OG IN DA HOUSE: Plan 9 unmasks OG Bobby Johnson, Anubis stick figure, Bach C minor BWV 847 at 138 BPM

Watch on YouTube, a 2:45 EDM rap battle. Plan 9 the cyborg bunny unmasks OG Bobby Johnson. The russet potato was a ruse. Bobby's real form is a tall dark stick figure with an Egyptian-dog head, Doberman ears, amber eyes, red leather collar with a gold tag. They fire two rounds of clapbacks across a Bach Prelude in C minor BWV 847 ground bass, modulate up a half-step mid-drop, then resolve in mutual respect. Plan 9 closes with the answer to life: forty-two.

This is the sequel to AGENT MODE: OG BOBBY JOHNSON, the first crossover where Bobby was still a russet potato in a backwards cap. Here the potato cracks open and the real OG steps out.

The reveal

Bobby's true form is the Anubis hieroglyph rendered as a stick figure: pointed forward-projecting snout, upright cropped triangular Doberman ears with pink interior, amber almond eyes (the Egyptian-dog hallmark), glossy black nose, dark sleek warm-brown coat, and a rich red leather collar with five gold studs and a gold tag hanging at the throat. He stands at scale 42, about 17% taller than Plan 9's scale 36. And he is vain. Every 8 bars he tilts his head 8 degrees to admire his profile, not ego, just default state. OG don't got no ego. Looking good is the floor.

The russet costume dissolves over bars 0–3.5 of the music. 60 orange-brown "potato dust" particles fly outward radially from Bobby's position while the doberman form fades in underneath. The kick stab at bar 3 (the same frame the alien-intro climaxes) is the visual moment the shell shatters.

The battle structure

INTRO         bar  0– 3   alien cricket intro lands on mic-drop slam
OPEN RIZZ     bar  4– 9   Plan 9 fires first (3 lines)
PRE CB1       bar 10–11   drums cut, snare-roll riser, vinyl scratch
CB ROUND 1    bar 12–23   Bobby's first slam (8 lines, slip slap rap)
BRIDGE RIZZ   bar 24–29   wizard doubles down (3 lines)
PRE CB2       bar 30–31   bigger build, suspended sub-drop
CB ROUND 2    bar 32–45   Bobby's annihilation (9 lines, PERIOD)
HOOK          bar 46–53   both trade, acapella chorus, sub-drop slam-back
DROP          bar 54–69   Bach-presto storm + victory lap
MOD           bar 64+     half-step up to C# minor, emotion lift
FINAL RIZZ    bar 70–73   Plan 9 concedes
FINAL CB      bar 74–81   Bobby's kill shot
OUTROM        bar 82–87   four-line duet resolution
SPACE OUTRO   8s          warm Cm drone, До свидания, forty-two

Two rounds of clapbacks, each preceded by a snare-roll riser BUILD. The hook breaks down to a single kick for one beat before slamming back. The drop modulates up a half-step at bar 64 (the chime cascade at 1:55 marks the lift). The outro is a four-line duet, Plan 9: "Plan Nine. Anubis. Done." Bobby: "OG and the wizard." Plan 9: "Bunny in the cloud." Bobby: "Anubis on the mic." Then 8 seconds of space-station ambient with Plan 9 saying goodbye in Russian (До свидания) and the Hitchhiker's Guide answer to everything: forty-two.

The music, Bach BWV 847 as classical foundation

The score is built on the Prelude in C minor BWV 847 from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1. The continuous 16th-note arpeggio pattern runs the entire 88-bar song, a literal classical foundation under the EDM shell. Chord cycle (Cm → Fm → G7 → Cm → Ab → Fm → G7 → Cm) repeats 11 times for 88 bars at 138 BPM = 153 seconds of music.

Nine layers, each shaped by section:

Kick punchy, 4-on-the-floor in CB rounds; Slim Shady alternating "and-of-2" syncopation in the hook
Snare tight + hat tight, backbeat snare, swung 16th hats in hook + drop (Snoop G-funk pocket)
Sub, under kick on beats 1 + 3, doubled on "and of 3" in drop for groove
Bass (walking), moves through chord tones during hook + drop + final-CB (root → 3rd → 5th → 3rd)
Pad lush, sustained chords; octave-up doubles during hook for thickness
Harpsichord soft, the Bach 16th-note arpeggios (the foundation)
Supersaw lead, EDM top line, enters at CB round 1, peaks in drop
Counter-melody (pluck short), Bach-style descending 8th-note line against the ascending main arp during hook + drop + final-CB
FX channel, glide-plucks and chime cascades at section transitions

The two signature electronic sounds

Glide-plucks (the DJ-knob pitch-bend sound): pluck_short instrument with glide_ms=50-150 parameter. The synth slides (portamento) from the previous note's pitch to the next note's pitch over 50-150 ms, producing the "wikki-wikki" DJ-pitch-knob effect. 6-note arc flourishes at bars 23 / 47 / 53 / 69 / 73 / 81, section transitions where vocals rest. Velocity, glide-ms, pitch interval, direction (ascending build / descending release / arc showcase) are the control knobs.

Chime cascade (the bell-sparkle triad): 3 shimmer_bell notes spaced 2 steps apart, ascending in chord tones (root, 3rd, 5th), with decaying velocities (0.70 → 0.55 → 0.45) and decaying durations (12 → 8 → 8 steps). The original lives at bar 64 (the modulation moment at 1:55) and now also fires on every major slam, CB round 1 entry (bar 12), CB round 2 entry (bar 32), hook entry (bar 46), drop entry (bar 54), final-CB entry (bar 74).

The voices

OG Bobby Johnson, custom ElevenLabs character voice (husky baritone, default emotion "confident", stability 0.35, style 0.65, speed 1.10). Autotuned to C minor pentatonic in continuous mode with --spit 0.0 so clip duration is preserved exactly (no last-word clipping). Blend ramps from 0.28 (REVEAL conversational) → 0.42 (CB round 1) → 0.48 (drop peak) → 0.45 (final CB). 36 lines total, 74% of the rap. Vocal-doubling chorus underneath, light compression, 4 kHz presence shelf, and a 100 ms slap-delay echo on the voice chain, that's the "boom-boom" tail that lands the end of each bar with punch.

Plan 9, custom ElevenLabs OG Glenda Bunny voice (machine-cool, stability 0.30, style 0.70, speed 1.15). Recast for v3 onward as the wizard-in-the-machine, less cute, more ghetto-wise. Every rizz line is 3-5 words: "Bunny see you. ALL of you." / "Wizard in the wire." / "Bunny coded the pyramid." / "Server rack. Bunny pack." Autotuned to C minor pentatonic at higher octave (G3–Eb4) for the singy-spit feel.

Acapella backing chorus, 9 sung lines from a backup voice persona ("Aaaaah ahhh", "Oh oh oh", "Mmm yeah", "Yeah yeah yeah") under the hook + drop + final-CB sections. Adds the gospel/R&B backing-vocal layer that thickens the chorus moments.

The look, Plan 9's hangout

The set is Plan 9's hangout, server racks with blinking LEDs span the back wall (the bunny's cloud kingdom), neon "PLAN 9" sign pulsing pink overhead, four bunny clones on a back tier dancing with staggered breakdance / mj-lean / disco / moonwalk clips that switch to a CHEER reaction on every major punchline downbeat. The cyan circuit overlay is the production move, five zigzag electric arcs zigzag from the server racks to Plan 9's head whenever he speaks, flickering on the kick. The bunny in the machine, made literal.

Vegas-style diagonal laser sweeps cross the screen during the high-energy sections (CB round 2 / hook / drop / final-CB), color cycles per beat (pink / cyan / gold / purple), intensity pulses on the kick. Bobby and Plan 9 point at each other on punchline frames (Bobby extends his free hand toward Plan 9 on every clapback line; Plan 9 points back during rizz), real rap battle physicality.

The keyword pop-ups replaced the captions in the last pass. ~40 keywords are mapped to animated typography (ANUBIS, DOBERMAN, PYRAMID, WIZARD, BUNNY, OG, RUSSET, THRONE, KING, RAW, CONSTELLATION, HISTORY, PERIOD, SLIP·SLAP·RAP, LONG POD, THE RACK, THE WIRE, THE CLOUD, THE VOID, FORTY-TWO, etc.), each word zips in from a hash-determined off-screen edge, holds with kick-pulse wobble and brightness pulses on every kick, then zips out to the opposite edge. Beat-locked motion at BPM 138.

Production passes

Seven passes from the first sketch to ship:

v1, baseline render with russet Bobby (still in costume), full pipeline working end-to-end. Tail-clipping issue identified.
v2, Bobby's true form (Doberman/Anubis stick figure) introduced; battle-forward structure (multiple rounds); first autotune pass via --mode words, turned out to be the source of the tail-clipping (averaged −0.38s loss per clip).
v3, Plan 9 rewritten as wizard-in-the-machine (less cute, more ghetto); OUTROM expanded to a 4-line duet; point gestures + machine overlay + crew cheer reactions added; vinyl scratches + bouncy hook kicks + Egyptian Phrygian accents.
v4, Plan 9 tightened to 4-word spit-rap bars; autotune fixed via continuous mode (--spit 0.0 preserves duration, 0.000s mean diff across 48 clips, the tail-clipping problem dies permanently); vocal doubling via 3-tap chorus; reverse-cymbal swells before HOOK and FINAL_CB.
v5, Music up to 0 dB base + bass boost +4 dB at 70 Hz + extrastereo widener m=2.2 (headphone-fill); Stranger Things alien-cricket intro (4s of crickets + saw drone + arpeggio + sub swell, lands on mic-drop slam at film t=4s); space-station outro (8s warm Cm drone + radio chatter); acapella backing chorus; До свидания + forty-two universe comment; voice compression + master limiter.
v6, More glide-plucks (bars 23/47/53/69/81) + chime cascades on every major slam (the bar-64 sound the user loved was promoted to a reusable technique); Vegas laser show; cyan machine overlay for Plan 9; characters point at each other on punchlines; keyword pop-ups replace the captions; PLAN 9 sign camera fix (camera cy lowered so the overhead neon stays in frame at all zoom levels).
v7, Keyword pop-ups dramatically smaller (~40%) + zip-in/hold-wobble/zip-out animation per beat, beat-locked motion at 138 BPM with per-beat direction picked by hash so each beat has consistent personality. Final polish.

Two reusable techniques shipped this pass

Glide-plucks (DJ-knob pitch-bend): pluck_short + glide_ms=50-150 for portamento between notes. The same technique that powers the "wikki" vinyl scratch can also build 6-note arc flourishes at section transitions. Control knobs: glide_ms (slide smoothness), velocity (accent level), duration (sharp pluck vs slow morph), pitch interval (drama), direction (ascending build / descending release / arc showcase), density (4-8 notes per bar = flourish).
Chime cascade (bell-sparkle triad): 3 shimmer_bell notes 2 steps apart, ascending in chord tones (root / 3rd / 5th), decaying velocities and durations. Use to punctuate the biggest slams. Don't overuse, rarity is its power.

Both are documented in og_bobby_rogan_score.py as _chime_cascade() and _flourish_arc() helpers, with parameter docs in the place_fx() docstring so future films can request them by name.

Related work

OG IN DA HOUSE sits in the Napkin Films Plan 9 line, alongside AGENT MODE: OG BOBBY JOHNSON (the first OG Bobby crossover, when Bobby was still a russet potato), THRONE PROTOCOL (F minor coronation), BUNNY IN THE CLOUD (Miyazaki AWS cosmos), THE INTRUDER (D minor pop-EDM AWS battle-rap), and THE TRIAL OF THE ALGORITHM (yesterday's 7:21 courtroom musical-comedy in D major).

The Bach-foundation production language is shared with TEN THOUSAND DAYS (Pachelbel Canon in D), which proved that anchoring an EDM/trance score to a public-domain classical progression is the cure for the "out-of-tune wandering" problem that plagues free-improvised electronic music. C minor BWV 847 is the second pillar in that line. The arpeggio pattern itself does the harmonic work, the EDM layers just amplify and re-time it.

The autotune pipeline carried over from THRONE PROTOCOL and was permanently fixed in v4 of this film: the v2/v3 --mode words autotune was averaging a −0.38s tail trim per clip (the entire last word of each line was being lost to gap compression). Switching to --mode continuous --spit 0.0 preserved duration exactly. That fix has now hard-locked 48 clips across this film without a single tail-clipping incident, the problem dies permanently, future films inherit the cure.

Final sound spec

Runtime:       2:45.08 (165.08 s)
Frames:        1981 at 12 fps
Resolution:    854 × 480
Audio:         AAC stereo at 44.1 kHz, 192 kbps
Music:         153.04 s (chipforge), EDM trance, Cm modulating to C#m
Voice mix:     71 ElevenLabs clips, 48 autotuned in continuous mode
Bookend audio: alien intro 4s + space station outro 8s
Music chain:   bass +4dB@70Hz + extrastereo m=2.2 + master limiter
Voice chain:   chorus doubling + compressor + 4kHz presence + 100ms slap
Score metrics: peak -2.6 dBFS, dynamic range +18.0 dB
Verify:        73 of 74 checks passing

License

OG IN DA HOUSE is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Remix it, repost it, drop it into your own thing, credit "Napkin Films / Organic Arts LLC" and link CC BY 4.0. Engine code (Napkin Films, ChipForge) is GPL-3.0-or-later. ElevenLabs voice audio is generated under their commercial license and is not redistributed in source form. J.S. Bach's Prelude in C minor BWV 847 is in the public domain; the arrangement, instrumentation, and EDM translation are original work. The Anubis reference and Egyptian-dog hieroglyph appear as cultural reference under fair use. The forty-two reference honors Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Contact: j@organicartsllc.com

Produced with Napkin Films and ChipForge, tools built by Joshua Ayson and AI agents at Organic Arts LLC.