Xydrok - Cupid's Requiem: You Know Who You Are

[xydrok]

Finally finished the mixtape (Unless i make some 2-disc directors cut or something lol)

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c132/vgplaya89/CupidsRequiem.jpg

1.Prologue *
2.Open Your Eyes*
3.Young Love*
4.It's Like That... See More
5.All Good Things....(Interlude)*
6.Denial
7.Solonggoodbye (ft Squanto and Sono)
8.Fallen Angels
9.That's An Empty Life (Intermission w/Jerry Springer)
10. John Gray
11. Cupid's Requiem/Shoot Cupid (working titles)
12.Drifting Out Of Consciousness
13.Why I Dont Check My Voicemail (skit ft Milk Sugar)
14. #1 Fan
15. Final Thoughts
16.Happilyeverafter
17. Roll Credits
Bonus Tracks:
18. I Hate Twilight
19. Make The Song Cry
20. Baby Dont Do It!

http://www.4shared.com/file/_yVLihEU/Xydrok_-__Cupids_Requiem.html

[The Dan Sandwich]

Just listened to it all the way through, and first off I have to say it took a lot of balls to put this together and put it up. Tons of respect for what you've done here.

However, I feel like you may have rushed it out a bit too soon. I know you've been working on this forever but some of the tracks noticeably needed some more work. And you might want to consider getting guest vocalists to handle the singing or get some lessons, because your voice was really hard to listen to. Which is a shame, because your lyrics and rapping are really solid. It might have profited from excluding a few tracks and using the time to hone the others.

I did really like it for the most part, though. As I said before, your lyrics are really good. Relate-able and you could really tell you were into it, which is really important. Your flow is excellent and you were easy to understand, which helped the lyrics stand out even more.

Overall, really impressive, especially considering you did this mostly on your own. I wish you would have put the Haiti song on here, because I think that was one of your best. Keep up the good work, dude!

[xydrok]

Thanks for the honest critique, Dan. I do agree about the singing vocals looking back. I probably coulda gone the autotune route but didn't really want to lol. probably gonna lay off hooks and stuff. on my next tape im planning to have alot more features, maybe including some guest vocalists.

then on Number One Fan, I was gonna take that track out originally but it felt kinda integral to the flow of the concept. I had alot of problems with the program on that instrumental for some reason, so i felt it wouldnt come out perfect no matter what i did. lol. my next tape(s) are probably gonna be a natural progression from CR, and a more street/lyrical/hardcore/agressive one.

Howd you like the skits?

[The Dan Sandwich]

They were fine. I generally view skits and things of that nature as filler. But they didn't detract from the entirety of it, so it worked.

I kind of lul'd at when you were listing off the different ways to follow you, but that kind of stuff is hard to do otherwise, haha.