hahaha yeah the intro doesn't make much sense now that you mention it. Well, yeah it does in a way because I was kinda referring more to my tone, and of course the beat

Even with the extended beat link I sent you? Once I get your mix with the scratches and sampling applied, it'll be the finished version you hear on NG, YouTube, Bandcamp etc.

The latest link I sent you had an extra 30 or so seconds added at the end, which should be a good amount of time to work your magic and close out the track, right?

Aside from that, thanks man! It was a pleasure writing and recording over a CJ beat, and I'm sure we'll work together in the near future homie!

Thanks Sonic, YOU'RE THE DOPEST!

And this mixtape is going to be a mess, just to warn you haha. It's without real structure and if there was a theme, it would be chaos. These are the abandoned projects, the songs that missed the Kill Teq cut, some skits, and a few of my most recent battles. It should definitely be entertaining though, but the real album I want you psyched for is the one I've been obsessing over and pushing back the release date on for over a year now- Kill Teqneek. That's my baby and I am not releasing it until I think I've made the best damn hip hop album ever. Yeah I said it.

Also, YOU are one of the main artists here that I want to work with. Seriously. But I can't make promises anymore, and I really can't decide on which route to take with our hypothetical music collab project. If we did join forces though- I'm sure it would amount to something super awesome and way memorable, so yeah we gotta get crackin' on a collab one of these days for real.

Yo Qwaint I appreciate your thoughts for real man; kinda like the other side of the coin. But there are a few points I kinda want to address, which I'll cover in the novel I wrote below.

I want you to know that I fully invite and encourage constructive criticism. And viewed by themselves, many of Kwing's reviews would hold weight with me- they're well-written, polite in tone, are very thorough... with some of the most baffling logic I've ever heard.

My side of the coin- In the past few months I sat and watched as this guy named Kwing appear, out of nowhere- and proceed to negatively review almost all my work...

He voted against me in every battle I've done, even obvious wins. And if the guy just doesn't seem to dig my stuff, I'm cool with that...

Butttt I already know a Kwing review of a Teq song is gonna be yet another "you need to step your game up"-type review, and I'm not gonna keep taking him seriously. Nor do I like seeing the most recent review of EVERY SONG I'VE UPLOADED HERE to be negative, and that's what it is now. Every song of mine someone clicks on- the first thing they see is Kwing describing my mediocrity. lol...

Aside from point 2, the things you mentioned are aspects I have been really focusing on for a while now, just so you know. And thanks for the review btw homie, I appreciate your input, even if I disagree to an extent. Okay here goes-

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1. ---Your flow gets really repetitive over time, think about changing things up a bit over every couple bars.---

Almost every song I've done since my first album, I have made it a point to switch my flow and delivery up every 4-8 bars. I swear to god haha, if you listen to my songs enough you'll eventually notice that the flow changes a lot. Subtly maybe, but it does change often, as that's something I've consciously made sure to do. But I'll work harder at variety, along with everything else as always.

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2. ---Content. I can see how you came with the personal disses and the punches, but there is no message involved in this, therefore it is nothing more than a lesser track.---

This is a mixtape song. All my upcoming Kill Teqneek album tracks deal with a specific issue or tell a story. But the sole purpose of this is to update people on what I've been up to, and to bring new listeners up to speed. It does exactly what I intended it to do. Although... I did address, in-song, the fact that I edited this so much that the original message was lost (even though it wasn't lost, since I only intended this to serve as an update/introduction to me, why I took a break, and what I've been up to, to this point).

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3. ---One thing I truly despise is unnecessary cussing. You didn't over saturate your track with shallow vocab, but it was still done.---

I've been working so hard at not using filler curse words. But sometimes I want to throw in a dirty word or two anyway, just because that kind of talk is ingrained in both myself and hip hop in general. But if you compare ANY song from my first album to this, you'll see that a random old Teq song has about 25 cuss words in it, and in my new stuff, filler is rare. 2 cuss words (one of them being a non-lyric ad-lib) in a song like this is A-okay in my book.

I thank you for your review though brutha; you brought up some good points, and I definitely want to collab with you sometime in the near future, and possibly on a Kill Teqneek album track.