- Perfect 10 — Production from Klopfenpop
- Perfect 10 — Challenge from Klopfenpop · Mark Cooper · Richie Branson
- Crowd Surfer on 36/72 ballots (50%)
- Triple Heart Threat likes on YouTube, SoundCloud, AND the VPC site (9 total)
- Full Package audio + art + lyrics + both writeups
- Storyteller 3,001 characters across both writeups
TOTAL REACH — 65 plays rank 19 / 22
- SOUNDCLOUD 35
- VPC SITE 27
- YOUTUBE 3
TOTAL LIKES — 9 rank 15 / 22
- VPC SITE 7
- YOUTUBE 1
- SOUNDCLOUD 1
Be Yourself
Vocalist's challenge writeup
Be Yourself Recipe Serves: Any and All , Prep: Less than 5 minutes, Cook: Let them Ingredients: For Sauce: 1/4 liter Cameron Diaz 2 Tablespoons Adam Smith 4/9 teaspoon Smashing Pumpkins A whole big ol sloppy handful of Bustopher Jones A Pop of Rumi For Protein: A (14-ounce) Wilde Game Hen 3/4 tablespoon kosher 1960's Dadaist beat-poet Richard Brautigan branded Salt 1/2 cup peeled and thickly chopped Bort license plates Whatever is left of Jada's husband's career ADHD medication (generous serving) Joe Pera's hollowed out skull To make sauce: Whisk them dirty shits in a bowl til them shits is thick AF. Now, go ahead and you're gonna wanna, you're gonna want to fuck that shits a little bits, just a little bits, with ALL your tips. Not just the one your momma gave you. You’re gonna want to remove all stiffening agents swiftly after it hits consistency. It solidifies into a concrete like material that also heats itself up to 1200 Kelvin To make protein: Jump around (Jump around) Jump around (Jump around) Jump around (Jump around) Jump up, jump up and get down Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! (Everybody jump) Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! (Everybody jump) Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! I came to get down, I came to get down So get out your seat and jump around
Producer's challenge writeup
My method shifted part way through, but my overall approach was "boom bap overload". I started out sampling, processing, chopping and layering as much as possible from the first bin, thinking that was the only bin. Then I found out there were more bins and that I was supposed to sample something from all of them, so I abandoned my first method and started adding things from all of the other bins, not bothering so much with getting as much out of each bin as possible, but just making sure I got a little bit of everything an that everything fit together. By the end, the cup runneth over, my computer was starting to really struggle with it, and I just had to decide to stop adding more stuff. But I did get a little bit of everything. Some of the timecodes might be slightly off because I may have used start offsets; these are just the samples that I saved and loaded into my project (all of which were used to some extent): The Breakdown, pt. 2 0:00 Put Your Love 0:02 The Rope and the Colt 1:24 Surprise Attack 0:33 Constant Throb 1:31 Eve 1:12 I Stand Alone 3:27 The Wrath of Khan Main Title 0:00 Beans and Cornbread 2:38 If I Knew You Were Coming 1:33 Big Butter and Egg Man 2:04 Yol Verin Agalar Beyler 0:08 Bindya Tarse Kajra Barse 0:25 Aafat 2:29 Who Is the Man? 1:15 Futengurashi 1:31 Mindwill, from Wild Maniac 3:10 Headstrong 0:45 Dave Biegel breaks in 134 BPM, 89 BPM and 107 BPM were cut, smooshed together and pitch-mangled into a swingy soup of additional drums. Bits of Dave Biegel breaks in 104 BPM & 70 BPM were smooshed together and transformed into a tambourine-like noise using a disgusting FX chain. That's it, I think. A total of 23 tracks sampled if I didn't miscount just now.
Lyrics
a great philosopher once quoted "you are not a drop in the ocean, you are an ocean in a drop" yet another said "I swallowed your cum, David! I swallowed your cum four times! It means something!" so go and do anything you put your mind to, except for those who already have too much, what's it called, oh ya, jeez, money cause for one Elon, there must be at least five hundred million poors the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many at the hands of the P Diddy's of which there are plenty of in each industry in each city who knew that's it's super easy to be shitty and also terribly rewarding prepare to be like Kordlyss get a lot of paper, be a go getter, life shaper instead of a time waster, a joker, a smoker, a midnight blazer can't break my soul, my spirit never dies, it plays dead, you can't put this possum in a cage despite all my rage, I'm still just a bat in a cave I'm whatever the VPC needs me to be but I think I'm cool, and that's all matters to Kordlyss hell, my whole shtick is I aggressively want you to hate me the last 10 years have been a social experiment on how little plays that a single artist can achieve, if they work hard every week and still remain more anonymous then someone in witness protection with a face change so, yea, that's how make sure you reach for the stars, so when you fall, you can dropkick a Nazi or two on the way back down Be yourself; s'not like anyone else is lining up to be Be yourself; cause everyone else has already hard passed Be yourself, cause seriously, if there's gonna have to be a you, let it just be like, you, ok? :heart: Click to react :green_heart: Click to react :regional_indicator_t: Click to react Add Reaction Reply Forward More [2:30 AM]Saturday, June 6, 2026 2:30 AM I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day James Tate Vonnegut mixed with Brautigan mixed with Tom Robbins mixed with that Twain hack back in his hey day let me be perfectly clear, if we don't win this and get unanimously great praise then consider me Swayze cause I'm ghosting on you folks in a blink, he's going to run away so Usainly fast you'd need to get Jackie Joyner to join me and restrain my ass I'm not taking back anything I say in this competition with you crazy cats and I don't mean cats as in, like, beat poetry I mean like, the 2019 fever dream that, let's be real, was not the actual cause, but a for real reason the COVID disease spread more rapidly and yes, I know we split off into different realities on July Fourth 2012 when the CERN folks discovered the Higgs Boson and sent us sub-atomically into fucking hell where it's like, if we can't all align on a certain Bear family's surname then we're for sure, baked or cooked, right? wait, what are the youths saying now? what did we used to say? Dog-abunga? don't take a cow? ugh, I'm getting too old for this, frankly my dear, I don't give a, life is a like a box of, there's no place, we're gonna need a bigger boat listen folks everything is now Chris's quote cause that's how I write shit I chew off more than I can bite, and then I bite it and even though I'm not a nerdcore star I'll still rap circles around your square ass bars Be yourself; s'not like anyone else is lining up to be Be yourself; it's all you can do, hey Be yourself :heart: Click to react :green_heart: Click to react :regional_indicator_t: Click to react Add Reaction Reply Forward More [2:30 AM]Saturday, June 6, 2026 2:30 AM I'm your Friend you see, he's the ketamine queen JK, LMFAO Ben Schwartz, I'm an amphetamine fiend Concerta, Adderall Dexedrine, had em all in fact I'm on a fucking cocktail of fucking all of them right fucking now call my PCP and get me Klonopin, actually never mind it's too late, I've legally turned into Conner O'Malley now I'm screaming from the moment I wake up till the moment I don't ever sleep and I refuse to die, cause death and sleep are like cousins, right? and I am extremely anti-incest I don't want to die an inbred I know that's an unpopular opinion I'm just here not for the seriouses but for the making of yinz laughters because and like, and I shouldn't be telling you all this, but laughing was turned into robots in 1998, when all the birds were, in order to sell us more sneakers. turns out, and this goes deep, the amount of laugher one exudes daily directly correlated to your likelihood to purchase more sneakers. My company, my family's company, JomBaLomBaBloms we got we got fuckin' BK's, L.A. Gears, Ewings, we got, uh, Etonics we, we got Jox's and I can happily report back some wet-ass-crunchy-ass bitchin' iROAS during our beta testing for Jox's.... I mean, and some of these brands haven't sold footwear in decades. But we are bringing them back, with laughter, people we are selling tons of old dirty ass funked up shoes with just , with just good old fashioned gut buster chuckle yuks
JUDGES' BREAKDOWN
LEX the Lexicon Artist
6.00/10 score rank #16 of 22VOCALS 6PRODUCTION 5CHALLENGE 7What's interesting about this is that Kordlyss feels like he is actively working on what usually sounds like "himself". He went out of the box here to deliver what isn't really a song but more like a stream of consciousness spoken word piece. It is an ambitious endeavour and I don't think Kordlyss has enough practice or pen prowess/vocal dexterity to pull it off just yet. However, he TRIED and I commend this. Keep trying to push yourself out of your comfort zone. Kordlyss - overall I think a valiant attempt but suggest going back to basics with the complexity of the writing. Sometimes simple is better. The chorus is too long to be catchy and the song doesn't have much relisten value because of the barrage of words, but also the relative lack of a unique statement. As an experiment, try starting with a concept, rather than yourself or society. Mozart Von Robot - good job integrating the variety of samples. However I feel like this is very similar to what I've heard from you before and hope to hear you venture wayyyy out of your typical style sometime.
Mark Cooper
7.67/10 score rank #12 of 22VOCALS 6PRODUCTION 7CHALLENGE 10Such a fun song to hear the vocalist literally spill everything that is in their head on lay it on a track! lots of references that makes it feel like it's going off the deep end but politely gift wraps it for the listener to always be yourself at the end of day. Production was very cool but can lose the vocalist on certain small 2 double time phrasing. great song overall.
Klopfenpop
9.67/10 score rank #5 of 22VOCALS 9PRODUCTION 10CHALLENGE 10This might be the track that used the most samples from the bins. And it feels really good, which is a huge accomplishment. I love how you use the samples to help pull the dynamics up and down. This is done expertly here. Kordlyss, you are a great rapper, but I think some of the bars might have gotten away from you on this one. I'm a big fan of the hypersyllabic rhyme style as well as spilling over the bar line, but you gotta make sure it you got a great landing planned that is hard to miss, otherwise it can hit the ear like just a missed rhyme. If you are going to do a surprise bait & switch rhyme change, it can help to hit that rhyme with a few quick internal rhymes right after, to keep the ear following along and not having to hold the tension of an unresolved rhyme they're still listening for the resolution of. I'm getting real in the weeds just because of the level you are operating at. You're already an agile rapper and a solid writer. The challenge work and extra bonus features on the notes are chef's kiss on this.
Ben Tarkus
7.00/10 score rank #17 of 22VOCALS 6PRODUCTION 8CHALLENGE 7This one didn't land with me as hard for Round 2. When I consulted the notes I was left with less understanding, but the effort is absolutely here, without a doubt. 23 tracks is a heavy lift, and for the most part I can pull a lot of unique sounds out of the track! The vocals on the track have their moments but start and end on the rough side, but based on your R1 submission I'm getting the vibe that this is your schtick, as you put it. Now let's see you put it to work in your favor!
Richie Branson
9.00/10 score rank #9 of 22VOCALS 9PRODUCTION 8CHALLENGE 10It’s very hard to pull off the ‘random stream of consciousness’ flow, but you did great. Hook is really great. Really love the porky pig stutter. The beat is dope! This song could benefit from a few more beat dropouts to emphasize some bars at moments when the flow gets dense.
Audience score and rank
AUDIENCE SCORE
Aggregated from 72 ballots cast by the public.
AUDIENCE RANK
Out of 22 teams competing this round.
- 36 voters ranked them in their top 10
- 18 voters had them in their top 5
- 3 voters picked them as their #1 favorite
FINAL BLEND
The final score was a 7.21. The song received an average voter score of 5.22 from the community, and an average judge score of 7.87.
The display score blends the audience and judges' contributions at 25%/75%. Here's how The Beatlyss's 7.21 broke down:
(5.22 × 25%) + (7.87 × 75%) = 7.21
YOUR SEASON SO FAR
- Round 1 7.34 / 10 rank #4 PERSONAL BEST
- Round 2 7.21 / 10 rank #10