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geohot / tomcr00se

• General info
  • SoundCloud - tomcr00se
  • It seems that he's rapping over free beats rather than ones he created.
• The good
  • Overall, he is actually not bad.
  • He has problems in his writing and delivery, but he also is much better than most professional raps at trying to say something new.
  • He's good at actually sounding earnest in his performances, although some might say it borders being on melodramatic / too self-serious.
    • 'it was called the cold war...' - 3:30
• The bad
  • His lyrics often don't reinforce the beat but instead rely on the accompaniment to maintain the listener's sense of what the beat is.
    • For example, it seems like at times he has too many pauses in his rap.
    • He'll also do the common thing of forcing too many syllables into a given span of time, which makes the syllables no longer follow the beat.
  • It seems like he doesn't always enunciate as clearly as is possible.
    • Examples:
      • it was called the cold war because russia is cold
        • 0:21 - 'when' in 'when pokemon cards taught me how to hustle'
        • ''romances' in 'it was called the cold war because russia is cold'
• Songs
  • 5AM in Silicon Valley
    • Lyrics
      • I

        i got the house to myself

        , I

        
        i can

        finely

        finally rap alone

        .

        
        

        Back

        back in

        Jersey

        jersey for the holidays

        , I

        
        i don't think

        I

        i can call it home

        .

        Started

        started a company this year

        ,

        
        this is straight from the

        Valley Throne

        valley throne:

        
        

        it sucks

        .

        The

        the only voice left at the party
        is

        tellin'

        telling me that

        I

        i shoulda known

        :

        
        

        'You're

        your 27 and never grown

        ,

        
        and what

        ya

        you think

        :

        / you get to the top / and

        you're

        your less alone

        ?'

        
        

        'All

        all the pressures and

        stresses

        stressors and headaches

        ,

        
        you wake up and feel great

        ?'

        Nah–you

        nah, you stagnate

        ,

        
        and flip a shit when your

        Uber

        uber's

        three

        3 minutes late

        .

        
        

        Can

        and can you still make fun of fat people
        when your BMI is overweight?
        

        I

        i sorta of feel like

        I

        i'm

        outta

        out of place

        .

        A

        a year goes by

        ,

        you look around

        ,

        
        you're down in the shitter

        .

        
        

        So

        so down you can't be fucked
        if they call you a quitter

        .

        
        

        A

        a loser, a little bitch
        who didn't deliver
        by the type of guy

        who comments

        
        who comments and gets triggered

        .

        If

        if that's the test
        then

        I

        i didn't prepare

        .

        
        

        Lookin'

        lookin kinda stupid

        , standin'

        standing in my underwear

        .

        
        

        Should I

        should i rock

        Chris

        chris and be never scared

        ? Or

        
        or leave there for somewhere
        

        Is

        is this feeling just here

        ? Or is it–
        Everywhere

        
        or is it -- everywhere?

        from the ass of my chair shit

        -

        talkin

        ', I

        
        i lost a girl

        I

        i love this year

        .

        
        

        Now I

        now i date myself like

        I

        i'm crip

        -walkin'.
        (...)

        walkin
        and i might sound like drake
        but i miss the old you and the old us
        when we lived in the closet like harry potter
        guess there never was much trust
        i just want to save us from the future
        but you never loved yourself
        and i never saw where you holed up

        i got a lot of thoughts to think on the train home
        i wonder if younger me would be proud of me
        he never doubted me, we made choices
        and tried our best to drop out
        lets get him loud on these words now

        is there a place for people
        who actually wanna change the world?
        and don't just wanna make a buck
        and market shit to boys and girls
        and fill the ads with products
        that are just out of their reach and so
        they're depressed and you can sell em fuckin lexapro

        in conclusion
        society's for suckers
        and if you still put in work
        you're a stupid motherfucker

    • Good
      • He doesn't make good use of the intro period, where you can talk while the listener gets used to the accompaniment.
      • The quality of the recording of his voice is pretty good. It may not be capturing the bass of his voice as much as it could be.
      • ~1:20 - He does a gradually-increasing tone on a particular line.
      • The accompaniment he chose seems like a good choice for the mood his lyrics seems to be going for.
    • Bad
      • He repeats the same kind of rhythm for three lines in a row at the beginning, but they don't feel connected enough to make it sound like a unified whole.
      • He jumps between different topics in a way that's jarring.
  • it was called the cold war because russia is cold
    • The lyrics
    • Bad Bad
      • He's out-of-tune when he sings the chorus, the mic quality is bad, his voice doesn't seem as prominent as it should be relative to the accompaniment, and he doesn't seem to have spent any time cleaning it up in his audio software. (2:29)
      • It seems like he doesn't always enunciate as clearly as is possible.
        • Examples:
          • it was called the cold war because russia is cold
            • 0:21 - 'when' in 'when pokemon cards taught me how to hustle'
            • ''romances' in 'it was called the cold war because russia is cold'
  • i'm disgusted by this place i should leave
    • The lyrics:
      • I

        i guess

        I

        i rolled over

        , I

        i've grown up and

        I

        i'm mostly sober
        

        Childhood's

        childhoods over and so's my hope for closure
        

        Taylor Swift–I

        taylor swift i'll never get to hold her

        .

        
        

        Adulthood

        adulthood is a

        pale

        pail of

        shift

        shit that it's your job to deal with

        ,

        it'll have you on your knees quick

        .

        
        

        Try 'n

        try and say you're excited

        , 

        
        but don't just think it, feel it

        . Can you let(?)

        
        can you still when the years slip

        ?

        Why

        why not?

        'Cuz

        
        cause you're all grown up

        . But

        
        and when you ask

        (???) 

        why to that it's

        'cuz

        cause
        you're all grown up

        .

        Bunch

        bunch of fascists

        ,

        smashin

        '

        the pleasure

        -

        centers of animals
        with

        the

        a universal human right to

        be happy–hold

        be happy
        hold on to your right to feel crappy

        .
        Straight talka, jay-walka,

        straight talker j walker
        move through the streets like a

        New-Yorka
        Blue(?) blacka(?) to(?) blocks(?) that's Chewbacca

        new yorker
        blue blocka two blocks up it's chewbacca
        with a huge cock

        .

        
        

        It

        it's all cool except it's not true

        . Breakthroughs. Grab

        
        breakthroughs
        grab soma and take two

        (?)

        
        

        It

        it's a bad omen

        ,

        it feels like a

        war's comin',

        wars coming
        and most of our brave new world

        is fake news.

        is FAKE NEWS

    • Good
      • The title helps the listener understand that the main idea of the song seems to be that geo is 'disgusted'.
    • Bad
      • The lyrics are mostly impossible to decipher, and may actually be meaninglessI found most of the lyrics impossible to decipher from his performance alone. Later I noticed he had posted the lyrics underneath the song on its page.
        • "I guess I rolled over" - "Rolled over" isn't an idiom I'm familiar with.
        • "Childhood's over and so's my hope for closure" - Closure about what?
      • Different aspects of the song seem to be working against each other w/r/t the emotion they seem to be trying to create.
        • The song's accompaniment and his tone of voice suggest that the song should make you feel sad with/for him, but then he says something ridiculous like suggesting that one thing he's sad about is that he isn't going to be able to fulfill his dream of dating Taylor Swift.
      • The title of the song suggests that there's a "place" that he may be able to "leave", but then the actual song seems to be talking about adulthood(?). So the title is obscure as well.

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