Thank you so much Porchcat, that’s such a great thing to say. I’m not a big rap fan so found the idea and reality of working on this track pretty tough. Especially as I’ve never done this before - and had to learn Logic Express from scratch in the process.
From listening to the other FM entries, I didn’t think anyone would like this at all!!

I didn’t want the vocals to be absolutely smack on. i wanted some looseness in there to go with the general feel of acousticness and ‘live’. In the actual track they aren’t smack on either.
I listened and yeah, have to say i didn’t recognise the sample straight off!!… so funny how different people write so differently around the same phrase in the same software!

Ha, thanks for your comments. I wasn’t thinking about what sells, as that wasn’t in the competition rules, it was about best mix!!! I only listened to the original after I had done my thing to it. Frankly the original is not my bag, I wouldn’t have bought it! I like melody and tune. i wasn’t thinking about dancing to it either, just to turn it more into a ‘song’ than a eminem/rap/westcoast thing.
It’s just an interpretation, making some loops up to fit the parts of the vocal to make it a song, vary it up a bit and come up with something that was unusual. The rap is quite ‘hard’, the music lets the words dominate but hoefully takes that edge off the attitude - hope that places where my head was at when i did it :-)