VPCIII Round 2 Tie Breaker Challenge!

Superstition!

This is the Tie Breaker for Round 2 of the VPC
What’s the Challenge?
Write a song about a, or many, superstitions.  The production will be sample driven featuring Stevie Wonder’s Superstition.  The track will be short, sweet, punch hard, and leave the judges wanting to listen to it on repeat.  Go hard or go home on this.  This is the three-way tie breaker.

Producer: Stevie Wonder’s Superstition is one of the greatest funk pieces out there.  Long instrumentals, horns, bass, piano, a good drumline.  It is your job to scrape through youtube.com, snag samples of the original, covers, etc, and add your own flavor.  Also, this track can neither be shorter than 60 seconds, or longer than two minutes.  Keep your production tight, just as your vocalist will have to keep their verses moving in this chorus-less challenge.  


Vocalist: A hookless verse of continued bars.  16?  24?  32?  The song’s beat and melody should snag the audience just fine.  Time to feature your MC abilities on flow, change ups, and generally keeping a verse interesting with whatever tricks you deem necessary.  The only two requirements:  The track MUST be about a superstition(s) and the track cannot have a hook.  


When putting this together, feel free to rip anything down from youtube you need to recreate it, however, your sample sources must be submitted and you can ONLY sample from the original track, live performances, covers, and instrumentals of Stevie Wonder’s Superstition.  No other samples are allowed.  


Below are some examples of youtube rip-able joints
Have fun!
Original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5jtV9fypMw
Drumless Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-OSxQUTSkw
Weird Bass Cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrwrOhb42nU
Acoustic Guitar Cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l56fIQiAYGo
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introducing neals, by ytcracker.
24 track album
#album #ytcracker
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Round 2 Results are in!

We had very very INTERESTING results in this round of the VPC. I present to you, our winners of this round, with a three way tie for first place:

Shubzilla & Lex Lingo - 24 Hours
Team Krunktaku - Boxes
Whoremoans & Navi - Good English

But who takes the “Best of Round” Prize?!?! Well, no one YET. Our teams have agreed to a tie breaker lightning round. We will be announcing a challenge to our three teams on Friday at 5pm PST, and they will then have until Sunday at 11:59PST to provide us with their tiebreaking track.

It’s getting exciting up in here. Stay tuned for more details on Friday!

Results can be seen at goo.gl/RB862k

There are two tabs in this spreadsheet. In the first tab, you will see the results of round 2, including judges scores, feedback, public vote scores and placement in this round. On the second sheet you will see overall team placement in the competition so far (combined Round 1&2 scores).

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Round Three Challenge

Round Three: Nerdcore 101


Overall Theme:  We all know that Nerdcore, as a whole, is full of the intellectual types.  Now it’s time to show off your brains!  In this challenge, we’re asking that you teach the judges a thing or two.   That’s right.  You need to teach me how to _________________.     We want to hear you educate us, and by the time we’ve finished listening through all these tracks, we hope to come away just a little bit smarter because of you.

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VPCIII Round One Top 5!

In the style of VH1, where going to bring you the count down to our number 1 Round One track from VPC Round One:  Fandom at it’s finest.  


Coming in at number 5, we have a tie - this tie is between 
One-Up & Ohm-I - Every Dang Day (Dr Mario)
Navi & Whoremoans - Good Training (Edge of Tomorrow)

Wanna listen?  Take a gander here

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3 weeks ago | View Full Post

VPC Round One Winner Announced!

We here at the VPC are VERY HAPPY to announce the winner of Round One - it was a CLOSE race guys - The VPC playlist has had almost 4000 plays this week.

The winning track finished with a whopping 44/50 possible points in this round. A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS goes to

B.A.T. XoMilk - To The Finish

Congratulations XoC and Milk Plus!

To see your rankings, as well as judges scoring and notes, please see the Round One Results sheet below.

goo.gl/a6Q0qE 

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VPCIII Round One Voting

VPCIII Round One voting is now live!

Please visit vpc3.tumblr.com to see the 36 tracks that are currently up and available to be voted on!

The voting system uses a scale of 1-5, voters scores will later be rationalized and added in with the judges score to give you your overall score of 1-50.

Voting will remain open until October 13th, 6:00pm EST, and the winner will be announced at 10pm EST on October 13th.

Each track is it’s own individual Tumblr post, please feel free to click the bottom left share button (Box with an error) and choose to share on the social media of your choice, or create a perma link.

We have tried to be as thorough as possible in all of our testing - any questions or concerns, please address through the usual channels.

We have also created a downloadable zip of all the songs in this challenge for those that want to listen on their media devices offline, and you can find the dropbox link here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q7almmn3losp33x/VPCIII-RoundOne.zip?dl=0

Thank you all for participating, and happy voting!

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Round Two Challenge

Round Two: Nerd Life

Overall Theme:  This is a track about the reality of your life as a nerd.  Media defines our geeky selves in very stereotypical and often times caricatured ways.  What is it like being you as a geek?  What was it like?  Were there good days?  Where is your community?  Playing the part of a character can be a real escape, but hip hop, and much music in general, is rooted in the experiences, struggles, and successes of the artists that make it.  Forgive me for this following sentence.  Let’s keep it real in round two, teams!

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Navi - Interrobang

https://www.facebook.com/YourLocalNavi

www.twitter.com/YourLocalNavi

#album #Navi
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Round One Deadline reminder: October 5th11:59PM PST!

Round one is soon coming to an end! Here’s your friendly reminder on what to do when your track is finished. 

All tracks must be emailed to vocalprod3@gmail.com, in mp3 format. Please name your file artist/teamname - songname.mp3 

Please further include both the artist / team name and song name in the email to myself. An autoresponder has been setup on the account for October 5th for you to receive confirmation of receipt of your track. 

All tracks MUST be in no later than 11:59PST on October 5th, 2014 to be entered in Round One. 

If you have any questions/concerns/thoughts or feedback, please feel free to email vocalprod3@gmail.com, message the Nerdcore VPC facebook page, contact myself directly via facebook (www.facebook.com/tyefighter) or of course, post in the forums. 

Goodluck, and we look forward to hearing your best!

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