3 First Song
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"Oliver, I'm coming home late, don't die" I yell out of a front window at the blond man who was watching TV.
"Sure, I'll order a pizza for myself, then if there's too much heat to eat it," he replied with a scream in his broken voice from smoking so much shit.
Getting into Oliver's van again, I head to a slightly more livable area called 'Street Fast'.
I'm heading there, because when I ordered the equipment for my studio, I also rented a small room to have my small studio, away from the bullets, I want them to at least last until I make my first song.
As I look at the crowded streets, old cars, smell of rust, I grab a pack of cigarettes and light one, while I look at the buildings, to know where my room is.
A few minutes later.
In front of me I see a small deteriorated door, probably with a kick I would fall, taking out the keys that the landlady gave me, I put them in the lock and slowly open the door in fear that it will fall.
*Woman's Cry*
Shit, this door is scary, how can it make such a frightening noise?
I have to buy oil to put on the hinges, or just change them, I'm afraid that there will be a strong wind and the door will go to shit.
*Message sound*
He looked at my cell phone and it is a message from the shipping company, my products are already on the way, as I am now more in this area, they will take a little more than 2 hours to arrive.
In the meantime, I think I'll clean this room a little, and move the little bed and a couple more things.
*huff*
I'm all sweaty, I'll take a small shower and go buy a couple of things to decorate this shit.
When I start bathing, I start to feel fatigue, anxiety, drowsiness.
Don't fuck me, do I already have abstinence from that white shit? A couple of lines wouldn't do so bad, wouldn't they?
"Tsk"
Don't I have the 'Athletic Body' skill? I shouldn't be feeling withdrawal, you know something system?
[Host, by stopping the use of such a substance you will still feel withdrawal, you can consume it, it will not hurt you at all. Remember that abstinence is not only physical, but also psychological.]
So, you are saying that I can consume hallucinogens and hallucinate, and my body will not have any adverse effects apart from said effects of the drug.
This ability is broken, I guess I'll give myself a couple of lines then.
Leaving the bathroom, now clean, I put on clean clothes, I leave the small apartment, more like a room, I go to the van and go to the nearest supermarket.
I have to buy something to eat first, as I won't be coming home with Oliver until the song is over.
Second, utensils, I'm not going to eat with my hands, I didn't fall so low yet to be eating with my hands.
As I walk through the different sections of the supermarket, I get to see a small cactus out of the corner of my eye.
That's right, I'm a fan of cacti, apart from that they don't need much care, they are quite beautiful to decorate.
Paying for all this, 1000CMD is deducted from my bank account. Well, now to go back, they should arrive right away with the equipment for the study.
When I get outside my small apartment, I see a small cargo truck parked.
Getting out of the truck, I greet the gentleman who was leaning against the truck smoking.
I give him a small tip, and he helps me get all the things inside the apartment.
30 minutes later.
Well, everything is installed, I will cook the instant ramen, just a little water in the pot, I put what is inside the ramen bag, along with small spices that it already brings.
With a bowl of ramen on the table, I start thinking about what would be a good song for my debut.
It would have to be an easy simple to make, and that does not cost me much, since I do not have enough time to record.
The 'New Stars' competition will start receiving songs within 1 month, so I have 1 month to produce the whole song.
It must be a popular song from my previous world...
Mmm, I think I know what it will be, just with a few small tweaks in the lyrics it would be perfect.
Lose Yourself – Eminem
It's a perfect single for my debut, it's quite a long song compared to some others, but everything about it is perfect.
The song's lyrics explicitly summarize Eminem's character's background in 8 Mile, B-Rabbit.
The song incorporates several aggressive themes, largely related to the struggles B-Rabbit faces and how he eventually overcomes his many problems and obstacles to earn the respect of other rappers.
I can modify several parts of the lyrics, so that they make more sense to me and the world, since there is no such film here.
I remember every detail of the song by heart, so it wouldn't be too difficult to produce.
Heading to my new laptop, I open a word processor program (Word), and start typing all its handwriting.
A few minutes after writing all the lyrics, I look at some parts where they would not make sense to me, but to Eminem.
Snap back to reality
Oh, there goes gravity
Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked
This part of the lyrics names B-Rabbit, a character that Eminem plays in the movie 8 Mile, should change it a bit, it shouldn't be too difficult and it wouldn't ruin the song.
as we move toward a new world order
This line recounts the end of 8 Mile when Rabbit defeats his three final opponents from the rap battle, all members of a group who call themselves "Leaders of the Free World". He defeats them and is on his way to becoming the king of hip-hop, ushering in a "new world order."
But the main thing, he uses this line as a metaphor to show that he will change the game once he is recognized as the best, as I will be in this new world, so it fits perfectly with my situation.
It only grows harder, homie grows hotter
He blows, it's all over
These hoes is all on him
This is related to the fact that being famous is easy at first, but it becomes difficult/hard just as a corpse stiffens when rigor mortis appears. It could also be said that being famous increases your chances of having an early death when dealing with addictions and other things.
I don't have to worry about dying of addiction, I just have to take care that a bullet doesn't get embedded in my brain.
I've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage
But I kept rhyming and stepped right into the next cypher
Best believe somebody's paying the pied piper
All the pain inside amplified by the fact
That I can't get by with my 9-to-5
This part of the lyrics, I also have to change it, I was never in a battle or a Cypher, so I'll have to do something about it, I don't think the song will be ruined by changing this for something that sounds equally good.
And it's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer
This little line I will also have to take out, since it is nothing related to me, and I cannot put Oliver in that line.
Teeter totter caught up between being a father and a prima donna
I will also have to change this line. Eminem likens the balance between work and family to a seesaw. On the one hand, he has to take care of his daughter Hailie, and on the other hand, he is becoming a superstar.
Prima donna ("First Lady" in Italian) was the term for the opera star. But Eminem is referring to prima donnas who are temperamental and have an inflated view of their talent.
Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got To go, I cannot grow old in Salem's Lot
This other line I will not have to change, since here there is also that classic novel by Stephen King.
Spend an hour and a little more time, editing and making small changes to make sense of the lyrics in this new world.
Well, it's already very late, so I'll go to sleep and tomorrow I'll catch up with the production.
***
10:00 in the morning the other day.
Nng, I don't want to get out of bed, she is too comfortable on this cold day.
After closing my eyes to sleep a while longer, a robotic voice interrupts me.
「Host, I'm telling you one little thing I forgot to tell you about Sucktube.
You must register yes or if, a few weeks before, so that you can upload songs to your channel. If you don't have a set account creation time, you won't be able to upload anything.]
Ugh, who the fuck put that requirement?
Getting up quickly, I put on clothes and once I'm fully dressed, I get dizzy and my vision blurs for a few seconds.
Shit, it's been a long time since I got up quickly to get dizzy.
I make myself a coffee, and I sit in front of the laptop, opening Sucktube, I go to the 'Create channel' section.
Username: Scar
Let's keep it simple, it's a good name for an artist, but if he has a carved face like me.
Password: rc1CTdJo*RO69D5&e!gS
User photo:
Mm, I'll get one right now with my mobile.
I light a cigarette, and with my left hand I take a selfie.
User photo accepted.
Well, channel already created, I'm going to continue with the production of the song, and then I'll have to register the copyright to prevent an Eminem from appearing.
It has a mid-tempo hip hop track with an urgent narrative delivery.
The song's production incorporates piano, drums, violins and other stringed instruments.
Piano chords that are instantly recognizable to anyone open the song. Throughout the song there is a "tense and relentless guitar lick", the song is in the key of D minor.
So several weeks passed, Gael trying to perfectly replicate the song with impressive quality for a newbie.
Oliver visited him several times, and told him that he was a crazy bastard who only knows how to kill people and use cocaine like a professional, that his musical career would last less than a fart.
It makes a lot of sense, but what Oliver doesn't know is that he's not the previous Gael.
Finishing the finishing touches and mastering the song, Gael lit another cigarette, leaned back into the chair he was sitting in and let out a big sigh that came out with a little smoke.
"At last, it is finished, let's hear it once and it will be ready to publish it in the competition"
(The lyrics will be the same as Lose Yourself in the copy and paste. There will be no changes, those who will hear the song, will hear it with the changes.)
[Intro]
Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity
To seize everything, you ever wanted in one moment
Would you capture it, or just let it slip? Yo
[Verse 1]
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs
But he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out
He's choking how, everybody's joking now
The clock's run out, time's up, over, blaow!
Snap back to reality
Oh, there goes gravity
Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that easy, no
He won't have it, he knows his whole back's to these ropes
It don't matter, he's dope
He knows that but he's broke
He's so stagnant, he knows when he goes back to his mobile home, that's when it's
Back to the lab again, yo
This whole rhapsody
He better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him, and
[Chorus]
You better lose yourself in the music
The moment, you own it, you better never let it go (Go)
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
You better lose yourself in the music
The moment, you own it, you better never let it go (Go)
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo You better…
[Verse 2]
His soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping
This world is mine for the taking, make me king
As we move toward a new world order
A normal life is boring, but superstardom's
Close to post-mortem, it only grows harder
Homie grows hotter, he blows, it's all over
These hoes is all on him, coast-to-coast shows
He's known as the Globetrotter, lonely roads
God only knows, he's grown farther from home, he's no father
He goes home and barely knows his own daughter
But hold your nose, 'cause here goes the cold water
These hoes don't want him no more, he's cold product
They moved on to the next schmoe who flows
He nose-dove and sold nada, and so the soap opera
Is told, it unfolds, I suppose it's old, partner
But the beat goes on, da-da-dom, da-dom, dah-dah, dah-dah
[Chorus]
You better lose yourself in the music
The moment, you own it, you better never let it go (Go)
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
You better lose yourself in the music
The moment, you own it, you better never let it go (Go)
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo You better…
[Verse 3]
No more games, I'ma change what you call rage
Tear this motherfuckin' roof off like two dogs caged
I was playin' in the beginning, the mood all changed
I've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage
But I kept rhymin' and stepped right in the next cypher
Best believe somebody's payin' the Pied Piper
All the pain inside amplified by the
Fact that I can't get by with my nine-to-
Five and I can't provide the right type of life for my family
'Cause man, these goddamn food stamps don't buy diapers
And there's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, this is my life
And these times are so hard, and it's gettin' even harder
Tryna feed and water my seed, plus teeter-totter
Caught up between bein' a father and a prima donna
Baby mama drama, screamin' on her, too much for me to wanna
Stay in one spot, another day of monotony's
Gotten me to the point I'm like a snail, I've got
To formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot
Success is my only motherfuckin' option, failure's not
Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got
To go, I cannot grow old in Salem's Lot
So here I go, it's my shot, feet, fail me not
This may be the only opportunity that I got
[Chorus]
You better lose yourself in the music
The moment, you own it, you better never let it go (Go)
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
You better lose yourself in the music
The moment, you own it, you better never let it go (Go)
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo You better…
[Other]
You can do anything you set your mind to, man
***
"I look beautiful, it's ready to be published" I said with a beautiful smile on my face.
While saving the file of the song, and heading to Sucktube to publish it, I realized that something is missing.
A video clip or a cover for the song, I think I'll go with a simple cover, since I don't have enough time to record a video clip.
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