based off u/jensyao https://www.reddit.com/nas/comments/ireec3/list_of_nas_nonjayz_disses_incomplete/
Illmatic:

• Halftime: responded to Da Youngsta's "Pass The Mic" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCEi4ZBiqe8

IWW:

• The Message: shot at Jay: "TV sets the minimum"/shot at 2Pac before they met at the MTV awards: "fake thug/no love"/shot at Biggie: "one king"

I Am:

• we will survive: shot at Jay trying to replace biggie so soon after death: "replace the crown to be new yorks' king? it ain't about that"
• Hate Me Now: indirectly going at cormega's first album: "y'all thinking y'all the realest? but who the illest?"
• Big Things: going at cormega after the firm fallout: whole 3rd verse

Nastradamus:

• come and get me: whole song saying Jay and his team should come and get him
• Nastradamus: going at memphis bleek repeating his lyrics with a threat because he's jay's right hand man: "ball til you fall, i can help you with that, slug melt in your hat"

QB Finest:

• Da Bridge 2001 - Nas respond to Memphis Bleek's "Mind Right": "Oh you didn't, wanna know whose life is written?...Your hoe, your man, lieutenant, your boss get found"

Stillmatic: https://www.youtube.com/live/CFBXytyTiJU&t=2308

• all 15 songs display concepts that Nas can do that Jay couldn't, from storytelling to telling a story backwards, to talking about bigger concepts like conspiracy theories, hood unification, and world peace, to going at them directly or mockingly
• ether: goes at jay directly
• destroy and rebuild: goes at prodigy, cormega, nature's song "no, we ain't friends", mocks jay in slick rick's voice
• Got Urself A Gun: goes Kid Rock and limp bizkit for rock rap: "This is real hardcore, Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit soft"

God's Son:

• Book of Rhymes: Goes at Ras Kass's first album on an alchemist beat defending alchemist for double selling beats: "Soul on ice, death threats given by clowns/I guess livin' is prison when you live around clowns"
• Zone out: goes at Cam'ron: "You have a house in virginia"
• Get Down: goes at jay: basically uses biggie's flows to tell a story that Jay can never do, jay tried it on "meet the parents" but failed because you lost the plot and the point at the end
• last real nigga alive: goes at the industry saying they aren't real and made a song about I Can talking about you don't have to be gangstas and hoes that these other artists portray

Lost Tapes:

• on 3 songs, he's talking about rappers using their celebrity and money to go back in the hood to defloweimpregnate young underage women/13 year olds without protection, basically insinuating the whole industry is like that without name dropping, from prodigy to afrika bambaataa to r kelly who he sever ties with after trading features in 1998 from the street dreams remix. it wasn't in prodigy's book but it was quoted that it was the thing to do, didn't mention jay had relations with foxy brown when she was 16 ghostwriting for her, that she later admitted in 2010 https://www.xxlmag.com/foxy-brown-targets-lil-kim-jay-z-on-new-diss-track/
• everybody's crazy: goes at jay: "the jig is up"
• no idea's original: goes at jay's money cash hoes that he stole from DMX and made the remix with rocafella overshadowing the original: "What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large papeThat means you inferior, not major"....and the "major" lyric is also Nas dissing Jay indirectly on Kanye's song "we major" that happened to be Jay's favorite song on kanye's album as a sigh of relief not knowing Nas was still indirectly going at him

Illmatic 10th anniversary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80v9tWuN9nw

• star wars: goes at 50 signing with eminem: "Y'all niggas roll with any click that's winnin' any crew/Doin' whatever's trendy, even they envy me too"

Street's Disciple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80v9tWuN9nw

• Disciple: goes at eminem dissing moby: "rappers battling after non rappers, saying nas is Farrakhan preaching blackness"
• These are our heroes: goes at kobe bryant/goes at eminem talking about picketing on mosh pit: "These pickaninnies get with anything to sell records"
• Nazareth Savage: goes at eminem's whiteness: "In the history of the game, you have no placement/Liquor and weed just massacred their mind, or thee celebrity...Casualty you don't wanna be, don't want it with me"

Hip Hop Is Dead: basically an industry diss about how hip hop sold out and reteaches the essence of how rap is formulated while paying homage to elders

• Carry on Tradition: goes at new rappers with left field gang affiliates from wayne to jeezy to jim jones that is detached from west coast culture: "Now some of these new rappers got their caps flipped backwards/With their fingers intertwined in some gang-sign madness"...nas dissed wayne on a mixtape track with quan called QB to VA mocking the cash money helicopter
• Money Over Bullshit: Going against Jim Jones, Young Jeezy's radio interview, weak rappers: "Put a barrel in a capo mouth, 'til his scalp come out/You a kid, you don't live what you rap about"..."y'all niggas is fifth grade...Each one of ya guys that claim Hip-Hop is still alive/Like y'all ain't in agreement with Nas"

Untitled:

• Queens get the money: goes at 50: "hiding behind 8 mile and the chronic, get rich but dies rhyming"
• Hero: goes at record executives for the double standard for black artists not being able to flex their artistic creativity and have to fit into this stereotype box before releasing an album (which is why Kanye was a big deal back then going against all the gangsta rap of 50 cent with backpack rap), the uncensored version namedrops LA Reid and Douglass Morris: "Try tellin' Bob Dylan, Bruce or Billy Joel/They can't sing what's in their soul"

Distant Relatives:

• Strong will continue: goes against divorce/cheating allegations and Kelis on the 4th verse

Life Is Good: https://www.reddit.com/nas/comments/1brbjbthe_diss_tracks_between_nas_and_50_and_how_thei

• Bye Baby: goes at 50 and Tony Yayo initially dissing Kelis: Under their breath, saying, "Why did Nas trust her?...You live with your baby moms/And scared to make an honest woman out of heAnd make her your bride, fake pimps, you ain't even alive

Nasir:

• Simple Things: Responds to Vlad TV for interviewing people around Nas for his beat selection and Carmen, and why Vlad will never get a Nas interview: "Never sold a record for the beat, it's my verses they purchase"

Lost Tapes 2:

• Beautiful Life: Going against Kelis, left off life is good: "All women should bid/For keeping real fathers away from their kids/..How many been married, divorced, their ex lady wildin'/Hires a lawyer, judge awards 'em monthly eighty thousand"

King's Disease:

• Titles goes against Jay-Z about how insecure he is despite him having it all and then elaborates why there needs to be a cure to why people who are successful should not begrudge others, with minor covid references
• Nas basically got a battery put in his back after the breakfast club told him that Jay has been dropping projects every time Nas had an album out on the same day to compete with him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJBqAL20X6I, so he dropped more albums seeing if Jay would do that, without Jay even contesting those later release dates with surprise albums, like when the book of hov's exhibit was around the time KD3 released...Magic 1, Magic 2, and Magic 3 were basically surprise releases with barely a week in advance when announced so Jay doesn't work on his project in the meantime

Magic:

• Meet Joe Black: randomly samples soulja boy of Nas predicting hip hop was going to die but it did and is unrecognizable from what it was if it wasn't for people still showing how the artform is really done, such as this album, which is ranked highly among the other albums Nas did with Hit, saying he's telling more truth than these fake rappers with gimmicks and fraud advice to success on "Truth"

KD2:

• death row east: to dispel the rumors of what happened between 2Pac and him once and for all, and to respond to an old diss record leaking on the 25th anniversary of 2pac's death, given that fake thug line https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4smahXj1PQ
• Nas is Good: goes against all haters: "Death to the pessimistic mind state/Lack of hope, low-spirit motherfuckers/Life to king's getting a king's ransom, living handsome, ha"
• Store run: goes against the new generation going against him, telling them they need to pay dues and go on a store run because Nas owns the store

Magic 2:

• Abracadabra: addresses hate working with Hit-Boy: "I'ma say what it is, I'm the one takin' the risk/Y'all creatin' the hate, but I be creatin' with Hit"
• Office Hours was hit being petty not splitting 50's adlibs and putting them towards the back after the chorus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2goGfACkGFM

KD3:

• TSK: goes against reddit, podcasts, and armchair commenters, lmao https://www.reddit.com/nas/comments/1c0sm0k/all_i_see_is_blurbs_all_i_see_is_wordsnerds/ "All I see is blurbs, all I see is words/Nerds talkin' 'bout what they did, see or heard"
• Thun: Nas jabbing Jay: In a Range Rover, dissectin' bars from "Takeover"/Sometimes I text Hova like "Nigga, this ain't over", laughin'

Magic 3:

• the 6 albums in 3 years with 2 trilogies was basically a jab a Jay for his In my Lifetime and Blueprint series, of releasing a compilations of songs on a vague title but can generically fit on any of them, and how Nas was faster at releasing his trilogies faster than when Jay was dropping every year with Nas dropping 2 albums per year with less managerial A&R oversight, and Jay hasn't dropped a solo album since 2017
• basically addresses the hate that he's gotten when working with Hit-Boy with a summary on 1800Nas&Hit. Nas rapped on beats with awkward BPMs and with all vocal samples so wannabe rappers don't rip the instrumental and try to rap on them with the latest technology, just to realize how hard actually is to make concepts on the spot and rap on a distracting beat that isn't already carrying the song and they can just mumble on it...Hit was being more petty showing there's levels to this artform

Nothing Hit-Boy has ever made has topped 'Nas is Like' or 'NYSOM I/II', where DJ Premier is always compared to his past work just like Nas is always compared to Illmatic. People need to let it go and have them come out with new work instead of coming out with all this immediate judgement. Your squabbling is just fans running in place with nowhere to go but to wait for how the album sounds like.
That's like trying to stop Hit-Boy from producing for Nas after they made 'Black Girl Lost 2' and 'Royalty/No Such Thing as Black Jesus' together in 2012, and those songs are always dissed by fans and are suspiciously uncredited by Hit to even have claimed that he made those beats paired with some jarring chorus. If reddit was around before any Nas album roll out, y'all pitchforking would stall everything when Nas is just trying push the needle and striving to sound different artistically while taking chances.
What happened to being an maverick artist, not hopping on trends, and not caring about public perception? Y'all fake stans don't even give your savior any breathing room to experiment and try something different but just smother him with the same nagging broken record superficial complaints, which is probably why some rappers don't even drop music anymore because they can't take the critiques or live up/outdo their past numbers and expectations.
This immediate popcorn reaction is so dumb and youtube commentators/critics are to blame, trying to monetize or game the audience into drone-like echo chamber behavior -- They diss something the minute it comes out as a hot take just to get clickbait views of people complaining in the comments. Similar with 'Scatt Attack' for LT2, Nas even defended 'Al Jarreau of Rap' on the lyrics of his latest music video 'I Love This Feeling'...do you guys just gloss through music for the beats and not listen to the words? What's this infatuation with good beats anyways if the message is crisp? Y'all beat driven audiophiles need to stan someone else because people have been listening to non-CDQ 'Deja Vu' and unreleased joints for years and not because of no beat, but the lyrics, check his lyrics of 'Simple Things' https://genius.com/14789473. Go donate your floppy discs to DJ Premier to sample on his MPC if you really care, because he probably didn't think to save his best beats for Nas after all these years to think the Nas-Premier album is ever going to happen.
How many times has Fantano (or even The Source) been wrong for whoever he's critiquing just to revise it years later on a whimper? Who fucking cares what the next person thinks just to alter their opinion to yours or vice versa? Why does everyone have to come to a consensus or endlessly rant about this? This ain't no cult -- It's literally having a parasocial relationship with someone who you don't even know on the internet just to chase down, predict, or call out who's right as if this was some sports gambling app, but there's no scorebook because opinions are all subjective and subject to change over time and there is no standard for the right answer, so who cares?
Nas already said on record that he doesn't work for his fans, go listen to 'TSK' because he already said he wants to punch some of y'all in the face for violating. If you don't like what Nas is doing, flake off like the causal fans after Street's Disciple, we don't need you, unsub. I've already said this is a litmus test for Nas to just keep his core fans, because he usually gets uncomfortable after accumulating too many accolades/fans, where he just wants a fresh restart with his braided hair and to purge the rest from even being connected to or concerned about his actions https://www.reddit.com/nas/comments/1c7qbfq/prediction_the_new_premier_album_is_nas_purging/ He has his virgo tendencies, read his astrology chart if you don't understand.
Nas does not champion your thoughts or waiver his art, he just does what he wants or feels what is right. Nas is back with DJ Premier and rapping like Nasty Nas and y'all should be grateful because he could have retired off investments since 2014. If not, find someone else to champion and go listen to some new music because some of y'all don't even dig for new artists outside of being force fed youtube's recommendations mix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OMirbGvn8o or cling on to just the recent rap beefs. Check https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/top100 because it doesn't have opinionated harassment as commentary at the bottom of every song calling you out on how you should feel about it, but instead leave it blank for you to organically form your own interpretations instead of being a conformist trying to 'fit in' to what everyone else is saying. Get off this reddit echo chamber of it just regurgitating what you're already subscribed to and venture off into something less familiar. Stop festering around the Nas sub looking for some grassroots movement just to support your interest group's opinion. No one cares and Nas isn't the artist for you to live out your dreams through channeling his actions; live your own life or stan someone else.

Welcome to Club popheads! My name is u/frogaranaman, and I will be your DJ for this lovely afternoon. I have a great mix of tunes ready for ears, and the order of this mix was voted by you!
But first, some stats:

• There were 92 ravers this month,
• The average for this mix is 6.911, and
• The controversy score for this mix is 2.352.

 
And what songs are there to hear?

• Avicii - "Levels"
• Avicii - "Wake Me Up"
• Calvin Harris - "Feel So Close"
• Calvin Harris & Disciples - "How Deep Is Your Love"
• DJ Snake & Lil Jon - "Turn Down for What"
• DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge - "You Know You Like It"
• Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina - "Stereo Love"
• Galantis - "Runaway (U & I)"
• Krewella - "Alive"
• Madeon - "The City"
• Martin Garrix - "Animals"
• Martin Solveig & Dragonette - "Hello"
• Mat Zo & Porter Robinson - "Easy"
• Mike Posner - "I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix)"
• Oliver Heldens - "Gecko (Overdrive)" ft. Becky Hill
• Porter Robinson - "Language"
• Skrillex - "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites"
• Skrillex - "Bangarang" ft. Sirah
• Snakehips - "All My Friends" ft. Tinashe & Chance The Rapper
• Swedish House Mafia - "Don't You Worry Child" ft. John Martin
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)"
• Zedd - "Spectrum" ft. Matthew Koma

Awesome.
Today, we will be revealing #22-#01. Tune in to the mix over on Queup, which begins at 3PM Eastern! Hope to see you all there~

AND VOTE FOR SONGENIALITY HERE

(closing Songeniality voting at #10, revealing right before #3!)

Welcome to Club popheads! My name is u/frogaranaman, and I will be your DJ for this lovely afternoon. I have a great mix of tunes ready for ears, and the order of this mix was voted by you!
But first, some stats:

• There were 92 ravers this month,
• The average for this mix is 6.911, and
• The controversy score for this mix is 2.352.

 
And what songs are there to hear?

• Afrojack - "Take Over Control" ft. Eva Simons
• Avicii - "Levels"
• Avicii - "Wake Me Up"
• Avicii - "The Nights"
• Benny Benassi - "Cinema (Skrillex Remix)" ft. Gary Go
• Breakbot - "Baby I'm Yours" ft. Irfane
• Calvin Harris - "Feel So Close"
• Calvin Harris - "Let's Go" ft. Ne-Yo
• Calvin Harris - "Blame" ft. John Newman
• Calvin Harris - "Summer"
• Calvin Harris & Disciples - "How Deep Is Your Love"
• deadmau5 - "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" ft. Rob Swire
• Diplo & Sleepy Tom - "Be Right There"
• DJ Snake & Lil Jon - "Turn Down for What"
• DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge - "You Know You Like It"
• Duck Sauce - "Barbra Streisand"
• Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina - "Stereo Love"
• Galantis - "Runaway (U & I)"
• Galantis - "Peanut Butter Jelly"
• Ivan Gough & Feenixpawl - "In My Mind (Axwell Mix)" ft. Georgi Kay
• Jack Ü & Justin Bieber - "Where Are Ü Now"
• Kaskade - "Never Sleep Alone" ft. Tess Comrie
• Knife Party - "Internet Friends"
• Krewella - "Alive"
• Lilly Wood & The Prick - "Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Edit)"
• Madeon - "The City"
• Major Lazer - "Light It Up (Remix)" ft. Nyla & Fuse ODG
• Martin Garrix - "Animals"
• Martin Solveig & Dragonette - "Hello"
• Mat Zo & Porter Robinson - "Easy"
• Mike Posner - "I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix)"
• Oliver Heldens - "Gecko (Overdrive)" ft. Becky Hill
• Porter Robinson - "Language"
• Rune RK - "Calabria (Firebeatz Remix)"
• Seven Lions, Myon & Shane 54 - "Strangers" ft. Tove Lo
• Skrillex - "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites"
• Skrillex - "First of the Year (Equinox)"
• Skrillex - "Bangarang" ft. Sirah
• Skrillex, Fatman Scoop, Kill The Noise & Michael Angelakos - "Recess"
• Snakehips - "All My Friends" ft. Tinashe & Chance The Rapper
• Steve Aoki, Chris Lake & Tujamo - "Delirious (Boneless)" ft. Kid Ink
• Swedish House Mafia - "Don't You Worry Child" ft. John Martin
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)"
• Zedd - "Spectrum" ft. Matthew Koma

Awesome.
Today, we will be revealing #44-#23. Tune in to the mix over on Queup, which begins at 3PM Eastern! Hope to see you all there~

Welcome to Club popheads! My name is u/frogaranaman, and I will be your DJ for this lovely afternoon. I have a great mix of tunes ready for ears, and the order of this mix was voted by you!
But first, some stats:

• There were 92 ravers this month,
• The average for this mix is 6.911, and
• The controversy score for this mix is 2.352.

 
And what songs are there to hear?

• Afrojack - "Take Over Control" ft. Eva Simons
• Alan Walker - "Faded"
• Avicii - "Levels"
• Avicii - "Wake Me Up"
• Avicii - "Hey Brother"
• Avicii - "The Nights"
• Baauer - "Harlem Shake"
• Benny Benassi - "Cinema (Skrillex Remix)" ft. Gary Go
• Breakbot - "Baby I'm Yours" ft. Irfane
• Calvin Harris - "Feel So Close"
• Calvin Harris - "Let's Go" ft. Ne-Yo
• Calvin Harris - "Blame" ft. John Newman
• Calvin Harris - "Summer"
• Calvin Harris & Disciples - "How Deep Is Your Love"
• The Chainsmokers - "#SELFIE"
• deadmau5 - "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" ft. Rob Swire
• Dillon Francis & DJ Snake - "Get Low"
• Diplo & Sleepy Tom - "Be Right There"
• Disclosure - "You & Me (Flume Remix)" ft. Eliza Doolittle
• DJ Snake & Lil Jon - "Turn Down for What"
• DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge - "You Know You Like It"
• Duck Sauce - "Barbra Streisand"
• DVBBS & Borgeous - "Tsunami"
• Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina - "Stereo Love"
• Flume - "Holdin On"
• Flume - "Sleepless" ft. Jezzabell Doran
• Flume - "Insane" ft. Moon Holiday
• Flume - "Some Minds" ft. Andrew Wyatt
• Flux Pavilion - "I Can't Stop"
• Galantis - "Runaway (U & I)"
• Galantis - "Peanut Butter Jelly"
• Ivan Gough & Feenixpawl - "In My Mind (Axwell Mix)" ft. Georgi Kay
• Jack Ü - "Take Ü There" ft. Kiesza
• Jack Ü & Justin Bieber - "Where Are Ü Now"
• Jai Wolf - "Indian Summer"
• Kaskade - "Disarm You" ft. Ilsey
• Kaskade - "Never Sleep Alone" ft. Tess Comrie
• Knife Party - "Internet Friends"
• Krewella - "Alive"
• Kygo - "Firestone" ft. Conrad Sewell
• Lilly Wood & The Prick - "Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Edit)"
• Louis The Child - "It's Strange" ft. K.Flay
• Madeon - "The City"
• Major Lazer - "Bubble Butt" ft. Bruno Mars, Tyga & Mystic
• Major Lazer - "Light It Up (Remix)" ft. Nyla & Fuse ODG
• Martin Garrix - "Animals"
• Martin Solveig & Dragonette - "Hello"
• Mat Zo & Porter Robinson - "Easy"
• Mike Posner - "I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix)"
• Oliver Heldens - "Gecko (Overdrive)" ft. Becky Hill
• Otto Knows - "Million Voices"
• Porter Robinson - "Language"
• Rune RK - "Calabria (Firebeatz Remix)"
• Seven Lions, Myon & Shane 54 - "Strangers" ft. Tove Lo
• Skrillex - "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites"
• Skrillex - "First of the Year (Equinox)"
• Skrillex - "Bangarang" ft. Sirah
• Skrillex, Fatman Scoop, Kill The Noise & Michael Angelakos - "Recess"
• Snakehips - "All My Friends" ft. Tinashe & Chance The Rapper
• Steve Aoki, Chris Lake & Tujamo - "Delirious (Boneless)" ft. Kid Ink
• Swedish House Mafia - "Don't You Worry Child" ft. John Martin
• Tiësto - "Wasted" ft. Matthew Koma
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)"
• Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP - "We No Speak Americano"
• ZHU - "Faded"
• Zedd - "Spectrum" ft. Matthew Koma

Lovely.
Today, we will be revealing #66-#45. Tune in to the mix over on Queup, which begins at 3PM Eastern! Hope to see you all there~

It is finally time for popheads to head to the clubs. Welcome to the Golden Age of EDM Rate! I'm your host, frogaranaman, and I cannot wait to get going with hosting this rate.

If you are new to rates, watch this video for a tutorial!

(ty RandomHypnotica for this wonderful video)
 

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Reveal Weekend: April 12th-14th

Intro

Now, to immediately address the elephant in the title: yes, you can argue that "golden age" is a bit of a misnomer for this period of electronic music as a whole. With its rich history of styles and its global origins (famously: house in Chicago, techno in Germany), what you would call the "golden age" of electronic music does depend on who you ask. However, it is incredibly hard to argue that the more club-oriented style of electronic music (from here on out, dance music) did not reach a commercial peak around the world in the early to mid 2010s.
And looking at what happened during that era, how could it not have? The rising access to technology and the internet played massive roles in this rise. As personal computers became more common amongst households, so did the access to digital audio workstations (DAWs) such as FL Studio and Logic Pro (my personal DAW of choice). And with YouTube tutorials to learn how to produce, it became easier than ever to make your own remixes and original music. As well, SoundCloud became the #1 source for crate-digging new music from rising talent across genres, and dance music was one of its big benefactors. With the ability to upload any music you wish for free, many artists got their start uploading remixes and original music to carve out their own artistic vision and sound. The site began to receive more traffic, more ears started to hear dance music, and attention rose as the sonic palette of the genre expanded.
However, with that attention came lots of scrutiny: many decried the genre as "talentless" and "without soul", often citing the lack of formal musical training as reasons to ignore the genre. As well, since dance music came from the clubs where the main avenue of performance was playing music out on the decks, opponents to the genre said it was "as easy as pressing play" and anyone could do it. (As if anybody being able to DJ is a bad thing? Overall, this was quite a silly set of arguments, but they held a lot of weight a decade back!)
Yet with dance music hitting the mainstream charts in big ways – from the fascination around dubstep, the era of Avicii-, Calvin Harris- and Swedish House Mafia-style progressive house dominating the radio, to the Spinnin' Records-driven domination of big room house taking over the festival scene, to its near-exclusive use in YouTube intros and early 2010s memes – it was impossible to ignore dance music anymore.
Plus, with the wide variety of sounds and styles to choose from, dance music offered something for everyone. Just looking at the rate artists, you can hear everything from the dominant sound of progressive house (Avicii, Calvin Harris, and Zedd) to the rising electronic trap beats (Baauer, DJ Snake, and Jack Ü) to the SoundCloud-era wonky-sounding shit (Flume and Louis The Child) to big room house (DVBBS, Firebeatz, and Martin Garrix) to the quickly-dominant tropical house (Kygo, Robin Schulz, and Snakehips) to the ever-famous dubstep (Knife Party and Skrillex) to the club-ready hits (Martin Solveig, Steve Aoki, and Tiësto) to
..you get the picture.
Anyways, that's enough reminiscing. Let's hit the clubs, get trashed, and have fun!

The Songs

Without further ado, here is the list of songs!

1. Afrojack - "Take Over Control" ft. Eva Simons
2. Alan Walker - "Faded"
3. Avicii - "Levels"
4. Avicii - "Wake Me Up"
5. Avicii - "Hey Brother"
6. Avicii - "The Nights"
7. Baauer - "Harlem Shake"
8. Benny Benassi - "Cinema (Skrillex Remix)" ft. Gary Go
9. Breakbot - "Baby I'm Yours" ft. Irfane
10. Calvin Harris - "Feel So Close"
11. Calvin Harris - "Let's Go" ft. Ne-Yo
12. Calvin Harris - "Blame" ft. John Newman
13. Calvin Harris - "Summer"
14. Calvin Harris & Disciples - "How Deep Is Your Love"
15. The Chainsmokers - "#SELFIE"
16. deadmau5 - "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" ft. Rob Swire
17. Dillon Francis & DJ Snake - "Get Low"
18. Diplo & Sleepy Tom - "Be Right There"
19. Disclosure - "You & Me (Flume Remix)" ft. Eliza Doolittle
20. DJ Snake & Lil Jon - "Turn Down for What"
21. DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge - "You Know You Like It"
22. Duck Sauce - "Barbara Streisand"
23. DVBBS & Borgeous - "Tsunami"
24. Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina - "Stereo Love"
25. Flume - "Holdin On"
26. Flume - "Sleepless" ft. Jezzabell Doran
27. Flume - "Insane" ft. Moon Holiday
28. Flume - "Some Minds" ft. Andrew Wyatt
29. Flux Pavilion - "I Can't Stop"
30. Galantis - "Runaway (U & I)"
31. Galantis - "Peanut Butter Jelly"
32. Ivan Gough & Feenixpawl - "In My Head (Axwell Mix)" ft. Georgi Kay
33. Jack Ü - "Take Ü There" ft. Kiesza
34. Jack Ü & Justin Bieber - "Where Are Ü Now"
35. Jai Wolf - "Indian Summer"
36. Kaskade - "Disarm You" ft. Ilsey
37. Kaskade - "Never Sleep Alone" ft. Tess Comrie
38. Knife Party - "Internet Friends"
39. Krewella - "Alive"
40. Kygo - "Firestone" ft. Conrad Sewell
41. Lilly Wood & The Prick - "Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Edit)"
42. Louis The Child - "It's Strange" ft. K.Flay
43. Madeon - "The City"
44. Major Lazer - "Bubble Butt" ft. Bruno Mars, Tyga & Mystic
45. Major Lazer - "Light It Up (Remix)" ft. Nyla & Fuse ODG
46. Martin Garrix - "Animals"
47. Martin Solveig & Dragonette - "Hello"
48. Mat Zo & Porter Robinson - "Easy"
49. Mike Posner - "I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix)"
50. Oliver Heldens - "Gecko (Overdrive)" ft. Becky Hill
51. Otto Knows - "Million Voices"
52. Porter Robinson - "Language"
53. Rune RK - "Calabria (Firebeatz Remix)"
54. Seven Lions, Myon & Shane 54 - "Strangers" ft. Tove Lo
55. Skrillex - "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites"
56. Skrillex - "First of the Year (Equinox)"
57. Skrillex - "Bangarang" ft. Sirah
58. Skrillex, Fatman Scoop, Kill The Noise & Michael Angelakos - "Recess"
59. Snakehips - "All My Friends" ft. Tinashe & Chance The Rapper
60. Steve Aoki, Chris Lake & Tujamo - "Delirious (Boneless)" ft. Kid Ink
61. Swedish House Mafia - "Don't You Worry Child" ft. John Martin
62. Tiësto - "Wasted" ft. Matthew Koma
63. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)"
64. Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP - "We No Speak Americano"
65. ZHU - "Faded"
66. Zedd - "Spectrum" ft. Matthew Koma

 
There’s no bonus rate for this one. Sorry to any bonus rate truthers.

Rules

These are definitely not copy-pasted from the Tiktok Rate I hosted and are clearly originally written with this rate in mind:

• Listen to every song listed and give it a score between one (1) and ten (10). Decimal points are allowed, but only to one place (ex. 7.1 is acceptable, but not 7.15). I do not give a shit what you give the songs as long as it is between those two numbers.
• You have to rate every single song. If you skip any and do not give me a score when I ask you for one, your ballot will not be counted. This is because the program used to determine the results will break if scores are not successfully put in and I will cry if the program breaks because it will be a pain in the ass to do this manually and my life is already difficult enough.
• You may give one song a zero (0) and one song an eleven (11). These should be reserved for your favorite track and least favorite track. If you do use either your zero (0) or your eleven (11), you are encouraged to leave a comment on the track. It can be as short or as long as you want, but please leave one; it will help the sub understand if you should be canceled or not when the rate is being revealed.
• Please use the prepared link to submit your scores! That is the only form of ballot I will accept. I spent a lot of time and effort on it, so please use it.
  • Note: if you’re trying to access on a mobile device or on the new reddit layout, it may not work; I have made it so the link will take you to old.reddit.com, so you should use a computer to send in your scores (if possible)!
• If you desire to change any of the scores after you have already submitted them, simply message me and I will be glad to help! My life is a chaotic mess right now, but I at least have rates as a welcome escape.
• Your scores should not be considered confidential! Don’t be scared to share them. Go nuts. Campaign for whatever song you gave an eleven to. Or not. This whole thing really is not that deep.

Commenting Guideline

It is also highly encouraged that you add a comment to your song ratings! Do this by adding a space after the score and then typing to your heart’s desire, like this:

Summer: 10 whenimechainthesuma tumajarbisaun

Any format other than this is NOT good and you will deeply hurt me if you do not follow the example given here. This includes:

Faded: 5: okay which fucking one do you mean
Bubble Butt: is what I got! 10
Where Are Ü Now: I will give this an 8 because it peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Bangarang: 10 - When I was younger, my parish priest tried to exorcise me for listening to this song before bible study. It didn't work bc I'm still gay and emo
Wasted: (10) One time I was trying to get with this closeted frat bro and he said this song was a banger and I agreed (this time for real) and kept complimenting his music taste and hitting on him but he got too drunk and then was too embarrassed to talk to me again and that's not even the most embarrassing thing I've done for a man that relates to a song in this rate. What's MORE embarrassing is that I copy-pasted this comment from the TikTok Rate comment examples and I changed really only the song title for which song it related to because I have a pathetic track record when it comes to men

Links

And with that, here is every link you need for the rate!

• Submission link
  • Pastebin link
• Spotify playlist
• Apple Music playlist
• YouTube playlist
  • The Apple Music playlist is courtesy of akanewasright, and
  • the lovely playlist cover is courtesy of WhoIsValensi!

This rate is due April 5th and the reveal weekend is April 12th-14th!

Cannot wait to see everyone's scores! As always, if there is ever a question, DM me here on reddit and I will get to it as soon as I see it. :)

Before anything, I need to say, I know this is really unrealistic, I just wanted to share my ideas in case anyone ever wants to use them.
Main Story:

• It’s-A-Me
• Starman Slaughter

Irregularity Isle:

• So Cool
• Nothing Left (NEW) (Bald Mario Plushie at the Bus Stop vs Boyfriend. Would be primarily based on “mario where are you going” by Luke Correia, and would be slow and somber like Alone in V1 except actually good. Game over would have Boyfriend turn into a marketable plushie and be shoved into the place of Mario in the meme)
• Own Turf (NEW) (Rapper Mario vs Boyfriend. The song would be fairly short, and similar to a base game song rather than the complexity of the rest of the mod. Mario would also be drawn in the style PhantomArcade does him in rather than the style Marco does. Game over would be the same as the base game’s)
• Miserable (NEW) (Mario Crying In The Rain On Steps vs Boyfriend. Like with Nothing Left and Old Alone, the song would be slow and somber without any mechanics, with Boyfriend even displaying genuine sympathy for Mario. Game over would just be Boyfriend walking away, leaving Mario alone in the rain)
• Iason Mason (NEW) (The scrapped Wega song. Would also have cameos from other similar characters, like Maltigi and Movies Free)
• Toying With You (NEW) (Funny Dino and Martin vs Boyfriend and Yoshi. The song would have visual cameos from other physical Mario bootlegs, like the Mario koala)
• Alopecia (NEW) (The April Fools Mark song)
• Puesto de Tacos (NEW) (The scrapped Waluigi’s Taco Stand song)
• Death Stare (NEW) (Weegee vs Boyfriend. Would have a brief segment where the song changes into the art style of Mario is Missing. The song would also have a mechanic where Weegee glares at you, and you need to press space or else you’ll be stunned and forced to miss some notes. The game over would have Weegee’s face appear in place of Boyfriend’s)
• Nourishing Blood
• Lots’a Spaghetti (NEW) (Hotel Mario and Luigi vs Boyfriend. The song would be in the art style of Hotel Mario’s cutscenes, and have occasional voice lines from the two done in trademark YTP sentence mixing)
• Liver (NEW) (Give Me Your Liver Mario vs Boyfriend. Song would be in a first person perspective, with Mario’s poses being based on N64 renders of him. Game over would be Mario stealing Boyfriend’s liver, with restarting having Luigi show up and give you back your liver)
• Very Scary (NEW) (Mario Head vs Boyfriend. The song would have frequent voice lines from the Mario Head, originating from Mario Teaches Typing, and would take place in the blue void where the Mario Head appears. Additionally, the song would have a mechanic similar to Monochrome, where you need to type out various words displayed for you or else you die. Game over wouldn’t be anything special)
• Uncanny (NEW) (Gilbert vs Boyfriend. The song would take place in a pitch black void and be in first person, and be a lot more sinister than the rest of Irregularity Isle, almost as a taste for what’s to come in the later worlds. The song would also be incredibly note dense akin to the easiest songs in worlds like Hellish Heights or Classified Castle, with black notes among the chart that damage you. Game over would be Gilbert jumpscaring the player, before it cuts to Boyfriend’s corpse barely visible in the dark)
• Mario Sing and Game Rhythm 9

Woodland of Lies: (Thalassophobia and Apparition are moved to a new world)

• Alone
• OH GOD NO
• I HATE YOU
• Last Course
• Enucleation (NEW) (Eyeless Mario. Would be a song similar to Restless from Ourple Guy, where you’re the only one singing. Would have a mechanic of needing to hit disco ball notes every so often to illuminate the screen, or else it becomes pitch black and you’re entirely unable to see the notes. Game over (and the ending for the song) would just be white text appearing on screen saying “you can’t do that, eyes are lost forever”, like in the original game)
• Mansion Match-Up (NEW) (Game.bps Big Boo vs Boyfriend. The song would have similar visuals to the final boss of game.bps, with the song incorporating leitmotifs from The End Of 1000 Years (which is remixed for the final boss in game.bps))
• Demonization (NEW) (Emperor Eeyagh vs Boyfriend. The song would have occasional dialogue from the original narrator of Mario is a Monster, trying to find random excuses to paint Boyfriend as the villain in the song even when it’s made blatantly obvious he’s not. The game over would be a reference to the scene in the original creepypasta where Eeyagh takes a bite out of Peach’s skull cap, albeit instead of Peach, it’s Boyfriend who’s skull is being eaten)
• Boxed In (NEW) (Chinelin Luigi vs Boyfriend. The song would be set in the stone room where Luigi shows up in the MARIO WORLD video, and in the background, Mario, Bowser and Bowser Jr would be impaled on spikes. The song wouldn’t have any mechanics, but would instead go for a fast charting to keep you on your toes, ala some older hard FNF songs. Game over would be Boyfriend getting impaled on a spike)
• Illusion Madness Mix (NEW) (PS135 vs Boyfriend. Would be a sort of Encore mix of Illusion, with a generally more intense feel and a replacement for the Angel Island motif (probably the Athletic theme, or maybe Gusty Garden Galaxy). The song’s mechanic would be Xeno’s static notes, but the static created is the glitching seen in Misfire’s videos for PS135’s songs. Game over would be a recreation of the one when you die in Xeno’s songs in Vs Sonic.exe, but with PS135 instead of Xenophanes)
• Dark Forest
• Malware (NEW) (Doomsday vs Boyfriend and Daymaker. The song’s mechanic would have Doomsday mess with the song’s visuals (like glitching out the health bar, moving the strum line around the screen, and having glitches cover up the notes) as if it were damaging the song’s code, and both Girlfriend and END.smc would be in the background. Game over would be Boyfriend (or Daymaker, depending on who’s singing) glitching out of existence)
• FIND ME (NEW) (MARIO and Victim #1 vs Boyfriend and Girlfriend. Would have some Top Loader-esc news reports (for both Victim #1, and the lesser known Victim #2 from one of the other rom hacks in the ARG), and have Victim #1 show up for a segment in the middle. The song would also be in the SNES art style, but change to normal FNF when Victim #1 shows up. Game over would be in the form of a news report like the ones in the song, only it’s for Boyfriend and Girlfriend)

Canon Cave (NEW):

• Lanky (NEW) (Skinny Mario vs Luigi. The song would take place in a Mario Maker level, with the song’s style shifting between the four games available there. Game over would just be a regular Mario game over)
• Shitting Bricks (NEW) (Lego Mario vs Mario. Lego Mario would be in 3D, and have his eyes black like when he’s turned off. Game over would be Mario inserted into one of Plainrock124’s Bored Smashing episodes with Lego Mario)
• Forte (NEW) (Mad Piano vs Mario. Instrumental would of course be played on a piano, as well as with some Mario 64 motifs)
• Elemental (NEW) (Elh vs Luigi. The song would incorporate several motifs from Luigi’s Mansion, and the mechanics would be themed around traditional elements (fire notes that cause health drain, ice notes that freeze you, lightning flashes that block your view, etc))
• Freezeflame (NEW) (HellValleySkyTree vs Mario. The song would of course contain a bunch of Mario Galaxy motifs, mainly ones like Gusty Garden Galaxy and of course Shiverburn Galaxy. Game over would just be the Mario Galaxy one)
• Rock Out (NEW) (Bouldergeist vs Mario. The song would, like Freezeflame, implement Mario Galaxy motifs into itself. Game over is the same as Freezeflame)
• Diary (NEW) (Ghost T vs Mario and Goombella. The song would take place on the Excess Express obviously, with a mechanic relating to the Smorg (not sure what exactly it’d be like). Game over would be the same as if you look at the Ragged Diary in TTYD)
• Three Amigos (NEW) (Trio song with Wario, Waluigi and Wapeach. The song would be similar to Pasta Night, where the player chooses between one of the three and needs to rap against the other two, with them using unique mechanics against you (not sure on said mechanics))
• Arachnophobia (NEW) (Mimi vs Mario. The song would be done in the Paper Mario art style, and Tippi would be in the background in Girlfriend’s role)
• Monarchy (NEW) (King Boo vs Luigi. In the middle of the song, King Boo will enter the Bowser costume from the original game, adding in the fire notes from Elemental into the chart. The game over would reference the one in Luigi’s Mansion 3, with King Boo trapping Luigi inside a painting)
• Ruined (NEW) (Ruined Dragon vs Mario and Cappy. The Ruined Dragon‘s sprites would be a 3D model, while everything else in the song is at least lineless art. The song would incorporate leitmotifs from the Ruined Dragon’s theme, and the song would have mechanics involving needing to avoid lightning, or else the player will both be stunned and take damage. The game over would have Mario get electrocuted, with the Mario Odyssey death screen showing up)

Modded Mountain (NEW):

• Invitation (NEW) (Please Come to the Castle Peach vs Boyfriend. Would have a mechanic involving static arrows that must be avoided, and cause an instant death if hit like with the static in Please Come to the Castle. Game over would also be similar to the original game’s ending, with Boyfriend stuck in a cage and a giant eye looking at him)
• Poltergeist (NEW) (Ghost Luigi vs Boyfriend. Would utilise leitmotifs from Luigi Insanity and Luigi’s Mansion, with a game over referencing the one from the original game)
• Factory (NEW) (The FNAW 1 Cast and EMMA vs Boyfriend. Would pretty much just be a FNAW mix of Bite, of course with Boyfriend singing in place of Markiplier and the FNAW cast instead of the FNAF 1 cast. The game over would be Boyfriend getting jumpscared)
• Experiment (NEW) (Dr Mario’s Lab Mario vs Boyfriend. Would have mechanics relating to the main mechanics of the original game, like needing to avoid notes with purple splatters on them as a reference to the purple serum that causes Piranha Plant attacks in the game, and occasional attacks from a chain chomp that can only be stopped by pressing space and throwing a Bob-Omb, which there is a limited supply of. Game over would be different depending on what you die to (Getting crushed by a Thwomp if you die to missing too many notes, getting mauled by a Piranha Plant if you die to that, or getting eaten by the Chain Chomp if you die to that))
• Another Princess (NEW) (Another Princess Is In Our Castle Peach and Toads vs Boyfriend. The mechanic would be needing to press space whenever a Toad is coming to hide in a chest, or they’ll latch onto you and slowly drain your health. During the ending part of the song, the art style would also shift to Super Mario 64’s style. Game over would be a remake of the jumpscare from Another Princess Is In Our Castle)
• Malicious (NEW) (Malice vs Boyfriend. The song would be done in the art style for Mario The Music Box’s art style rather than the usual FNF one)
• Grief (NEW) (Dolor Luigi vs Boyfriend. Don’t really have many ideas for this one tho)
• Pitch Black (NEW) (Ron J vs Boyfriend. Ron J’s design would be based off the design used in Mario Kart Black’s cover art, and the song itself would be set on Anti-Rainbow from the ROM Hack, with the song using several Mario Kart Wii leitmotifs like Coconut Mall, the Circuit theme or Maple Treeway. Game over would be a modded version of Mario Kart Wii to include Boyfriend, with Boyfriend falling off Rainbow Road)
• Rescued All Life (NEW) (Mario Merloni (Book of Mario) vs Boyfriend. The main thing about the song would be that every single piece of text, like the score, the song name, etc, has been shoved into Google translate several times and created utterly hilarious results, and several of Mario’s partners from 64 and TTYD would make singing cameos (with Carbon having the most cameos out of all of them). Game over would be Carbon flying The Shell against and ending Boyfriend. Him. All)
• Conquest (NEW) (Psycho Iris vs Boyfriend. The song would be set during the final boss of Psycho Waluigi, and would incorporate motifs from songs in Psycho Waluigi, like Final Conquest or Hazel’s Mechs)
• Revenge (NEW) (AKR Mario vs Boyfriend. The song would be set during A Koopa’s Revenge 2’s final boss, with Mario in his Monstario form, and Boyfriend and Girlfriend of course becoming Koopas. The song would also have a mechanic of magic notes that cause random effects when hit (like giving the song a mod chart, flipping the screen, dealing major damage, etc). The song would also utilise leitmotifs from Smash Bros Brawl’s main theme, Flying Through Pixel Land, and Finalest Boss. Game over is a recreation of the Epic Failure screen from AKR 2)
• Lovecraft (NEW) (Cthulhu Disciple and Cthulhu vs Boyfriend and Mario. Would have several of the demented enemies from the original Call of Cthulhu rom hack appear during the song, and a mechanic where the player needs to hit cat statues among the notes or they’ll always end up with a game over at the end of the song. The game over would also of course reference the bad ending to Call of Cthulhu, with Boyfriend going insane and not being able to grasp Cthulhu’s true form)

Content Cosmos

• Bad Day
• Calamity (NEW) (Castle vs Boyfriend. Would have visuals of a standard Mario Castle Calamity video playing alongside the chart, and the game over would simply be Mario’s death animation in Mario World)
• Burgers (NEW) (The scrapped Mario’s Ristorante song)
• Day Out
• Suffermiing (NEW) (Mar and Failboat vs a Boyfriend Mii. The rest of Failboat’s Miitopia cast would appear in the background, with Boyfriend streaming it like in So Cool. The game over would be Boyfriend added into the Beam Attack scene from The Most Terrifying Kirby Game in place of Waddle Doo and getting obliterated, appearing in heaven alongside all the other characters who have shown up there in Failboat’s videos)
• Dictator
• Berserk (NEW) (Dorkly Mario in his Mario Goes Berserk persona vs Boyfriend)
• Race Traitors
• Parasite (NEW) (Lumpy Touch Mario vs Boyfriend)
• No Hope
• Brain Cancer (NEW) (Terminal 7 Luigi. Like with Enucleation, the song would be a solo bout with only Luigi, and the song would be based on Luigi’s breakdown in Terminal 7’s last level)
• Speedrun (NEW) (TerminalMontage Mario and the Speed Demon vs Boyfriend. The song would be extremely fast paced, and additionally have a mechanic of notes that cause the scroll speed to increase until it’s too fast to hit notes. Game over would be Boyfriend turning into a monochrome shape like Carl or Perry)
• I Rap Battled a Blue Midget While Cosplaying as Mario (NEW) (The scrapped Jaiden Mario song. Would start off simple, before suddenly transitioning into unbelievably hard territory with tons of notes and difficult mechanics, given that Jaiden Mario originated from a video about Kaizo rom hacks)
• Execution Day (NEW) ([REDACTED] (Mario but with static over his face) vs Boyfriend. The song would be based around the whole March 31st event on SiIvagunner’s channel, and thus use leitmotifs from the songs used in the rips during the event, as well as be in the style of several different Mario games. Throughout the song, there would be brief voice lines throughout referencing some of the jokes in the comments during the event about pretending Mario never existed. Game over would be a cut to gameplay of a base game song, but with Boyfriend missing)
• Bloopers (NEW) (The unfinished SMG4 Mario song. Would now have Mario in the FNF art style instead of N64 (mainly so it’s easier to manage his sprites), as well as brief singing cameos from some of the other modern main cast, like SMG4, Meggy, SMG3 and Tari. Game over would be Boyfriend exploding into a coin)
• Rejected (NEW) (Rejection Waluigi/WaluRambo vs Boyfriend and SMG4 Mario. The song would incorporate motifs from Picture Perfect B Side (the instrumental for WOTFI 2018’s rap battle) and Waluigi Pinball, with the background taking place in the ruins where the final challenge of WOTFI 2018 took place. The song’s mechanic would be T-Pose mushrooms among the notes, that when hit cause either health drain or a one hit kill. Game over would be Boyfriend or Mario (depending on who’s singing) getting turned into a T-Pose zombie)
• Witness (NEW) (Eldritch SMG0 vs Boyfriend, Girlfriend and SMG4 Mario. The song would have Zero morph between forms he took in the Cosmology, from hand, to eye, to Ax0l, to eldritch, and ending off on Niles, with his Eldritch form in particular being his usual GMOD model rather than an illustration. The song would also incorporate motifs from songs like In The Final (used in the fight against Zero in the Anniversary) and of course Zero (WOTFI 2021’s rap battle). Game over would be Zero draining Boyfriend’s life force in the same way he does to Spudnick in The Other Universe)

Hellish Heights:

• Golden Land (ideally would have it composed by ComixZ0ne, but that’s just an ideal, not something that needs to happen)
• Torched (NEW) (CoolRash Mario.exe, Coolrash Luigi and Zombie Toad vs Boyfriend. The song would follow a similar format to Starman Slaughter, but change itself up to make itself a unique entity. It’d use the poison mushroom mechanic, as well as metal spikes you need to press space to dodge. Game over would have Mario.exe throw a torch at Boyfriend, burning him alive, or if you die to a metal spike, it instead has him getting impaled.
• No Party
• Martyr (NEW) (Mutkifer and Crucis Mortem Toad vs Boyfriend. Art would be done in the style of the high quality pixel art from Crucis Mortem)
• Paranoia
• Prototype (NEW) (The Starman vs Boyfriend. The song would be in both normal FNF art and the art style of the original Super Mario Bros)
• Forgotten (NEW) (Sophie vs Boyfriend. In the middle of the song, Sophie would pull a Sarah in Roundabout and show up alongside her Luigi vessel, and near the end, Thomas would also appear to help out Boyfriend)
• Cordyceps (NEW) (Infection Mario vs Boyfriend. Would of course have the Poison mushroom notes, because come on)
• Boundless Joy (NEW) (Funtendo vs Boyfriend and Girlfriend. Song would be inside a copy of Mario Party, with Boyfriend and Girlfriend in vessels of whoever their favourite characters would be. The song’s tone would additionally be more lighthearted and fun than the other songs in Hellish Heights, albeit with a note-heavy chart to give some challenge)
• Lucid Nightmare (NEW) (Luiginoids vs Boyfriend, Mario Dream Team Mario and Luigi. The song would have a constantly shifting background, referencing several of the previous and later Luigi-based songs from the mod, given that the setting of Mario Dream Team takes place in Luigi’s mind/memories/dreams. Thus, several leitmotifs from said songs would be included too, with the background shifting to match, with other leitmotifs from Dream Team like Antasma’s theme. The game over would have Boyfriend, Mario or Luigi (depending on who’s singing) getting ripped apart by the Luiginoids)
• Corrumpere Atramentum (NEW) (Inkbowser.exe vs Mario. Would have a mechanic similar to the cold meter in Frostbite, where Mario is slowly more and more corrupted by ink and has an instant game over if he gets completely covered, but can get rid of it by pressing space, but only a limited number of times)
• Power Star (NEW) (Buggy vs Boyfriend. The song would take place in the Buggy-corrupted Castle from Wario Apparition, and incorporate leitmotifs from Dark Forest (Coronation Day’s OST is used in The Power Star Archives) and Apparition (Buggy has some very obvious references to the Apparition in the series). The mechanic would be questions like in Sentence that the player needs to answer correctly, or they’ll take severe damage. The game over would have Buggy burn Boyfriend alive in the exact same way he did to Luigi in Execution. Additionally, both this and the next song would have the HUD of Apparition, aka a VHS recording, albeit now dated at 2022 rather than the mid 90s)
• Not Your Enemy (NEW) (Corrupted Peach vs Boyfriend. The song would be a chase in a similar vein to Demise, albeit rather than taking place in 1-1, it’s in the ghost house Corrupted Peach chases Andrew through in Sentence. Like with Demise, the song would incorporate leitmotifs from Mario Bros 2’s Boss theme, since it’s used in the chase scene)
• Merciless (NEW) (King Ruthless vs Boyfriend. The song would have a Triple Trouble-esc style of having King Ruthless accompanied by soul variants of his victims (Luigi, Toad and Peach), and the song would take place in the glitched out secret Mario level from the full game)
• Overdue
• Powerdown
• Demise

Personalized Palace (NEW, though kind of just a renamed Classified Castle):

• Leukocoria (NEW) (White Eyed Chomp vs Boyfriend. Would of course take place on Bob-Omb Battlefield, and the game over would be similar to Apparition, with the White Eyed Chomp eating Boyfriend. Additionally, the world name and overall theme (Mario 64, though mainly the Every Copy of Mario 64 is Personalised theory) wouldn’t show up until you play this song, alluding to how in the MIPS Hole wiki, the White Eyed Chomp is a signal that your game will have some level of personalisation. The song would also have several anomalous and discoloured enemies from the MIPS Hole Wiki, like Hoppers, Motos, White Bob-Ombs, etc appear in the background)
• Flooded (NEW) (Wet Dry World Girl (Anomaly on the MIPS Hole wiki in case you don’t know) vs Boyfriend. The song would be slow, relaxed and gimmickless, as a sort of breather or calm before the storm, leading up to the last songs in the mod. The song would of course take place in Wet Dry World, specifically the downtown area, and incorporate some references to Abandoned. Game over would just be Boyfriend walking off)
• Too Many Marios (NEW) (128 Mario vs Boyfriend. Don’t really have any ideas for the song tho)
• Ignorant (NEW) (Scripulous Fingore vs Boyfriend. The song would start off in the mirror room in Mario 64 DS, with only Boyfriend singing, until Scripulous shows up with dialogue referencing a fake screenshot of him in Mario 64 DS (“you can’t ignore me forever, Mario”, just with Mario replaced with Boyfriend), with the song then transitioning into NSMB’s ghost house levels. The song would also be in the soundfont of NSMB, and the game over would be the game over screen from the game too. The song would also in some way reference the “It was YOU! YOU are the cringey ass nae nae baby of legend!” quote associated with Scripulous Fingore, perhaps as a brief moment in a pre-song cutscene)
• Follow (NEW) (Child Of King Bob-Omb vs Boyfriend. The version of the Child of King Bob-Omb would be based on his old version, of him leading the player to certain areas. Thus, the song would have a changing background referencing the places he can lead the player, like the basement, the 30 star door to Dire Dire Docks, and of course Bob-Omb Battlefield for obvious reasons. The song would also use leitmotifs from Apparition, as following him can lead to an encounter with the Wario Apparition in some cases)
• Thalassophobia
• Apparition
• Delicious Cake (NEW) (The Baker vs Luigi. Not sure on any mechanics tho)
• Secret Room (NEW) (Bowser Room Bowser vs Boyfriend. The song would of course be in the Bowser Room, with the room looking slightly different each time, with the song also incorporating leitmotifs from Planet Bobstar’s fanmade song for the Bowser Room. Game over would be the same as in Thalassophobia, with Boyfriend passing out and the Mario 64 death screen closing in)
• Something Changed (NEW) (M (not to be confused with Ultra M) vs Boyfriend. The song would be 4 minutes, reflecting how sm64.z64 restarts 4 times, and every minute the area becomes more and more corrupted like in the original game. The song’s game over would be a reference to the ending of the game, with M attacking Boyfriend and making him disappear, and of course saying “everything is better off without you”)
• Faceless (NEW) (Textureless Mario Anomaly vs Boyfriend. Would be on Tiny Huge Island of course, and have the area flicker between being normal, being pitch black, and being bright and distorted)
• Randomizer (NEW) (B3313 Peach (aka the Personalisation AI) vs Boyfriend. Similarly to the original game, the song would be randomised every time you play it, with a brand new background or mechanic each time. Some of the scares from B3313, like the faceless Marios or the Amalgam would also appear as background details, or incorporated into the mechanics of certain randomisations. The song would also utilise leitmotifs from songs in B3313, as well as all the previous songs in Personalised Palace)
• Promotion
• Abandoned
• The End

All Stars and Unbeatable remain the same (though All-Stars now has a good ending mix if you press space at the exact time the spike should appear, though I’m not sure what the ending would be like).
Bonus

• All the old versions of songs (aside from the ones composed by Nova)
• Berserk with Kindness (More upbeat remix of Berserk, based on Mario Goes Berserk (With Kindness))
• Powerdown Retake (The Predestined song)
• Illusion (normal version)
• Time Attack Madness Mix
• Mario Is Missing Madness Mix (Would have a bonus segment before the last PS135 one with Bowser)

Also, just for the heck of it, imma list some ideas for alternate song names for the song ideas here:

• Nothing Left: Home, Where Are You Going
• Iason Mason: Screamer
• Death Stare: Missing, Obey
• Lots’a Spaghetti: Ey Luigi, Toast, Picnic, Check In
• Uncanny: Delete This, Jet Black, Shadowed
• Very Scary: Fly For You, Moving On The Ground, Head, Typing
• FIND ME: Discovery, Selfish Way, Cave In, Enough Trouble
• Rescued All Life: Lost in Translation, Inevitable Battle, I Came, Patricide, Gunsales, Joined the Band
• Lovecraft: Call, Insanity, Awaken
• Suffermiing: Adding Mii to FNF, Help Mii, Good Morning Good Night Or Good Afternoon, Simple Idea, You Wake Up
• Speedrun: Backwards Long Jump, Something About Mario’s Madness, Speed Demon, Genie, Four Parallel Universes
• Execution Day: Erasure, Nonexistent, Coverup, Ripped
• Bloopers: Pingas, Spaghetti, Very Illegal, Okie Dokie, Infinite IQ, Mamafucker, Mario Does Rap Battles
• Witness: Genesis, Revelations, Cosmology, Perfection, Zero
• Torched: Let’s-a-Go, Origin
• Lucid Nightmare: Bad Dream, Death Bed, Limbo
• Ignorant: Fingered, Nuh Uh, Nae Nae Baby
• Something Changed: Without You, Battlefield, Time Attack
• Faceless: Coins, Tiny Huge Problem, Textureless, Blank
• Powerdown Retake: Overthrown, Fallen

Before anything, I need to say, I know this is really unrealistic, I just wanted to share my ideas in case anyone ever wants to use them.
Main Story:

• It’s-A-Me
• Starman Slaughter

Irregularity Isle:

• So Cool
• Nothing Left (NEW) (Bald Mario Plushie at the Bus Stop vs Boyfriend. Would be primarily based on “mario where are you going” by Luke Correia, and would be slow and somber like Alone in V1 except actually good. Game over would have Boyfriend turn into a marketable plushie and be shoved into the place of Mario in the meme)
• Own Turf (NEW) (Rapper Mario vs Boyfriend. The song would be fairly short, and similar to a base game song rather than the complexity of the rest of the mod. Mario would also be drawn in the style PhantomArcade does him in rather than the style Marco does. Game over would be the same as the base game’s)
• Iason Mason (NEW) (The scrapped Wega song)
• Toying With You (NEW) (Funny Dino and Martin vs Boyfriend and Yoshi. The song would have visual cameos from other physical Mario bootlegs, like the Mario koala)
• Puesto de Tacos (NEW) (The scrapped Waluigi’s Taco Stand song)
• Death Stare (NEW) (Weegee vs Boyfriend. Would have a brief segment where the song changes into the art style of Mario is Missing. The song would also have a mechanic where Weegee glares at you, and you need to press space or else you’ll be stunned and forced to miss some notes. The game over would have Weegee’s face appear in place of Boyfriend’s)
• Nourishing Blood
• Lots’a Spaghetti (NEW) (Hotel Mario and Luigi vs Boyfriend. The song would be in the art style of Hotel Mario’s cutscenes, and have occasional voice lines from the two done in trademark YTP sentence mixing)
• Liver (NEW) (Give Me Your Liver Mario vs Boyfriend. Song would be in a first person perspective, with Mario’s poses being based on N64 renders of him. Game over would be Mario stealing Boyfriend’s liver, with restarting having Luigi show up and give you back your liver)
• Mario Sing and Game Rhythm 9

Woodland of Lies: (Thalassophobia and Apparition are moved to a new world)

• Alone
• OH GOD NO
• I HATE YOU
• Last Course
• Enucleation (NEW) (Eyeless Mario. Would be a song similar to Restless from Ourple Guy, where you’re the only one singing. Would have a mechanic of needing to hit disco ball notes every so often to illuminate the screen, or else it becomes pitch black and you’re entirely unable to see the notes. Game over would just be white text appearing on screen saying “you can’t do that, eyes are lost forever”, like in the original game)
• Too Many Marios (NEW) (128 Mario vs Boyfriend. Don’t really have any ideas for the song tho)
• Mansion Match-Up (NEW) (Game.bps Big Boo vs Boyfriend. The song would have similar visuals to the final boss of game.bps, with the song incorporating leitmotifs from The End Of 1000 Years (which is remixed for the final boss in game.bps))
• Demonization (NEW) (Emperor Eeyagh vs Boyfriend. The song would have occasional dialogue from the original narrator of Mario is a Monster, trying to find random excuses to paint Boyfriend as the villain in the song even when it’s made blatantly obvious he’s not. The game over would be a reference to the scene in the original creepypasta where Eeyagh takes a bite out of Peach’s skull cap, albeit instead of Peach, it’s Boyfriend who’s skull is being eaten)
• Illusion Madness Mix (NEW) (PS135 vs Boyfriend. Would be a sort of Encore mix of Illusion, with a generally more intense feel and a replacement for the Angel Island motif (probably the Athletic theme, or maybe Gusty Garden Galaxy). Additionally, Boyfriend would be more confident in the song than any song in the mod, while Girlfriend is as scared as normal like in a lot of other songs, since Boyfriend’s already rapped with PS135 at least three times before)
• Dark Forest
• FIND ME (NEW) (MARIO and Victim #1 vs Boyfriend and Girlfriend. Would have some Top Loader-esc news reports, and have Victim #1 show up for a segment in the middle. The song would also be in the SNES art style, but change to normal FNF when Victim #1 shows up. Game over would be in the form of a news report like the ones in the song, only it’s for Boyfriend and Girlfriend)

Canon Cave (NEW):

• Shitting Bricks (NEW) (Lego Mario vs Mario. Lego Mario would be in 3D, and have his eyes black like when he’s turned off. Game over would be Mario inserted into one of Plainrock124’s Bored Smashing episodes with Lego Mario)
• Forte (NEW) (Mad Piano vs Mario. Instrumental would of course be played on a piano, as well as with some Mario 64 motifs)
• Elemental (NEW) (Elh vs Luigi. The song would incorporate several motifs from Luigi’s Mansion, and the mechanics would be themed around traditional elements (fire notes that cause health drain, ice notes that freeze you, lightning flashes that block your view, etc))
• Freezeflame (NEW) (HellValleySkyTree vs Mario. The song would of course contain a bunch of Mario Galaxy motifs, mainly ones like Gusty Garden Galaxy and of course Shiverburn Galaxy. Game over would just be the Mario Galaxy one)
• Rock Out (NEW) (Bouldergeist vs Mario. The song would, like Freezeflame, implement Mario Galaxy motifs into itself. Game over is the same as Freezeflame)
• Three Amigos (NEW) (Trio song with Wario, Waluigi and Wapeach. The song would be similar to Pasta Night, where the player chooses between one of the three and needs to rap against the other two, with them using unique mechanics against you (not sure on said mechanics))
• Arachnophobia (NEW) (Mimi vs Mario. The song would be done in the Paper Mario art style, and Tippi would be in the background in Girlfriend’s role)
• Monarchy (NEW) (King Boo vs Luigi. In the middle of the song, King Boo will enter the Bowser costume from the original game, adding in the fire notes from Elemental into the chart. The game over would reference the one in Luigi’s Mansion 3, with King Boo trapping Luigi inside a painting)
• Ruined (NEW) (Ruined Dragon vs Mario and Cappy. The Ruined Dragon‘s sprites would be a 3D model, while everything else in the song is at least lineless art. The song would incorporate leitmotifs from the Ruined Dragon’s theme, and the song would have mechanics involving needing to avoid lightning, or else the player will both be stunned and take damage. The game over would have Mario get electrocuted, with the Mario Odyssey death screen showing up)

Modded Mountain (NEW):

• Invitation (NEW) (Please Come to the Castle Peach vs Boyfriend. Would have a mechanic involving static arrows that must be avoided, and cause an instant death if hit like with the static in Please Come to the Castle. Game over would also be similar to the original game’s ending, with Boyfriend stuck in a cage and a giant eye looking at him)
• Doppel (NEW) (Ghost Luigi vs Boyfriend. Would utilise leitmotifs from Luigi Insanity and Luigi’s Mansion, with a game over referencing the one from the original game)
• Factory (NEW) (The FNAW 1 Cast and EMMA vs Boyfriend. Would pretty much just be a FNAW mix of Bite, of course with Boyfriend singing in place of Markiplier and the FNAW cast instead of the FNAF 1 cast. The game over would be Boyfriend getting jumpscared)
• Experiment (NEW) (Dr Mario’s Lab Mario vs Boyfriend. Would have mechanics relating to the main mechanics of the original game, like needing to avoid notes with purple splatters on them as a reference to the purple serum that causes Piranha Plant attacks in the game, and occasional attacks from a chain chomp that can only be stopped by pressing space and throwing a Bob-Omb, which there is a limited supply of)
• Another Princess (NEW) (Another Princess Is In Our Castle Peach and Toads vs Boyfriend. Would have a brief part where the art style shifts into the original Mario 64 models)
• Malicious (NEW) (Malice vs Boyfriend. The song would be done in the art style for Mario The Music Box’s art style rather than the usual FNF one)
• Grief (NEW) (Dolor Luigi vs Boyfriend. Don’t really have many ideas for this one tho)
• Pitch Black (NEW) (Ron J vs Boyfriend. Ron J’s design would be based off the design used in Mario Kart Black’s cover art, and the song itself would be set on Anti-Rainbow from the ROM Hack, with the song using several Mario Kart Wii leitmotifs like Coconut Mall, the Circuit theme or Maple Treeway. Game over would be a modded version of Mario Kart Wii to include Boyfriend, with Boyfriend falling off Rainbow Road)
• Conquest (NEW) (Psycho Iris vs Boyfriend. The song would be set during the final boss of Psycho Waluigi, and would incorporate motifs from songs in Psycho Waluigi, like Final Conquest or Hazel’s Mechs)
• Lovecraft (NEW) (Cthulhu Disciple and Cthulhu vs Boyfriend and Mario. Would have several of the demented enemies from the original Call of Cthulhu rom hack appear during the song, and a mechanic where the player needs to hit cat statues among the notes or they’ll always end up with a game over at the end of the song. The game over would also of course reference the bad ending to Call of Cthulhu, with Boyfriend going insane and not being able to grasp Cthulhu’s true form)

Content Cosmos

• Bad Day
• Calamity (NEW) (Castle vs Boyfriend. Would have visuals of a standard Mario Castle Calamity video playing alongside the chart, and the game over would simply be Mario’s death animation in Mario World)
• Burgers (NEW) (The scrapped Mario’s Ristorante song)
• Day Out
• Suffermiing (NEW) (Mar and Failboat vs a Boyfriend Mii. The rest of Failboat’s Miitopia cast would appear in the background, with Boyfriend streaming it like in So Cool. The game over would be Boyfriend added into the Beam Attack scene from The Most Terrifying Kirby Game in place of Waddle Doo and getting obliterated, appearing in heaven alongside all the other characters who have shown up there in Failboat’s videos)
• Dictator
• Berserk (NEW) (Dorkly Mario in his Mario Goes Berserk persona vs Boyfriend)
• Race Traitors
• Parasite (NEW) (Lumpy Touch Mario vs Boyfriend)
• No Hope
• Brain Cancer (NEW) (Terminal 7 Luigi. Like with Enucleation, the song would be a solo bout with only Luigi, and the song would be based on Luigi’s breakdown in Terminal 7’s last level)
• Speedrun (NEW) (TerminalMontage Mario and the Speed Demon vs Boyfriend. The song would be extremely fast paced, and additionally have a mechanic of notes that cause the scroll speed to increase until it’s too fast to hit notes. Game over would be Boyfriend turning into a monochrome shape like Carl or Perry)
• I Rap Battled a Blue Midget While Cosplaying as Mario (NEW) (The scrapped Jaiden Mario song. Would start off simple, before suddenly transitioning into unbelievably hard territory with tons of notes and difficult mechanics, given that Jaiden Mario originated from a video about Kaizo rom hacks)
• Bloopers (NEW) (The unfinished SMG4 Mario song. Would now have Mario in the FNF art style, mainly for the sake of the next song I had an idea for, as well as brief singing cameos from some of the other modern main cast, like SMG4, Meggy, SMG3 and Tari. Game over would be Boyfriend exploding into a coin)
• Rejected (NEW) (Rejection Waluigi/WaluRambo vs Boyfriend and SMG4 Mario. The song would incorporate motifs from Picture Perfect B Side (the instrumental for WOTFI 2018’s rap battle) and Waluigi Pinball, with the background taking place in the ruins where the final challenge of WOTFI 2018 took place. The song’s mechanic would be T-Pose mushrooms among the notes, that when hit cause either health drain or a one hit kill. Game over would be Boyfriend or Mario (depending on who’s singing) getting turned into a T-Pose zombie)
• Witness (NEW) (Eldritch SMG0 vs Boyfriend, Girlfriend and SMG4 Mario. The song would have Zero morph between forms he took in the Cosmology, from hand, to eye, to Ax0l, to eldritch, and ending off on Niles, with his Eldritch form in particular being his usual GMOD model rather than an illustration. The song would also incorporate motifs from songs like In The Final (used in the fight against Zero in the Anniversary) and of course Zero (WOTFI 2021’s rap battle). Game over would be Zero draining Boyfriend’s life force in the same way he does to Spudnick in The Other Universe)

Hellish Heights:

• Golden Land (ideally would have it composed by ComixZ0ne, but that’s just an ideal, not something that needs to happen)
• Torched (NEW) (CoolRash Mario.exe and Zombie Toad vs Boyfriend. The song would follow a similar format to It’s-A-Me, but change itself up to make itself a unique entity. It’d use the poison mushroom mechanic, as well as metal spikes you need to press space to dodge. Game over would have Mario.exe throw a torch at Boyfriend, burning him alive, or if you die to a metal spike, it instead has him getting impaled.
• No Party
• Martyr (NEW) (Mutkifer and Crucis Mortem Toad vs Boyfriend. Art would be done in the style of the high quality pixel art from Crucis Mortem)
• Paranoia
• Prototype (NEW) (The Starman vs Boyfriend. The song would be in both normal FNF art and the art style of the original Super Mario Bros)
• Forgotten (NEW) (Sophie vs Boyfriend. In the middle of the song, Sophie would pull a Sarah in Roundabout and show up alongside her Luigi vessel, and near the end, Thomas would also appear to help out Boyfriend)
• Cordyceps (NEW) (Infection Mario vs Boyfriend. Would of course have the Poison mushroom notes, because come on)
• Boundless Joy (NEW) (Funtendo vs Boyfriend and Girlfriend. Song would be inside a copy of Mario Party, with Boyfriend and Girlfriend in vessels of whoever their favourite characters would be. The song’s tone would additionally be more lighthearted and fun than the other songs in Hellish Heights, albeit with a note-heavy chart to give some challenge)
• Corrumpere Atramentum (NEW) (Inkbowser.exe vs Mario. Would have a mechanic similar to the cold meter in Frostbite, where Mario is slowly more and more corrupted by ink and has an instant game over if he gets completely covered, but can get rid of it by pressing space, but only a limited number of times)
• Power Star (NEW) (Buggy vs Boyfriend. The song would take place in the Buggy-corrupted Castle from Wario Apparition, and incorporate leitmotifs from Dark Forest (Coronation Day’s OST is used in The Power Star Archives) and Apparition (Buggy has some very obvious references to the Apparition in the series). The mechanic would be questions like in Sentence that the player needs to answer correctly, or they’ll take severe damage. The game over would have Buggy burn Boyfriend alive in the exact same way he did to Luigi in Execution. Additionally, both this and the next song would have the HUD of Apparition, aka a VHS recording, albeit now dated at 2022 rather than the mid 90s)
• Not Your Enemy (NEW) (Corrupted Peach vs Boyfriend. The song would be a chase in a similar vein to Demise, albeit rather than taking place in 1-1, it’s in the ghost house Corrupted Peach chases Andrew through in Sentence. Like with Demise, the song would incorporate leitmotifs from Mario Bros 2’s Boss theme, since it’s used in the chase scene)
• Vengeance (NEW) (King Ruthless vs Boyfriend. The song would have a Triple Trouble-esc style of having King Ruthless accompanied by soul variants of his victims (Luigi, Toad and Peach), and the song would take place in the glitched out secret Mario level from the full game)
• Overdue
• Powerdown
• Demise

Personalized Palace (NEW, though kind of just a renamed Classified Castle):

• Leukocoria (NEW) (White Eyed Chomp vs Boyfriend. Would of course take place on Bob-Omb Battlefield, and the game over would be similar to Apparition, with the White Eyed Chomp eating Boyfriend. Additionally, the world name and overall theme (Mario 64, though mainly the Every Copy of Mario 64 is Personalised theory) wouldn’t show up until you play this song, alluding to how in the MIPS Hole wiki, the White Eyed Chomp is a signal that your game will have some level of personalisation)
• Ignorant (NEW) (Scripulous Fingore vs Boyfriend. The song would start off in the mirror room in Mario 64 DS, with only Boyfriend singing, until Scripulous shows up with dialogue referencing a fake screenshot of him in Mario 64 DS (“you can’t ignore me forever, Mario”, just with Mario replaced with Boyfriend), with the song then transitioning into NSMB’s ghost house levels. The song would also be in the soundfont of NSMB, and the game over would be the game over screen from the game too. The song would also in some way reference the “It was YOU! YOU are the cringey ass nae nae baby of legend!” quote associated with Scripulous Fingore, perhaps as a brief moment in a pre-song cutscene)
• Thalassophobia
• Apparition
• Delicious Cake (NEW) (The Baker vs Luigi. Not sure on any mechanics tho)
• Something Changed (NEW) (M (not to be confused with Ultra M) vs Boyfriend. The song would be 4 minutes, reflecting how sm64.z64 restarts 4 times, and every minute the area becomes more and more corrupted like in the original game. The song’s game over would be a reference to the ending of the game, with M attacking Boyfriend and making him disappear, and of course saying “everything is better off without you”)
• Faceless (NEW) (Textureless Mario Anomaly vs Boyfriend. Would be on Tiny Huge Island of course, and have the area flicker between being normal, being pitch black, and being bright and distorted)
• Randomizer (NEW) (B3313 Peach (aka the Personalisation AI) vs Boyfriend. Similarly to the original game, the song would be randomised every time you play it, with a brand new background or mechanic each time. Some of the scares from B3313, like the faceless Marios or the Amalgam would also appear as background details, or incorporated into the mechanics of certain randomisations. The song would also utilise leitmotifs from songs in B3313)
• Promotion
• Abandoned
• The End

All Stars and Unbeatable remain the same (though All-Stars now has a good ending mix if you press space at the exact time the spike should appear, though I’m not sure what the ending would be like).

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• AZ dropped Doe or Die in 1995, which is basically AZ's interpretation of Illmatic that Nas was fearful of being bit up by copycats, where Marley Marl basically leaked unfinished Nas songs on the radio and made another "Symphony" putting Cormega and random rappers as features without Nas permission. Also, Marley's place was far and it was like a whole journey to get there back when NYC was unsafe with stickup kids and all that
• IWW's album cuts was basically half a Mobb Deep inspired album with dark beats and themes, if it wasn't for trackmasters making everything glitzy and glossy for radio friendly hits commissioned by Steve Stoute.
• I Am (retail) was basically half a DMX inspired album with more glitzy beats but better coherent rhyming than dog barking and yell-rapping
• Nastradamus was basically another revisitation to Mobb Deep dark beats with brighter Alchemist inspired sounds from leftover I Am OG with Timbaland radio singles
• Stillmatic is pretty much as original as it gets: Every song directly or subliminally disses Jay-Z by creativeness of songmaking that Jay can't do. Lost Tapes is just I Am to Stillmatic leftovers with another album called Illmatic to Stillmatic remixes and random new songs on Illmatic 10th dissing Em on 'StaStan Wars' that has nothing to do with the anniversary
• God's Son is some Christian inspired soul music inspired by his mom's passing and the rest of the deep cuts had cacophonic K Solo/DMX's 'Spellbound-type' rhymes with the Bravehearts dissing Cam'ron, etc with Biggie inspired rhyme patterns where 3 lines rhymed instead of 4 lines and a bunch of unorthodox rhyme schemes that don't rhyme at the pauses but somewhere in the middle, and quoting Biggie directly like 'Jesus Christ, he's just nice, he just slice, like a Ginsu (American knives with fake Asian marketing)' and doing that posthumous collab with 2Pac.
• Street's Disciple is Nas in his natural state: sex debauchery, lazy old school rap beat sampling loops with cutting room songs that should not have made any album when people gave him compliments on Lost Tapes 1 to make an album full of stuff that should have been lost and him rapping sickly from a hospital bed with an elderly voice of his mom named Scarlett and talking about Sekou that was supposed to be a full fictional book written by Nas https://allhiphop.com/news/nas-writes-novels-developing-book-based-on-sekous-story/
• Hip Hop Is Dead is the resampling of old school rap and elaborating the bridge it to Nat King Cole on "Can't Forget About You" and the blues and oldies mixed in with Illmatic raps. Black Republican was supposed to be on Jay-Z's album but it leaked and was put on HHID to push sales. Songs like 'Where Are They Now', 'Film', etc namedrops more than Game but because we don't know who they are or do the research to find out, it goes over our heads as unfulfilled research and people we don't know the significance to as missing song trivia
• Untitled is Nas's interpretation at a Richard Pryor standup album "Live and Smokin'" with the DJ Green Lantern complimentary mixtape sampling Richard Pryor throughout renewed by racial skits from Chappelle's Show, similar to when Nas recycled NWA's n-word controversy https://www.whosampled.com/sample/50566/N.W.A-Niggaz-4-Life-David-Naughton-Be-a-Peppe on the chorus of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxkZObqQpho
• Life is Good is basically Marvin Gaye's 'Here My Dear' divorce album in rap format and getting a Rick Ross verse that has nothing to do with 'Accident Murderers' or the ability to storytell like Nas, as quoted from the original Hussein Fatal verse from Hit Em Up
• Distant Relatives is African beats with reggae and having a Lil Wayne feature by forcing Wayne to rap with a message with an atypical beat pattern
• Nasir is a Kanye rushed album where Kanye's ghostwriting team outshined Nas at times and made certain songs uncomfortably 7 minutes long like it was going to be another MBDTF with the 7 sins as individual song themes because Kanye broke open the doors with "Jesus Walks" Christian rap that gets actively promoted second to Christian rock because the music industry is run by occultists and devil worshippers that masquerade as religious followers like how Diddy wears a cross and named his son Christian Combs but doesn't mean anything because he's still stuck in his deviancy
• Lost Tapes 2 was outtakes from HHID to 2015 unreleased stuff trying to get out of his Def Jam contract, and Nas trying to bridge the gap between rap and Jazz'n'b with Skatt Attack. creative shit here like when he turned into a werewolf but still based from the 'Teen Wolf' movie
• King's Disease had recycled outtakes from his Black Star feature verse with his unreleased Madlib verse mixed into a Valentines EP full of lubby dubby songs turned into a full album with a thought provocative title, it was the most underhanded thrown softball pitch ever and won a Grammy in the middle of a pandemic when the world stopped and most artists got caught off guard and didn't have any songs in the chamber to release on a major label. 'A Written Testimony' by Jay Electronica is a stealth Jay-Z duet album but lost the Grammy because it hid anti-semitic tropes and quotes Farrakhan that got Arsenio Hall's original show cancelled in 1994...Arsenio's nonstop poking fun of Jewish owner of the Clippers, Donald Sterling, got his revived show cancelled the second time, so you tell me who runs the world and why Chase bank cancelled Kanye's bank account over a few statements while nobody bats an eye on Black trauma? And somehow Nas was talked into making more collab albums with Hit-Boy despite the sound engineer and others being incompetent at mixing
• KD2 was redeeming himself after another 2Pac diss was found and Hitboy channeling his inner Johnny J to make Hispanic sampled minor notes guitar where he rapped like he actually gave a fuck about defending his legacy but without a 3rd verse on most songs
• Magic was revisiting old QB memories and teasing fans with that Dj Premier collab album
• KD3 is more victory lap shit on nostalgic samples from hood movies like The 5 Heartbeats
• Magic 2 was basically half a Jay Electronica inspired album. Nas talked about black magic and New Orleans type tropes like voodoo, mystic shit, second line brass band, black magic, etc. Jay Electronica already made a song called abracadabra, and black magic is basically this track called 'the spark' https://youtu.be/rvRbqvN2a0I?t=329I If Jay Electronica didn't have writer's block or succumb to the high expectation pressures while spewing radical NOI racist ideology while halfway being embarrassed by where he comes from (poverty and southern accent in an east coast dominated rap world), he would have been dropped several albums with heavy New Orleans references and Nas wouldn't have picked up the pieces to drop his interpretation of a Jay Electronica album

We are here but from the heights of where Nas once stood makes all this 2020-era stuff still feel like a letdown despite releasing more songs but barely having any intricacy in rhyme patterns or harsh truths in reality social commentary raps outside of random victory lap shit that rhymes but barely teach or mean anything for replayability's memorization sake or loosely quoting from circlejerk praise or vaguely referencing 'haters'

Jun 28, 2021 11:00AM ● By Anand Subramanian, updated June 24, 2022
Hip-hop is a culture that has changed America since the 1980s, not just a music genre. Its influence has expanded across the United States, influencing politics and media culture. The issue surrounding hip-hop music and culture has been at the forefront for many years. From the commotion of the east-west rivalry to critics who are quick to point out rap's violent lyrics, it remains a hot issue. People sometimes let the stigma associated with hip-hop overwhelm the music's potency. However, individuals may misunderstand the meaning of the messages that music might convey. Hip-hop can raise awareness of many critical cultural problems, such as racism and misogyny, while also evoking emotion. For example, Kendrick Lamar, who has been dubbed a lyrical genius by some, attempts to inspire encouragement to conquer personal issues. His album "To Pimp A Butterfly'' addresses consumerism, racism, oppression, and, most importantly, self-love. The album's title is a brilliant reference to Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," as well as a metaphor for the literal pimping of something as lovely and free as a butterfly. So, let us give a short history and the impact of hip hop in 2022.
So, what gave it its name?
The origins of the name hip-hop are variously explained. The most well-known one, though, features Keith ("Keef Cowboy") Wiggins, a member of the rap group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. In reference to a buddy who had joined the army, the rapper used the phrases hip/hop/hip/hop, emulating the sound of troops marching. According to some sources, Kevin ("Lovebug Starski") Smith was there when Wiggins coined the nickname. Hip-hop was later popularised via songs, most notably the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight."
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Hip hop and its influence. Source - Google
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Hip Hop components came together in New York City's Bronx area. It was the early 1970s, and conditions were rougher than usual in metropolitan America's poorest neighborhoods. Hip Hop sprang from a lot of nothing—and a lot of invention. DJ Kool Herc is credited for flipping the switch during a dance party in August 1973. To identify and expand percussion breaks—the most danceable elements of a song—he played the same record on dual turntables, alternating between them. It was a method that drew dancers who had spent days and weeks perfecting their skills. The result that night was electrifying, and other DJs in the Bronx quickly tried to outdo Herc. There are contradictory stories of when Bambaataa started holding parties, owing to the sometimes hazy history of hip-roots. hop's Some claim he started in 1970, predating acknowledged "father of hip hop" Kool Herc, while others claim he began in 1976, after Herc, in fact attending and getting inspiration from Kool Herc events. He swore to utilise hip-hop to get angry adolescents out of gangs and to establish the Universal Zulu Nation. Bambaataa and his disciples — a collection of dancers, performers, and DJs – embarked on the first hip-hop tour outside of the United States in 1982. He regarded hip hop tours as the key to expanding hip hop and his Universal Zulu Nation. Furthermore, it would help promote hip hop principles, which he believes are focused on peace, harmony, love, and having fun. Many musicians and gang members agree that "hip hop saved a lot of lives." His influence influenced several international musicians, including French rapper MC Solaar.
It was a code that has permeated Hip Hop ever since, such as employing abilities and whatever resources are available to create something new and emulating and imitating the brilliance of others while injecting own flair till the freshness radiates. Competition was and still is a significant driver in hip-hop. Like a strong star, this dance-party culture swiftly pulled various creative forms into orbit. A burgeoning movement of optimistic poets, visual artists, and urban thinkers offered their thoughts and voices via whatever methods they might find.
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Hip Hop illustration. Source - Google
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The last decade of the twentieth century, colloquially known as "the ninety," saw significant societal developments in American history and society. The emergence of hip-hop culture is one example of a significant new trend that occurred in the 1990s. Hip-hop has its roots in Black community awareness in the United States. Furthermore, hip-hop culture may be seen as a direct reaction to the socio-economic challenges that arose from that past. The Black community and other historically oppressed groups converted their dissatisfaction with the injustices they encountered into an effective protest, helping to reorganize social attitudes and possibilities. This musical trend began in the late 1980s, but the power and substantiation associated with hip-hop music mainly emerged throughout the 1990s. Following this line of thinking, the 1990s witnessed significant shifts in music and culture. So much so that the United States saw the birth of a true "Hip-Hop Nation." Moreover, despite debate about the music's validity, hip-hop represents a national movement with the potential to raise a whole segment of the national community.
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The Legacy of Hip Hop. Source - Google
Hip-hop has had an unmistakable influence on Black communities throughout the United States, particularly given that Black performers dominate the music. Furthermore, it has provided a forum for them to speak out against unfair contradictions in society, the government, or the treatment of Black people in this nation.
People who are interested in hip-hop culture often ask this question. It is also an incredibly crucial difference in the hip-hop scene. What is the difference between rap and hip hop? The usual response is that hip-hop is a culture comprised of four elements* – deejaying, MCing, graffiti, and dancing – and that rap is a kind of popular music that sprang from Hip-Hop culture. However, when we concentrate on the distinctions between rap and hip-hop, we often forget what they share. For example, there would be no point in comparing them in the first place if the two notions were unrelated. Rap and hip-hop, in this sense, are not diametrically opposed — rap is a product of hip-hop culture. But this is more than simply a method of thinking about the two types' interaction. It is also a method of creating music. When rap music is seen as an expression of a larger and deeper set of hip-hop processes, the emphasis shifts away from what rap music is and toward what it does. Rap music naturally comes into play more completely when understood in the context of hip-culture, hop's history, philosophy, and goals. Identity, communal duty, self-discipline, and personal expression – all-important to hip-hop culture – become central to rap as well.
In 2020, Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion's Saturday Night Live performance issued a striking statement about the killing of Breonna Taylor, a medical worker shot in her house by police officers. Lil Yachty, an Atlanta, Georgia-based rapper, has often utilized his songs to express his impoverished hardships. Similarly, Hip-Hop lyrics can remind young people of reality away from social media, a phenomenon that may occasionally affect young people's perceptions of what it means to be successful or respectable. Kendrick Lamar's song "HUMBLE" discusses the severe manipulation used on photographs of women nowadays and how it creates false expectations of women's bodies. In the song, he expresses his desire to see something natural, such as stretch marks, since he is "sick and tired of the photoshop." This is critical for young people to hear, especially young women, whose perception of what they should look like has been contaminated by photographs shared on social media. This ensures that those young ladies will not feel compelled to undertake surgeries or engage in other actions to meet society's expectations.
Hip-hop has been growing in Super Bowl halftime shows over the previous decade. But it's never been front and center. That changed on February 13, when the genre led a Super Bowl halftime performance for the first time. It's been a long time for hip-hop to headline the Super Bowl. Colin Kaepernick's knee protest highlighted the NFL's diversity and social justice concerns, prompting the league to join with JAY-Z's -Roc Nation in 2019. The agreement permitted the entertainment firm to advise on artist selection for important NFL events such as the Super Bowl and participate in the NFL and Players Coalition's "Inspire Change" project. The project focused on education, economic progress, police and community relations, and criminal justice reform. Beginning with Dre's "The Next Episode" and finishing with "Still D.R.E.," the show also included Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and 50 Cent, with each artist playing some of their most successful songs — including ones recorded by Dre himself. Overall, the halftime concert was a triumph, demonstrating the possibility of a complete hip-hop halftime production — from start to finish — while also objecting where it could.
📷SuperBowl performance 2022. Source - Google
Hip-hop history is a fascinating topic that deserves to be explored further. Since its start in the 1970s, this cultural movement has seen significant development and evolution. What started as a local effort in New York City to create a haven for African-American and Puerto Rican adolescents has become a worldwide phenomenon. Hip hop is still a dominating cultural force that influences people all over the globe.

Rogers Park Chicago Gang Sets
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Rogers Park- There are a new folks nation that goes by the name of The Renegade Insane Folks and they are leaving the disciples/Locs on the Southside. They go by Munchiegang for being the 420 Hungry clique. Rogers Park are not known anymore as the Insane cutthroat gangsters/Loc City/Pooh Bear Gang/Hoola Gang
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MunchieGang 🌮( 420 Hungry Clique🔱 Insane 22 Boys/Girls & New Breed Gangsters /Boss King Cobras3️⃣ Howard/ Rogers Ave- Paulina St/Sheridan
Renegade Insane Racine Boys✡️🚦 Howard St/Touhy - Paulina /Sheridan
🔱Insane 22 Boys/Girls Howard St/ Rogers Ave- Clark St/ N Ridge Blvd
MunchieGang 🌮( 420 Hungry Clique) 🔱 Insane 22 Boys/Girls & New Breed Gangsters/Boss King Cobras 3️⃣ Morse/Pratt-Glenwood/Lakewood
Latin Eagles🦅🔯 Irving Park/ Lawrence & Clark/Ashland -Active
Gaylord Rebels/ Latin Eagles🦅🔯/Boss King Cobras🔯🔱 - Lawrence/ Montrose -Beacon/ Dover St
Latin Eagles🦅🔯/Boss King Cobras🔯🔱- Main St/ South Blvd/Sheridan Rd-Chicago Ave
Gangster Disciples/Boss King Cobras🔯🔱 G.C Glenwood City Pratt / N. Shore & Bosworth/Glenwood -Active
DayDayWorld- GDN /Tribute Block
HoolaGangBPSN/ Almighty GayLords & Uptown Rebels Montrose/Leland Ave & Broadway(Maybe EBK/THF)

• Extinction because of incarceration, rapes, racism, & pedophilia

Former Gangs 2010-2020 Hybrid Rap Gangs/Tribute Block R.I.P EBK/THF & GloGang/ 4CGG
TBG "Lil Jay Rap Gang" Montrose to Broadway/Sheridan VLN
Lil4 Mobb( 4CGG, Lil Durk, Sicko Mobb, & Lud Foe) Sunnyside & Wilson to Sheridan & Clarendon. 4CH
TFG/LDubb & PBG Young Pappy was a Gangster Disciple rapper who passed away. Young Pappy was beloved all over Chicago, and many Folks still "bump" his music. Young Pappy was a street dude that used rap to make his own Hybrid -RapGang neighborhood. Young Pappy was his own chief , also Young Pappy's set P.B.G (Pooh Bear Gang in Rogers Park) was on infamous Morse & Ashland. Young Pappy's neighborhood grew as they combined sets to increase their territory. Young pappy hung with a few rappers:Bang Da Hitta, Pbg Spazz, Taysav, PBg Shawn, PBG Kemo, and Budouble. They Claimed LDubb/TFG, which extends from Leland Ave-Argyle & Clarendon Rd & Winthrop.
- Renegade Insane Folks Nation
- Boss King Cobras- 1994

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5:3)

Foreword

This post builds on an amazing Analysis of Rich Spirit by u/Flaky-Mission, which is well worth reading. To summarize:
Rich Spirit captures a flawed Kendrick Lamar as he is beginning to integrate the spiritual teachings of Eckhart Tolle in his life. In this "awakening", Kendrick criticizes the ego and materialism he sees in others, while being completely blind to his own ego and attachment to wealth. As u/Flaky-Mission beautifully puts it, Rich Spirit is like "spirituality being taken out for a spin by an inexperienced driver".

What is a "Rich Spirit"?

To understand, look at this quote from A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle:

“Blessed are the poor in spirit,” Jesus said, “for theirs will be the kingdom of heaven.” What does “poor in spirit” mean? No inner baggage, no identifications. Not with things, nor with any mental concepts that have a sense of self in them."

So what does it mean to be rich in spirit? To have a strong sense of attachment, to have a big ego, and to be spiritually immature. Most people will misinterpret having a "Rich Spirit" as being highly spiritual and awakened, even though it means the opposite. In the same way, Kendrick sees himself as highly spiritual in Rich Spirit, even though he is still stuck in materialism and ego. He misuses spirituality as an excuse to be distant in his relationships, rather than directly face his problems.

How does Kendrick have a "Rich Spirit"?

To have a "rich spirit" is to have strong worldly attachments. We see in United in Grief how Kendrick is attached to wealth and sex as a coping mechanism: "Poverty was the case, but money wiping' the tears away" / "Green eyes said you'd be okay, first tour, sex the pain away". In Rich Spirit, he also becomes attached to the idea he is more spiritual than, and therefore superior to, other people.
Eckhart Tolle himself warns of this:

This is why renouncing all possessions has been an ancient spiritual practice in both East and West. Renunciation of possessions, however, will not automatically free you of the ego. It will attempt to ensure its survival by finding something else to identify with, for example, a mental image of yourself as someone who has transcended all interest in material possessions and is therefore superior, is more spiritual than others. There are people who have renounced all possessions but have a bigger ego than some millionaires. If you take away one kind of identification, the ego will quickly find another. It ultimately doesn’t mind what it identifies with as long as it has an identity.

Analysis! Analysis! Analysis!

[Chorus]
0:30 "Rich n\***, broke phone / Tryna keep the balance, I'm stayin' strong"*
Spiritual ego: Kendrick has a "broke phone" because he abstains from technology and social media. He's able to "keep the balance" between his extraordinary success (being a "rich n****") and his spirituality. He's "staying strong" in the face of a world that demands you engage in the toxicity of social media, and by abstaining, he thinks he's more spiritually pure than everyone else (we'll see more evidence of this throughout the song).
Materialism: Kendrick is "tryna keep the balance", which means he is literally trying to maintain his bank balance. He's attached to his wealth. Because he's a "rich n****", his friends and family to try to use him for money, but he's "stayin' strong" by being completely unresponsive to their requests, as if he had a "broke phone".
Silence/Being distant: Kendrick's "broke phone" refers to how he hides his infidelity, calling back to United in Grief where he says "phone off the ringer, tell the world I'm busy" before hooking up with "green eyes". The "broke phone" is also a symbol of his silence on social media. Finally, the "broke phone" is a symbol for his distance and emotional unavailability in his relationships, as it implies he often fails to call or pick up calls from his friends and family. This is supported by the use of a broken rotary phone rather than a broken digital phone in the Rich Spirit music video. Kendrick is "tryna keep the balance" between his personal life and his music career.
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0:35 "Stop playin' with me 'fore I turn you to a song / Stop playin' with me 'fore I turn you to a song"
This line could also be about Kendrick "tryna keep the [financial] balance". He's fighting off fake friends/family who try to use him for money by threatening to make a song about them. He is so influential that this is a significant and effective threat.
The "song" could also refer to the argument in We Cry Together, especially considering it's the next song on the album. With this interpretation in mind, this line shows him callously addressing Whitney (his wife), telling her to shut up before he makes their relationship issues public. He is using silence to avoid being reminded that he is a cheater. His lack of empathy and distance later becomes a point of contention in We Cry Together: "[Kendrick:] Bitch I don't know shit, fuck yo' feelings" and "[Taylor Paige:] Bitch, I ain't slow nor ditsy, I know when you're being distant / I know when you fake busy". This builds on the theme of him being distant in his relationships.
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0:40 "Ayy, bitch I'm attractive / Can't fuck with you no more, I'm fastin'"
Continuing with the interpretation of Kendrick "tryna keep the [financial] balance", Kendrick is telling his friends and family he "Can't fuck with [them] no more". He is cutting off the snakes who only care about his wealth.
Kendrick is also saying he's "attractive" - both physically and spiritually. As u/Flaky-Mission noted in his analysis, "attractive" refers to the Law of Attraction, a New Age idea that postulates that you attract what you think about. Kendrick is saying that he is becoming spiritually awakened. He is "fastin'", which is a traditional spiritual practice in Christianity where one refrains from eating for a fixed period of time. As a result, Kendrick can no longer "fuck with" or associate with the less spiritual people in his life. Of course, this is Kendrick's spiritual ego showing - Jesus himself constantly associated with sinners, the poor, and the outcasts of society. This is reinforced by the fact that openly bragging about your attractiveness is egotistical.
Finally, this line could build on the theme of infidelity in the chorus. Here, Kendrick continues to taunt Whitney, saying that he is attractive, wealthy, and popular, and as a result can easily cheat or leave her and find someone else without consequence.
To summarize, the chorus has multiple interpretations:
Kendrick's Spiritual Awakening: Kendrick views himself as more spiritual than others. As a result, he has a "broke phone" to avoid the negative influences of social media. He stops associating with many people, including his own listeners, because he sees himself as "attractive" - that is, spiritually superior to them. However, he is blind to the spiritual ego he is forming.
Maintaining Wealth: In the midst of his astronomical success, Kendrick finds himself surrounded by snakes and fake friends who try to use him for money. In an effort to "keep his [bank account] balance", he cuts them off as if he had a "broke phone". He dissuades them by threatening to leverage his influence to "turn [them] to a song", and also stops "fuck[ing] with" (associating with) them completely. His materialism strains his relationships.
Unspoken Infidelity: Kendrick abuses his wealth and success as a "rich n****" to fuel his lust addiction, and he hides his infidelity by turning his phone off and pretending he is busy, like it was a "broke phone". When Whitney confronts him, he is distant and avoids the topic, telling her to "stop playin' with me 'fore I turn you to a song [We Cry Together]". He reminds her that to the world, he is "attractive", and can "stop fuck[ing] with" her whenever he wants. In the chorus itself, he is silent about his adultery.

Three Key Themes

Throughout Rich Spirit, there are three key themes:
Spiritual ego: Pay close attention to how Kendrick points out the flaws, immorality, and spiritual missteps of others without acknowledging his own failures. When Kendrick talks about his spiritual attainment, it is always in direct contrast to other people, implying a sense of spiritual superiority. He is often subtly hypocritical when judging others. This passage from the Gospel of Matthew is relevant:

Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when the beam is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Kendrick sees the speck (flaws) in his brother's (other people's) eye, but fails to see the beam (decaying relationships, infidelity, unsustainable coping mechanisms) in his own eye. But rather than work on his own problems, he spends the song criticizing others.
Materialism: Many lines in Rich Spirit point to Kendrick's desire to maintain his wealth and his hesitance to give it away. Kendrick also uses wealth as a coping mechanism to deal with pain as well as to "fix" relationships. Note that when Kendrick claims that he isn't attached to his wealth, he contrasts himself with others who are attached, feeding his spiritual ego.
Silence/being distant: In Rich Spirit, Kendrick repeatedly criticizes social media and clout-chasing. He avoids using technology, and remains silent online. However, he is also distant in his relationships and effectively goes silent when cheating, not responding to his phone. To reflect this, Kendrick uses double entendres that simultaneously criticize social media and expose his coldness in relationships.

Kendrick's Insane Lyricism

Feel free to skip around or just search for bars you don't understand - there's admittedly a lot here. But I promise, if you're interested in lyricism, this is worth reading though.
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Verse 1
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0:00 "Takin' my baby to school, then I pray for her / Cause you bitches ain't never been cool, writin' testament"
Kendrick says he is "writin' testament", a reference to the Old Testament and New Testament (these make up the Bible). He claims that his raps are holy scripture, which is an admittedly arrogant claim. This demonstrates his large spiritual ego.
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0:11 "Painting pictures put me in the Louvre, that's a definite"
The Louvre is the world's largest museum and contains some of the most famous art in history. Kendrick is saying he is so good at describing images in his raps that they should be in the Louvre alongside other universally acclaimed high art, again showing his ego.
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0:14 "Celebrity do not mean integrity, you fool / I'm a good man, shake your hand, firm grip rule"
On the surface, he's calling out other celebrities for lacking integrity, as well as mocking the audience for seeing celebrities as perfect people. He says he's a "good man" who will "shake your hand" with a "firm grip", which implies that he has integrity and is therefore an exception. However, he also lacks integrity - he constantly lies to Whitney about his cheating. Here, him saying "you fool" is pointing to the audience and saying "you're a fool if you think this doesn't apply to me too".
"You fool" is also a Biblical reference, which ties back to Kendrick's claim that he's "writing' testament". Jesus said "and whoever says, “You fool!” will be liable to the hell of fire." (Matthew 5:22). This is in line with Jesus' teachings to "Judge not, lest ye be judged". Kendrick is building up an ego by judging others, since judging someone implies that you are better than them. However, Kendrick is rapping from the perspective of his past self. By choosing the phrase "you fool", we can see that present Kendrick is conscious of the ego of his past self.
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0:22 "More than two M's, for a show, but add another two"
The other post already discussed multiple potential meanings of "M", but the straightforward reading shows Kendrick bragging that he makes over $2 million per show. Then, despite already being rich, Kendrick still wants to accumulate wealth and "add another two [million]", showing his persistent materialism.
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Verse 2
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0:50 "The morality can wait / Feedback on low latency"
Here Kendrick refers to the instant (low latency) gratification and feedback people get from social media. This causes people to overlook "morality" for likes, attention, and clout. He showcases a subtle ego as this suggests he is morally superior for not using social media.
"Feedback on low latency" also refers to a physical feedback loop that might occur at a concert when a microphone picks up the audio from the speakers, which can only happen when there is low latency between the microphone and the speakers. This produces a nasty distorted screeching noise. In a similar way, when Kendrick ignores morality and commits infidelity, it creates a negative feedback loop. He uses sex as a coping mechanism for pain, but cheating produces guilt, shame, and massive tension in his marriage, so he has more sex to make himself feel better. This causes him to be trapped in a cycle, since he doesn't know the proper way to deal with his emotions.
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0:53 "I'm glitchin' from the face"
Bro is spitting fr
(but seriously, read u/Flaky-Mission's post on this section)
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0:56 "I'm running out of space, ask Whitney she okay / Never mind a hundred K, why you lyin' on Benjamin? / He turnin' in his grave / I'd be lyin' if I said I wouldn't give this shit away"
Whitney is not ok. Kendrick is likely being willfully ignorant of the pain he causes Whitney by cheating on her and is using silence/being distant as a coping mechanism to avoid thinking about it. When Kendrick says "Never mind a hundred K", he is trying to use his wealth to fix his marriage (by flippantly giving Whitney $100,000), another example of his materialism. Again, this foreshadows the argument in We Cry Together, where Kendrick yells "Man, bitch, you trippin', who bought you that Rollie chain?" as if that will fix the deeper relationship issues present. We see how he can't buy forgiveness when in Count Me Out when he says "What fair when the money don't take things back?".
"Why you lyin' on Benjamin" refers to hundred dollar bills (money). Kendrick is rhetorically asking why people lie about their wealth on social media, knowing that the answer is for clout and attention. Kendrick is also asking why people are "lyin' [down] on Benjamin" (sitting on a pile of money). In contrast, he plans to "give this shit away" and donate all of his money. Notice how he builds up a spiritual ego by implying his planned charity makes him better than others. Also note that he is still "tryna keep the balance".
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1:05 "The aloof Buddha, I'm Christ with a shooter / Praise to Muhammed, I might n\***-noose ya"*
Buddha literally means "enlightened one", and aloof means "detached, distant". Kendrick is calling himself enlightened, again showing how Kendrick is ironically building up an ego about being spiritual. Him being the "aloof Buddha" shows how he is using spirituality to distance himself from his problems, which also describes his treatment of Whitney in the last bar. Christ, meaning Jesus Christ, was famously peaceful, and is the source of the idiom "turn the other cheek". To be "Christ with a shooter" is an oxymoron, which alludes to Kendrick's spiritual hypocrisy throughout this song.
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1:10 "AP Michael Friedman, my friends cooler / Primary, so the resale value stupid"
AP refers to Audemars Piguet, a Swiss Luxury Watch company whose watches have become a symbol of wealth in rap. Kendrick is referring to his jewelry as his "friends", showing how he has replaced genuine connection and relationships with materialism. This also shows how distant he is from his actual friends. Kendrick's jewelry is so "icy" (covered in diamonds) that it must be "cooler" than the listeners jewelry. His jewelry is also "primary", meaning one of a kind or the first of its kind, so the "resale value stupid" (absurdly high). This could reference his diamond crown of thorns which was a one-of-a-kind piece that cost $3 million. Notice how Kendrick is suggesting that he is better than the listener for having extremely expensive jewelry, which shows his ego and betrays his previous claim that he would "give this shit away".
"Michael Friedman" is also the Head of Complications of AP. Kendrick is saying that he is so famous, instead of just buying watches from AP, he is also friends with the lead designer of the watch company. Therefore his friends are cooler than yours (this brag is again showing his ego). Here, "primary" means he's been with his friends since primary school, or elementary school. Because he's been with them so long, he it would be "stupid" to sell them (leave them) now.
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1:14 "I would never live my life on a computer / IG'll get you life for a chikabooya / More power to ya, love em from a distance"
By saying "more power to ya", Kendrick is saying you can live your life however you want (but he would "never live [his] life on a computer"). Notice how the subtle judgmental tone feeds Kendrick's spiritual ego. "More power to ya" is also wordplay because to live your life online, it requires electrical power. "Love 'em from a distance" refers to the dynamic created by social media (think likes on Instagram) and celebrity worship (of which Kendrick's audience is no exception).
"Love 'em from a distance" also refers to Kendrick's distance from the ones he loves, particularly Whitney. This creates tension in his marriage, which blows up in We Cry Together: "Bitch, I ain't slow nor ditsy, I know when you're being distant".
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1:24 "And my cousin tried to sue me like he got the privilege / But I didn't lose sleep 'cause I got the spirit"
Kendrick is saying that he is so spiritual and detached from material things that he isn't worried about losing money from his cousin suing him. He has "the spirit", so it simply doesn't bother him. This is another reference to the Gospel of Matthew in the Bible (New Testament): "If someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well" (Matthew 5:40). This is just another way of saying "turn the other cheek". This Biblical reference supports Kendrick's claim that he's "writin' testament". However, we can see that Kendrick is building a spiritual ego around not being attached to wealth. It is hypocritical to openly declare that you have "the spirit".
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Verse 3
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2:00 "Frat brother, real n\***, that brother"*
In the next few lines, Kendrick mocks how (predominantly white) frat bro culture appropriates the aesthetic of gangs without having to live with any of the consequences. He contrasts the "frat brother" who uses rap as an aesthetic from the "real n****" who actually lives the subject matter of rap and who contributes to the culture. The use of the word "brother" makes fun of the fact that white frat bros can't say the n-word, implying that they say "brother" as a substitute.
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2:02 "We just upped the score, give me dap, brother"
From the perspective of the "real n****", upping the score refers to killing a member of an enemy gang, which is then celebrated by dapping. Meanwhile, the frat brother who is watching the game sees his team score a point, claims "we just upped the score", and appropriates the dap to celebrate.
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2:05 "Spirit medium, I don't rap, brother"
A "spirit medium" is someone who claims to be able to communicate with the dead/spirits. The "real n****" has seen his friends die, so when he raps, it's more than rap - he is channeling the spirts of his friends. As Tupac says in Mortal Man on TPAB, "Because the spirts, we ain't even really rapping' / We just letting our dead homies tell stories for us".
On the other hand, "spirit" can refer to an alcoholic beverage, while "medium" refers to the substance through which something is transferred. Thus, Kendrick is mocking frat bro culture by saying the "frat bro" is just a spirit medium, or a vessel for alcohol. All the frat bro does is drink and party, so he never raps.
Finally, Kendrick is talking about his own rapping ability. This line echoes the idea in Worldwide Steppers that Kendrick "Asked God to speak through me, that's what you hearin' now". Kendrick is channeling God through his raps, and as a result, his raps are so spiritual and perfect that they transcend the genre itself. This is Kendrick's spiritual ego talking.
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2:07 "We headed there now, are you strapped brother?"
The "real n****" is on his way to commit a robbery or murder with the gang (think of the story told in The Art of Peer Pressure). He needs to make sure they are all "strapped" (armed with a gun) to execute it successfully.
In a humorous contrast, the "frat brother" makes sure to check that all of the other brothers have their seatbelts "strapped" before leaving. Despite wanting to look dangerous, the frat brother is almost comically safe.
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2:09 "Ayy, peacemaker, but I'm not naive, brother"
Kendrick refers to himself as a peacemaker. This is another reference to the Gospel of Matthew, where Jesus states "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God". In Biblical times, a "peacemaker" was someone who was sent to resolve a conflict between warring parties. However, Kendrick is not "naive", and doesn't think he can easily end long-standing disputes.
Given the context of the last four bars, Kendrick is likely referring to conflicts between gangs and frats. Kendrick wants to end disputes between rival gangs, but understands from his own experience how this may be impossible. He also wants to end the cultural division between those that make up gangs and the typically white upper-middle class people who make up frats.
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2:12 "Ayy, gotta watch your homies and police, brother"
In order to be a peacemaker, Kendrick has to "police" his "homies" to make sure they don't fight each other or other gangs. Alternatively, he has to police the behavior of frat brothers, making sure they aren't brazenly imitating gang culture.
Additionally, he has to watch both "homies" and "police" in order to make sure there is peace between his friends and police officers. The divide between "homies" and "police" is also representative of the demographic divide between gangs/frats.
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2:14 "Ayy, clout chasin' hell of a disease, brother"
While trying to police his friends' behavior, Kendrick sees them making extremely bad decisions for clout. The gang member might kill and brag about it on social media for clout, or flex their drug money and self-snitch in a rap. Likewise, the frat brother could pretend to be in a gang, or be openly racist for attention. The desire for clout infects his friends as if it were a disease. It also has severe consequences - it's not just a common cold, but rather a "hell of a disease".
This also builds on Kendrick's criticisms of social media through the song, as clout chasing is a phenomenon greatly exacerbated by social media.
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2:17 "I'm fastin' four days out the week, brother"
As u/Flaky-Mission noted in their analysis, this is a reference to the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector:

To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Kendrick is saying that he is so spiritual, he fasts four days a week (fasting is a traditional spiritual practice in Christianity). Kendrick is just like the Pharisee - throughout all of Rich Spirit, he has bragged about how much more spiritual he is than other people and about how much money he will give away. He has a massive spiritual ego in this song and lacks humility. In the end, Kendrick will be judged like the Pharisee.
In a sense, Kendrick is clout chasing - he is stuck in his savior complex, and wants to be seen as someone who is spiritually awakened and who can save humanity. By describing clout chasing as a "hell of a disease" in the previous line, Kendrick subtly points to the Biblical consequences of his attitude.
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2:29 "I pray to God you actually pray when somebody dies / Thoughts and prayers, way better off timelines"
Kendrick is saying that when other (famous) people die, people should pray for them in private rather than broadcasting their grief on social media "timelines" for validation. This is another reference to the Gospel of Matthew, where Jesus says "When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men … but when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father who is unseen." (Matthew 6:5-8). Hypocritically, Kendrick prays for this on a song that will be listened to by millions.
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2:34 "False claimin' not cute, I'm mortified"
"False claimin'" also refers to the practice of pretending to be affiliated with a specific gang, calling back to Kendrick's criticisms of frat culture at the beginning of the verse. Kendrick disavows false claiming, saying it is "not cute", but makes him "mortified". The word mortified begins with the prefix mort-, meaning "death" in Latin. This word choice shows the tragic and fatal consequences false claiming can have if it causes people to get tied into gang violence.
People may also "false claim" on social media when rappers die, pretending to have been fans, and feigning grief over someone they never cared about before.
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2:37 "The new Earth in hot pursuit, two hundred lives"
"The new Earth" refers to Eckhart Tolle's spiritual self-help book, "A New Earth". In it Eckhart Tolle defines, "the new Earth" as a world where people are increasingly awakened to the true nature of consciousness. One of Tolle's key teachings is to see through the illusion of ego. Here is relevant excerpt from the book:

To “own” something – what does it really mean? What does it mean to make something “mine”? If you stand on a street in New York, point to a huge skyscraper and say, “That building is mine. I own it,” you are either very wealthy or you are delusional or a liar. In any case, you are telling a story in which the thought form “I” and the thought form “building” merge into one. That’s how the mental concept of ownership works. If everybody agrees with your story, there will be signed pieces of paper to certify their agreement with it. You are wealthy. If nobody agrees with the story, they will send you to a psychiatrist. You are delusional, or a compulsive liar.

With this in mind, "false claimin'" refers to all of the false claims of ownership and identity that the ego makes. An alternate definition of "mortify" is "to subjugate (the body, passions, etc) by abstinence, ascetic discipline, or self-inflicted suffering)". When Kendrick says he's "mortified", he's saying he is immune to the false claims of ego because of his abstinence to social media and his commitment to give away his wealth. As a result of his personal awakening, "the new Earth [is] in hot pursuit", meaning that it is rapidly getting closer to becoming a reality.
However, Eckhart Tolle says The New Earth can only exist in the here and now - it can't be getting closer.

The arising of a new heaven and by implication a new earth are not future events that are going to make us free. Nothing is going to make us free because only the present moment can make us free. That realization is the awakening. Awakening as a future event has no meaning because awakening is the realization of Presence. So the new heaven , the awakened consciousness, is not a future state to be achieved. A new heaven and a new earth are arising within you at this moment, and if they are not arising at this moment, they are no more than a thought in your head and therefore not arising at all. What did Jesus tell his disciples? “Heaven is right here in the midst of you.

Thus, the "new earth in hot pursuit" is just a thought in Kendrick's head, and not close at all. In the same way, Kendrick's believes he is close to enlightenment, but he is actually very far from it. Kendrick thinks he is "mortified" and therefore protected from the false claims of the ego, but this itself is a false claim of his ego. Kendrick's belief that he is already awakened is the biggest obstacle to his awakening. Ultimately, his spiritual shortcomings blow up in his face in the next song, We Cry Together.
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If you made it all the way through or just skimmed, thanks for reading! If you skipped over it, I also completely understand lol

LA Knight vs Austin Theory for the US Championship
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On the Raw after Wrestlemania, Austin Theory is in the ring cutting a promo on how he is “The Now”. He asks, “Who in wrestling has a better future than me? And is answered by… “L. A. Knight! YEAH!” LA Knight struts down to the ring with a microphone in hand. He says, “Austin, you’re a fraud! Not only did you beat an aging John Cena.. YEAH!.. You beat an aging Seth Rollins.. YEAH.. to win that title! You have done nothing to prove to me or anybody else that you are a fraud. And that’s not an insult… it’s a fact of life… YEAH!” Austin Theory appears infuriated by Knight’s insults. He says, “At least I’ve been able to do something in this company! All you’ve done is lose match after match and say yeah over and over again.” LA Knight responds with.. “YEAH! You’re right. But I think my fortunes are going to change soon.” LA Knight punches Austin who quickly scrambles out of the ring. Knight says, “Because who’s game is it?? It’s L. A. Knight’s game!.. YEAH!”
On the next week’s Raw, LA Knight hosts The Fact of Life. He walks down to the podium in the middle of the ring. “Today’s episode is very special. We will be dissecting Austin Theory’s failure of a career. Let’s get started all the way back in 2020… YEAH!... where Austin Theory joined a fellow failure of a group, Seth Rollins’ disciples.. YEAH!... If you don’t remember that, don’t worry, neither do I.. YEAH!... Then, if I recall, he did something that got him moved back to NXT. If you’re wondering what he did, just look it up… YEAH!.. Now back in NXT, everyone’s favorite fraud begins to hang out with Johnny Gargano. There, he showed some promise. Then he became somebody’s favorite wrestler… YEAH!... Just like John Cena, just like The Rock, and especially like Hulk Hogan, he was good at kissing ass!.. YEAH!... And all of his ass kissing got him the Money in the Bank briefcase in which he failed to use properly and proved to everyone he is a DUMMY!.. yeah… YEAH!.. He then becomes the first dummy in history to cash in the Money in the Bank for the US Title.. YEAH!.. After a 75 day reign with the prestigious title, he drops it to notorious dummy, Bobby Lashley… YEAH!.. Now with his wrestling daddy gone, he is forced to work his way up until finally he beats a crumbling Seth Rollins to hold the title for a second time. Then he calls out and beats John Cena in the worst match in Wrestlemania history!.. YEAH!.. Shane McMahon outwrestled him with a torn ACL… YEAH!.. And that brings us here. With no one's ass to kiss, with no old geezer to fight, Austin Theory will stand across the ring from wrestling’s next megastar… L.. A.. Knight!.. YEAH!” Austin Theory jumps LA Knight with a steel chair. He viciously attacks Knight with it and slaps the dummy button.. “Dummy, yeah”.. A pissed off Austin Theory walks backstage.
For the next two weeks, LA Knight continues to provoke Austin Theory as Theory shows zero patience for Knight. On the go Raw to Backlash, LA Knight tells Austin Theory, “If you can pin my shoulders to the mat, 1, 2, 3.. YEAH!.. I will treat you with respect and I will accept you as “The Now” but if I win, you will crawl on your hands and knees… YEAH!.. You will bow down to me and say, “You are wrestling’s next megastar”.. YEAH!.. “You are wrestling’s next megastar”… YEAH!...” Austin Theory runs down to the ring with a steel chair. He swings at LA Knight who dodges the attack. LA Knight scrambles out of the ring and says, “I’m just faster than you!.. YEAH!..”
Match
The match is a brawl from start to finish. Neither man ever truly gets an upper hand on the other. Towards the end of the match, LA Knight has Austin Theory up for the Gravy Train when Austin pushes Knight off into the ref. The ref goes down. Austin Theory low blows LA Knight. Austin then grabs the title from ringside, slides into the ring and begins calling for LA Knight to get up. He goes for the title shot but LA Knight ducks. He kicks Theory in the gut, causing him to drop the title. He then picks it up himself and hits Austin with it. He says, “YEAH!” and pins him… 1, 2, 3… LA Knight grabs the title and says, “You’re a fraud… YEAH!” and walks out of the arena.
LA Knight wins the US title in 7 minutes.
Zelina Vega vs Rhea Ripley(C) for the Smackdown Women's Championship
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On the Smackdown after Wrestlemania, Judgement Day comes out to the ring. Rhea Ripley grabs a mic and claims to be unbeatable. She claims that nobody in the locker room has a chance against her. Finn Balor then takes the mic. He addresses his match with Edge then insults the LWO, calling them a shitty nostalgia act, with no bearing on the business. He is then interrupted by the LWO. The LWO come out and stand at ringside and Rey Mysterio grabs a mic. He says, “That’s a lot of talk for a team that had only one win at Wrestlemania. But you are sure full of yourself, aren’t you Finn?” Zelina Vega grabs the mic from Rey. “Rhea is too! I’ll kick her ass!” Santos Escobar grabs Zelina and pulls her back and tells her “Please calm down.” Rhea responds, “Oh you think you can beat me, you tiny bitch? I’ll kill your ass right now!” Zelina eagerly accepts the challenge and runs into the ring. Rhea begins to stomp Zelina as the LWO runs into the ring to bring the fight to Judgement Day. The factions brawl in and out of the ring. Towards the end, Dominic, Rhea, and Zelina are in the ring. Zelina is doing all she can to try to knock down Rhea. She hits the ropes when Dominic stands in front of her. She smacks Dominic, but this gives Rhea time to hit her with the Riptide. She then lays on top of Zelina as Dominic counts.. 1, 2, 3…
On next week’s Smackdown, Zelina is seen backstage talking to Adam Pearce. She asks Adam for a match against Rhea at Backlash. He looks at her and says, “Zelina, I don’t want you to take offense to this, but I want the best matches possible on this card and I don’t know if you’re there yet.” Zelina looks at him and says, “What do I have to do?” He says, “I’ll give you a couple matches against the best women Smackdown has to offer. If you win them, you may have a chance to fight Rhea.”
Later that night, Zelina faces Natalya. In a slow technical match, where Natalya controls the pace, Zelina is able to break out of the Sharpshooter and win the match with a rollup. Rhea Ripley then comes out and says, “Natalya is not on my level. Nobody gives a shit if you beat her!”
On the next week’s Smackdown, Adam Pearce knocks on the LWO’s locker room. He peeks his head in and says, “Zelina, can I talk to you for a second?” Zelina walks out. “I have a match prepared for you tonight and it’s Shayna Baszler. If you win this match, I may consider you against Rhea at Backlash.” She excitedly says, “Ok, I will try my very best!” and walks out to the ring for a match.
Shayna Baszler controls much of the match by overpowering Zelina, specifically targeting Zelina’s ribs. She goes for a Crossface Chickenwing when Zelina throws her into the middle rope and hits her with a 619. She climbs the ropes and hits a moonsault. 1, 2, 3… Shayna kicks out milliseconds after 3. But Zelina has won the match and begins to celebrate. Then Shayna snaps. She locks her in the Crossface Chickenwing. Zelina taps but it’s no use. Finally, Shayna lets go and Zelina is seriously hurt. The LWO run out to the ring to check on her as they go to commercial break.
On the go home Smackdown to Backlash, Adam Pearce knocks on LWO’s locker room door. He pokes his head in and asks for Zelina. Zelina is lying on a table against the back wall. Santos gets up and says, “Actually, I want to talk to you, Adam.” They walk outside, closing the door behind them. Santos grabs him by the collar and slams him against the wall. He says, “I’m sick of this bullshit. She was seriously hurt last week and you didn’t do shit about it. Whoever she beats this week will be her last opponent until Rhea Rhipley or I will kick YOUR ass!” Adam says, “Ok, ok.” Santos says, “Who the hell is her opponent this week?” Adam says, “Well, it’s Rhonda Rousey.” Santos stares at Adam and says, “Alright. I will tell her.” He then punches Adam in the face, knocking him to the ground. He walks into the locker room and closes the door.
Rhonda goes out to the ring first. She paces back and forth, like a lion stalking its prey. Zelina comes down to the ring, holding her ribs. Ronda immediately begins laying in forearms, viciously, over and over again. She gets her ready for the Armbar when Zelina rolls her up. 1, 2, 3… Zelina has shocked the world! The LWO come running out to the ring. They lift Zelina up on their shoulders, ready for one more fight. Rhea Rhipley then walks down to the ring. She says, “I hope you enjoy your celebration because it will be the last time you ever do it.”
Match
Zelina comes out to a massive ovation. Then Rhea Rhipley walks down to the ring, ready to fulfill her promise. Rhea controls the pace of the match as Zelina gets in short bursts of offense.
Towards the end of the match, Rhea has Zelina ready for the Riptide as she begins waving to the crowd. She lifts her up and Zelina reverses it into a Hurricanrana. Rhea hits the middle rope. Zelina then hits her with a 619 as the crowd is on the edge of their seats. She climbs to the top rope and hits the Moonsault. The crowd explodes. 1.. Michael Cole screams “Do you believe in miracles?!?”.. 2.. Rhea kicks out. Zelina looks devastated. She climbs back up to the top when Dominic Mysterio walks down to the ring. He says, “The 619 is my move! You can’t use it!” Zelina begins shouting at him when Rhea climbs up to the top rope and hits a Riptide. 1, 2, 3…
Rhea wins.
Rhea Ripley retains in 10 minutes
LWO(Rey Mysterio and Santos Escobar) and Bad Bunny vs The Judgement Day
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(Smackdown after Mania was detailed in the Zelina vs Rhea build).
On next week’s Raw, Bad Bunny opens the show. He is interrupted by the Judgement Day. Dominic blames him for his loss at Mania. Dominic says, “In prison, we don’t take being screwed lightly.” Bad Bunny then punches Dominic to the ground. Finn then runs at Bad Bunny who kicks him in the balls. Then, Damion Priest stares at Bad Bunny and says, “We’re amigos.” He grabs Bad Bunny by the neck and hits him with the Wrong SIde of Heaven Choke Slam. He pulls Bunny out of the ring and hits him with another choke slam, this time through an announce table. He tries to do it through the 2nd announce table when the LWO run down to the ring. Damion slowly walks off through the crowd as the show goes to commercial break.
On that week’s Smackdown, the Judgement Day are seen meeting backstage. Later on in the show, the camera frantically cuts backstage, showing a bloodied Joaquin Wilde. The LWO run to his aid while Damion Priest is shown in the background. A little bit later, the camera once again cuts backstage to show a bloodied Cruz Del Toro and the remaining LWO members again run to his aid as Finn Balor is seen in the background. Right before the main event, Madcap Moss is being interviewed when screaming is heard down the hallway. The cameraman runs to the scene where Rey Mysterio has Dominic by his hair. Rey throws Dominic into the wall as both Judgement Day and Santos Escobar run and begin to brawl. Finally, security is able to separate the two groups.
On the next week of WWE TV, the two sides continue to brawl as Damion brags about putting Bad Bunny in the hospital.
On the next week’s Raw, the two teams brawl again with Judgement Day gaining the advantage, thanks to a 3 on 2 attack. But then a masked man nails Priest with a lead pipe. Then, he does the same to Finn. He punches Dominic with his bare hand, knocking him down. The masked man reveals himself to be Bad Bunny who shakes hands with both remaining LWO members, signifying a match at Backlash.
On the final Smackdown, both teams prepare for the match. The match is made a no DQ match by Adam Pearce.
Match
The two teams brutally beat each other in an all out brawl. Damion Priest proves to be a major asset to his team, giving them the slight advantage throughout the match.
Towards the end of the match, Rey Frog Splashes off a ladder onto Dominic who is lying on a table, taking out both men. Santos lays out FInn with 7 chair shots to the back. Priest then choke slams him onto the floor leaving only Damion and Bad Bunny standing. Damion runs after Bad Bunny who ducks the clothesline and low blows him, bringing the giant to his knees. Bad Bunny hits the ropes and hits Damion with the Canadian Destroyer. He then pins the monster. 1, 2, 3… The crowd erupts to see their hometown hero win. Bad Bunny walks out through the crowd.
The LWO win in 15 minutes
Gunther(C) vs Seth Rollins for the IC Championship
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On the Smackdown after Wrestlemania, Gunther and Imperium are standing in the ring. Ludwig says, “Nobody can beat…” and is interrupted by laughs. Seth walks out to the ring as the crowd sings his theme. He says, “Gunther, my friend, that title you hold in your hand was once mine. And I want to challenge you to a match.. at Backlash. Gunther nods his head in acceptance. Seth says, “ I have one question to ask you, Gunther.” He then turns around, slaps his ass, and says, “Why don’t you give me a chop here for good luck!” then laughs loudly. He is then jumped by Imperium, who beat him down.
At the next week’s Smackdown, Seth Rollins comes down to the ring in a puffy jacket, as the fans sing his theme. He says, “I will admit, Gunther, you got one over on me last week. But this week, I am prepared and ready for anything you offer. So come on out here, big boy!” Gunther comes down to the ring by himself and lumbers into the ring with his resting frown on his face. Seth says, “Why so angry, big boy? Did something happen? Did Ludwig forget to give you a kiss on the cheek before you came out here?” Gunther just stares at Seth. “Come on, what’s wrong man?” and Set slaps Gunther across the face and laughs. Gunther lays out Seth with a big chop across the chest. Seth hits the ground but gets back up quickly and Gunther holds his arm and turns around. Seth kicks him behind his knee. He then hits the big man with a Curbstomp. Seth grabs the mic and says, “Thanks for the trick, Brett.” He then laughs, unzips his jacket to reveal a steel plate on his chest.
On next week’s Smackdown, Gunther stays in the locker room at the advice of Ludwig because if they let him out, he may kill Seth Rollins. Seth is interviewed backstage by Cathy Kelly. Cathy says, “You seem to have woken a beast in Gunther. How do you feel about what you have done in recent weeks?” Seth says, “This is great. I want to get the absolute best of Gunther at Backlash. So I hope you are watching this, Gunther. I hope my beautiful face and my gorgeous drip make you even more angry.” He begins to laugh. All of a sudden, he is attacked from behind by Ludwig and Giovanni. Cathy Kelly screams as security runs in to separate the two from Seth.
On the final Smackdown before Backlash, Seth is off rehabilitating his injuries sustained from the attack last week. Imperium cuts a promo in the ring, talking about how Seth stands no chance at Backlash. They hand Gunther the mic and he says, “Seth, if you think you’re hurt now, I hope you don’t even show up at Backlash. Because if you do, you’ll never go home.”
Match
Gunther stays on the offensive throughout the match as Seth fights from behind. The crowd, firmly behind Seth, wills him to stay in it. Gunther connects with nine consecutive chops to signify the years Seth has been in WWE.
Towards the end of the match, Gunther lifts up Seth for the Powerbomb, but Seth fights out and superkicks Gunther, knocking him backwards. He then gets him with a second one, knocking Gunther down to his knees. Seth begins to lead the crowd in the singing of his theme as he walks circles in the ring. While he is doing this, Gunther gets back up and chops Seth right in the chest. But Seth stays on his feet, continuing to sing his song. He then jumps onto Gunther and begins laying punches into him. The two tumble out of the ring. Gunther shops Seth again and starts trying to get back in the ring, when Seth hops on his back, locking in a sleeper hold. Gunther begins swinging his elbows back at Seth as the refs count is at five. He then runs full speed at the barricade, turning his body so Seth goes through it. But both hit the ground. The ref’s count is now at eight. Gunther rises to his feet and begins to walk to the ring, but Seth latches onto his foot, not allowing him to go. The ref counts to nine. Gunther attempts to shake him off as the count goes to ten. The match ends in a draw. Gunther is furious. He grabs the title and storms to the back as the camera zooms in on Seth as he laughs.
Gunther and Seth Rollins fight to a draw in 12 minutes
Bianca Belair vs Charlotte Flair for the Raw Women’s Championship
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On the Raw after Wrestlemania, Bianca is in the ring cutting a promo. She says, “I am the fast-est, the strong-est, the tough-est, and therefore, I am the….” She is interrupted by “Woooo!” Charlotte struts down to the ring. She says, “You may be great, Bianca, but the only woman who can call herself the best is The Queen. Wooo!” Bianca tells Charlotte, “Why don’t we prove who the best is at Backlash!?” Charlotte accepts and both women leave the arena.
On the next week’s Raw, Charlotte and Bianca team up against Iyo Sky and Dakota Kai. The match is very technical and hard hitting. Towards the end, Bianca begins to gain the advantage. She knocks Dakota off the apron, then lifts up Iyo for the Kiss of Death when Charlotte comes up behind her and chop blocks her to a chorus of boos. Charlotte locks Bianca in the Figure Eight. This allows Iyo Sky to climb to the top rope and hit a moonsault onto Bianca. Iyo then pins Bianca.. 1, 2, 3… Charlotte grabs a mic and says, “That’s why I’m the best, honey. Wooo!”
For the next two weeks, Bianca cuts promos about how she is a better woman than Charlotte Flair. “I stay true to my word and don’t stab people in the back.” As Charlotte claims her backstabbing Bianca makes her a better woman, showing her killer instinct. Also, Damage Ctrl claims that Iyo Sky is the true women’s champion.
Match
The match is a technical showcase of both women’s talents. Towards the end of the match, Bianca has Charlotte up for the Kiss of Death, but Charlotte slips out and pushes Bianca into the ref. Charlotte slams Bianca into the turnbuckle, goes outside of the ring, and grabs the title belt. She slides into the ring and tells Bianca to get up. Bianca gets up as Charlotte swings the title. Bianca ducks and lifts up Charlotte for the Kiss of Death. She hits her with the move and pins her. The ref then slowly makes the count.. 1, 2, 3… She celebrates her win as Iyo Sky walks out on the ramp and points at the title.
Bianca Belair retains the Raw Women's Title in 15 minutes
Matt Riddle vs Solo Sikoa vs Brock Lesnar
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On the Raw after Wrestlemania, Paul Heyman and Solo are in the ring discussing Solo’s accomplishments when he is interrupted by the returning Matt Riddle. Matt gets in Solo’s face and Solo punches Riddle and the two begin to brawl. The Bloodline run out to aid Solo as Sami, Kevin, and Cody run out to Matt’s aid. The two teams are brawling around ringside as Matt and Solo are the only ones in the middle of the ring. Matt gets Solo ready for the Running Knee, but Paul hits him with the title. This allows Solo to grab Matt by his hair to get him ready for the Samoan Spike, when familiar music hits and Brock Lesnar walks down to the ring as Solo stares him down. Brock clotheslines Heyman. Solo then charges him but Brock hits him with a F5. Matt hugs Brock, thanking him for saving him, when Brock lifts him up and F5’s him. Brock stands in the center of the ring, looking around while the crowd wonders why. The show then goes off the air.
On next week’s Raw, Brock is interviewed by Cathy Kelly backstage. Cathy says, “Brock, why did you attack Matt Riddle last week?” Brock replies with, “I don’t have any friends in this business. I want to prove to Matt that he doesn’t need any friends either.” Later on, Matt Riddle is in the ring cutting a promo. He says, “Brock, the reason you don’t have any friends, bro, is because you’re a douche with a capital D, bro!” He is interrupted by Solo and Paul Heyman. Paul says, “My client, Solo Sikoa, is mad at you, Matt. He is mad because you embarrassed him and he doesn’t take kindly to being embarrassed. So don’t blame me for what he is about to do, Matt, because I tried to stop him.” Solo runs down to the ring and he and Matt begin to brawl. They tumble to the outside of the ring. The two brawl as the camera cuts backstage to show Brock watching this unfold. The camera cuts back to the action and Solo throws Matt onto the announce table, causing the original Bro to roll onto the floor beside the table. Solo then flips the announce table onto Matt and calls Heyman to walk to him. He whispers something into Heyman’s ear. Heyman says, “I can’t do that.” Solo grabs him by the collar and whispers in his ear again. Paul grabs the mic and says, “He wants… BROCK… LESNAR!!” Brock’s music hits and he walks down to the ring, as Solo waits. Security attempts to stop Brock, but he shoves them out of the way. Before he can get to Solo, Paul gets in front of him and begins trying to convince him to not go after Solo. Paul grabs Heyman by the throat and throws him over the barricade. This leaves the two monsters eye to eye and they begin to brawl. They brawl into the crowd, destroying the arena along the way. Eventually, the two are separated. On Twitter, Adam Pearce announces that both men will be suspended until Backlash. This leaves Matt Riddle by himself. He earns his way into the match by beating Jey Uso.
On the go home show, Matt RIddle is in the ring cutting a promo. “People tend to think of me as a joke. They think of Brock and Solo as unbeatable monsters. But me, I’m seen as a joke. On Sunday, I am going to prove to everyone that I am the toughest sonofabitch in this company! See ya Sunday, Brock!”
Match
The match is hard hitting and violent. All three men use weapons to try to gain an advantage. Matt Riddle begins to bleed after Brock hits him across the face with a steel chair. Towards the end of the match, all three men are brawling at ringside when Riddle low blows Brock and throws him into the ring. He is then grabbed by his hair and hit with a Samoan Spike by Solo. Solo lifts him up to slam him onto the table, but Brock kicks him in the nuts and suplexes him onto the table, where he goes across it, hitting the other side. Matt looks around as the crowd chants his name. He then flips the announce table onto Solo. Matt slides into the ring and gets Brock ready for the Bicycle Knee. He goes for it but Brock lifts him up for the F5. Matt slides out the back and locks in the Bromission. Brock begins flailing around, then he taps. Michael Cole on commentary is shocked that one of the toughest men in WWE history has tapped! Matt Riddle throws him down and celebrates as Brock holds his shoulder. He is seen mouthing to the ref. “He dislocated it. He dislocated it.” Matt Riddle, after shocking the world, smiles and high fives some fans.
Matt Riddle wins in 10 minutes
Cody Rhodes, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn vs The Bloodline
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On the Raw after Wrestlemania, Cody Rhodes is in the ring. He apologizes to the fans for letting them down. “I was unable to finish the story at Wrestlemania, but the story will be finished!! Bloodline, get your asses out here!” Roman comes out, flanked by both of the Usos. Roman says, “What do you want, Cody? There are three of us and one of you. We have the numbers game and you have fallen off the island of relevancy. Cody replies, “Three on one. Did you forget about the two men who took your blood’s tag titles Saturday?” Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens’ music hits and they walk out to the ring. Cody says, “The Usos are your cousins. And these are mine! You may have blood but we actually like each other.” Roman steps back as both of the Usos superkick Cody. An all out brawl ensues. Eventually, the locker room spills out to separate the six men.
On Smackdown, Roman Reigns cuts a promo from his yacht. He says, “Welcome to spring break on the Island of Relevancy. While your “heroes” are at home twiddling their thumbs during spring break, the Bloodline are celebrating in style.” (Video footage is shown of the members of the Bloodline doing cannonballs in the ocean). “If you want to be successful and have yacht parties like us, you will cheer for us at Backlash. But if not, you can live your sorry little lives in your house, twiddling your thumbs.” A postcard is then shown that says “Greetings from the Island of Relevancy.” Meanwhile, Cody, Sami, and Kevin prepare for their match at Backlash.
On the next week’s Raw, Cody Rhodes cuts a promo from his backyard. He says, “So, what do you wanna talk about?? On Friday, I saw the Bloodline’s spring break celebration. It was lavish and looked like a lot of fun. But growing up, my dad didn’t want us to be on yachts with these lavish parties. So we celebrated spring break with a barbeque. And my cousins did the same.” Sami and Kevin walk in the frame. “I’m not going to give you an ultimatum about who to cheer for, but I can promise you one thing. We won’t walk out to the ring in Gucci. We won’t be accompanied by the hottest rapper. And we…” He is cut off by Kevin Owens. “But Cody, I thought you were Gucci?” Cody replies, “Not anymore, Kevin. And we will not cheat to get ahead. We will pin their shoulders on the mat.. 1, 2, 3…”
For the next two weeks, both teams go back and forth in verbal altercations. But they don’t fight until Backlash.
Match
The match is an all out brawl from start to finish. Neither of the six men gives the other any leadway, brutally beating each other with chops, punches, and kicks. Towards the end of the match, two men are left in the ring.. Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns. They go nose to nose, both talking shit. They trade punches back and forth. Roman gets the best of Cody with a Superman Punch. He then gets ready for a spear. He goes for it and Cody leap frogs Roman, sending him into the turnbuckle. He sets him up for the Cross Rhodes, then Jey Uso goes in for a superkick. Cody Rhodes catches the superkick and allows Sami to hit Jey with a Big Boot. Then Roman low blows Cody and stumbles in the corner to rest… when he’s hit with a Helluva Kick! Roman is out on his feet when Kevin hits him with a Stunner. He then stumbles into a Cross Rhodes. Cody then pins him.. 1, 2… 3.. Cody, Sami, and Kevin hug each other in celebration and crowd surf on their way out.
Cody, Sami and KO win in 20 minutes

I’m sure we all can think of a few cards that I think should be downshifted to common so pauper players can build with them. Here are a few of mine:
W. [[Path to Exile]] This might be a bit spicy, but I think it’s merited. White is severely lacking in good removal in Pauper. Basically the only one that sees play is [[Journey to Nowhere]] which is pretty unimpressive against a [[swiftspear]]. It’s a bit odd that Azorius control is a staple in pretty much every format, but in Pauper, the most popular control decks are Grixis or Dimir. And the one deck that could be classified as Azorius control, Familiars, doesn’t really play white for removal, but for [[Sunscape Familiar]], [[Emphemerate]], and [[God-Pharoah’s Disciple]]. A mana dork, a value engine, and a bolt proof anti-agro card.
Now I think Path is the best choice compared to [[Swords to Plowshares]] or [[Prismatic Ending]] in that the downside actually forces you to make some interesting decisions. It’s a spell that scales negatively with your opponent’s aggression. Do I Path their swiftspear and risk giving a player who kept a one land hand the second mountain they needed to pound my face until it’s concave? Do I risk fixing my opponent’s mana by Pathing some unthreatening creature that they could go off with next turn? With Plow and Ending, the right answer 99 times out of 100 is to snap it off ASAP.
U. [[Miscast]]. [[Dispel]], [[Envelop]], and [[Annul]] are all narrow counterspells that stop something specific for one mana, no questions asked. [[Force Spike]] and [[Spell Pierce]] counter broader ranges of spells with some questions asked. Seems like we should fill in the middle a bit. The soft counters tend to be employed by tempo decks that want the game to be over relatively quickly so their counters being dead draws in the late game doesn’t matter, while the narrow hard counters are usually used by control and the odd combo deck to fight off targeted hate. Seems like a mid-ground counterspell might be good for pauper’s midrange decks.
B. [[Shrieking Affliction]] alright this one is probably a bit more niche. But I think it might be fun for Pauper to have an 8-rack style deck that tries to use discard and removal to disrupt the opponent’s gameplan before finishing them off with some sort of repeated source of damage. This might not be good enough to see play unless some redundant piece like [[tHe Rack]] is also added or one of the [[Hypnotic Spectre]] variants gets downshifted but I feel like it could be a fun strategy to try out.
R. [[Young Pyromancer]] This probably would have sounded crazy a few year back, but now I think young peezy might be underpowered for the format. Swiftspear and [[Dwarven Forge-Chanter]] are both better at pushing damage and benefit from artifacts. Pyro almost goes in the opposite direction, allowing you to turn your instants into chump blockers and expendable resources for a more value oriented red deck. Plus it’s not as if pauper isn’t equipped to answer this aspiring rapper and his entourage of elemental buddies. A single [[end the festivities]] shuts down their party right away.
G. [[Tarmogoyf]] This would obviously need a reprint, which might piss off some finance people. But I honestly think this is the least dangerous card on my list for pauper (aside from miscast). Pauper is a format defined by its lack of good threats compared to its answers. There are no planeswalkers, fewer 1-card engines, and creatures tend to be conceptually pretty simple. You’re not going to see any [[Questing Beast]] sized text boxes on a creature. And every creature that costs less than 3 mana has to answer one question. “Are you good enough to excuse being bolt-able?”
Goyf might honestly struggle to come out on the right side of that question. Fetches aren’t a given in his format. There are no 0-mana baubles to stick in the graveyard for free. Instants, sorceries, and creatures are the main types you can rely on in an out of the box deck archetype. If you want a 4/5 for 2, you’re going to have to work for it. But I think Goyf might be worth working for. And considering the power creep in Modern and Legacy, where a stocked graveyard now buys you an 8/8 flier for two mana, Goyf is starting to show its age. Perhaps it could find a new life in pauper.
Colorless. [[Bane of Bala Ged]] It’s been a perennial bugbear of mine that Tron, a deck known in modern for powering out huge beefy haymakers, in Pauper is at its best as a weird control deck that keeps getting mana-fixing artifacts banned. Torn should be green! Tron should be casting giant stompy doofuses! But sadly there aren’t a lot of good giant stompy doofuses at the common rarity. [[Ulamog’s Crusher]] is probably the biggest and best, but it suffers from being on the wrong side of the 1+1+1=7 equation. Bane trades being castable on turn 3 for being a lot squishier. Honestly, it probably won’t be enough to cause mono-green Tron to supplant the rainbow control and artifact combo versions as the premier way to make use of Urza’s ingenuity. But maybe it might make Timmy a little happier. And doesn’t everyone want to make Timmy happy?
Multicolored. [[Guttural Response]] This is basically an honorary green card, since red can already load their deck with 8 copies of a card that can counter a counter spell. But counters make Timmy sad. Do you really want to make Timmy sad? What has Timmy ever done to you?
So that’s my pauper wishlist. What are your’s?