I'm Taking a Break

Hi everybody,

Starting today, I won't be updating this blog because I'm going overseas for a holiday. This blog will resume operation in mid-March 2010. However I'll continue to work on the music during my vacation, so if there are new tracks that I want you to listen, I'll post an update about it.

Since the updates are going to be sparse, you can get them via email by subscribing to my blog via email here. That way, any updates will be delivered straight to your inbox without you having to check this blog everyday and being disappointed when there is no updates. Avoid disappointment by subscribing to my blog via email. In addition, you can also browse the post archive to catch up on previous posts.

What you can also do is check out this new blog of mine What Happened Today. It's an update of birthdays and historical events on that particular day. The posts are scheduled to publish automatically every day until end of February 2010. There are links to Wikipedia about the person or event featured on that day, so you can read more about them. Bookmark and read What Happened Today for your daily dose of knowledge.

I will try my best to get online throughout the holiday, but it's likely that I will not be able to respond to messages sent through either the chatbox, the comments or the contact form. So if you send me any messages, don't be offended if I reply late or don't reply at all.

Hope to see you again in March. Happy holidays!

Thanks for reading
The Rhymeweaver

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The Rhymeweaver
Malaysian hip hop for the intelligent listener

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Love Rap: Track-by-Track or All-at-Once?

I recently got an idea of releasing my upcoming mixtape Music From the Depths of My Heart (Love Rap) on a track-by-track basis, rather than the traditional method of dropping a complete mixtape at once. What this means is I would make one track from the mixtape available on this blog for free download every two weeks or so. There will be five tracks in the mixtape, so it would take about two months for the entire mixtape to drop. At the end of this period, I will release all the songs plus extra materials (artworks etc) in a complete downloadable package.

By releasing single tracks from Love Rap over a period of time, I hope to get more page impressions from visitors, which would hopefully translate into more AdSense revenue for me. Consider a casual listener named Joe Fan. If I release my mixtape on a one-shot basis, Joe would visit my website once to download the mixtape, and he would be exposed to the ads on my website once (one page impression). But if I release one track every two weeks and the mixtape contains five tracks, Joe would have to visit my blog five times to download all the tracks. In the space of two months, he would have been exposed to the ads five times (five page impressions). That translates to better Adsense revenue for me.

I also hope to keep the visitors' attention on this blog longer than usual by releasing the mixtape one track at a time. Previous patterns indicate that when I dropped an entire mixtape at one go, the visitors' count would peak really high for 1 or 2 days as they downloaded the mixtape. Then it would drop drastically until the next mixtape release. Since I don't release mixtapes on a regular basis, the lack of steady audience means I had to be contented writing for incidental readers coming from Google and a handful of good followers (thanks!) and that is quite frustrating, to be honest. So by releasing the mixtape one track at a time, I hope to have more people tuned in to my blog in anticipation of the next song, and at the same time I hope they would read what I have to say in my writings.

Releasing a mixtape on a track-by-track basis is also a great way to customize the experience of listening to my music. If our casual listener Joe doesn't like the current track I'm releasing, he can choose not to download it and wait for the next track to be released. In the end, two listeners may have different versions of the same mixtape, customized according to their personal preferences. Joe may not have track 4 while Jane may not have tracks 2 and 5. This might not work very well for a mixtape containing only five tracks, but for larger number of tracks this aspect of customization is worth thinking about.

A track-by-track release also provides more opportunity for listeners to give their opinions on my music. Whereas people might be daunted by the prospect of reviewing five songs at once, I reckon they can surely provide a review of one song as it's released. For a struggling rapper like me who gives out songs for free, feedback is THE one and only thing that keeps me going. I cannot even begin to stress how much feedback is important to me as a struggling rapper.

I want to know your opinion on this. Do you think I should release my upcoming mixtape Music From the Depths of My Heart one track at a time or all at once?

Thanks for reading
The Rhymeweaver

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Malaysian hip hop for the intelligent listener

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The Rhymeweaver - Mencari Cinta

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Artis: The Rhymeweaver
Album: The Mixtape Series Vol. 4: Music From the Depths of My Heart
Lagu: Mencari Cinta

[Korus]
Oh girl, I'll be in trouble if you left me now
Coz I don't know where to look for love
I just don't know how (ulang 2x)

[Rangkap 1]
Aku bagai Orpheus, kau bagai Eurydice
Kita saling mencinta, kau selalu di sisi
Ku bagaikan ritma, engkau bagai puisi
Untukmu dunia juga segala isi
Ku punya misi walau ku rasa amat pahit
Engkau dilarikan si raja alam ghaib
Lalu ku mencarimu hingga sampai ke gerbang
Anjing tiga kepala buat nafasku terbang
Ku pegang tali-temali si kecapi hikmat
Dan ku perdengarkan muzik yang sungguh nikmat
Anjing tiga kepala cukup ganas dan kejam
Penangan kecapi ku, mata terus terpejam
Tanpa lengah, ku laung namamu, ku lihat
Kau terbaring lemah, syukur dikau selamat
Kita berpelukan, walau apa menimpa
Kerana kamu aku kan sanggup mencari cinta (c/o)

[Rangkap 2]
Aku bagaikan Rama, engkau umpama Sita
Kisah cinta kita jadi bahan cerita
Aku bagaikan minyak, engkau bagai pelita
Menerangi kehidupan yang gelap-gelita
Sampai berita, kau dilarikan ke Lanka
Angkara Ravana, siasah perang dirangka
Siapa bakal juara? Bukan mudah dijangka
Aku kan selamatkan mu, usah dikau menyangka
Soldadu musuh menyerbu, mula menggempur
Tenteraku sudah siap sedia untuk bertempur
Dengar hiruk pikuk, darah merah menyembur
Ku berdepan Ravana yang garang menghambur
Kami bertempur sengit, buku bertemu ruas
Aku cuba bertahan dari serangan buas
Ravana tewas, kemenangan sudah tercipta
Kerana kamu aku kan sanggup mencari cinta (c/o)

[Rangkap 3]
Aku bagaikan Adam, engkau bagaikan Hawa
Dua badan tercipta dari satu nyawa
Kita berdua berkasih sayang di dalam syurga
Hingga terjadi perkara yang tak pernah diduga
Kita tercampak dari syurga yang kita huni
Terpisah tanpa rela, dua penjuru bumi
Tak ada malapetaka yang lebih ku geruni
Dari kehilanganmu, tak sanggup ku harungi
Tanpamu di sisi, ku tak bisa berdiri
Empat puluh tahun ku menangis sendiri
Kakiku melangkah tak ada arah tuju
Hanya panduanku memori bersamamu
Namun Tuhan masih kasihan, perit ku rasa
Kita dipertemukan oleh Yang Maha Kuasa
Walau seribu tahun sayang tetap di minda
Kerana kamu aku kan sanggup mencari cinta (c/o)

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Malaysian hip hop for the intelligent listener

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