Track review: "Every Day" by Infinity Tha rellik

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https://soundcloud.com/isaac-meyer-3/every-day

Hello, @Infinity Tha rellik. Let’s start with presentation. Who do you think your audience is? That little pubic patch covering your triple chin doesn’t make you look good. You should consider removing your image from your rap to get a more fair shake from strangers on Soundcloud.

Song comes up. First thing, you don’t know how to mix your vocals. But I get it; you’re doing this on the cheap. That’s why the beat is so simple and also needs to be mixed. The first sign of a total amateur is that tinny sound that dominates these drums.

Then you start rapping. First, let’s look at the lyrics:

“I’m a motherfucking beast on the microphone.
You could all run and hide and then die alone.
Think the Lord’s showing favor, you might be wrong.
I can get you anywhere, even inside your home.”

Honestly, I thought this was a bad hook until you kept going. It’s so simplistic that it made me think you were starting with your garbage hook, something that could be repeated, rather than an actual verse attempting to brag. First, you know how you had to speed up awkwardly at the end of the last line? That’s because you needed to balance your syllables. That wasn’t Ludacris dropping a quick double-time. That was “Oh, shit, this line is two syllables too long for the beat” as though you never realized it in the 85 times you practiced this shit in the mirror before grabbing your iPhone headset to record it. A more glaring point where this happen is when you say “That’s why rap is easy and I’m deadly as cancer.” Along with that line not making any sense, it actually would have flowed properly if you had changed it to “rap’s easy” instead of “rap is easy.” They mean the same thing.

As far as your delivery, it improves as the track goes. You sound like a feeble little bitch to start, like you’re sweating at community college rec center open mic night having never performed before. But you start to figure out how to be a little confident, which is unjustified because the lyrics and flow continue to be bad.

For a song with the attempted quasi-hook of “I do it for the city every day,” you really don’t seem to be putting on for your city at all. Young Jeezy did a song with a similar theme. His song not only was 931 times better than yours, but it also embodied Atlanta rap. That’s his city. He showed us, rather than just telling us.

But the biggest thing here is all this bravado. To use Jeezy as an example again, his delivery really makes you believe him. He swaggers. Even when your delivery perks up, you sound like you might be able to pass if your lyrics were smart. Instead, it’s a lot of very nonspecific tough talk that is neither clever nor original in any way. No one believes you. Actually, I take that back. Someone believes you. You said it yourself, though:

“If it’s just me, then it makes it even sadder.”