This is it. The time is now.
All the planning, all of the training, all of the sacrifices you've made have all been for this. Hours writing bars, mixing stems and vocals, animating. And now…

Everyone wants to take it from you.

Will you let them? Will your legacy be snatched by someone else, or will you be the main character in this story?
It's up to you.

But make no mistakes -- you aren't the hero.
But are you the sidekick? An antihero? The villain? The talking sword? The white whale? The Bebop? Someone else? That's up to you.

Anything But the Hero Challenge Criteria:
3 minute maximum length

Vocalist Challenge(s):
must rap from a fandom perspective that is NOT the hero
must use multis

Producer Challenge(s):
must use vocalist sfx or clip built into the beat
must sample the source material

Artwork Challenge:
Fan Art!

VPC7 Round One - Anything But the Hero

Fandom: MST3K
Character: Dr Clayton Firebrand Forrester

IN THE NOT TO DISTANT FUTURE
NEXT SUNDAY AD
this doctor stiched and sutured
cause someday maybe
I'll find the perfect movie
to widdle it your soul down
dont clown and jiggle it 
idiot control now 

come on with it we dont stress
monolitchic vhs
gamera barugon
the era that you on

you can tell i'm daddy-o
kim katrels my baddie tho

only with the deepest hurtin
pearl and mike keepin flirtin

there was a guy named joel
there WAS a guy named joel
there was a guy named joel
there was a guy

sidehackers fly by rocketship x-m
arm stretchin predilection
steeve reeves flexin  
digitate and falangeate you
manos the hands of fate ya space ape

crawling hand creepin
the eye creatures peepin
features for these cretins
deep hurting deep deepens
lazer blast fast past ya injure
cant outlast the master ninjure

uber braggin stupour saggin out the station wagon
secret agent super dragon protaggin


IN THE NOT TO DISTANT FURUTE NEXT SUNDAY 
TWO WARRIORS ARE LOCKED IN A BATTLE BEYOND TERRESTRIAL COMPREHENSION
DOCTOR CLAYTON FIREBRAND FORRESTER
USES HIS INVENTIONS TO OUTWIT AND BEGUILE
THE UNSCRUPULOUS JOEL AND HIS TOMFOOLISH CROW-NIES  
ALL FOR ONE SIMPLE, HUMBLE QUEST FOR WORLD DOMINATION

VPC 7 Round 1

KKMDS [Ill Gill, Thugmasta J] - There was a guy named Joel

Fandom: Chrono Trigger
Charater: Random Cave Guy # 2*

[Verse 1]


Ayla from Ioka
You're the cream to my mocha
You're my sugar and my safety
Take your soup to elevate me
Ayla from Ioka I just want you to see me
Party like it's 65 million BC
Ayla from Ioka
You're the cream to my mocha
You're my sugar and my safety
Take your soup to elevate me
Ayla from Ioka I just want you to see me
Party like it's 65 million BC

[Chorus]

You drink your caveman soup
You drink your caveman soup
You drink your caveman soup
You drink your caveman soup

[Verse 2]

Chrono come alive like it's 1995
Like it's 1995 and the dance floor is calling
Chrono come alive like it's 1995
Like it's 1995 and the dance floor is calling
Chrono come alive like it's 1995
Like it's 1995 and the dance floor is calling
Chrono come alive like it's 1995
Like it's 1995 and the dance floor is calling

Chorus]

You drink your caveman soup
You drink your caveman soup
You drink your caveman soup
You drink your caveman soup

Häagen Dûdz [Johnny Salt, DJ Lemon Pepper] - 65 Million Years BC

Fandom: Baki
Character:  Yujiro Hanma 

Yujiro
(Demon In The Back)


Intro/Bridge:
I think y’all funny/ I like y’all bloody/
I keep my shoes muddy/ Shit bout to get ugly/
Ima lion out the cage and i’m feelin jah hungry/
A savage for the ages, here to take my money/

Hook: 2x
Bitch I ain’t no hero, 
(Demon In The Back)
They call me Yujiro/
(Demon In The Back)
Alias is Ogre/
(Demon In The Back)
 Against me then its over/ 
(Demon In The Back)

Verse1: 
Kill all of your soldiers, ima one man army/
You can try to use guns, y’all weapons can’t harm me/
If you think you can stop me, than we can party/
This is not sparring, I am not Baki/
It could be karate, it will be boxing/
When the pain hits you, it is not stopping/
If you do not know me, than do not approach me/
I’ll tear out your eye just like Doppo Orochi/
You bleeding out slowly, and laying below me/
Said you was a fighter you gotta be joking/
Looks to me like you need way more experience/
Traveled the world, spread out my lineage/ 
Winnings continuous, 
Fuck all your titles, I beat all the Kios, 
Bitch, I am Survival!/





Bridge:
I think y’all funny/ 
(Demon In The Back Bruh)
I like y’all bloody/
(Demon In My Back Ya’ll)
I keep my shoes muddy/ 
(Demon In The Back Tho)
Shit bout to get ugly/
(Demon In The Back Yo)
Ima lion out the cage/
(Demon In The Back)
And i’m feelin jah hungry/
(Demon In The Back)
A savage for the ages/
(Demon In The Back)
Here to take my money/
(Demon In The Back)


Hook: 2x
Bitch I ain’t no hero, 
(Demon In The Back)
They call me Yujiro/
(Demon In The Back)
Alias is Ogre,
(Demon In The Back)
 Against me then its over/ 
(Demon In The Back)
Bitch I ain’t no hero/
They call me Yujiro/
Alias is Ogre/
Against me then its over/





END

VPC7, Round 1

Green Lotus [Osiris Green, RiotOnTheBeat] - Yujiro

Fandom: Death Note 
Character: Ryuk

Hook:


I'm so bored/ I'm so bored
There's nothing to do in this realm that I haven't done before


I'm so bored/ I'm so bored
The world we live in is rotten to its apple core




V1


All we do is gamble, walk around in shambles
with no life, no light, no trees, no apples
I sit and lurk on this rock amongst desert, dirt and rot
until I work up this plot, to stir up the pot/


Happen to be, casually, walking by this portal
and sort of, dropped my Death Note, accidentally
silly me, I'll have to leave the decay, gray and gloom and
pay a vacay down into the world of thee humans/


Ryuk is the name-o, intrigue is the game so
I'll take any sort of outcome if it isn't the same old -
same - I soared off this ledge down this vortex
I'm immortal and yet being bored all to death/


I need drama, surprise, not my problem who dies
my Shinagami eye spies this Light Yagami guy
I've been consumed with listlessness but he's listing things;
Hmmmm.... humans are so interesting/


Hook


V2


I've been a Shinagami for years, here's what I got for ya
I wrote rules to this book in English cause it's popular
a step-by-step instruction before you rush in
and keep your game on track while you write names in that/


First, and this is obviously what's in store
the human who is scribbled on the page will hit the morgue
but when you write the name, picture their visage
so individu-als with the same name aren't being written/


next is, a lesson, for the adepted, you can spece-
-fi a cause of death within 40 seconds
if that part is not attested, the result is not in question,
a heart attack in chest leading to cardiac arrest is/


six point six six minutes are then given to finish the business
which incidentally can't be used on little infants
can't misspell the victim four times or that's that
and if you lose the Note, got 490 days to get it back/


Hook

Floe Riden [Storyville, DJ Taiyouken] - I'm So Bored

Fandom: Cowboy Bebop
Character: Jet Black

They know me well 
My rep precedes me
I’m the best at what I do
Get a clue
Yeah yeah

It’s show and tell
When they see me
I’m the best at what I do
Get a clue
Yeah yeah

You’re in my space
Aye
This is my race
Aye
You will always be behind me


Don’t talk to me like I’m mad
No no
Don’t talk to me like I’m mad
Don’t do it

That’s a throwback for ya
Forget what I can do and it could go bad for ya
Been in the trenches building a rep
You know why they call me black dog
Not because I’m savage with the ladies. 
I won’t cap nah
But if you got baggage that you hate and
Need it tracked down
I got the squad to do it. It’s gravy
Put the cash down
Aye

Y’all hypin lil bro cuz he reckless
Okay
But we both borderline obsessive
Yeah
Look at me, I’m constantly progressing
He’s stuck in his past
And it’s sad


That’s why I’m the leader
I stay in my bag
I'm not the one. You gotta pay for the task
I’m Emeril Lagasse
If you in my posse
If you think I use too much flavor just ask

I stay on my Ragu I’m saucing
They know that it’s costly
To blip on my radar I’m fast
To turn a bounty into a pile of cash
Can’t trust many people
Cuz friendship is evil 
like Udai. Betrayal, it seems like a Fad
Being naive costs and arm and leg
If you’re lucky you might add some shine from the trash
You’ll catch the blues trying to hide when we track
And it goes like


They know me well 
My rep precedes me
I’m the best at what I do
Get a clue
Yeah yeah

It’s show and tell
When they see me
I’m the best at what I do
Get a clue
Yeah yeah

You’re in my space
aye
This is my race
aye
You will always be behind me



If you’re on my bad side I’m a shark
Always been paper first even for pleasure
Want full pockets like I hit Spiders from Mars
Sometimes your circle is brilliant
But take too many risks hold order in high disregard

Constantly feel like I’m babysitting
Look I’m mean with the steel but I’ll slay the kitchen
Trip and I don’t need to act cause Faye can get you
Easy to feel secure when the lady’s Vicious
And that pun was intended
Respected so I just have fun with the system

Plus when I’m spittin
I glide on the track like it’s Astro (Astral)
Not talking bout Gate hackers. I’m past those
Grind hard. Look I hate slackers. I bag folks
Turn em in. Take the cake. After I dash though
Have fun. Raise the stakes. Gotta Make it stack mo’

Might try to gamble with the Woolongs
You can’t even handle what my GroupOn
Not talking discounts either. Full price up front or you gone
You want beef I’ll give you bell peppers to chew on

Keep it moving if you say my star could fall
I know losing people might be too hard for y’all
But I’ve been ditched I’ve been broken I’ve been scarred and all
Should have abandonment issues the way they’ve all run off

But I grieve when I grind
My heart’s gonna bleed every time
Til I find my peace still inside
That’s after I reach deep in my mind
My heart’ll catch the blues but I still remain a beast can't deny


They know me well 
My rep precedes me
I’m the best at what I do
Get a clue
Yeah yeah

It’s show and tell
When they see me
I’m the best at what I do
Get a clue
Yeah yeah

You’re in my space
aye
Shipping my place
aye
You will always be behind me

Deshko [Kadesh Flow, Ryako] - Show'NTell

Fandom: Fallout 4
Character: Nick Valentine

Valentine Detective Agency

[VERSE 1]
Diamond City, you'll find him sitting, Shining pretty, 
When crimes are fishy, he's diving in, and he's finding history,
Kinda shifty, your hidings shitty, I'll find it quickly,
I'm tired of quizzing, I fire em quickly, your fried and crispy
Harriet Tubman, I'm helping out with the railroad,
Carrying something, my trunk will fill up like J Lo
Anger the gunman, you making nothing but stale dough
Manage to touch em, I thump him, you go to jail bro,
The Institute, are just picking people to flicker through,
They quick remove, and replace them basically switcheroo
They taking ages, they send in agents I pray for you,
They breaking rules, this is blatant flagrant, I make em lose,
Rock bottom hurts its too drastic sober I'm henny slurping
Blue cotton shirts, cute fabrics woven, you jelly? Perfect
Too hot my circuits, are overloading with deadly serpents
You got some work then just pass it over to Ellie Perkins,


[VERSE 2]
Be your companion from the dead zone to far harbour
Cyborg a stallion you dread chrome I'm far harder
All hope abandoned when heads blown I'm part martyr
Too raw and handsome I'm well known, Travis Barker
I'm hacking terminals, ladies come get your private dick
I'm acting merciful, you maybe you shouldn't try it kid
I'm blasting murder you, no shading where the iris is
This man is versatil, get paid in cheques for finding shit,
My chest synthetic, I'll blow your head and I wont regret it,
You'll need a medic, get slowly deaded it's so pathetic
I'm more humane than this whole plane I'm empathetic
I'm super brave and I'm getting paid handfulls of credits
I'm at peace with, the vault loads of vagrants
Try be decent, we all glow the same kid,
Never bleeding, this cyborg is painless,
Its not a secret, because you all know my name is,

CyberFunk2077 [Banditt, SynthLad] - Valentine Detective Agency

Fandom: Star Trek deep cuts
Character: Khan Noonien Singh. 

SPACE SEED
[#%^] 


Woke up, knife to the docs throat
No fucks, others might have lost hope
But i’m a product of the best of the 90s
And I got the best of the best behind me


A descendant of the remnants of the great clans
I like a brave man who can make plans and take stands
A depraved band of snake hands won’t make it very far
In the these great lands


Great lands in need of a new make of a man
That’s me, you can check your fuckin brain scans
Before i burn your stuff into a waste land
I will learn enough to turn your luck quicker than fate can


Ten times your strength and my mind’s intense
End of the line been to the vine
Grew into wine, i spent a lifetime 
Then i went on take whatever is mine by divine intent
That’s everything
And now time is bent in my favor
You were not meant to understand my behavior
My awful capers from the past will make me an awesome savior 
For your own sins and perversions


History repeats itself, who wins in this version?
Khan
I can only give you a hint of the burden of what it is to be a superior build build of a person

[#%^] [MessiahCarey, Jared Sparks] - Space Seed

Fandom: Resident Evil 
Character: Albert Wesker

I know these noises of the dead are not the voices in my head
Keeping focused, staying stressed
Till they all get laid to rest
Is the T the violence virus? I'm the monster making bets
No solace sirens, silent tyrants celebrate with death (hey)
You are alone
Floundering in my control
You won't be making it home
Losing your soul
This mansion is more than I've shown
I'll lead you off on your own
Use you for combat data with no one to save ya
My experiments will chase ya, waste ya, taste ya flava
"Everyday, humans come one step closer to self destruction"
In many ways, I'm here to save them
They cannot see that they're puppets
And I alone, the master might control the world, I'm after
Global dominance, with power I'll evolve the bastards

Pull the strings of genes, make the fiends make em bleed
I don't think that they see, what I've done with T
Pull the strings of genes, make the fiends make em bleed
I don't think that they see, what I've done to me

Infect myself, I am no longer a human being
I am all powerful, I'm something you have never seen
This betrayal is the start, now you'll see the pain
"Sure, I'm not human anymore, but (just) look at the power (I've) gained!" 

Pull the strings of genes, make the fiends make em bleed
I don't think that they see what I've done with T
Pull the strings of genes, make the fiends make em bleed
I don't think that they see what I've done to me

Anti Hero [BVNE, El Diaz] - T

Fandom: The Little Mermaid
Character: Ursula

Intro:
Come with me down below
Sink into my catacombs
See how deep you will go
find the spot you'll call home        
forevermore


Verse 1:
This is Armageddon, be ready when karma beckons
This class is now in session, you need to learn your lesson
This Queen is not from heaven, but divine in my confessions
This connection of rejection has lead to my transgressions
You think you have control over how my life would go
You thought I would rot in your exiled onslaught
You think I'd be controlled by such veil souls
You thought you got the villain, [laugh] I think not 


Hook:
Enter my Leviathan
Won't you explore deep within
Don't be shy, Just let me in
Come and let us taste your sin


Verse 2:
Poor little creatures you are all now my possessions
Unfortunately your saviour will have to witness this lesson
Souls eventually endure tension, Seven, controlled like weapons
Nereid was my profession until you Sirened my aggression
Sweet child, it could be undone, but that's no fun, it's just begun
Flotsam, Jetsam, My poor henchmen, your defeat will be complete
My screams will leave you deafened, your souls are mine to keep
Remember this is Armageddon, now children it's time to eat

2 Cannonz [SirenSeraph, PSX] - In Memoriam of Flotsam and Jetsam

Fandom - Adventure time
Character- BMO

Lyrics

Intro – Narrator: This little living computer game system is BMO. My information doesn’t 
seem to say wether they are a he, or a she, just BMO. Oh well. 

BMO: Who wants to play Video GAMES?!?! Check it out Ya’ll.

CHORUS

When it gets hard to fight
there's nothing left to fear
They'll never turn out my light
I'll always be right here

VERSE

Well I'm,
Usually confusedly miss-gendered as a dude you see
Oops a Dees-y seems he's a she
She, snoozily approves being believed to be a summary of these;
Male female and a dissociative identity

Attendency is rendering me mentally free
to achieve my dreams and schemes
and to be the side kick I'm meant to be

Shit sent from me directly behind
A human centipede extensively entering blind
on some adventure time

CHORUS

When it gets hard to fight
there's nothing left to fear
They'll never turn out my light
I'll always be right here


Resigned and inclined 
I’ll find time to unwind
I'm designed to align your dexterity and your grind

It's a synch in a pinch 
You glimpse and make it simp for a 
Hit of the shit on my circuitry unit
working these movements

I'm a tag along sang a song bang a gong vagabond 
hanging on to every last wrong
and it makes me strong

Power on for the people, not Jesus, Not evil

Im BMO no EGO no Gender No equal

BRIDGE

I'm not broken robot
Just need a technician with a soft spot

Whatever comes next
We'll be together on a mission an adventure

We will fight for us
With everything we can never gonna give up

Thank you for my strength
And making me as strong as I was meant to be

CHORUS ABRIDGED

When it gets hard to fight
Just need a technician with a soft spot

There's nothing left to fear
We’ll be together on a mission an adventure

They'll never turn out my light
With everything we can never gonna give up

I'll always be right here

BMO: I Love you too, Goodbye!

1up Funk [Bobby Arsen, Hook Shot] - Be More

Fandom: Harry Potter
Character: The Sorting Hat

This one goes out to my man Robert Galbraith. 
Sorting gang. We're the worst. 

[chorus] x2
If I can sort you in then I can sort you out. 
You couldn't thwart all the things that I've brought about. 
How did Lord Voldemort find supportive crowds? 
See, you're taught to be naughty in the naughty house. 

[verse 1]
I set the wheels in motion. I sense your real emotions 
and send you reeling into the field I've chosen. 
Perchance evil potions, deeds of deep revulsion. 
I'll achieve my goals as long as I meet the quotient. 
I'm not even coaching, just picking the teams 
and filling Slytherin with all of the shittiest tweens. 
These kids will be in smithereens and no one intervenes. 
My little scheme tickles me till I split at the seams. 
And Dumbledore... 
Did you think that dumdum just stumbled through the door? 
Or got that gig on merits? Like being careless 
and looking away when children perish 
in perilous scenarios? Or get very close to some scary ghost 
with varicose veins and hairy toes, wearing burial clothes? 
I put him in with confidence 
that I would find the odd use for his obtuse incompetence. 

[chorus] x2

[verse 2]
Who divides and conquers spies and plonkers? 
'Tis I, the bonnet. "And why? It's wrong?" 'Cause I'm just bonkers. 
My best sponsors are mindless wanderers, 
floundering onwards unaware of what unkindness conjures. 
Blind, unconscious, while I write destinies 
and set trajectories. Yes I'm a hat, but I pick the accessories. 
Expressed unease, rest in peace. No one suspects a headpiece, 
but I've got the future all laid out in excel spreadsheets. 
Deadbeats and death eaters make up my faculty 
I pick the children like fruit off an apple tree. 
The alchemy of apathy as I essentialize, 
categorize and emphasize the differential lines. 
Never empathize. Just spread empty lies like how Mars and Venus, 
and vulvas, ovaries, balls and penis 
share an important link, and other sordid things. 
It's a boring kink, I know, but I sort of think...

[chorus]

[outro variant]
If I can sort you in then I can sort you out. 
You couldn't thwart all the things that I've brought about. 
How did Joanne Rowling find supportive crowds? 
See, you're taught to be naughty...

.5 Quartet [Vincent E.L., Ardamus] - Sort You Out

The 1up Funk boys are back with a track all about their favourite subjects, THEMSELVES! They take you thgough their journey in the VPC 6, and drop some dope bars about Batman. Enjoy!

Anti Hero [BVNE, El Diaz] - T

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