hundreth wrote:To all you hip hop lovers, I wanted to introduce you to an app I built called Rhymer's Block. Gives you real time rhyme suggestions as you type and a cloud based rhyme book to keep them safe in. There's even a social network to share your work and get feedback.
Mods, please let me know if I'm violating any terms. Thanks.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rhymers ... 84182?mt=8
Please let me know what you think!
No offense to you. I think its really cool that you built this. But this makes me feel worse than fruity loops did. Its like a pinch runner. If you cant complete the task you out the game for someone else that can. An artist using a computer or app to do the actual "creative" part, is not an artist. Ghost writers are bad enough. A dude gets caught spitting a rhyme his smart phone made for him is fraud.
Back when I used to do my music thing, if you in a cypher and catch a dude claiming to free style, spitting familiar rhymes, he got clowned out of the cypher in shame. Things have changed so much that now a free style is just something they wrote but havnt put to wax yet. Its acceptable now unfortunately.
But if computers are going to do the thinking and creating might as well stop signing "artists" and let the computers have music sense its the machine that is actually the artist.
Nothing personal. I hope you have great success with your app. I really do. Thats really clever and I would not have the slightest idea where to even begin to build something like you did. Its just that I have always had a issue emcees deceiving people.
Of the 5 original elements of hip hop only one remains. Rapping. So if the computers are making the rhymes take the rappers out back and put them down. I would rather the computers took whats left of my culture and get credit for it than some poser connecting the dots on his iphone.
Either that or you need to look into getting a album credit and collecting royalties if your app writes a hit song (s) for somebody posing as the creator.
