🎶 Heardle: Testing your Music Vocabulary

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What’s up everyone?

Over the weekend, I finished Kanye West’s Netflix documentary ‘Jeen-Yuhs’ and it’s probably one of the most inspiring films I have ever seen 🎬

Collected from over 7.5 hours of raw footage captured by his childhood friend ‘ Coodie’, the doc tracks the early years of West’s journey coming up in Hip-Hop and his struggle to gain recognition as not just a kid with a back-pack who produces beats for other artists, but an actual rapper himself.

Because of his mental health issues and controversial public image in the recent years, the doc sets a fresh perspective on reminding everyone how talented Kanye really is, and more than that, the insane amount of confidence that he had in himself, even when he was practically a nobody 🤷‍♂️

While there are innumerable clips that capture his genius, my favourite is when Ye shows a sample of his hit single ‘Through the Wire ‘ to Pharrell Williams, who literally couldn’t believe what he was listening to 🤯

https://youtu.be/cGkcF7bHko4

Pharrell was already a big deal back then, and it was clear by his reaction that he knew Kanye was set for greatness even as early as 2004 ⭐️

Heardle: Testing your Music Vocabulary 🎵

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you would have heard of the viral online game ‘Wordle’ which lets users guess a 5-lettered word in five attempts, and blew up with millions of daily players globally.

While Wordle was eventually acquired earlier last month by the New York Times, there have been a slew of clones ever since that attempted to copy Wordle’s meteoric rise.

I came across one such clone that’s actually a pretty cool game if you’re obsessed with music.

Titled ‘ Heardle ‘: it lets users get 6 attempts at guessing the song of the day, with six separate 2 second samples from the song to help users give a clue.

While they’ve credited the makers of Wordle, Heardle can potentially become more popular than its inspiration

I tried it out yesterday, and despite the song being ‘Black Skinhead’ from Kanye West, and me thinking of myself as a big enough Ye fan, I couldn’t get it 😅

Here’s a video which breaks down how it works 👇🏻

https://youtu.be/krfZY5RgANI

While i’m not quite sure who’s actually built this, you can check it out for yourself right

Did you manage to get today’s song? Sound off in the comments below 🔉

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Originally published at https://incentify.substack.com on March 7, 2022.