Show HN: A rap song about the struggles of finishing a side project

[stdoutrap]

Song url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2GT2PCUN3Q

Quick background on the project: I'm a full time programmer and I love making rap music. I see a lot of humor in the profession/industry, and thought it would be fun to combine the two.

I'm always open to feedback on audio quality/topic ideas/ways to get more exposure/etc! I am also open to collaboration with beat makers/videographers/producers!

[default-kramer]

Some feedback that I hope is constructive: Once you have your lyrics, refactor them! For example

"They'll talk about me like one of the greats / I'll be chilling with Bezos and Bill Gates"

could be improved (IMO) to:

"They'll buzz about me like one of the greats / I'll be chilling with Jeff B. and B. Gates"

Introduces wordplay (bees buzz) and internal rhyme ("me" rhymes with "[Jeff] B.") You can usually make these kinds of edits without too much restructuring.

Then, you might replace "chilling" with "drinking" to get a triple entendre since drinking causes a buzz.

Or maybe better, you say "sipping java with Jeff B. and B. Gates" because coffee also gives you a buzz, and you get some wordplay out of "java" (although maybe you don't want to!)

[Existenceblinks]

Dude, I'm glad, at least you are finally shipping songs while I'm still stuck in creating and deleting repos loop. I hate all of my half-ass apps enough for me to delete them

[throwaway413]

Great stuff!

Not affiliated, but my brother uses this to get distribution for his music for free, pretty sure Will.i.am is a cofounder - Amuse (https://amuse.io/free-music-distribution).

[stdoutrap]

Looks like the url isn't clickable (in similarly formatted previous posts, it has been...)

Clickable url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2GT2PCUN3Q

[mapster]

my new side project: Chaingang for hackers.

8 hrs of manual labor in the summer heat of a southern state.

code in the evening hours

the moment you ship, you are released

[inoda]

This had me rolling

[pollux01]

Pivot and turn into a rapper instead and then chill with Jeff B. and B. Gates

[sdan]

I love your music! Hell.js is probably my favorite. Hope you can get on spotify soon.

[sergiotapia]

"Refactoring code that didn't even matter."

I'm personally attacked!

[stdoutrap]

It's ok, we've all been there!

[karmakaze]

Nice shout-out to kill-9 a nerdcore fave.

[stdoutrap]

I was wondering if anybody would catch that! A little homage to some classic nerdcore ;)

[tkjef]

diggin' Prod Bugs. definitely could relate. Opinions is pretty good as well.

[ryanbertrand]

I really love Hell.js and Mess.css

So on point.

[stdoutrap]

Good ol' JS and CSS. Thank you!

[atum47]

Funny and true