Ill want to keep to whatever rhyme schema emerges though - I think we are already constrained enough by having such narrowly defined topics, and the best raps always break with or play with the rhyme schemas. But apart from that all this sounds good to me.
The first is the only one made entirely from hand made samples, I wish I could go back to that but modern software is all oriented on prefabricated stuff.
I made that on an archaic Max OS 9 application called Player Pro. I can’t even find any references to it online. Something similar on Windows was Fast Tracker. In case you ever want to try that out, its a great workflow.
I found the tracks from the last battle, I’ll try to post them to Souncloud tonight when I get home.
Doesn’t really matter to me which beat we use, I’ll figure out a way to rap over any beat you can rap over. I’m thinking I’ll use the beat from Phantogram’s When I’m Small for round 2, if that’s cool with you; I tried making one from scratch but I’ve always kind of sucked at it. Probably just take the first couple measures (before the "ooo ooo ooo"s start) and loop, maybe try to pull something from later in the song as a bridge.
As for rhyme schemes, mine are pretty free-form (you’ll see what I mean when I post my old tracks, although I’m rusty and thus not really sure how representative they’ll be), so whatever works for you.
Can you post your round one next weekend?
MC Mags, can you open the debate thread for us?
At first I thought you were dissing my style, implying that my raps were not hip hop.
But I think you are asking about my role-models/influences in hip hop. Is that right? Assuming that it is:
At the time of the first battle, I listed my influences, so that was where I was coming from in that battle. I don’t really listen to any of them anymore, but I’m sure the influence stuck.
More recently in the hip-hop genre, I’ve been listening to El-P, Run the Jewels, One Day as a Lion, Childish Gambino, and a French group called FAUVE, a couple South African zef rappers (Die Antwoord, Jack Parow). A lot of the hip hop I listen to is incidental, because I listen to a lot of glitch/IDM, and they often do hip hop collaborations or remixes (examples 1, 2, 3).
Never mind what I said, one influence in particular is RZA. I listed all the rappers that quite influenced my moods, I suppose.
It can all be very infantile, which is problematic now.
So the thing has begun? argh. I have little idea what lyrically to make of these subjects, the raps of the previous load seemed rather free, Ill imitate that.
let me use this beat for the first round. This is not mine, I wish to make such beats, these trap hihats are hard to make though, I wonder if they’re automated. Ive tried it in GarageBand, its not as easy to get it flowing as it seemed to me.
I can work with that. Good contrast to the Phantogram beat I’ll use for Round 2.
Did we settle on Meeuw for round 3?
Looks I’ll end up using GarageBand too. I tried the online alternatives, but none seem to do sound recording, and the easiest local option was just to borrow a Mac.