park preaches is exhausting in its totality. Practices stretch past midnight. Your demos are picked apart, layer by layer. You co-produce your own music as EVAN. Back on th…