ARTCROW

I felt like this challenge was directly in my wheelhouse The first draft of the song was almost 6 minutes but we decided against the extra length there were more bars with more pop culture references and more spirited beat switches but I feel like this is our best work for the competition so far. The interesting thing about this challenge wasn't the ability to create but rather the ability to "destroy". I had to let go of bars I loved and restructure my verse around certain elements in the song and Crow had to rearrange the song to condense it to our liking, in the end we came out with this! I entered this competition more so looking at it like an opportunity to work with Crow on more music but after seeing feedback from other participants over the contest I started feeling myself lol I felt like, if everyone else can have so much confidence, why shouldn't I? If sometimes I feel like the best, shouldn't I display that? Should I challenge my competition? Do I feel like we have competition? what do I have to say? I decided to call out my fellow vocalists whose work I've admired hoping to let them know what time it is.

Greetings folks. Let’s see about the samples used across this track. Maybe it’s easiest to go by bin : Tools and Instructional - 5 Selections - The Pimpsons @0:41 : Used at the end of second transition ( 2:37 ) - Kombat Kuts @0:21 : Used at the end of the track ( 3:12 ) Breakbeats are looped and chopped across the tune, except for the final section where I play the pads. We’ve got : - A10 76 BPM : first section of my track ( 0:00 - 0:45 ) - A1 65 BPM : second section of my track ( 1:05 - 1:50 ) - The interview cuts are from the NPR show “ Piano Jazz “ w/Marian McPartland interviewing Alice Coltrane - B6 69 BPM : third section ( spliced with fills from “ Chi Ave - A Love Letter To Salvador”) ( 1:51 - 2:37 ) International - 3 Selections - Vidigal @2:25: Primary bass line for the second section of the track, This was one that had a very clean difference between L/R channels. Soloed the bass in the right channel and High-Cut the background elements before adding some saturation. Really a great natural pairing for the interview section. ( 1:05 - 1:48 ) - Hot Chocolate @2:21: used from 2:37 - 2:51 in my track, the guitar scrapes are warped and re-pitched to be an off-beat “ clock ticking “ type sound for the last transition. - Mindwill @3:05: used at the end of the last transition, 2:48 in my track Free Bin - 3 Selections - If I knew You Were Comin’ I’da Baked a Cake @0:01, : Used the voice at the beginning of the first section and the end of the first transition - The Coffee Song @0:05 : Used the 3rd measure from that recording as a backing texture for the Funky Penguin flip of Mario Bros. lvl 1-2 - Solid Potato Salad @0:21,@1:58,@2:18 : Used small snippets as a texture for the Mario 1-2 transition, as well as the end of that tune right before section 2. and the “SOLID” shout before section 2 ( the interview ) Dollar Bin - 4 Selections - Miriam , from Heidelberger Jazztage ’72 @9:48 : Fades in at the beginning then is chopped and re-arranged throughout the first section - Eve @0:00 : Slightly edited the introduction of this song with minor chops as the background for the final section of my track. - Heaven and Hell Is On Earth @0:08 : Used the group chant in the opening to add to the texture of section 3 of the track. Looped the “Hell” part and re-pitched it at the end of the harmonic phrases of my other secret sample ( “ -0_0 2 - Architects II - “Timeless” ) which is basically un-edited, - I also used the claps and stomps from this track as a transitional texture between the 3rd and 4th sections of the track. - Kyrie Eleison @0:00, : Used to slide into section 2 of the track, ALSO used a single bass note for many other things across the track. A simple sample so I could play bass across the different sections ( 1,3,4 ) including the transition between 1 and 2, even the Mario coin sound is a very high pitched “Kyrie Bass” In the spirit of the challenge, my goal was to use different sampling techniques and switch between beats with all of the good options that were given to us and a couple of alternates ( using a different Rufus Thomas breakbeat as an example ), Another thing that I did is what I consider a “forbidden” sampling technique, where I had a version of the track that my teammate wrote to, then changed a few of those sections out with other beats. Our original version of this submission was almost six minutes long so we had a lot of fun cutting things down and re-arranging. I am very happy with what we’ve got.

Hi its Classy
im in the house
like im kyle Massey
tell your mom
to stop gassing me
im married
tell the barbershop
that nerdcore is getting buried
if this is prom night
we're the only one that's carrie


watch out
we're coming for you
and ripping throats out
ARTCROW
the goat now
youre stepping up
to meet the challenge
where we you the last round
we're winning every level
you should go and place your bets now


im digging up graves
and laying all this pipe down
so i can travel through the neuro network 
of dead folk
im jumping on the heads
of people
sayin we not dope
bitch we're the bob omb
hit the flower now
at the wrong time
my brand new world
is fried
i feel Luigi now
i gotta go inside


BREAKING NEWS!
the other time you heard us
was the advent of the world
we were making rules
we had the fucking blues
we had pen right down
like it was number 2
we tried to conquer earth
they wouldn't let us through

All the time
we tried to lead a new school
i tried to bust a rhyme
crow was mixing up the potion
it was our time

so we took it 
made the sky bright
light was so brilliant
made the people blind
still enemies
would flock to us
indoctrinate their mind
so when the trouble comes
they know how to react
when the bubble busts
we figured out a plan
Assassins Creedin them
with the blunderbuss

my complex is telling me
no one else can fuck with us
in fact if we were in Battleworld
and the Beyonder saw
Artclass and Angrycrow
he'd send the other heroes 
back home
we battle DOOM alone

now check the melody
45 to 45 like 45 felonies
slime a couple off the top
Cheeto dust
all on my nikes
whose stopping me
likely
like a Sam and Dean
smoking these demons
by like
any means
really though
i think i need the greenery
im think im all about these flowers
i think im Thunderclese

stay at ease cadet
surely this shit
will soldier on
but they're growing blue dream
on the neighbors lawn


it was the year
of the end days
no one else could save the earth
fuck
not even Dende?
who's gonna save the world?
who's gonna make damn break?
I heard about the damn break
they fixed it up with spit 
and duct tape and extra band aids
preaching for some outrage
when i flow
im feeling like im Luke Cage
feeling like defending
we run the bronze and new age
im in my wolverines
you do not want the bezerker rage
Hugh Jack off a pack
i might disappear today
the prestige im
exhibiting
you cant bale away
hailmary pass
too hot
for the hail today
we throw it anyway
we might evaporate
but wont fade away