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You should include some basic instructions on the home page because it took me a while to figure out what this exactly did. I went to the Eminem page and thought I had to shade in the Relapse album cover and didn't realize I had to click haha.

Really fun website though. I'm having a blast and discovering cool songs.

> I had to shade in the Relapse album cover and didn't realize I had to click haha.

I did exactly the same!

I missed the first question getting my headphones untangled.

Ditto on the didn't know what to do bit.

Any list of rappers that does not include Biggie is a bad list. He's the best that ever lived.

Please define best, because best could mean different things to different people :)

What's with the downvotes? As a big fan of Biggie I'd like to know what it means to say he's the best rapper. Lyric-wise? Entertainment-wise? Intellectual-wise?

I don't know if best is the right word, but he is definitely one of the best. Some of the things I think really make him stand out are his storytelling, his flow, and his charisma (that he looks unconventional also probably plays into this). Also Puff Daddy was instrumental as a hype man in getting him to platforms like MTV etc. And his untimely death definitely plays into the modern mythology. But I think if there is anything that truly encompasses his talent it's this video right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hbwdAOogBw and this demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEaPDNgUPLE&feature=kp

adjective: best

    1. of the most excellent, effective, or desirable type or quality.

best for the most part won't mean different things to different people, but which rapper whom people think is the best is certainly a subjective thing.

I don't think he was picking the "best rappers". Biggie/Tupac/Nas/Rakim > Drake/Kendrick/Meek. This is a pretty indicative of the popular modern rappers, excluding Lil Wayne.

Really wish this included Wayne

Dang, dude. I started from the bottom and pretty much stayed there.

Was hoping this was like "The Turing Test", but as a Rap Battle.

Doesn't seem to do anything except show text on the screen ("Drake Test") What is it supposed to do?

It plays snippets of certain artists' tracks, and you have to guess which song they are.

You should be really careful with licensing when you're dealing with music. If you become big enough for the record companies to notice, they will come at you hard and fast with their lawyers.

It's honourable not having affiliate links, but I'd add them in if this were my project.

Most people don't care or even know what one is and it'd allow you a bit of beer money from the project and cover the costs of the servers. Most people on the site would be happy enough to not pay and have no adverts, affiliate links are a very unobtrusive way of making money from a project like this.

I have a project with affiliate links, and the passive infrequent income I receive from it softly persuades me to do more work on it.

It's up to you though obviously!

The lack of affiliate links has nothing to do with honour, he's doing it to try and avoid having to take down the music used: http://theraptest.com/copyright.html

My thought was that he may be able to use the iTunes 30 second previews but after looking into it further I think this would qualify as "the main focus [..] of a web experience".

> 5. Song previews can only be used to promote the track. They cannot be used for entertainment independent of that purpose, or as the main focus of an App or web experience.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/blog/song-p...

Very nice UI. Hope you add some old school stuff in there! I went ok on the Kendrick Lamarr test, but would rock with A Tribe Called Quest.

Respect, amazing UI! It would be great to know how you made this. Now you just need to add some old-school rap :-)

The mobile interface is really well done. I appreciate especially that through accident or intent landscape works well. Everything is quick and quite logically setup.

The only downside is that I personally know nothing about rap, so the best I could guess were Real slim shady and another Eminem one by accident.

It's not loading and console is spitting this out:

FIREBASE WARNING: Specified Firebase has reached its Peak Connections limit. If you are the Firebase owner, consider upgrading. (https://raptestprod.firebaseio.com)

EDIT: Fixed

Hooray hard limits!

Was that hard limit that you had to change or did it scale for you automatically?

Just fixed it :)

Excellent job. I don't have a single complaint. It's very fun, the GIFs are great, and best of all it's extremely fast. Considering that it is audio and image heavy I don't know how you made it so fast. I'm gonna be playing this all day.

For me this page freezes Firefox (FF 30 Win 7) and bloats its memory usage by about 300mb. What it is doing on the top of the frontpage is beyond me.

I'm using a 4 year old MBP with 50 tabs open and it runs just fine on Chrome.

It's a neat idea and I'm looking forward to this taking off.

FF30 Win7 here (Core i3 4GB of ram). No issue what so ever, 15 other tabs open.

Oh. There's more than two rappers to choose from. Didn't notice that the first time I went to the page.

Pretty cool. Reminds me of SongPop which was a hit for a while (basically put this into a competitive game with many categories). Nice work!

I tried doing a startup based on short music clips (sourced from iTunes). Its too bad that its still a minefield legally until there are statutory rates for short clips of content.

When I was a teen[1] there was this bar where they would give a free pint to everyone who could guess who was performing a given song. They gave out about one pint per hour. I wish I could find another place that did that. This website made me reminisce…

[1] Legal drinking age is not really enforced in Italy.

I am entirely too good at passing these.

I tried to navigate away from the page in the middle of the song in Chrome and got a warning popup about leaving the page that was completely uncloseable by clicking on either option. I had to kill Chrome processes one by one until I randomly hit that tab :(

Shift+Escape in Chrome gives you the browser's task list. You can kill tabs without guessing there.

I could not get out of the pop up in any way, it locked my browser entirely.

Very nice! It'd be cool if this could be turned into a type of flashcard, quiz site where users could upload some sort of config file with questions, answers, images, video and then test their knowledge of the subject.

After getting to level 6, I was like screw this, I just want to listen to some Ye.

good work though!

Really fun to play. My only comment is that when the song starts playing, the answers to choose from get animated in, and the timer is down at least 10% by the time the last option is clickable.

If you don't know the answer, you're better off choosing any option at the end of the timer to lose minimal points vs losing the full 150 for not answering.

Small bug: pressing the back button does not stop the music.

If you are wondering why the music isn't playing, disable/pause ad-block and it'll work. At least that did the trick for me.

Very funny and well done. Reminds me of http://binb.nodejitsu.com

1. Can't stop music after round. 2. Got two selections of "Run This Town" for the hovtest

Really cool format though.

I also encountered #2 and the first "Run This Town" selected wasn't accepted as correct. The next song was still "Run This Town", but this time with only one option presented and accepted as correct.

I had a good time with it. Got #8 on Kanye. Whoever is higher up on the list is clicking incredibly fast.

There's more than one level, and the rank seems to be an aggregate of scores from each level.

I reached #1 for Eminem, but getting on the leaderboard required logging in with Twitter...

I just lost 15 minutes of my life becoming a God of Eminem.

Really nice UI, was really smooth, no complaints, nice work.

Great design, very entertaining, and you put a big smile on my face. Thank you for sharing!

Oh jeez this is so distracting and fun, I need to do some work today. Great job!

Cool concept, turned me on to some songs I've never heard before.

It would be nice to see the individual test leaderboards.

Yeah, it tells me I'm #2 on the Eminem board but I can't seem to find a link to it

This is really fun. Well done :)

Really needs a NSFW warning.

What is NSFW about it?

I clicked once and got a blurred naked person that was revealed when moused over.

That's just the album cover for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. It wont unblur if you're worried about that

Get a better job that treats you like an adult.

It's nice that your mommy and daddy are willing to support you, but some people have bills to pay and don't have the luxury of turning down work.

This is awesome. Great job.

Nick texted me and told me to check HN. This is fantastic--totally kick ass, Dany! Congrats!

This was fun. Great app.

This is pretty cool! :)

Good job, Danny :)

This?! http://www.businessinsider.com/21-year-old-college-dropout-r...

stupid. i only know who kanye & eminem is, never heard of the others and i've been listening to hip-hop all my life. although, it's not this pop hip-hop that's currently in fashion.

get some real artists on there, then we'll talk

Uhh. Drake? Kendrick Lamar? Wtf are you talking about? You obviously do not listen to any rap.

or i'm not 12?

I think you should invest some time into checking out "good kid, m.A.A.d city" then, really fantastic album.

tried, it's terrible. try this instead, the coup - genocide and juice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f18N1VwPPv8&list=PLcxmmGC6Lv...

Your comment would be more constructive if it requested some "real artists" by name... For what it's worth, my own requests would be (in no particular order) Immortal Technique, Eyedea, Tech N9ne, Tupac, Nas, Biggie, Xzibit, and Hopsin.

Tyler the Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, MF Doom, Deltron 3030 Aesop Rock and maybe Captain Murphy(might not be enough content). Gotta fill in those hipster rappers.

That backpack is gonna start getting a bit heavy

fair enough. in no order, immortal technique, the coup, pete rock & c.l. smooth, de la soul, xzibit, the goats, jedi mind tricks, artifacts, redman, big daddy kane, black moon, btnh, canibus, dead prez, eazy-e, krs-one, leaders of the new school, nas, rakim, royce, kano, sway, skinnyman, az, the firm, wu-tang and so on

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