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ROUND 5 · FEEDBACK

Garbage Gang

we're hella gross

RANK #10
DISPLAY SCORE 8.05 / 10
  • 💯 Perfect 10 — Vocals from Ben Tarkus · LEX the Lexicon Artist
  • 💯 Perfect 10 — Production from Ben Tarkus · Klopfenpop
  • 💯 Perfect 10 — Challenge from Ben Tarkus · Mark Cooper · Richie Branson
  • 🃏 Perfect Card 30/30 from Ben Tarkus
  • 💎 Niche Fave 11 voters made you their #1 — a small but devoted fanbase
  • 📦 Full Package audio + art + lyrics + both writeups

TOTAL REACH — 34 plays · rank 7 / 24

  • VPC SITE 34

TOTAL LIKES — 9 · rank 6 / 24

  • VPC SITE 9

5th Place Gold (feat. BagelRabbit, RayMusica, BigolDaveDude, River Sanzu, Ish1da)

Open audio
Vocalist's challenge writeup

neither ish or lex used any form of "I", "me", "mine", "we", "us", or "ours"

Producer's challenge writeup

there are exactly 2 moments in the instrumental of complete silence. 1. 25 seconds in 2. 2min 08 seconds in Collabs: 1. BagelRabbit - violin -- twitch.tv/bagelrabbit 2. RayMusica - drums -- twitch.tv/raymusica 3. BigolDaveDude - guitar 4. River Sanzu - vocal sample chops 5. Ish1da - vocals

Lyrics
[Lex intro]
Fifth place? 
Sound like a dub for the gang/ 
Give grace? 
Garbage! 
Done showing love to you lames 
Tell em ish

[Ish1da verse]
Done let them in this bitch again, you know them boys done messed up
Ish come from that No Coast and Lingo throw that West up
Drugged out and sexed up, you need to get yo zest up
Pacifist, keep a pistol tho, love and peace, stay blessed up
Tha paper keep on stackin up, what's crackin cut, whats happenin
Be slidin like an Abacus, bout to take em all to mass again
Them bois they need to pack it up, immaculate is back again
A little weed fall out tha blunt then pick it up and pack it in
Kansas City Commisar, tha Ushanka royal blue
Plantin trees to never see, but loyal to tha soil too
More bars than a trellis got, all tha words are evergreen
Left a trail of jealous thots, often heard, seldom seen
You cape for corps over tha corpse of people just as poor as you
Do it for tha little guy, they cry for help like Hortons Who
"You think you're better than everyone" matter fact, sorta do
Matter fact, actually rap, they mad because they know it's true
Antonio Grams, sheesh, in his prime like Optimus
Workin class, synonymous, ain't never had a pot to piss
Add up tha accomplishments, tha catalog on Voltaire
Renowned like Queen Marika, they praisin son like Solaire

[shoutouts to collabs]

[Lex Lingo]
Crack a tooth on that medal stack a bottle for a rebel 
throw a sword up in the air and put an arm out tempt the devil/ 
don’t be lying who did better/ 
threw it all out don’t regret it/
don’t be lying who did better/ 
threw it all out don’t regret it/

Who be coming outta left field like this 
Who could judge it come on get real/
Who need to win when you been winning when it counts/ 
too much on the plate out the way that’s a big meal/ 
just flew in from Sweden/ 
give that ughhh the wobbly h that Eiffel Tower act like demons/ 
podium can lick the scroteum been out here screaming/ 
garbage man like Oscar built this garden now it’s Eden/ 
ain’t no strangers in the circle like the casa es Su casa /
seen the seven seas your maiden voyage was the vasa/ 
smoking like a Rasta/ 
you still tryna add the cost up/ 
throw a five and dive into the pussy like its pasta/ 
back home they be counting on the boy/ 
but the nam is just a place you should avoid/ 
this game is your game but on roids/ 
keep collecting gold to fill the void/

Crack a tooth on that medal stack a bottle for a rebel 
throw a sword up in the air and put an arm out tempt the devil/ 
don’t be lying who did better/ 
threw it all out don’t regret it/
don’t be lying who did better/ 
threw it all out don’t regret it/

Fifth place? 
Sound like a dub for the gang/ 
Give grace? 
Garbage! 
They shit ain’t thumping the same

JUDGES' BREAKDOWN

  1. Ben Tarkus

    10.00/10 score · rank #1 of 24
    VOCALS 10
    PRODUCTION 10
    CHALLENGE 10

    \[T]/ Praise the motherfuckin sun. Nuff said. Why did this immediately escalate into some Boss Battle orchestral shit? CHILL! * All teams receive a '10' in their challenge category from me this round. This has to be one of the most randomized challenges and can seem insurmountable with the wrong pairing. As such, I am thoroughly impressed with everyone's ability to rise to the task.

  2. Mark Cooper

    8.00/10 score · rank #15 of 24
    VOCALS 7
    PRODUCTION 7
    CHALLENGE 10

    I dig the live drums feel in this track! nice choice. The only thing is in the mix is sounds sort of far away in the track. Usually is because there may be too much reverb in the toms and cymbals and because of that it causes the vocals to feel like there are at a distance. The mix feel like I'm hearing the track at a distance across the hall. Verses and ideas are great, just the overall mix is what was the main struggle with this song. just sounds a little far away.

  3. Richie Branson

    9.33/10 score · rank #9 of 24
    VOCALS 9
    PRODUCTION 9
    CHALLENGE 10

    beat crazy, worth all the elements that were collaborated to bring it together. Could a slight bit more refinement re: instrument mix. The lyrics here are dope as well. Sheesh. Delivered passionately. Podium can lick the scrotium, I dig it, lol.

  4. Klopfenpop

    9.33/10 score · rank #6 of 24
    VOCALS 9
    PRODUCTION 10
    CHALLENGE 9

    BagelRabbit is my favorite artist name of this VPC. Some days I too am a bagel rabbit. But BagelRabbit the violin witch brought SUCH vibe to this track. These drums fucking go. RayMusica killed it. Guest drummer is always a great pull in the collab round. I love hearing more instrumental collaborations in these rounds and y'all put them to great use.

  5. LEX the Lexicon Artist

    9.33/10 score · rank #6 of 24
    VOCALS 10
    PRODUCTION 9
    CHALLENGE 9

    Strong showing! Challenge met, although the "complete silence" part is a bit iffy. It is part of the production challenge though, so even though there are vocals in those two moments, I believe it counts. Also, I don't know if I can fully count "vocal chops" as 1 collaborator, so I took a point off there. Lex is such a good vocalist. An emotive rapper and singer, and a brilliant writer that makes the lack of first person sound natural and easy. Ish is great here too, my preference for Lex's style is just that, a preference. In any case it's a nice contrast. It was cool to have live drums, guitar, and violin as collabs. This made Shawn bear the brunt of making the collabs work. I commend the effort of pulling it all together and also doing something different than the standard Shawn Solo production. However cohesiveness varied throughout (felt like the sum of parts) and I don't feel the beat reached its full potential.

Audience score and rank

AUDIENCE SCORE

4.61 / 10

Aggregated from 119 ballots cast by the public.

AUDIENCE RANK

17 / 24

Out of 24 teams competing this round.

  • 39 voters ranked them in their top 10
  • 25 voters had them in their top 5
  • 11 voters picked them as their #1 favorite

FINAL BLEND

The final score was a 8.05. The song received an average voter score of 4.61 from the community, and an average judge score of 9.20.

The display score blends the audience and judges' contributions at 25%/75%. Here's how Garbage Gang's 8.05 broke down:

1.15 from audience
6.90 from judges

(4.61 × 25%) + (9.20 × 75%) = 8.05

YOUR SEASON SO FAR

  1. Round 1 · 7.30 / 10 · rank #7
  2. Round 2 · 8.12 / 10 · rank #4
  3. Round 3 · 7.99 / 10 · rank #5
  4. Round 4 · 8.33 / 10 · rank #3 PERSONAL BEST
  5. Round 5 · 8.05 / 10 · rank #10
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