Here are some excerpts:

We recorded a song just for you. Please know that mostly the song is a joke. And a joke crafted just for you. Got some local LA rappers on there. Their takes aren’t the best (we did them tonight whilst drinking), but they are good enough for a joke track, I think.
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I probably shouldn’t be sending you this. But, I don’t really care. Before you listen to the track, know that we love what you do. Also, headphone it (haven’t mastered this and won’t ever). We love hip-hop. The shit we’re about to drop is nothing like anything. So consider posting us in the future.
So much love,
Barbara

And I listened to the track and I laughed AND I loved it. Not just only the track, I think the whole thing is mad funny. People, this is what happens when you give men a dessert spoon of semi-negative critique. Hilarious but at the same time, a bit tedious. Let’s get some serious for a minute. People, if you gonna produce things (music, cars, culture, foods, whatever) for other people to consume you gotta develop some sort of thicker skin and not be ticked off by negative feedback. If you recive any, feed of it instead of letting it consume you. Cause the thing is, I specificity wrote that I didn’t hate the track. But if things was unclear yesterday, let me clarify with this: Barbara’s version is not bad but I still prefer the original and it’s kinda hard for me to detach from the brilliance of it (no joke, ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ was my main anthem of 2009), the same way I choose Wale’s ‘Pretty Girls’ over The Five One’s version any day.

Wonder what would have happened if I went on my usual hating rant? My head on a pole getting picked by starving birds?

That said, I love Barbara’s First Up!-reciprocity-song, love love love, straight into my .mp3-player it goes. No hard feelings Barbara, but If I would get that heated every time someone hates on things I do, wow, I would be burning like the never ending Olympic fire on the biggest torch ever.

Love, hate and jokes aside, keep them submissions coming people!

ps. While we’re on ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ for that matter, simply love what the Toronto based duo the Killabits have done to Steve Aoki’s remix of the song, and the ASCII-art on the cover is stellar!

	Barbara – ‘First Up!’ YSI | zShare
	KiD CuDi – ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ (Steve Aoki Remix The Killabits Dubstep Re-work) YSI | zShare