As a hip-hop song writer and vocal operationalist, I demand that I know how my words affect the ears... simple as that.

But the difficulty of assessing how your voice/word play/word choice/rhythm affects the ears of other human beings is almost cynically detrimental to one's continuance of pursuing a dream or passion in singing/song-writing.  In my case, the statement made in the previous sentence does not hold entirely true.  I am an excellent self-critic and generally know what sounds pleasu...
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