All-New TMNT Gets All-New Ninja Rap

[Descalon]

The rap is a bit mediocre, but I guess that's expected from commissioned lyrics. That being said, I love the beat. It's got Kill The Noise written all over it! Can we get an instrumental ?

 

[FPLOON]

Oh my glob, this is FUCKING hilarious!

This makes the rap in the 2012 TMNT series look like a glob damn masterpiece of unimagined proportions...

Also, I kinda want the instrumental version just so that I could try to make a "better" version myself...

 

[Talaris]

Was listening to R.E.M when I had the misfortune of stumbling upon this post. Now there is some hip-hop/rap I can appreciate, like this for example:


But this...it really makes me feel sick listening to it. Like a lot of pop coming out these days.

 

[Aikayai]

Any hype that I had building for TMNT has just gone. How hard is it to get anyone with passion for the franchise to make music for it? This was just monotonous droning.

 

[V4Viewtiful]

Wiz-bloody-Khalifa.

I'd rather listen to Vanilla Ice's rap, at least i'll be entertained.

 

[Saltyk]

You know, I actually like the rap intro of the new show. Partly because it pays homage to the original cartoon intro.

But this? Nope. It's so generic and boring. The Vanilla Ice song was at least cheesy fun. Even the movie knew that much.

 

[BobblyDrink]

Seems to fit the style of what the movie is probably going to go for. So it did that job well. Still personally prefer this Shell Shock(ed) rap more though:

Lot more energetic to go with how the movie is.

 

[TiberiusEsuriens]

I think making a Turtle Tribute is great. Yes it was cheesy the first time (it was 90s rap for goodness sake) but that's what the turtles have always been about. For once Michael Bay is actually trying to acknowledge old fans of a property, which is great.

However... just comparing these new lyrics with the original Partners in Kryme lyrics, eegggghhh. Rappers today don't make any sense.

 

[DTWolfwood]

It isn't bad, i kind of like it.

Lyrics remind me of the most recent Epic Rap Battle tho.

 

[tzimize]

Never thought there'd come a day when I pick the Vanilla Ice version of ANYTHING over 'legitimate' rappers.

Hehe. Hehehehehehe. Yeah. That IS pretty surreal ^^

 

[Jacked Assassin]

Sample lyrics:
"All my brothers try'na get some cheddah
We all want our cut like the Shredder
Me and my bros
Come together for the dough
Bought the orange Lamborghini
Call it Michelangelo"

I haven't listened to the song but these sample lyrics.... The turtles are in it for the money & deserve just as much as shredder who they now work for. Then they bask is said wealth while driving expensive cars.

wait....

This person isn't honestly singing about a bunch of brothers who live in the sewers. Who have to keep themselves hidden from people that might fear them or use them for money.

No....

This person is clearly singing about Justin Bieber & trying to apply that to these turtles.

 

[vid87]

The biggest problem with the whole thing is that it sounds serious, like this would somehow garner respect. I can't say for sure that the other 90's film soundtracks didn't also see their dopey songs as "legit," but they at least were of an era that was full of enough ridiculous stuff that they can be enjoyed as cheesy and fun. For now, this is just embarrassing - the only way it would "work" is if it were originally meant to go to Weird Al Yankovic.

 

[Seracen]

I am rather surprised that the "rap" isn't provided by Linkin Park...as they seem to be for Michael Bay what Danny Elfman is for Tim Burton.

 

[CaitSeith]

I was honestly expecting it to be dubstep 'music'.

I felt like it was just 2 or 3 bass drops away from considering it dubstep. Still it gave me a headache.

 

[CaitSeith]

It sounds boring and forgettable. Unless the turtles do something epic while this song is the background music, I would be surprised if someone ever remembers this song in 10 years from now.

"Bandanna on my face like a gangsta"

It has sense, because the movie is called Teenage Mutant Gangsta Turtles, isn't it?

 

[Scarim Coral]

Wow, are they even trying to make this movie appealing anymore? I so suprised that this rap make the Vanilla Ice version sound awesome!

 

[Twintix]

I haven't listened to the song yet. I'm not sure I dare to. Not because I watched any of the original TMNT movies as a kid, but because those lyrics you showed made me cringe so hard that I must've broken a few bones in my nose. I don't really want to hear the rest.

Really, the movie might be bad or it might be good, but those lyrics are genuinely laughably awful.

 

[Lunar Templar]

just one more reason to avoid the movie ...

The 2012 Shell Shock is better.

Ninja Rap is better.

This? -.- This is about what I expected from letting Michel Bay near the IP, a brown, tightly coiled downward spiral

 

[kenu12345]

You say rap, I say raped. As in, my childhood is getting raped by this movie. This movie is officially a pedophile

 

[EHKOS]

I knew it would be shit the second I saw Wiz's name. He wasted a perfectly good beat (Black and Yellow) and he's never been good at what he does.

For the record, I really liked the new theme song rap that Nickelodean has/had. Oh well, not like this movie was something to look forwards to anyway.

EDIT: Just listened to it, Lamborghini should have been shortened to Lambo for one thing. Second, while they completely missed the point of the song, at least Juicy J had the decency to make turtle references.

Also whoever mixed the woman's voice in the chorus needs to be fired. It's drowned in either a filter or some kind bass tweak that fucks it up so badly I have no idea what she's saying in the end.