Hey blades, Lets create a thread based around the knowledge of rap. Leave a little something in the comments about how to write rap or your tips and tricks to writing/rapping that others might have had trouble picking up on. Such as connecting words, Wordplay, Bars, phrases etc. Feel free to drop a comment with your tips and tricks to rap! Lets try to build a compendium! Example for writing, you could have 4 basic bars rhyming the last word of your first line with the last word of your second line. The third line doesn't rhyme but add more syllables to the last with an end rhyme to the first line. Example of this rhyme scheme, A A B A I stay up late, in my mind state Putting holes in my brain So I can rhyme great Very basic but you catch the drift Feel free to add anything that would help your fellow community build a stronger smarter rap. Sent from my SGH-I337M using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Example 2: What does it do to me, I guess ill answer truthfully It makes my mind at ease, if I find that I take two to three But who's to say, that ill make it through a week If im higher than the Himalaya's sittin on a mountain peak Nimble blades, ya say you speak? Keep on countin all those bars That you claim your slayin freak Sent from my SGH-I337M using Grasscity Forum mobile app
i used too post alot in the rap battle thread, one of the things i did is name play and word play. i also take up a certain persona which is the sacrilegious schism, it kind of keeps my raps connected in a way. if im writing long raps that are responding to another rapper i always do an introduction that's brief but rhymes, then i start after the intro. i hand write everything though it seems cheesy. i just can make a rhyme on an ipad or iphone. i have to have pen to paper. its the sacriligeous schism coming back to attack exposing the abundance of these weaklings putting on a tough act its a fact theres never been a battle that has tested me i post and rhyme and those behind are always fuckin stressin me now address the heat call me bo and hear that pistol peep sever your head and mince your meat my mentals where them devils meet now accept defeat im the baddest rap bitch thus far im the presence you feel when you're walking through the dark im the one you feel behind you when you're going up the steps the one who forms your nightmares and leaves your body in distress you can test it but defeat by me will leave you in a closed casket send your moms a parting gift your severed head inside a basket
I used to get fucked up and listen to instrumental beats and freestyle. Then I started writing some of the shit down. Then I stopped.
Too many people write in a way that gives off the feeling they're "searching for that rhyme". Rhyme scheme helps with lyricism, but i'd rather hear a 2 syllable per bar track that has a coherent story/topic over a 7 syllable mess any day. Imo, music is about the message. Dont lose sight of that solely to show off that you can rhyme "onomatopoeia" with "ya mommas gonorrhea".
dont give up on it, it you like it and you feel it just do you. Progress only comes from something you had trouble with. I can't rap well either, but the more you do it the better you get. Sent from my SGH-I337M using Grasscity Forum mobile app
that's a pretty drastic lol If it's true I would love to hear some Sent from my SGH-I337M using Grasscity Forum mobile app
I write good bars, better than most rappers out there, I need help with my breathing and diction, of course right now I can't speak at all so it'll wait another few days
I agree people don't realize a lot it's not important to rhyme. The flow and actual content of the bars is more important, than rhyming onomatopoeia with mommas gonorrhea 😂 as you so delicately put it. I.e Phonte's verse on "Whatever You Say" Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
Also change the flow within the verse, I get tired of hearing rappers who use the same flow the entire verse or even worse the whole song. See Ab-soul's "Hunnid Stax"... However this method does work for some song like Kendrick's "Money Trees" but even in that song the Second verse fell off and became redundant after some bars Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
I try to change my facial expressions through out the verses, I move around a lot too, to me it sounds better than when I'm just standing still, I always think of last rhyme like I might sound whack but least I can fix it, I'm a talentless wannabe hack, but my rhymes are better than limp bizkits She's the virgin to my Madonna Cobain to my Nirvana, The bag to my dime The sub to my lime
Im always keeping track of syllables when I flow, like I get the beat or sound of the flow first and connect the words to it. Sent from my SGH-I337M using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Does freestyling ever improve? Like is it something to just keep practicing? As in coming up with it on the spot, it's amazing how good some people are. I like to write just for fun I guess, but what @[member="iStayJammin"] said, yea totally guilty about that sometimes. Usually something that's on my mind is what I write about but if I get stuck I start by habit thinking of something that will rhyme I dunno... Guess practice is where it's at?
Freestyle definitely does help a lot time. For me, when writing, what I do when I get stuck somewhere I like to play off a word in the previous bar. Try to create double and triple entendres. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
Freestyling is easier the better you are at improvising on the spot, also having a vast vocabulary to your disposal is also key Sent from my SGH-I337M using Grasscity Forum mobile app
http://youtu.be/pB8diiihFR8 Just wanted to share my latest video with you guys. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
That's what I notice a lot of people ignoring. Syllable count is so important imo. That and what y'all have been saying about the "perfect rhyme".
https://soundcloud.com/kcam11/seven-chakras-verse-1 Just one of my writtens btw. Not trying to spam by any means just wanna show how i do. I notice a lot of ppeople that record don't do overdubs/vocal layers and idk why but I feel that's the difference between "spitting bars" and a "song"