At 9/30/09 12:27 AM, idk11221995 wrote: im a pretty good rapper trying to do a few original records. show me what you got

If you claim to be a good rapper, at least have some audio of you on your page. Give people an idea of your flow so they just don't blindly giving "whack" rappers a good instrumental.

I left everything the way it is because I never use them. I always use audio clips and vst's I've downloaded myself. I have those folders bookmarked when I go to open a file in my generators, so it's all easy pickings there since I organized my samples into like 10 folders. They range from melodies, full songs, instruments, percussion, breaks, voices, ect.

I've been using FL 7 for the passed 2 years. I completely hated 8, but 9 is freaking revolutionary. Though I still don't like having to hold right shift in order to cut things, everything else makes up for that one little problem I have. But everything else makes up for that because the program is finally CPU friendly. VSTs that I use in 7 & 8 that made my CPU go to hell can now be used with ease. Definitely worth buying.

You obviously don't have any good reason to hate Rap. You're just acting off opinions. I vote Yes to locking this page due to lack of a valid argument.

At 8/30/09 10:47 PM, Wyze-Stingray wrote:

At 8/28/09 09:30 PM, war-spawn wrote:

At 8/28/09 08:19 PM, Chemich wrote: I'm just being an asshole, but yeah I tried rapping if you're looking for a white boy attempting rap maybe I can do that.

But otherwise if it's serious "gangsta" stuff, not my thing.

Oh you. White people can rap. I know plenty of sick rappers who are white. It's all about flow, not about material.

Did you honestly just say it's not about content spawn? You of all people? lol

Yeah, I did say it was about flow. Cuz really, if you look at a lot of people nowadays, you can rap about almost anything. But as long as you sound good doing it, that's all that really matters. UNLESS you're trying to give off a certain image, and say something out fo the blue.... like 'Used to sell cabage back on Rune Scape' while trying to claim that you're a notorious gang member. That doesn't appease the Gods of Rap. :D

At 8/28/09 08:19 PM, Chemich wrote: I'm just being an asshole, but yeah I tried rapping if you're looking for a white boy attempting rap maybe I can do that.

But otherwise if it's serious "gangsta" stuff, not my thing.

Oh you. White people can rap. I know plenty of sick rappers who are white. It's all about flow, not about material.

At 8/28/09 06:03 PM, Cobdogger wrote: alright sounds good to me, im fairly new to the audio portal though so i dont really know any producers but i followed MoniMCs links and his beats sounded pretty dope

If you need quality beats, Old Skool' section is the way to go. Modern has too much people who sound the same. You can find a few good gems in both sections though.

At 8/28/09 12:44 PM, unownedJR wrote: try penning some rhymes that are as cryptic as finnegans wake, learn reaktor or something new and utilize it. then youll have no block, while ingesting something that catylizes imagination

Rhymes aren't what I'm blocked with. I just wrote some sick shit last night. It's production that I have issues with atm. It's just to the point where I've done so much that I'm just out of ideas.

At 8/28/09 12:06 PM, Chronamut wrote: a lot of things...

I have to agree. I have about 10 people who vote zero on my songs daily, and even that wrecks my scores. It being on a much larger scale can be catastrophic towards scores. Especially since we get like 50 views on the main audio page, as Chronamut stated already.

At 8/28/09 11:43 AM, Chronamut wrote: whats with all the hip-hop people suddenly getting writers block?

I could say something really mean along these lines but I consider myself above that :P

Hey hey hey, I have a legit reason for having writer's block. Besides, my thread is more recent. :D

At 8/27/09 11:44 PM, Chemich wrote: zooooomg i wantz 2 rap homiez?

cn i be dat dude dat holds da cash and goes all like "botes n hos?"

i luv 2 rap an make 4/4 beetz in fl studio liek soulja boy.

yeeeaaa boooiiii!

I don't know if now is a good time to ask this, but I feel that things have gotten off on the wrong foot. Why, OH WHY, must you type like that? Ignorance makes me QQ, and I don't know if you're joking D:

I do know why kids love the sweet taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch though. It has heroin crystals in every golden bite.

Forget anything I just said about collabing. I type here before you all asking for a collab now. Anything, or anyone. I don't give a damn if you make country ffs. I just need some form of motivation.

BTW, I do maketh the Hippity Hops, but I'm very versatile. I'll be accepting PM's until 6 PM. Then I'm off for the day to get into some tomfoolery while attempting to destroy the universe.

At 8/27/09 02:42 PM, Chronamut wrote:

At 8/27/09 02:11 PM, war-spawn wrote:

At 8/27/09 02:06 PM, Chronamut wrote:

if people can't adapt to other people's styles of making things that is their issue not yours :)

That's what makes it much harder for me to do something since I use techniques most people never thought about using in FL. Well, most people on this site at least. It's kinda hard to use only the audio / automation clip section in the playlist window to make a whole song.

pfft no its not - thats called collage song making- look harder war-spawn - those that really know how to use fl can pretty much use it in any way imaginable ;)

That's not the situation here. Everytime I try to collab with a new person, it's always like...

"How do you do that? Wait, what does this knob do? Oh shit, I just over compressed whatever you just had and accidentally made it very muffled. Not only that, I accidentally stretched out your samples too long to try to make it fit 170 bpm because 85 is too slow for me because I don't know what metronome is and blah blah blah."

Besides, I don't work well with others. I lower morale, smell funny, and I'm bald. Not very likable, am I? lol

At 8/27/09 02:38 PM, LyRikLyNkLyNd wrote: I just came 2 the audio portal in 09 so i didn't kno an event like this was held last year, Props for the top notch. Maybe strivein for 2 years in a row can disipate sum of that writers block. How was it gone about last year, if u dn't mind explaining cuz i'm tryin 2 co-ordinate this thing and have no idea how 2

It's just me showing the greatest battle track on NG. And that's not what I call it. :3

WS - Funeral For A Freak Intro, by war-spawn Type: SongGenre: Hip Hop - Olskool

Just leaving this little present here.

At 8/27/09 02:06 PM, Chronamut wrote:

At 8/27/09 01:54 PM, war-spawn wrote:

I only collab well with one person since we have similar styles. Other collabs I've attempted to make ended up falling short. I don't work well with others since the way I do things are "weird and hard" to others. I guess that's what happens when you use only the playlist to make songs without any patterns.

if people can't adapt to other people's styles of making things that is their issue not yours :)

That's what makes it much harder for me to do something since I use techniques most people never thought about using in FL. Well, most people on this site at least. It's kinda hard to use only the audio / automation clip section in the playlist window to make a whole song.

At 8/27/09 01:47 PM, Chronamut wrote:

At 8/27/09 01:42 PM, war-spawn wrote:

At 8/27/09 11:12 AM, KgZ wrote: Remix or remaster a track.

My last 2 submissions are older projects I've remade. :C

whenever I feel myself running dry a collab is in oder! :)

I only collab well with one person since we have similar styles. Other collabs I've attempted to make ended up falling short. I don't work well with others since the way I do things are "weird and hard" to others. I guess that's what happens when you use only the playlist to make songs without any patterns.

At 8/27/09 11:12 AM, KgZ wrote: Remix or remaster a track.

My last 2 submissions are older projects I've remade. :C

I already won this last year with this song.

WS - Dropping Knowledge, by war-spawn Type: SongGenre: Hip Hop - Modern

At 8/26/09 09:00 PM, MJTTOMB wrote:

At 8/26/09 08:48 PM, loansindi wrote: You could read the dozens of other threads about writer's block.

It's more fun to make your own.

Of course it's more fun to make my own. I was also expecting a cookie for actually considering asking you guys since I'm about as active as a sundial. Thing is that this isn't some, "Oh, I'm out of ideas and I don't know what to do next" type of thing happening here. It's more along the lines of, "I don't even know what else to do because I've made so much" type of thing.

Inspiration is about as bland as it gets, because I feel that I've learned so much that I can't even fathom what my next step will be. And besides, I appreciate other genres, but I don't really enjoy listening to a side chain every beat. But that's just me.

I haven't had inspiration for the passed few weeks. Well, months actually. So far, I think that my main problem is that I'm trying to do too much in a song. And usually, if one thing doesn't sound right, I scrap the entire project. I don't know if it's just my taste in music that I lost, or I'm just not inspired enough by anything anymore.

So, I'm here to ask...

How does NG's Audio BBS deal with writer's block?

Demos made easy :

1. Take a clip from the full song, probably about 30 seconds, and use that. Fade in and fade out.

2. Make a really lo-fi version of the full length song. And when I say really low, I mean like 92kbps type quality.

3. You can also have your main melody as a solo, or with minor percussion, and let that loop for a bit.

Hope I halped.

At 8/26/09 10:40 AM, Chronamut wrote: congrats jarrydn and other more nooblier ppl ;)

you all must still bow to me tho :P

Only time we would bow to you is if you were the lord of Gay... wait... you are... *bows*

Grats guys. Yay for more mods.

Honestly, there's only one thing I can think of that no one has said here yet. One thing that I'd think you might need is to affiliate yourself with other rappers. Get insight from them, and pretty much learn the basics on flow / voice tones / recording / etc.

Yun+WS - Reckon, by war-spawn Type: SongGenre: Hip Hop - Modern

Fun Times.

Deathmetal rap = Horrorcore. Not new.

On a more serious note.

For quality, try to get yourself a preamp. Then get yourself a Sennheiser mic or something, those are usually top notch quality. As far as your voice goes, it really doesn't matter anymore. You could do something like Nerd-Core, which is shit that Del The Funkee Homosapien, MC Chris, and MC Paul Burman does. It's never a bad thing to rap about what you like most, and for those guys, Sci-Fi rap does them pretty damn good.

At 8/18/09 08:08 PM, Chronamut wrote:

At 8/18/09 07:59 PM, war-spawn wrote:

At 8/18/09 10:54 AM, Sealander wrote: I am pretty sure somebody has done this before.

I did it about a good 200 times.

*hides video game remixes* AWAY!

I wouldn't touch your songs with your penis. I'll just touch you.

At 8/18/09 10:54 AM, Sealander wrote: I am pretty sure somebody has done this before.

I did it about a good 200 times.

At 8/14/09 01:47 PM, Bad-Man-Incorporated wrote: Copyrighted material in your song is a no no. :D

buh-buh-buh-But what about every other song I've sampled? EVERYONE LOVES MAH MUSIC!! Then again, I don't sell any of my music, so all is for fair use :3