Today, I hate to say it but there are an excessive amount of cover bands that roam the music industry. Many of the artists that have put out great cover songs rarely ever create their own perception of talent and orientation of themselves as an artist. I contradict myself when I give credit to my favorite cover artist "Danny Vola", he has created a new feel to the rap culture and social norms of acoustic impressions. The quality of his sound is eccentric and mind opening to the culture today.
Waka Flocka's "No Hands" is a strong repetitive beat, the moderato rhythm gives the listeners comfort with the sound. The computer generated drum set gives off a moderately smooth feeling and does not change through out the song what so ever. The music’s lyrics are in which the complexity's of the basis derives from. From a lyrical standpoint, each verse has its own variation of speeds and tempos, the rappers keep their personas by creating a cluster of a lyrical combinations of adate, moderato and allegro rhythm.
Danny Vola's rhythmic stand is nearly the same as Waka Flocka's upbeat tempo, he keeps a similar moderato beat throughout the song, yet he does differentiate his acoustic plucking pattern during the chorus of the track. Vola's voice is extremely different than the rappers he covers; he is more emotional and joyful. As a listener I can tell that he is putting more emphasis into each word and the lyrics become more inviting that Vola is trying to impress me.
Waka Flocka and Danny Vola come together with the point that the timbre relates with one another. Each of the voices in the original track by Waka Flocka is a clear and precise with each word. In rap songs the voices usually are not dubbed well in the production side, yet each voice gives off a low and smooth crisp sound. Vola makes the rappers sound as if they are monotone, his timbre changes in pitch and intensity. Much of the intensity derives from the lyrics, yet his pitch gives off a happy feeling of enlightenment as if he is making all of the explicit terms sound as if they are normal.
To focus entirely on the lyrics Waka Flocka is depicted as a man who pays his women to dance for him and how he gives a plot of what he did with his women. When Vola sings, his lyrics do not sound as if he is going through the same story of Waka Flocka because of his pitch and light intensity. The lyrics are depicted towards the standpoint of men in actuality, yet the men tell the girls that it is their song, which is reverse psychology for the girls to dance to his song. Also the lyrics give off a pulsating hypnotic feel in the original track. The synthetic production gives the solid comforting feel with associates itself with the variations of tempo in lyrics.
Vola and Waka Flocka are innovating within themselves and produce music that roots from their innate passion for the art. As a guitarist I enjoy the cover that Danny Vola puts upon the rappers delightful taste in lyrics, yet as a artist I believe that Wacka Flocka Flame has created an original aura of himself. The work and energy has made him an artist I can rely on for the basis of his personality and passion will live on in the music world, therefore, I choose the original Waka Flocka Flame "No Hands".
Dj turn me up ladies dis yo jam "come on"
Imma sip mascato and you go loose dem pants
--Waka Flocka Flame--
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