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: Hamilton
Character: John Laurens

"John & Alexander" by The Storytellers [The Paladxn, 0]
LYRICS:

Within this
Closeness
And stillness
Rest at last from war, the righteous fight
At last alone, we show the earth you’re mine
‘Til the only thing that guides us
Is the beating heart inside us
And the rhythm of our love throughout the night

Through two and a half pints of Sam Adams I saw you first
I started to sweat, when our eyes met, and you spit your verse.
You spoke of freedom, thought my heart might burst
Raise a glass to the moment you spoke that word
I knew I wanted to hear you say my name for the rest of my life.

Skin to skin, my fingers shaking
And your passion kept my heartbeat saying
John & Alexander 
When at last the sun had risen
The only freedom we were living 
John & Alexander

Even if it’s 
Only
Moments,
Stolen with intent, with tender tries,
Impatient tastes, and hasty alibis
I will never leave your side
Even as we lead the fight
You will never leave my heart or leave my mind 

Through smoke and blood and sweat I saw you smile
Everything made sense, for the first time in a while.
Held you in my arms and cried we’d won
While the world turned right side up for once 
You kissed my lips, and we made this world our own.

Skin to skin, my fingers shaking
Your passion kept my heartbeat saying
John & Alexander 
When at last the sun had risen
The only freedom we were living 
John & Alexander

Raise a glass, raise a glass,
Tomorrow there’ll be more of us.
Raise a glass, raise a glass,
Tomorrow there’ll be more of us.

Tomorrow there’ll be more of us.

VPC 7 Round 1

The Storytellers [The Paladxn, 0] - John & Alexander

Fandom: Batman
Character: Alfred Thaddeus Crane

You know what it is
I came through for that heavy work
Alfred Thaddeus Crane
Last name is penny worth 
at your service
As a permanent servant,
Fervently resourceful 
I clean a plethora of surfaces. 
Hope like your sarcasm 
No chaser
Allow me to draw you a bath
note paper.
There's no caper 
like the ones my client often has-
On top of that
I had to step in as his foster dad
It's kind of sad,
He lives a life I disagree with
But I support him in the ways 
I know he knows he needs it
In the family 
Is how we keep it
I want to do more for him 
but I got to keep the secret



Rise and fall
(a sword to fall onto)
knights were made
To chase the storm
I am yours
To use on a whim 
When the lights get dim inside 


It's the original 
guy in the chair 
I'mma die in this lair
sweeping up bat shit
dressed like Fred astair
He ain't the only one to suit up
On the daily
I just want my flowers 
while i'm brave and bold and 80
Call me crazy 
But my son is batty,
He's a baby daddy
Who's baby's bratty
Who I chauffeur and caddy
They go out on the weekends
And smack whoevers laughing 
Punch line
Jokes in passing
Jokers passing out
From choking 
He provoked
But cash and clout
doesn't mean you need to buy in
You're son only knows vengeance 
And all you're teaching him is violence 
You do what you're best at
I just should've been a better dad
And way less of a "yes man"

created a mad man 
cuz nobody past flash 
can stand
The god damn
bat lad
Who, nitty gritty,
treats the city 
like his own trash can
Gothams in a gutter
What a project of passion 
I mean you've been fighting crime,
77 years young
In brevity letting me clean up
While steadily enemies team
I'm getting it plenty that we fucked
Up 
All night, 
He's breaking laws and legs
Never reading Miranda rights
You'd think I fix bullet wounds for fun
This is what happens-
When you take orders 
And checks get signed by your son
I gotta call him master
This shits a damn disaster 
Stray batarangs in the wall
Here I come through with the plaster

Rise and fall
(a sword to fall onto)
knights were made
To chase the storm
I am yours
To use on a whim 
When the lights get dim inside
On the inside

SlothdubzAndRonin [OnlyOneRonin, Slothdubz] - ALFRED

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

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

Fandom: Marvel
Character: Magneto

Frankenstein's Monster - Fireproof [Mark Cooper, Prowess The Testament]

-Verse 1-
It's all good in the brotherhood
My iron level is up to Par like Tiger Woods
Tailored good, suited in my ways considered the bad guy
but let's look into the neighborhood yes we should
The same peers saying fight the power 
Use double standards to take the power out the fight 
every hour
Every minute every second that you breathe cuz to the humans you gutter trash wolverine metal fiend 
Controlling metals in my the palm of my hand 
The same heavy metal the main criminals can understand
Without a question claiming I'm the lethal weapon learn a lesson what happens if... 
Serve and protecting now had a change of plans 
Man you still mad at what the 80s did, but let tech become the prime source of raising kids
While you sit and worship what Xavier did
Just know I don't need a squad protecting the crib

-Hook- 
You say we all people 
but at the same time we not equal (we know)
I am not your hero, but you view evil by the peephole (zeroes)

I just wanna roam on my own
can't you just leave me alone 
So blessed with the ego
Come and take shots at Magneto (heroes)

-Verse 2-
(We go) presto change, Mystique on the pipsqueaks, no Black Panther cutting this deep
Strip the power away from these rich geeks 
To the one With small shock value, like who let Jubilee speak...
You burn bridges I move bridges in my direction 
Make decisions like one ways in the intersection 
No more mutants so intentional 
Then next call the X-Men when there's the night of the sentinels 
You hate Rogue but you carry traits of mistakes, 
You hate Storm(s) cuz you probably drown in a lake
Yo hate Charles you outside of your mind
Acting like Cable and Bishop always losing track of time, yeah
The Uncle Sam of magnesium taking capital and teasing em, stimulating the medium 
Worldwide I'm reaching em, what I'm teaching 'em is calling me the villain when its your own peers doing the killings
I'm just chilln 

-Hook- 
You say we all people 
but at the same time we not equal (we know)
I am not your hero, but you view evil by the peephole (zeroes)

I just wanna roam on my own
Can't you just leave me alone 
So blessed with the ego
Come and take shots at Magneto (heroes)

Take your best shot at Magneto x4
Take your best shot at Magneto x4
(You heroes are zeroes) x2

Fireproof [Mark Cooper, Prowess The Testament] - Frankenstein's Monster

Fandom: Steven Universe
Character: Spinel

playtime is a song written from the perspective of the character Spinel from Steven Universe the Movie, who in the film is brought to a place of anger from her feelings of abandonment and decides to take out her pain on those who the person she thought loved her had chosen instead.

----


That's right, I'm not the one to love
And but a fool to dream
That's right, I'm not the one to love 
My solo losing team
That's right, I'm not the one to love
Some plaything you don't need
Implied that I was good enough
but that wasn't what you'd mean

--

That's right, my Rose has thorns to spare
Chose from those who'd care, I didn't make the cut
Bright light's supposed to burn, so fair
Goes to show we shared unbidden cravings

But it's like time spent with gems depends
On whims and ends that tend to shift and bend for some
She'd lied but I played pretend because
(I thought we were best friends)

Such a clod to trust and want you
Ushered on through signs of threats
Hence rushed and got too much involved
You'd once upon new times for deference

Burned not read, deferred to death
While blurred intent left much distress
I learned instead, then heard he'd said 
(I love my friends)

--

That's right, I'm not the one to love 
And but a fool to dream
That's right, I'm not the one to love 
My solo losing team
That's right, I'm not the one to love
Some plaything you don't need
Implied that I was good enough
but that wasn't what you'd mean

--

I don't wanna play no more, forewarning
Know every available port is storming
Time to come and take what's yours
Performing hostilities for culpabilities you're ignoring

But I was so adorable, right? Your darling
Now I'm such horrible sight and starving
How durable is your world to blight? It's starting
Deplorable basket case not asking to bargain

Beg your pardon but the loneliest of stones hit the dark
In the garden where the only thing we'd grow is apart
Now I've hardened far too slowly, only known for the sharp bits
For audience of one heartless narcissist in charge

You're not her but hide behind a target shaped grin
You've prospered, denying me the cross I've beared since
Imposter! I've lost all so you could just exist?
Your roster's soon crossed off my to do justice list

--

That's right, I'm not the one to love 
Harm or be harmed it seems
That's right, I'm not the one to love 
Your turn to lose some things
That's right, I'm not the one to love
Now playtime's over, see?
Feels like now I'm not good at all
And I'm gonna watch you bleed

ExtraDial [Damn Selene, lizardgrove] - playtime

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

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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!

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

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