Buy a pair of cheesy sun glasses and shave your head and we'll call you Mr. Worldwide!

I liked all of it, but I liked the part where you rapped in Spanish more.

Yhea because I know how to speak Spanish a little bit better than English

And the music? Man it's funnier with music. I just heard the original song and I think you're actually singing it faster .

Edit:
Man... I was searching for mr worldwide, I didn't know that was the surname or whatever of Pitbull hahaha I have heard about him but nothing else, and he's also called Armando hahahaha WTF?! Now I know what you meant jmasterx, pretty funny! .

Here is only the music, that way Elias can rap too.

AMCerasoli: You seem to have trouble writing rhymes in English. Or perhaps rap just doesn't rhyme in your native tongue. In any case, it sounded quite good when you started rapping in Spanish. At the same time, you did have some clever rhymes in English, but struggled to make them rhyme due to your accent. Maybe we could work together on something (it'll likely fail, but who knows, maybe it'll be fun).

In the meantime, thread steal. Here's a rushed attempt to do Dre's "Forgot About Dre". I screw up a bunch, and I was singing along to the music video so there's a short bit that's missing from Eminem's verse and the ending chorus. I also screwed up a few times, but that's to be expected.

I talk a bunch in the beginning, and I have a big loud fan on right next to me, and amplifying didn't help much since I'm louder later on when I'm rapping. IOW, there's like 2 minutes of me talking that you can barely hear. Skip past it (I start around 2:12) or crank your system up if you want to hear it.

AMCerasoli is the only one in this thread that can rap. Bamcag is exerting all his effort on trying to have a gansta voice.

Jesus Christ, this thread is awful! Get some skills you rubbishes!

You all suck! Iron Butterfly, Steppenwolf and Pink Floyd is where it's at! Now get off my lawn!

Yawn.

I didn't produce the track. That is AMCerasoli's track from earlier in this thread. I just wrote the lyrics, recorded the vocals, and mixed them together.

Still cracked my shell, even if it was a tag-team effort, good work I say

Man! Good job Bam! That recording quality sounds really good! Congratulations, I'll work in the next track! YHEA!

Edit: Trent I don't know why you said that Bam is changing his voice, doesn't look that way to me... But if you think about it, for example when I get angry I know I sound different you know...

I appreciate the acclamation. Thank you.

I think that's a stupid thing to say, but I'm not sure that I understand what he means by it. I'm not really sure what that song is about either, but it sounds like a Christian song and I'm pretty sure that "boasting" is considered sinful, so it seems somewhat self-contradicting.

As for the content of lyrics, it's best when people remain honest. If they're speaking about themselves then it's best that they speak about who they are, what they've been through, and what they know or are familiar with. If that happens to be guns and drugs and street life then so be it. If it happens to be a broken home or a broken heart then so be that. I think that it's OK to exaggerate a bit and rap about who you are inside, or who you'd like to be, as well though. That said, care should be taken to not misrepresent yourself. In particular, music is art, but when you're not performing then care should be taken to be more honest about who you are, I think.

Ultimately people usually listen to music because it feels good. That is usually because it expresses emotion, and allows them to express their own emotions. Sometimes happy, but in my experience mostly sad or angry (I don't really know many happy songs, and more so when I'm happy I usually don't need something to help me express it, nor do I need to express it).

Also, this:

Also, keep in mind that battle rapping is at the core of rap music. Rap has a nature of being adversarial. In many ways rappers are like boxers slinging rhymes instead of punches. Beef in itself isn't necessarily a bad thing, so long as it doesn't spiral out of control, and is ideally restricted to the microphone and kept off of the streets. Some of the best songs are dis tracks. To some extent beefs are just a natural way for rappers to size each other up, similar to how males typically face off in the wild to determine who is dominant. I think that it helps in many ways to improve the art too. It pushes people to do better because their reputation is at stake and people are paying extra attention (especially their adversary, who will jump at the opportunity to point out flaws and weaknesses).

It's not all black and white though (no pun intended..). Not everyone leads the same type of life as you or I. It's not always as simple as you think. I think that most people are ignorant of rap in general and don't understand what they're hearing when they hear it. It's also easy to lose sight of where the line between music and real life is.