I Hate Rappers - Sensitive

I hate rappers. I know I review rap albums all the time, doesn't stop me from hating them. There's so many reasons not to associate with rappers and almost all of them do at least one of these things. I'm going to give you a list of things myself and most others hate about rappers. If you're a rapper, you can use this to your advantage. If you're not a rapper, laugh at it, then send it to a rapper so they get the point.

The most annoying thing about rappers is when they try to give you their music. I know that sounds odd but let me explain. There's a few different ways to give some one your music. The easiest and best way, just ask someone to listen. That's it, just say "Hey, would you give my music a listen?" That's the easy way and 99% of the time it'll get you a yes. But that's too difficult. Instead rappers take to twitter and facebook to assault every person they see with links to their music. Random people they've never had any interactions with getting strange links from strange people. It's not cool. It's weird. I still might check it out, unless I see all you do is spam random people with links to your music. That's not okay, ever, you need to be banned from twitter. I don't even have the motivation to spam hundreds of people with my articles. How do you take the time to spam hundreds, sometimes thousands of people with your music? It's incredible. I admire your determination, but this is not a correct way to apply it.

Unsolicited music is a big annoyance. I ask for music on the regular, because I review music. Before I ever started doing that I would already get tons of mixtapes and singles from rappers I had never heard of. I wasn't even asking in the past and still got dozens of them. If it annoyed me, imagine how others must have feel. If you think that's all that annoys me about rappers you're wrong.

In all honesty, some of you need to humble yourselves. I get it, everyone wants to be the greatest. The problem is so many of you carry yourselves as if you already are the greatest. Some rappers seem to think that once they've managed to amass 10,000 soundcloud plays or 1000 twitter followers, they're now Nas or Jay Z. Rappers will consciously tell other rappers how to do something they themselves have never done. So many times rappers think they're on a higher level than other rappers or just people in general because of some small accomplishment. Feel good about yourself by all means, just know arrogance will make people avoid you and your music.

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! I hate when rappers type in all caps just to let you know "I GOT THAT NEW HOT FIRE!" I don't even know you, why would I care if you managed to capture hot fire in a bottle? Only for me to learn that they've actually recorded a new single and are just spamming it to 100s of people hoping someone will click the link. Why do you feel the need to type in all caps? Would you approach a person on the street by yelling at them to listen to your music? Most likely your parents taught you better than that, so why would you "yell" at us? This is getting long and I'm still not out of things I hate about rappers.

Rappers can't take criticism. We do our best to give constructive criticism on everything, we don't just tell you that your music is bad. We're not here for that. But rappers can't take that criticism and usually tweet about reviews. Some examples. One artist got a 4 on the site. Initially his score was going to be higher, but he actually lied to us and said it was his first mixtape. We said it was repetitive, lacked substances, all of the tracks were on similar instrumentals and there was no flow whatsoever. Even with all that, he got constructive criticism. He in turn let us know that it was his actually 5th mixtape and we were just haters. He proceeded to unfollow me and send links to all 4 of his other mixapes. I had to block him. I didn't even review that mixtape, why is he mad at me?

Another artist just called me a hater because I said he shouldn't have tried to sing so much on his album. Funny thing is, I'm not the only reviewer who said that. I'm just the only one who put a score to it. Scores apparently cause some problem around here. So lets break it down. First, we score different categories 1-10. We average those and that's your final score. All of the categories are weighted equally, so if you get a 9 in one category, and a 6 in another, it's going to drop the score. That's just how averages work. The final score is what causes rappers to get mad, so I've gone ahead and created a chart.

As you can see, if you're above a 6 you're not bad, just average. But, rappers don't want ever want to hear that they're average. This goes back to what I said earlier about being humble.  Don't take average as a bad thing. Look at saying that there's some things you can do to improve, and we probably mentioned them in the review already. You have to be absolutely horrible to get below anything below a 6 and we don't give out a lot of flat 6s. Someone isn't a hater just because they don't agree that you're the greatest, especially when they give you ways to improve.

I really wish I was done, but I'm not. A lot of rappers don't take their craft seriously. Some rappers get a copy of  Fruity Loops, never look at a tutorial and assume they're creating golden instrumentals. Then they get their laptop mic and expect studio quality. I'm not saying you can't get good quality at home because I've seen it done. But here's some advice. Save some money, buy studio time. You don't need to go to a high class recording studio. You can get studio time for $30-50 an hour in most cities. Sure, there are some places that charge upwards of $200 but you don't need them. When you go to the studio here's what you do. Have your instrumentals selected, have your verses practiced beforehand, go straight to the booth and record as many songs as you can. Salaam Remi is a legendary producer, do you know what he said the biggest time waster is? Rappers come in the studio, smoke weed or drink, pick their instrumentals, write something and then go record. They run out of time and end up with a poor quality song because they weren't about business when they came in. You can easily knock out 6 4 minutes songs in an hour if you have it practiced and planned out.

But here's the problem, they won't take the time to spend money on good home equipment and they won't save the money to buy studio time either. Do you know why? Because it's rare that you actually care about your craft. So many artist are hoping to make a quick buck. Why would I buy something you clearly put no effort into? It's easy to tell when an artist puts no work in. They won't take the time to develop themselves as an individual artist. Instead, they'll just copy what's hot at the moment. I'm not throwing shade but ever since Richie Branson got paid for #BringBackToonami there's been an incredible increase in the amount of anime rappers. I'm not saying there haven't been people who rapped about anime before, but there's a lot more now. That aspect of the nerdcore sub-genre exploded. But it's not just nerdcore, almost every artist from Chicago sounds like Chief Keef now. Why do you think Chance The Rapper made it big recently? He doesn't sound like everyone else.

Now, I know I've said a lot, but that doesn't mean I hate rap music. I love it. I just hate majority of rappers. I've said a lot about what not to do, let me give you some options to send people your music. Build a Relationship: Start a conversation with a person, interact with them for a while then say "Hey, could I send you my music," and you know what? It'll work. Send a Really Nice Email: Don't send me an email with all caps or just a link to your club flier with no actual music. Tell me something about yourself as artist and the project. Guess what? This works well too. Don't call Blerds Online lame, then send me your music, that doesn't work. Don't insult people while attempting to get people to listen. "Hey you're a nerd, listen to my anime raps" has to be the most disrespectful thing I've heard.

Now, with all that said, if you still want someone here at Blerds Online to hear your music send a nice email to blacknerdonline@gmail.com

You can hear Darrell on the CP Time and Powerbomb Jutsu podcasts. He also plays classic arcade games on The Cabinet
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