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Recently discovered fiverr.com where you pay people $5 to do stuff, and I put it up on there that I would like some lyric videos made for my songs, like the one's on my site mcepitome.com (http://mcepitome.com)

Got one guy who was interested, shipped him the stuff he needed. A couple of days later he sends me the first 45 seconds of a video of exactly what I asked for, so I shipped him $5 for the full video. He said we agreed on $10. Sigh. I send him $5.

I get the e-mail "Thanks for the money :)"

Sigh.

If e-mailed him "That's a lot of effort for $10...wp"

In his reply: "You sound like Eminem... Lolz"

Sigh.

ul man

Lol tar, I guess it was worth the $10 for the epic fail really

Lol wait,

Perhaps I misunderstood.

He just send me the video.

And it isn't a virus.

You know you're jaded when you take someone thanking you for payment as a grim.

Compliments slips must tilt you hard! ;)

LOL, wp James

Lol he increased the font size and it had smiley!

Added with his responses I was certain I was getting grimmed!

Things that are sad here are
1) We now assume evryone is out to grim us demonstrating a horrible lacking in humanity on your part
2) I was kinda dissapointed when it came about you hadn't been grimmed, and I can't figure out why, demonstrating a horrible lack of humanity on my part.

gg us all

Thank you for this thread.

PS

this is not a grim

whres the vid?

There isn't one. He grimmed us.

I'm with Dave, real shame it wasn't a grim considering it wa sonly 10 dorrar.

I feel grimmed now having read this thread.

hahaha

This makes me chuckle everytime I read it!

Surely you have to post the vid now...

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDoisOgBQyo

Quality James

ship me $5 to stars for wasting 30 seconds of my life, kthxbyeeeee

CLASS!

Wicked tune mate!

Was one of your "dope ass plans" really to spend 10 bucks on this vid?

Pretty damn good mate.

Nice, but I wish you didn't sound so similar to Eminem. Do you know MC Tunes? One of Manchester's finest from the mid-nineties. Fatboy Slim sampled MCTunes/Dust Junkys in Gangster Trippin, made a bundle of cash and never paid them a bean for it.  Where's the mofo'ing publishing fatboy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lgSqx-89EE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lgSqx-89EE)

quality Otkins

James thats mint - do you put your voice thru some kind of sampler?

nh

Thanks everyone, guess at least I got myself a cheap plug from my mistake :)

Jon - wtf was that?!!!

Guy - lol, what do you mean?

you're very good, but just wondering why, if you don't want to be compared to eminem and are plugging yourself as a UK artist, you rap in an american accent?  is it simply that rapping like an englishman sounds rubbish?

I really like it.

Would be cool if the person who put the video together for $5 got a credit, or did he not want one?

Hard to answer this, it just kinda comes out how it does. Perhaps because almost all the rap I listen to & like is American. My first couple of tracks I sound more English but also sound weak and crap, so maybe it is that I dunno.

I don't think it's American exactly, for example the word "can't" stands out as very English on one of my songs.

These tracks are all pretty ancient, might try something new when I finally do a new bout of recording.

Tank - he lost his credit when he doubled his fee!

You're totally rhyming in Yank - if Dizzee Rascal can sound English then so can you.

i couldnt decide if it was american or rapper - i went for rapper

james - my original question was based on the fact it just doesnt sound like you  - at all!

Have you never listened to a Tim Westwood show?  All rappers and rapper wannabes talk in a fake american accent.  Its a rap thing.

It's a shame Stars in their Eyes isn't on any more. I was sure that was Eminem.

You mean it doesn't sound high pitched and whiny? :)

my best mate from America is a rapper also

http://www.myspace.com/bignate904

James, when did you last do an MC battle? How would you rate your chances against Professor Green?

I like your lyrics, but think it's a shame that you don't have more interest in UK rap, as you might have ended up with a distinctive sound of your own if you had, rather than sounding almost exactly the same as Eminem.

Nice effort

Just going by my interpretation of the lyrics in the song here obv.

I don't think it's the comparisom with Eminem in and of itself that bothers him, more what usually goes alongside it.

ie, an assumption that he is copying Eminem, emulating Eminem, that he wants to be Eminem. That he doesn't have anything individual to offer of his own, that he is essentially a rap kareoke artist, or writer and performer of Eminem fanfic. That he should go on Stars in Their Eyes as Eminem.

I suspect he's happy enough to sound like Eminem and for people to comment on that, but not at the expense of them not viewing him as being his own distinct artist.

He's writing things relevant to him and not artificially creating high drama ("my tracks about exes aren't wanting them killed") because he thinks that's what rap lyrics should contain.

Fair enough I say, the middle class white British kids doing rap and the whole wigga thing is a well worn narrative and it's tough to break free from the stigma of all that. Maybe it's impossible, (but everythings impossible till somebody does it)
We let middle class white British kids make indie music though, so why can't middle class white British kids who are into into rap use the same kinds of themes that the indie artists use in their music?

That being said, it's a tough sell in this track to break that ground as another of it's themes being the pursuit of fame and all the glory that goes with that.
It's hard not to think wannabe and, while a sepearate thing really, it's easy for the connotations that go alongside this bringing your mind back to the wigga thing and thusly provide negative reinforcement for the stigma that he's trying to fight against.

Chief reason I like it is it's brave enough to be serious. Other rap that's come across my radar screen from guys like MC all seems to go down the comedy route, with quirky lyrics or creating some sort of self-parody. Fair play to this artist for trying to stake a credible position for himself.

I'm not a complete fanboy, the track gets a bit whiny near the end. This was a shame for me as the part where he's aggresively declaring his impending ascencion with 'no more quiet progression' I love but it just doesn't fit well with going on to moan about he can't get the breaks coz he don't live in the London.

Wow dude, that is some pretty sick insight. I wish I could articulate myself this well. Or maybe I did and that's why you got all this.

Thank you for that post tank :) ... perhaps I shouldn't have whined at not living in London, it's more my fault I haven't done more with the rap thing (poker has pretty much dominated my life the last 5 years)

Jon - I've never really had an official battle. I remember getting into my groove dissing some Stoké in the crowd at Uni who was booing one of my performances, and I thought I was going to get decked and snuck out and ran home just before the end of the night. Lol. Not very hip-hop of me. I'd get beaten pretty badly by Professor Green if he's as good as he was a few years ago in some clips I've seen.

Thomas just wants to go on Stars In Their Eyes as Melvyn Bragg, IMHO.

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