not sure how i feel about such a prominent sample. I don’t think i can give you full credits for music you didn’t compose…. I’m sure i’ll get yelled at for that, but oh well. Anyway the vocals are good.

Very recognizable sample here from Zep. Feels a bit like a mashup. Nice layered vocals, get a little muddy when all stacked up on the "life is so hard" bit. Similarly, it can be a little tough to understand a bit of the vocals due to the strong effect on the verse; perhaps maybe some parallel processing or a bit more of the clean in the mix? At least to my ear that might help. I enjoyed the scraping/scratching sounds, and a cool breakdown in this one. Really solid groove, nice organ tones.
For constructives, I have similar things to say here on the lyrics as I did for Starfinger, and also Moss Palace this round, mainly that I like the assonance, sounds, organization of the lyrics and how they are put together, but when I dig into them, it feels like they don't really have much to say. It feels a bit more like platitudes and insults in some vague way about politics and the state of things in Washington DC, without really getting into the who, what, and why of the narrator's upseted-ness with the state of affairs. Why should we care about the piggy from Tennessee? Who is the city rat country skunk? I guess at the end of the day I feel like there's connecting tissue missing from the story-fabric here in the lyrics, and I would have liked more. That's just my opinion, though, obviously, and I thought this was a cool song.

I appreciate your guts in sampling such a well known riff; go big or go home amiright? I like the rest of the arrangement. The percussion stuff going on is cool and the harmonies in the chorus are great, although (what I think of as) the chorus is a little too short to leave much of an impression. The breakdown sounds like you copied and pasted the intro into the middle of the song. I do like the various sonic manipulations you did on that percussive sound, but as a breakdown it sounds like one of the laziest of the group. Normally I don't care too much about the challenge, but I think this one gave a good opportunity for dynamic shifts and I expected you would do more with it than you did (though I may be missing something that you did, in which case I apologise!). Your organ work here is really good, and evokes "Fly Like an Eagle" to me.

Wading into the discussion above further, but in this day and age I feel it's ridiculous to decry a piece of music for sampling. Samples can be used incredibly creatively to progress music beyond the original scope of a recording, and I think Frankie acheived that to a certain extent by cutting up the riff and employing it using a melody that was in places different from the original. Also, even if somebody writes and records without sampling, they will always be influenced, or even borrow, from previous compositions. I have definitely done this and from an intellectual property perspective it's not really different from sampling. It's only from a performance perspective that it differs. All that being said, the challenge of sampling effectively is to attempt to surpass the original, and by choosing such a famous song Frankie set himself up to fail. I find it highly unlikely anybody will ever listen to "Heartbreaker" and think to themselves that they would prefer to here "House of Cards" by FBF, though I hope for Frankie's sake that I'm wrong about that. The "Under Pressure"/"Ice Ice Baby" example is 50/50 because they're both very famous, but a better example of how to do it right would be (at least for my generation) Len sampling Andrea True's "More More More" for their song "Steal My Sunshine", or almost any Daft Punk sample - I will always think of the song that uses the sample over the original song from which the sample was taken. One other thing to note is that, as somebody who samples from time to time, getting a sample to fit properly into your new composition is harder that it sounds. One pitfall Frankie has encountered is that he has taken a song with quite a straight beat and tried to fit it into a song with a shuffly rhythm. Getting the sample to fit the basic rhythm was always going to be tricky, and while Frankie has made a brave attempt which almost works, the rhythms don't 100% match and this is ultimately why the sample fails in my book, and why it works on the Ice-T song Glennny shared, because that track has a much simpler rhythm which matches the sample. Crate diggers famously spent days and days searching for just the right loop, and the luxury of time is something we don't have in Nur Ein, so Frankie can be forgiven for fluffing that one aspect of his song. What I probably would have done is to try to make a song that matches the rhythm of the sample I plan to use, rather than the other way around.