FolkCafe-- Thank you. After listening to them I agree I like the FIRST the best; probably want to lose the doubling on the verses or at least take the time to get them lined up alot better lol the silence here was deafening so I panicked a little (DOUBT!) and overcorrected. Thank you for taking the time to listen, forreal, I appreciate you and all elses opportunity cost!
Well as a rule I listen to and prefer more lyrically complex rap, I like a bit of melodic flow here and there too, i.e. Tonedeff, Sage Francis, RTJ (killer mike and el-p, Eminem, Joyner Lucas the list is endless....but I get excited about not catching all the lyrics the first time and knowing there were some lines I missed and will enjoy upon later listens. Presented in a different way, well that could be very good or very bad I suppose. Different is good I like different, noone needs another "He sounds just like!! guy"
The point of each song is the message being relatable to the listener and to drive it into their head as many times as possible in as many interesting ways possible. I guess that would be my mission statement for each song.
Moving forward: I plan to grab a short piece of dialogue from a movie and perhaps play it over the hook fading in with no lyrics over it, that way the song doesn't just suddenly start out of nowhere. Than first time someone that can sing is at my house I am having them sing the outro, as I have no business singing!
I suppose that is about it for the song....seems wisdom is there is no use paying a mix engineer for the old turd polish tek.
Now the project is called TruThugly Street Wisdom 101 and honestly the thesis of the project is to keep young adults from doing the stupid arse things we did as kids; or alternatively to give them some ground rules on how to do dumb things they are going to do anyway with minimum risk and damage to their future.
It is going to be split into two parts "Hip Hop For Kids The Explicit Version" which are the 8 or 9 tracks I made over the very simple beats my dude made like 15 years ago....and a second part. "Street Wisdom 101" which consists of about 10 tracks, I think 6 or 7 are his beats that are quite a bit better that he made for me the last 2 or 3 years he was alive, see he was in a band that had a #1 so he was touring and stuff and we fell out of touch. Than he learned that his time was short and for whatever reason decided to recconnect with me. I spoke with him for like 2 hours every day literally for the last couple of years....than a month before he passes he blocks me and quit takin my calls. (doesn't live local)...than I get a visit from a friend saying he passed. WTF, I am obviously a bit confused and emotional about all this. He was kind of pissed I hadn't done anything with his beats.....I was writing songs the whole time, I just didnt have a DAW, I told him that....but he had his own pro studio and did not understand how I could not seem to produce......
Well as a rule I listen to and prefer more lyrically complex rap, I like a bit of melodic flow here and there too, i.e. Tonedeff, Sage Francis, RTJ (killer mike and el-p, Eminem, Joyner Lucas the list is endless....but I get excited about not catching all the lyrics the first time and knowing there were some lines I missed and will enjoy upon later listens. Presented in a different way, well that could be very good or very bad I suppose. Different is good I like different, noone needs another "He sounds just like!! guy"
The point of each song is the message being relatable to the listener and to drive it into their head as many times as possible in as many interesting ways possible. I guess that would be my mission statement for each song.
Moving forward: I plan to grab a short piece of dialogue from a movie and perhaps play it over the hook fading in with no lyrics over it, that way the song doesn't just suddenly start out of nowhere. Than first time someone that can sing is at my house I am having them sing the outro, as I have no business singing!
I suppose that is about it for the song....seems wisdom is there is no use paying a mix engineer for the old turd polish tek.
Now the project is called TruThugly Street Wisdom 101 and honestly the thesis of the project is to keep young adults from doing the stupid arse things we did as kids; or alternatively to give them some ground rules on how to do dumb things they are going to do anyway with minimum risk and damage to their future.
It is going to be split into two parts "Hip Hop For Kids The Explicit Version" which are the 8 or 9 tracks I made over the very simple beats my dude made like 15 years ago....and a second part. "Street Wisdom 101" which consists of about 10 tracks, I think 6 or 7 are his beats that are quite a bit better that he made for me the last 2 or 3 years he was alive, see he was in a band that had a #1 so he was touring and stuff and we fell out of touch. Than he learned that his time was short and for whatever reason decided to recconnect with me. I spoke with him for like 2 hours every day literally for the last couple of years....than a month before he passes he blocks me and quit takin my calls. (doesn't live local)...than I get a visit from a friend saying he passed. WTF, I am obviously a bit confused and emotional about all this. He was kind of pissed I hadn't done anything with his beats.....I was writing songs the whole time, I just didnt have a DAW, I told him that....but he had his own pro studio and did not understand how I could not seem to produce......
