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I Would Rather

Round One: Fandom at its Finest

Overall Theme: Fandom is a strong part of nerdcore hip hop. We all have our favorite movies, book series, comics, video games, etc. As such, the first round of VPC III will be about that very fandom.

FiberOptic Illusion (Flexstyle X Midiboss) - Never Turn My Back (Fairy Tail Anthem)

Beefy And Tanner4105 - Dear Valentine

Round Two: Nerd Life

Overall Theme:  This is a track about the reality of your life as a nerd.

MoreOrLesAndAbstractArtform - Headphones

Round 3 Challenge: 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. 

Team Krunktaku - How To Be A Supervillain

Round Five: Guest vocalist/Posse Challenge

Overall Theme:  Showing Off

That’s right, your song can be about anything you want.  You can collab as many guest vocalists* as you want.  The only thing we ask is:  MAKE THE COLLABS COUNT.  Make sure your track is still around a unified subject matter, and then GO WILD.  Vocalists, bring your best.  Producers, show off what you are capable of.  Incorporate a non-traditional instrument into your beat.  We want to see Sitars, Theremins, Hurdy-Gurdies, Panpipes, Accordions, Recorders…  Anything that’s not traditionally found in hip hop. We expect this track to pull out all the stops.

Beefy and tanner4105 - Don't Make Me Go (feat. Dr. Awkward)

"Hustle Fatigue" is an anthem for anyone waking up feeling like they're already dead before the day begins. It explores the pain of living in a world that demands everything from you, and the crucial moment you decide to say "no." Moving from the grey fog of the morning alarm to the clarity of friendship, this track is about reclaiming your life from the machine.

A swirling Psych-Punk anthem about burnout and reclaiming your time.

[Instrumental]

[Verse 1]

Once I wake up
It feels like I'm dead as the clock sounds its siren again
And the white light steals all the rest so I'm lost in this place
An a system designed to extract all of our time
So we're left with nothing but the pain and the fear that I'm wasting my life
All for nothing

[Chorus]

I can't take it
In the rain
All the days bleed together like ink on the page till I can take it
Can't contain all the rage and the shame and the pain
But you know

[Instrumental]

[Verse 2]

There's a light in the darkness and it cuts through the gray
In the distance I know it's my friend
They are calling my name so I'm learning to say no when the world tries to claim what is mine
So I'll take back my time for the moments and people that give me life
My time

[Chorus]

I can't take it
In the rain
All the days bleed together like ink on the page till I can take it
Can't contain all the rage and the shame and the pain
But you know

[Chorus]

I can't take it
In the rain
All the days bleed together like ink on the page till I can take it
Can't contain all the rage and the shame and the pain
But you know

[Instrumental]

Conduit - Hustle Fatigue

A song about the video game Night in the Woods.

Artwork by Rough Draft: https://twitter.com/RoughlyDraft

Lyrics:
I've been waiting the longest time
For somebody to notice me
And the problems I have become
Riding shotgun in the passenger seat now
Spend a night with the oak and pine
To get away from the concrete lie
Lot of places when we were young
Drying up as the clock keeps ticking by

Everything is falling out of place
Need to get back to familiar space
Keep myself from breaking down into shapes
With you

Deeply wrapped in the red and brown
Because I've run out of ways to hide
Colors all turn to green in time
Unless you're living in a world that's been dyed now
I'm hanging out at the edge of town
To get a grip on reality
There's something living beyond the line
And I think it's started coming for me

Everything is falling out of place
Need to get back to familiar space
Keep myself from breaking down into shapes
With you

I don't want this nightmare to take over me
I will break this after it's done breaking me
I don't want this existentiality
I will take this time to work on fixing me

Everything is falling out of place
Need to get back to familiar space
Keep myself from breaking down into shapes
With you
With you

Water Kerfuffalo

Shapes

Something to Hide

Circle Gets a Square

Paper Airplane

Robots Don't Cry

Eating Food in the Shower

Party of Three

Wondering Tonight - NSP

How To Socialise

No More Kings is the musical love child of singer/songwriter/visual artist Pete Mitchell and producer Neil DeGraide.

Circle Gets a Square

No More Kings

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