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A.I. Raps!

  • Arthur the Rapper’s voice and rhythm were created by A.I. And both the lyrics sheet and the cover art of “Turing Test?” are 100% A.I. creations.
  • Composing a catchy tune, Mutte used ChatGPT and the prompt “Write a rap song about Alan Turing” to create the lyrics.
  • He fed the song lyrics into the A.I. text-to-speech platform Uberduck and hit “rap.” Uberduck created the rapper’s voice, style and rhythm.
  • Based on the prompt “A picture of a robot standing in a green field staring at us,” the A.I. platform Fotor created the cover artwork.
  • Amazing. You push a button and Ka-ching! Art comes out.

Turing Test?

Yo, listen up, I got a story ’bout a genius, no denying

Alan Turing kept the world from dying

World War E, he cracked the Enigma code   

A brilliant mind, in the cipher world, he wrote

                            

Born in England, with a vision so grand                                                          

A mathematician, he had the world in his hand

Tackled problems that many thought too tough

In the realm of computation, he had the right stuff

Alan Turing, pioneer in the digital domain 

Legacy established, he didn’t die in vain                        

A codebreaker, a mathematician, a hero in our lore

In the world of technology, his spirit we adore

He laid the groundwork for the computers we use                                   

In every line of code, his spirit’s the muse

A genius ahead of his time, he paved the way

In the digital era, he holds sway

Alan Turing, pioneer in the digital domain 

Legacy established, he didn’t die in vain                        

A codebreaker, a mathematician, a hero in our lore

In the world of technology, his spirit we adore

Alan Turing, pioneer in the digital domain 

Legacy established, he didn’t die in vain                        

A codebreaker, a mathematician, a hero in our lore

In the world of technology, his spirit we adore

He laid the ground for the computers we use                                             

In every line of code, his spirit’s the muse

A genius ahead of his time, he paved the way

In the digital era, he holds sway

Post-war, he dreamt of artificial intelligence                               

A future where machines had human-like relevance

Turing test, he proposed, to judge a machine’s mind

In the quest for AI, he was one of a kind

Persecuted, his love was his crime

In a world that couldn’t fathom his paradigm

Chemically castrated, society’s cruel game

But his brilliance continues, forever aflame

He laid the ground for the computers we use

In every line of code, his spirit’s the muse

A genius ahead of his time, he paved the way

In the digital era, he still holds sway

Ground for the computers we use                                                                   

In every line of code, his spirit’s the muse

A genius ahead of his time, he paved the way

In the digital era, he still holds sway

Born in England, with a vision so grand                                                          

A mathematician, he had the world in his hand

Tackled problems that many thought too tough

In the realm of computation, he had the right stuff

He laid the ground for the computers we use

In every line of code, his spirit’s the muse

A genius ahead of his time, he paved the way

In the digital era, he still holds sway

So here’s to Turing! We celebrate                   

In the world of technology, he’s first-rate

A rap for the man who changed the cipher game

Alan Turing’s legacy, forever in our name

So here’s to Turing! We celebrate                   

In the world of technology, he’s first-rate

A rap for the man who changed the cipher game

Alan Turing’s legacy, forever in our name

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Hunter’s Blues

Da capo. Again. “Influence Peddling” is a tune which the Swedish rap band realPfft released in November, 2019. Hunter Biden’s never-ending soap opera breathes new life into this chestnut.

I have been keeping the Hunter Biden swamp at arm’s length. It’s a cocktail of egomania, self-centered greed, immaturity, careless foolishness, stupidity and lack of a moral compass.

Not good.

Hunter’s apologists explain that he was battling drug addiction, depression and alcoholism. Mental illness and mental anguish are terrible afflictions to behold, but neither constitutes a Get Out of Jail Free card.  

Where were the adults in the room? Joe Biden limits his knowledge of the events to a claim that he asked his son Hunter if Hunter knew what he was doing and Hunter said yes, he did.

If you are going to be this irresponsible as a parent, you deserve to reap the consequences. America is not known as a stupid country, but there is a streak of mulish stupidity in the Bidens’ behavior that is miles wide.

The “d’oh” dumbness isn’t limited to the Bidens. Just look at the mess America’s 45th president has created for himself. These people need a dog collar and someone to pull on the leash whenever they venture too close to the nearest cliff. What is wrong with these people? Taylor Swift’s drama queen persona resembles Albert Einstein in comparison to this gluttony of ineptitude.

This is another good reason for the Democratic Party to retire Joe and Kamala after four years of White House service and choose a different pair of candidates for president and vice president in 2024.

 

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Not Nyet (Kevinski Mix)

The Music

The Swedish rap band realPfft recorded Not Nyet under dire circumstances. Fruit loops musical genius Mutte Fjutt in Uppsala, Sweden was in an antibiotic-induced fog. Acting as the band’s manager and music publisher, I was sick here in the States. No one told Kuny, who does the cover art, what we wanted.

When I heard the wav file of Not Nyet, I was deeply troubled. Still, we released it on January 12, 2023, simply to get it out there. The war in Ukraine was raging and I was feeling the pressure. An anti-war protest, the track’s musical genre is Russian hard rock. The problem is that it sounds like an East German mix from the DDR era, the vocal up front and the music way in the background. “Please remix,” I said.

Thus was born Not Nyet (Kevinski Mix), with me being “Kevinski.”

On the cover, it says Miks Kevinski in Cyrillic letters. My name “Kevin” is accentuated in blue.

The release date of Not Nyet (Kevinski Mix) is February 20, 2023.

The Lyrics

Here, there, Russian soldier everywhere!

Putin say Ukraina as a country does not exist

Tired of Sochi, Putin chooses beach resort in Odessa

Is no war, is “special military operation”  

When Russian troop amass on border with Ukraine, what did western leaders think was gonna happen?

Secretary General of Communist Party Nikita Krushchev, Leonid Brezhnev and Constantin Chernenko all came from Ukraina

40-mile Russian convoy get stuck in Ukrainian mud

War is not rock & roll                                              

Volodymyr Zelensky is first world leader outside Israel who is Jewish

Zelensky become big war hero, fighting both Russians and his own demons

When Russian warship Moskva tell defenders of Snake Island they should surrender, they say “Russian warship, go fock yourself!”  

Z for Zero

I hear your balalaikas screaming like Tupolev Badger 

Russian soldier commit big massacre in Bucha

Butcher of Bucha is Russian General no one has ever heard of 

4,000 Amerikanskii volunteer join International Legion but most don’t speak Ukrainian

This war is very boring!

Russian babes on TikTok call Zelensky a crazy Jewish oligarch 

QAnon conspiracy theory say Russia invaded Ukraine to stop top secret bioweapon laboratory set up by Biden medical adviser Anthony Fauci

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson twice visit Kyiv

Russian cosmonauts arrive at International Space Station wearing yellow and blue suits, but they insist they are not supporting Ukraine 

Ukrainians use Neptune cruise missile to destroy Russian warship Moskva 

Zelensky award Amerikanskii politician Nancy Pelosi with famous Ukrainian Order of Olga

 War is not rock & roll

After Ukrainian attack on Crimea airfield, Russian tourists cause big traffic jam fleeing beaches in Crimea

Ukrainians use wooden decoy of HIMARS artillery rocket to panic Russians into firing Kalibr cruise missile

Putin threaten to turn off natural gas pipeline to Western Europe

Kissoffka!     

Facing counter-offensive, Russian desert battlefield on Ukrainian bicycle

He is called “the late Vladimir Putin” because he never come to meeting on time

We use Iranian drone Shahed-136 to drop stinky bomb on enemy

realPfft play Russian synthesizer brand Polyvoks

This war is very boring!

Elite unit 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade from Murmansk get ass kicked in Kharkov. Many T-80 BVM tanks destroyed or captured. This very bad

Putin mobilizes 300,000 men to go fight in the Ukraine

Ukraine make heartbreaking video for Eurovision Song Contest

Russian officer corps calls this “holy war.” Patriarch Kirill of Russian Orthodox Church describe Ukraine as the Antichrist

Putin calls the people in Kiev Nazis

Eight million Ukrainians seek refuge in the West

Zelensky wear combat boots when he speak to American Congress

This no Nutcracker Suite!  

In Moskva, patriotic Russian women sew camouflage net to help in war effort. So-called “knitting battalions” make thick socks to fight winter cold

When ammunition dump explodes, we say this is because someone is smoking cigarette

We fight enemy in Kiev, so we no need to fight them in Moskva

Not all news is bad. We use Sovtek guitar effect box Big Muff

Workers of the world, unite!

Maybe Putin annex Ukraina, but not nyet

Not nyet

The Video

Rap artist Clive Flatenbad channels his inner Russian amidst the tragic war in Ukraine.

Not Nyet video – https://youtu.be/UZe4aUaWT6Y

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“Morsan” by realPfft

My mother Rosa Feingold passed away in October 2022. She was 81. Born six months before Pearl Harbor, she grew up a child of World War Two. Who knew the Japanese would attack on December 7, 1941 and America would go to war?

We lost 34 cousins to the Holocaust, the entire Polish-Russian side of the family. That cast a shadow over Rosa’s life.

R. I. P.

In our collective grief, Clive and Mutte in Swedish rap band realPfft have composed an ode to my mom.

Entitled “Morsan,” Swedish for “Mom,” the song views Rosa’s untimely demise from a Swedish perspective. Passing from this mortal coil is a universal experience. Everybody dies eventually and with very few exceptions, most people die right here on Earth. Still, a Swedish composition, the song does have its Swedish quirks.

Here is the English translation of the lyrics:

Mom

Mommy!

Mom lies dying

Not a lot of time left

While my sister wants to visit

And sit on the edge of the bed

To grieve over all the times

She wasn’t there

As if I don’t grieve?

I grieve

Life’s batteries run dry

My niece wants me to take my laptop

To the hospital and arrange a Zoom meeting

I grieve

Mom was a tough lady

Night owl and opinionated

Her ghost plays tricks

Making lamps burn out

Garbage cans fall over

And doors jam

Times are strange

Yes, times are strange

Because mom lies dying

The funeral home helps me

Control my grief

I bury myself in details

“A north country burial? Yes, please,

That would be good. She came

From there”

It’s not our fault that Kiruna

Is sinking into the ground

As my ex Susie likes to say

“Life isn’t easy”

Then she goes to the liquor store

To bury her sorrows

Because…

Mom, she lies

She lies dying

She is passing

She wastes away

Groaning, she is passing

My mother

She’s dying

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Bad Boys of Rap?

Who in their wildest dreams would classify the Swedish rap duo realPfft among the Bad Boys of the political universe? For four years, Clive Flatenbad and Mutte Fjutt in Uppsala, Sweden have cranked out political satire, with only occasional complaints regarding their lude cover art. Never their lyrics. Squeaky clean Swedes, they avoid gangsta rap. They don’t do divisiveness or profanity. How did they end up with a breakout song, God Bless America, that has explicit lyrics???

“Speak softly and carry a big stick,” said Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. So Clive wrote the lyric “Speak loudly and unzip a big stick.”

What’s with the unzip, Clive? What were you thinking?

“I meant unzipping a sports bag and pulling out a baseball bat,” the boy mansplains.

Now he tells us!

“We used ‘fuh’ instead of the four-letter original,” bleats Clive, as if avoiding one sin will cancel out the other.

Once you start looking for foul language and smutty innuendo, the lyrics take on a very questionable pallor, at best.

God Bless America

Rude, crude, what’s up, dude?

It’s a celebration of one great nation

Grievance, complaint,  we know… what you ain’t

Gas light, firelight, buckle up and join the fight

Ain’t no stubble, trouble in the bubble

Woken, broken, life’s a subway token

Eatin’ potato fries under leaden skies

When the air turns mean, wipe the plate… clean

Where o’ where? Trump’s supporters be out there

Waitin’, hatin’, anticipatin’

Try as you will, try as you might, we can’t make it right

Speak loudly and unzip a big stick

Gettin’ up on tippy toes, Biden can’t see beyond his own nose

79-year-old Joe, that’s what makes it so dope

Stumble in da White House, we ain’t goin’ t’ war over… no… Ukraine

Putin and Xi, dey smell blood in da water

Whassup? Who gives a fuh? Momma’s got a brand new bag

When did Chinese checkers and Russian roultette  become Olympic sports?

Corona, Delta, Omicron… the pandemic is systemic

Mask mandates, while anti-vaxxers give the finger to the CDC

What d’ya mean, Fao Chi is secretly Chinese?

Get real! Don’t sneeze, don’t cough, freeze yer butt off

No worries, our band be big… in Hercegovina

What d’ we know? Hookers and blow

Don’t blow yer brains out, blow yer nose

Sucking acidophilus

Eatin’ gluten free. Peace & love sounds good t’ me

Who do you think you are, Elephant boy?

Preaching to the choir, you bitch to the sky

You claim you’re a victim of a Deep State conspiracy

Voter fraud and foreign manipulation

Self-righteous indignation and phony baloney

Sore loser and spoilsport, thy name be… Grump

Grump’s as real as a three-dollar bill

Shady deals and never-ending promises

A Nude Yorker, if you like his shtick, I have a great

Bridge to Brooklyn that I can sell you

Cryptocurrencies and crypto fascists

Grump wants to pardon the insurrectionists

Well, pardon me! Watch my butt glow in da dark

Conspiracy theories… liars… in a fictional world

Hear that? Trum trum, trum trum… that’s Trump!

Tearing up paper & givin’ folks the hairy eyeball

Where you gonna go, Hugo, when Trump gets re-elected?

Grand Master Frump, he ’s mad, too bad, he insists he got robbed

He writes nasty comments in his photo album coffee book

Calling the free press “the enemy of the people” is one underhanded slur

Republicans, who can do no wrong. Mixed-up Democrats

Demonstrating how NOT to run a government

Hark! Let’s consider all that’s wrong in America

Daylight Savings Time, the border with Canada

Income tax, the federal census, gerrymandering

Renaming the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial, as they both owned slaves

Tic tac toe, sugary soft drinks, Charlie horses and statewide nerds

A new Olympic record:  the fastest sea level rise in 3,000 years

Indoor plumbing, surveillance cameras and surveillance drones

Worker bees and office managers. Error notices and thumb drives

Internal combustion engines. Global warming and weather reports

Rightwing retorts. Hot flashes, panic attacks and man-made lint

Newspapers and liberal sketch artists. Networks

Disinformation… Partisanship… bi-partisanship. One-time acquaintances

Undertakers rejoice! A million extra deaths due to Covid

Whatever happened to purple mountains majesty above the fruited plain?

Drought? Someone set the planet on “bake” and left the stove on overnight

American retro: The resurrection of pay phones and pay toilets, the poll tax

Prayer in schools and… the draft

José, can you see by the dawn’s early light? Rio Grandé

Let’s not throw out the baby with the bathwater

Make January 6th a national holiday & God… bless… America!

© & ℗ 2022  Panther Songs

Trampa i klaveret. Step in dog poo. Trying to follow in the footsteps of Vanilla Ice, realPfft has ended up instead in the ghetto of bad language, explicit lyrics and parental advisories. Scandalous! Have foot, will shoot self in same. Tighten up, boys! Oops, there we go again with the shady innuendo.

Here’s the link to the song:

God Bless America – YouTube

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Swedish Hot-rodders

Classic turtleback Volvo in flower-power mode.

In a celebration of small-town life, Swedish rap duo realPfft sings the praises of Swedish hot-rodders and their beloved wheels. Here’s an English translation:

Hot-rodders

Turtleback Volvo… hot rod… leather-clad steering wheel

See you at the hot dog stand

Hot rod babe in wooden shoes

Moped… small-town life

Classic Chevy

Payin’ at the pump

I’ll be broke by Thursday

Fighting in town

Hot-rodders

Making out in the backseat of a muscle car

The jukebox plays golden oldies

Cops come patrolling in a black and white

Moonshine! Clunk, clunk, clunk

Transistor radio on a beach blanket at 3 o’clock in the afternoon

But today I listen to death metal

Girls in knitted sweaters snack on hot dogs

DON’T STOP! DON’T STOP!

Hot rod

The Top Ten on Top 40 radio

Hot-rodders… Chevy… moped

In the backseat of a convertible

Transistor radio at 3 o’clock

My paycheck never lasts to the end of the month

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A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.

Rap artists, Mutte and Clive have accumulated a catalog of 91 songs. Every fifth track is a rap song. On  A.C.R.O.N.Y.M., Clive raps, Mutte raps and the voice simulator raps.

Enjoy!

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Fettuccine Western

With pride and excitement, the Swedish rap duo realPfft presents “Fettuccine Western,” their take on Sergio Leone’s glorious spaghetti westerns. Although it may sound like they recorded the vocal off a dvd, that’s actually Clive Flatenbad channeling Clint Eastwood. “Hang him by his bootstraps! Lazy varmint!”  When it comes to theatrics, there’s no shutting up Clive.

Enjoy!

   

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Nights in Shenyang

吉祥如意

Mutte Fjutt and Clive Flatenbad of the Swedish rap duo realPfft present Chinese-flavored banjo music.

Enjoy!

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