I just want to say that I've been working on the follow-up to this for almost 4 years now.
I started with Laptop Rap 1, which was basically just me putting up tracks on YouTube. I would freestyle or write over really cool beats and samples I'd put together. I realized that I had release an album's length worth of material, so I compiled that into a collection -- Laptop Rap [1].
I saw what I had made and shared it -- got terrible feedback; I need to kill myself, etc. But that motivated me because I knew I could do better -- if I really tried, could I create an album from the get-go that was focused, thorough, comprehensive? I spent the entire half of 2012 working on it and by the end of the summer it was almost done. It was released in September of that year as Laptop Rap 2.
I shared it. People were feeling it, but still were complaining about the overall quality. I decided to upgrade and get a real microphone -- Laptop Rap 2 and 1 had been recorded entirely on my laptop microphone [pictured on the cover of LR1]. I also up'd the ambition. I made more beats than I had ever made -- I was starting to learn how to freestyle (instead of what I called 'type-styling' -- freestyles written out, stream of consciousness, as opposed to literal spoken freestyles). I recorded take after take and worked harder than I ever had in my life on music. I spent a few hundred and ordered custom USBs to give the project a physical release -- Laptop Rap 3 (what is linked to in this topic).
I am sharing this because these three projects represent a very authentic vibe. LR1 as the discovery, LR2 as the realization and LR3 as the final form. This is as far as I can take the project as one person and after this, the only way to go further is to have it professionally recorded by an actual sound engineer. I've been working on that project, as I said, for four years now.
Please enjoy these tunes. They are all free-to-download and always 100% non-profit. What's coming next is three times more amazing and is completely based in freestyling, but this project represents a lot of hard work and effort -- but more importantly, it's a really authentic, sincere vibe. I was exploring life and mountains on mushrooms and marijuana and sharing all my results and discoveries and learning from my past two albums. I hope you can feel the love here.