Break
Break is an empowering, gritty hip hop track that highlights the disparity between male and female rappers.
Denisse channels 90's East and West Coast inspirations to deliver a light-hearted but powerful performance atop a boom bap beat produced by Sam Poetry.
Factoids: The rapper that Denisse disses in this song personifies toxic biases within the industry – not an actual rapper. The term “bitch” isn’t used for a specific gender but as stated at the beginning of the song, a bitch is anyone who believes women can’t rap.
Credits
Lyrics and Vocals by Denisse Takes
Music Produced by Sam Poetry
Mixing and Mastering by Leee Zimmer aka iD3
About
Denisse Takes is a Dominican singer-songwriter, rapper and producer living in Los Angeles, California. Years of networking in the gaming industry as a creator allowed her to realize lifelong dreams as multi-genre singer-songwriter. Her first big musical production came to fruition thanks to a collaboration with Ubisoft for the video games Beyond Good and Evil 2 and Watch Dogs: Legion. She helped launch their first collaboration with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jared Geller's platform: HitRecord. Throughout the years she's contributed to multiple productions including sound design for Jessica Alba's ASMR You Scared of the Dark series, Tale of Fantasy harmony contributions, a Zappos mixtape and more.
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In the gaming world Denisse has collaborated with a variety of companies to share coverage of their games. Some of those companies include Ubisoft, Kepler Interactive, BioWare, Wholesome Games and Awaceb. She has also given talks at EGD Collective, an Esports and Game Design Collective that prepares students for the game industry.
Outside of career goals Denisse often shares information about life as an organ transplant recipient. She was most recently interviewed by the New York Times in an article titled, Vunerable to Covid, High-Risk Americans Feel Pain as the U.S Moves On.
Musical Credits
- Unite Us: Concept. Composer, producer, musician, lyrics, vocal composition + arrangement, lead + backup vocals
- Fantasy: Lead vocals, back up vocals + vocal composition, lyrics for english verses and chorus (excluding rap)
- Pirate Riot: Lyrics + vocal composition for verses, lead vocals for 2 verses, backup vocals for chorus.
- Onwards: Lyrics, lead vocals + vocal composition for spanish verse and spoken word. Lyrics for the prechorus. Backup vocals.
- Shankara: Lead vocals + vocal composition for 2 verses, backup vocals, partial lyrics
- Temple Sounds: Backup vocals (alto / contralto)
- The Debaucherist: Backup vocals
- Acapella stinger: Backup vocals
- Blessings of Ganesha: backup vocals
- Soma's Shade: Concept. Vocal composition for all (english and french) female vocals including rap verse. Lyrics for all female english verses and bridge. Small lyrical alterations to chorus. Lead vocals for (sung/english) female verses. Backup vocals throughout the song
- Bang Bang: Lyrics, lead vocals + vocal composition for last rap verse
- Light That Shit Up: Concept. lyrics + vocal composition for three verses and chorus, female vocals and voice acting towards end
- Good Villains: Lyrics + lead vocals + vocal composition for English portion of bridge, backup vocals for English hook
- Hybrid for Life: vocal composition + performance for small break
- Dance Dance: Minor chorus revisions/backing vocals
- We'll Fight: Backing vocals, spanish voice-over
- Unite and Conquer - Co-writer for chorus lyrics. Revision to first verse.
- Over my Shoulder - Backup vocals
- Rise for War - Backup vocals
- Awaken the Anarchy - Backup vocals
Jessica Alba's ASMR You Scared of the Dark
Credits: Sound Design
- The Hallway, Episode 2: Falling
- Night, Night, Episode Nightmares
- Like Old Chalk
- Vines are Growing in my Room: Can't Scream, Run or Move
Zappos Mixtape - Sundance
- Late Bloomer: Lead vocals, lyrics and vocal melody for female verses + prechorus, vocal arrangement / production
- Spacewalk: Concept, lead vocals in two verses, backup vocals, lyrics for one verse + chorus, vocal arrangement
- Move your Feet: Lead vocals + vocal melody for Spanish section
- The Hedgehog: Lead vocals + vocal melody for small portion of song.
- Light as a Feather: Partial lyrics for chorus
- This is Not a Waltz: Backup vocals
- Now You Know: Backup vocals
Band Together SXSW (Emmy Nominated)
- Do What You Love: Backup vocals
Hitrecord Mixtape
- Beautiful: concept, producer, lyrics + vocal composition for first verse, chorus and bridge, backup vocals
- The Show: Concept, lyrics + vocal composition, lead vocals
- Plus One: Co-writer lyrics + vocal composition, backup vocals
Recent Collaborations
- Give it a Try (produced by iD3): lyrics + vocal composition, performance for all vocals.
- Redemption Theme - Beyond the Stars: vocal composition for alto and contralto / countertenor choir performance
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