So I tried to find a good Acapella this weekend and had zero luck. I had some good ideas (Smashing Pumpkins vocals anyone?) but the lack of acappella's out there makes things difficult.
Soooooo..... I'm going to try my hand at rapping. I've written lyrics before so it's not completely new territory, although I've never tried writing a rap. Could be fun, who knows, maybe I won't totally suck at it. Either way, it's worth a shot as the song is dead in the water at this point. If the rapping doesn't work out I guess I'll go with a chopped vocal or something.
Now I need to wait until April when my girlfriend is gone on a work trip and my place turns into a judgement free zone for a week
Try looperman. They have vocals now on there. I also have a couple rapper friends that I have produced for but I'm not 100% sure this would fit their genre. I produce trap, hip hop, crunk, bollywood, bhangra and can sing. I can rap but don't really make a habit of it lol. Maybe we can do a collab on something.
I quite like the EP even if it sounds like stuff you'd hear on an eventual "Deluxe Edition" of TPAB. The "jazz" complaint is very misguided, I mean almost all the best rap is boom bap or other jazz influenced production, so I'd rather he stick to that than say start getting into trap rap which is mostly awful.
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I quite like the EP even if it sounds like stuff you'd hear on an eventual "Deluxe Edition" of TPAB. The "jazz" complaint is very misguided, I mean almost all the best rap is boom bap or other jazz influenced production, so I'd rather he stick to that than say start getting into trap rap which is mostly awful.
I don't know, I think mostly awful is a pretty good summation. Like anything there's some good music (believe it or not there's actually good metalcore and not the trash that mostly exists), but mostly trap is just music for drug dealers with ok beats and as Nik said poor lyrics. When T.I and Jeezy are basically the undisputed kings of your subgenre, I tend to think said subgenre is not very good. But my opinion indeed.
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Try looperman. They have vocals now on there. I also have a couple rapper friends that I have produced for but I'm not 100% sure this would fit their genre. I produce trap, hip hop, crunk, bollywood, bhangra and can sing. I can rap but don't really make a habit of it lol. Maybe we can do a collab on something.
Great track btw.
Yeah I'm actually using a sample from Looperman for one of my other tracks (not hip hop). I'd be open to a collab. Never done it before, could be good to bounce off ideas although I'm going through a weird phase lately where I haven't tried to produce any specific genre, which if you listen to the other two tracks on my soundcloud you'll probably see. I used to make big room cheesy EDM but as I got bored of it I've started just making whatever I feel like or stumble upon. I'm actually pretty excited to try rapping on this song. I have a cool concept I wanna write about.
Hopsin is really good and I love to work with his acapellas. I did a couple remixes for beat stars with his work. Great vocalist and a pleasure to track for. There is one rapper on looperman called K19. His timing is so good that it is so fun to track mixes with his vocals.
I like Hopsin, he is really good at making beats and is really good with his lyricism. But I think he just needs to refine himself a littlebit more to add a bit more maturity and polish to the lyrics. IMoH8 is definitely on the right track! but listening to some of his previous stuff, sometimes it sounds like a 16 year old complaining about stuff (although, some of it is probably from that time frame for him).
I think he has some awesome potential, just needs to partner up with the right people to help get that out of him.
Really looking forward to see what he comes out with after this whole Funk Volume fiasco though! Last time he went through stuff like this, he came out with Raw, which was a good album.
If you guys love that dark, grimy 90's New York sound, check out Westside Gunn's new album Flygod. It's one of those albums you can listen to all the way through without a skipping a song (with the exception of the one track with Danny Brown, which, yeah, Danny Brown ruins everything).
