• I'd like your input!
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From the time I have registered, the users here at Facepunch have bee relatively nice and courteous when I've asked questions. Therefore, I'd like to get your (Facepunch Users) input on a rap album I made. Guaranteed, it does contain a lot of inside jokes. I understand i sound like I'm 14, but no. I am 21 and really have nothing better to do in my free time. And I also understand some of the voice quality is shit. Mainly, I'm looking to see if the beats are good, if the songs are catchy, and if it would be worth uploading to WaTunes so I can sell it on Itunes. Granted, I would make about $0.20 in sales, but still, it would be cool to say I have something up there. So again, please no flaming, and if you must, just use constructive criticism. But don't be mean, you might make me cry.... [url]http://www.jukeboxalive.com/audio_play_offsite.php?mid=2300563&skin=2300691[/url]
Giving it a listen as I type this. I'll tell you now I am by no means an avid listener of rap. I'll tell you right now that the lyrics are very stereotypical. I heard "motherfucker", "nigger", "Jew", another "motherfucker", "shit", a third "motherfucker", and you get my point. This is just the intro song. It's very stereotypical rap, and if that's your goal, then good for you. Personally, I don't think it'd be worth the twenty cents you'd get off it, but I am not a fan of this, and I'm sure if you were to put on iTunes you'd get hundreds of buys within the first few weeks. So I say put it up. What have you got to lose?
I'm not sure what the exact definition of Rap is, but I don't think this is it. Also, your vocals seem done with really poor equipment, or you just mixed it weird... [editline]11:56PM[/editline] Maybe I should have read your entire post. Your beats are mostly too loud compared to vocals, and don't really seem to fit the feel of your lyrics very well. I'm sure if you redo the vocals and maybe change some of the beats around, you could get some sales.
Well just to be completely honest, unless you're a gun toting hard gangster, then I suggest not making rap anything relative to the rap wannabe gangsters listen to. Don't go for tupac, or p diddy or really any artist who would kick your ass. Make rap similar to Danger Doom and Rakim. They have good solid beats, good vocals, and the lyrics are not something most stupid [insert racist word here] would listen to. In other words, unless you are a badass, don't try to be a badass.
If you remade the song, with normal lyrics in mind instead of rap, it'd probably make a decent song.
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Thank you for the responses. On another note I have decided to take Linkage and Dewp's advice and am starting to rearrange my sounds and rerecord. I've got a session booked in a studio about a week from now. I'll post another thread when I'm done with it. Thanks again!
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