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Really cool idea, has a lot of potential to end up releasing but I think there are a few opportunities to work with before you do. First and main thing is the presence of your vocals and vocal FX, it presses the rest of your production to the background and so there are only small sections where the beat and melodies come forward. Which is a pity because that's the contextual environment that supports your story and makes your flow feel like flow (what else would it flow with). I would consider lowering the vocals to barely audible, then ease up the volume to the point where your vocals are clear and in front but they still interact with the melody and beat (be careful with compression and limiting). I would suggest doing the same with the delay envelope, as sometimes you time your bars in such a way that the delay creates a syncopation that sounds unintended. And having mentioned timing: feel out the beat and movement of the melody, even if its per partition or even per bar. There are a couple moments where it sounds like you continue on a beat that matches consistent intervals of syllables, but is not responding to the actual beat that is there to support you in the background (which adds to the syncopation I mentioned earlier). You've got a lot of text in certain bars, so I can imagine its tricky to fit them all into their intended space, but the space you intend them to be in can be played around with in length and timing as long as they feel fitting in the track or partition; you have full power over where to vocalize and where to introduce silence to add energy or suspense, that is the Poet's Alibi for structuring lyrics in ways that would possibly never make sense in a normal conversation but work super sweet on a beat. So feel it out, step by step, we can only focus on one thing at a time: either we're busy vocalizing to a beat, or we're busy making sure the words come out right. The latter is the confusing one because we have to assess what we've just said and heard while also maintaining a steady stream of rhythm and rhyme that may or may not have matched the beat cuz that's not where our attention was; it was with what had happened and not with what is happening, so we risk being consistently late to the party or miss the point when it happened entirely. You don't have to think when you feel it. Create the circumstances for yourself to feel out that beat and melody (even if you need to try out 20 different timings while looping the same part for a 100 times), allow them their space in the mix, and move with them; that's gonna slap very hard combined with what you already have, so take it easy. Hope the feedback doesn't rub the wrong way. I just feel you want to take music sincerely and grow with these things, so I'm just sharing what I notice.

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