That is a lot of hits for 20 hours. Better than Myspace.
Dood, likely 80% of them were hits from spambots looking to spam yer shiz. It happens...
Now, being one of the guys here that actually works with some hip hop guys-but mostly a rock guy, I can say this is not bad. You must realize how many no talent rappers spittin rhymes come around here looking to just get 'hit's' on their site. It tends to create a bitter taste for those that respond in this forum.
You do not sound like one of those to me. Not a fan of the gangsta 'automatic' shit, but at least I didn't hear 'nigga' in your rap. That would make me not even respond. Maybe others just expect it and are offended by it....
Hip hop/rap is not typically known for recording actual instruments and music at home, not at the home studio level. This is what the site is about. 'Home' recording. That being said, recording a vocal track at home to a backing track is still home recording, but not typical in the context of members here. No offense, but 20+tracks of instrument recording is not the same as a stereo purchased backing track and laying down a vocal. 60+ in my typical situation of recording an entire rock band. Yes, that is also considered 'home recording' but not in the same sense. You can see how much people in the hip hop/rap genre typically give a shit about this forum by looking at the forum we have for it. Nothing but self promotion and no give a fuck for anything otherwise.
You may not be one of these types and I hope you are not. Like I said, I work with a group of guys that actually care about making music and furthering this genre without being stereotypical muses to their friends...
So now I will give an opinion of your mix:
The vocal is not sitting well with the backing track. The 'mastered' back track is polished. Your track is not. It actually does not sound bad, but it needs some work to put it in its place. That don't mean just throw on a plugin. You need to learn how to use compression and eq to work with a backing track with your voice added. You are close mane. Don't give up.
Depending upon your response to this, I might just might throw some love and take some time to work with your track personally and see if we can find some direction.
Sorry if this sounded arrogant. It was not meant as such. I just see this type of situation so often, that it is hard to judge between the good and the bad. You ponce seem to be on the good side.
