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Advice on Rapping - 5 Tips On How To Rap Better

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2013


Advice on Rapping - 5 Tips On How To Rap Better


Advice on RappingTo all my new and upcoming hip hop artists out there looking for advice on rapping, I thought I'd write out this little blog post with 5 tips that will hopefully help you with how to rap better than you may feel you do now.  You'd be surprised as to how many kats there are out there spittin' on the mic, and while the competition is thick, a lot of kats out there are just quickly getting their cell phones out, recording some bars over a well known beat, and then uploading it.  And this in my opinion is not the best way to get your name known and out there.  So I wanted to write up this brief blog post for all of you out there that may find it helpful to boost your rap skills.  So without further delay, here are 5 tips that I feel can help.


The Five Tips on How To Rap Better


Before you proceed, keep in mind that this is aimed for the newer kats that are aspiring to rap and do music, but may not really know how to rap better or to make their music sound more impacting.  Some of you that are more seasoned may find some of these helpful or not at all.  At any rate, I ask those of you that are seasoned to share this blog post to others you may know that it may help.  And here they are:

1)  Improve Your Lyrics - Let's face it.  Not all of us are born with "The Gift", and by that, I mean the ability to easily put words together that flow like butter melting in the microwave.  A lot of kats that want to get into rapping start out rough, and that's fine.  You can't start out expecting yourself to be the hottest artist out there if you just got into doing it, yet I've come across more rappers online that were so cocky and arrogant about a craft they didn't yet fully master, that it left me speechless.  So my first advice on rapping is to improve your lyrics so that they don't sound so simple.

One thing I can easily recommend to help you rap better, is to listen to your favorite rap artists and study their lyrics more in depth.  Get a feel for the words they put together, the catch phrases they use, the words they choose to rhyme off of other words, and especially the analogies and metaphors that a lot of talented lyricists use.  These things are key in sounding like a great rap artist, or sounding like a Dr Seuss nursery rhyme.  Another thing I can advise is to do some research on how to deliver better lyrics and rhymes.  There are resources out there like the Lyricist Guide Book that can provide advice for example, so if you're really wanting to learn how to rap better, you gotta put in the time and invest in your craft.

2)  Delivery - If there were another area from the many different tracks I've heard online that I could give advice on rapping for, it would have to be delivery.  I have heard quite a few artists online that again, cocky as can be, do not deliver their content well.  So if you want to know how to rap better than you are doing now, delivery is a very important part of this equation.

Let me explain a bit further.  You could have the hottest lines written to date, but if you sound monotone when you're rapping, you might as well have horrible lyrics.  To improve your skills as a rap artist, you really need to deliver your message, your track, your song, your thoughts.  It's the same as if you were giving a very important speech to a group of people.  If you sound monotone, or if you sound like you're not confident in what you're delivering, it won't be received well at all.  So how do you improve this?  Aside from listening to your favorite artists again and the way they deliver, my other tip is to let the mood of what you're writing take over... feel the anger if you wrote an angry track... feel the message you're trying to deliver, and put that passion into your voice.  Sometimes it helps to close your eyes and embody what you wrote.  The more you practice, the better your delivery will be.

3)  Beats - Believe it or not, beats can be a very helpful and impacting part of learning how to rap better.  A beat can really help you put together a solid track both lyrically and in delivery.  Beats, to me, are the heart of a solid complete track, and each beat has its own emotion, its own depth, its own message to deliver.  Couple that with your track and you can really put together something great!  Along with that, solid, original hip hop beats in a variety of different styles can really help keep you in rhythm with the beat when you are rapping, which in itself is my next tip on how to rap better.

4)  Rhythm - Okay, so you have the lyrics, you have the delivery, and you have some bangin' rap beats.  So now you're ready to go, right?  No.  If you don't have rhythm with the beat you are using, then your rap can still not sound great.  Having a good flow with the rhythm of the beat is very crucial, especially when trying to put out your own mixtape, album, and so on. 

Beats are pretty much broken into what is called "bars", and more often than not, a verse itself is usually 16 bars though it can vary of course depending on the song.  Being in rhythm means you're delivering a set amount of lines smoothly within that 'bar' so that the next set of lines either transitions effortlessly into your next bar, or you start a new set of words for the next bar.  However, when you don't sync in rhythm with the beat, you may find that you're either having to stretch the syllables of words longer just to try to get to the next bar, or are trying to rap fast at a part of your song just to try to squeeze everything in, and that doesn't sound great. 

This is something that is learned more by ear, so again, it is recommended to listen to a variety of rap artists' albums and tracks to get this under your belt.  The more you do it, the better you will get at the rhythm usually.  You can also practice with a drum beat without instruments to it to try to feel rhythm a bit more.  Again, the more you practice, the more you will feel by ear, the rhythm of different beats out there so that you can flow in sync with the beat, instead of ahead of it or behind it.  And with so many different styles of beats that there are, I suggest listening to different tracks so that you can feel out different types of rhythm.  Variety is important, which brings me to my final tip.

5)  Variety - Another bit of advice on rapping that I feel important is variety.  Variety is the spice of life.  I'm sure you've heard that cliche before, but it's so true.  If you study one type of track or genre only, trap tracks for example, or club tracks, and you don't study or listen to anything else at all, you're going to sound one dimensional, AND, people will eventually bore of your music because they've heard it already.  Think about it... you do nothing but study club tracks, and now you have the club style down, but what if you have to write a story rap track for your mixtape, or what if a label wants you to now write a deep epic rap track.  Can you?  You've studied so much of one style, that you don't even have an idea on what the other styles sound and how they differ.  And that's where you can lose out.

So, for me, that's why variety is so important.  Variety is one of the most important things to me in terms of hearing any mixtape, album, and so on.  If I hear the same style, same words, and same delivery on every single track on a mixtape, I probably won't even be listening to that next artist's mixtape or music.  Variety!  It's why I've produced over 650+ different rap beats and r&b instrumentals at this time so far for my site... because variety is very important to me and I feel it's very important to music.  Variety can keep your fans saying "WOW, that was HOTT" versus "oh, yet another track that sounds like the last 10 tracks".  You have to study and deliver variety with your rap tracks.  Let everything inspire you to write different tracks on different topics.  Variety is an easier one to succeed in doing, but you have to let yourself study variety as well.  Otherwise, you will be one dimensional, and trust me, I've heard it out there, rap artists who only do club tracks and nothing else, or producers who only make trap beats and nothing else.  When trends change, you're irrelevant.  So my advice is to keep your mind open and let a variety of styles in.


Now That You Have Some Advice On Rapping, Are You Ready?


I hope that the 5 tips that I provided above will be of some help to you, whether you are a new aspiring rap artist, or even if you're seasoned.  Sometimes even when we think we know everything there is, there are still tidbits that may reinforce what we knew and forgot, or just uplift us in motivation on putting the same effort back into it.

The bottom line is, if you are really aspiring to be a lyricist, rap artist, or to do music in general, make sure you study your craft, and ultimately, know that you have a passion in it.  If you find that it's becoming more of a chore to learn how to rap better and that it's killing your desires, then you may not have had a passion for it to begin with.  However, with passion comes the desire to get better, and that's why I provided these 5 tips for you, with hopes that it will uplift you and motivate you to go that extra mile for your craft.

I've been making beats for over 10 years now, and I've heard my share of new artists that really shine strongly with their music, and those that even after a few months, still think they're better than everyone else even though they just started and their music doesn't even come close to equaling the arrogance they have for it, which is my final brief tip as well:  Be confident but humble.  Even the greatest artists are learning new things and tweaking their music, so there's always room for learning and improving.  And lyrically, even the best artists can have writer's block as well, though there are ways to overcome writer's block as well.

With that said, I hope that you have a stronger fire burning now for your lyrical craft, and that my advice on rapping can help you to push forward and write some serious heat for the masses!  With these tips mentioned above, and other resources out there on how to write better lyrics and so forth, and your passion to practice more and more, you'll surprise even yourself with the things you can do.  Much respect to all the rap artists, lyricists, and singers out there as well for that matter.  If you feel this can help someone that you know, please do share my blog post to others.  Salute!


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