Listened to all three, and here’s my critique since you asked.

First of all: Emote. EMOTE, I say! It’s crucial in all music, but especially when rappin.

And don’t use reverbnation as your primary way to link people to your music, get a soundcloud or bandcamp page. Most bloggers/writers/promoters/journalists won’t even bother to click a RN link. I usually don’t either, I just don’t have shit else to do at the moment. Their entire business model is created on duping naive musicians, plus the site is really buggy, and generally shitty.

As for mastering, it’s not a huge deal-breaker to have your stuff unmastered, especially if you don’t expect any radio play. However, you can look up youtube tutorials on the topic, and there’s plenty of things to read. Just get each song sounding the same at least. It’s probably the hardest part of making music, but it’s worth learning. Pay attention to details like taking out background noises as well, like the rumble of your hand moving on that plastic microphone. (Oh yeah, I know that sound all too well.)

Other than that, just stay true to yourself, and keep working at it, I’ve found that’s really the only musical advice that matters apart from learning the technical things.

scruffy said

Hideous said  
And don’t use reverbnation as your primary way to link people to your music, get a soundcloud or bandcamp page. Most bloggers/writers/promoters/journalists won’t even bother to click a RN link. I usually don’t either, I just don’t have shit else to do at the moment. Their entire business model is created on duping naive musicians, plus the site is really buggy, and generally shitty.    

agreed.  

agree more or less with the rest, too.  

In all fairness I do have somewhat “unique” views on music, and the process of making it.

sounds like you put no effort into it

vocals sound boring with no emotion

it doesn’t matter if the lyrics have a deep meaning, if it doesn’t sound good then it’s pointless

think of it as dramatically speaking in rhyme form

Turna Fraze said
Thanks everyone. Since posting this I did some critical listening of my songs. And I agree, it sucks. Not completely. I still think my lyrics are on the right track… But I can’t recall getting a lobotomy. I did some toying with my vocals and re recorded two of the songs. Neither are there yet but a far step above where they were. Thanks for the blunt and straightforward advice.

practice practice practice.

just keep at it and youll get better.

check out jiffy long for example, when he got here his stuff was slightly below mediocre, but in a short time he has pumped up his game and is killing it.

Get yourself a soundcloud and start checking out other forum artists, we are all a relatively cool bunch, just dont expect sugar coating hahaha. if you half ass it people will come down hard on you.

if you wanna work with other artists most of us are always down for a bit of fun.

shameless plug time:

This is the most recent FLH collab, i put this together with a few of the homies. always down to fux with people and i got a plethora of jacked beats, mainstream and underground.

i actually wanna get down with @chunk801 on a hella scratching track. 

dudes a fucking beast. do some old school funk shit.

@novocaine Im down man

chunk801 said
@novocaine Im down man

@turna-fraze ^^ see that. thats how it happens, target someone and say ‘ sup bro wanna fucks with me”

@chunk801 i shall keep shit in mind and let you know. im swamped atm but itll be soon.