Q&A for How to Write Rap Rhymes

You don't need a beat to write lyrics, but you can always use your own hands and body to make a drum beat and think of how slow/fast you want the song to go. Then write away!

Finding the right words for your rap can be a challenge. Many artists use brainstorming to try to get every thought, feeling, and related word they can think of on paper before they begin writing.

Whenever you get an idea. Write everything down, even if you think it is bad. You could always save the idea for future versus, or you could alter the idea.

Figure out what you want your rap to be about, and write down some verses or phrases that you want to include. Practice the verse. If it doesn't sound right, try to say what you want to say another way. You could also start it out as a poem, then work your way up to more complex verses. It takes time to write lyrics to songs/raps. Just be true to what you feel and you'll figure out how to say it in rap.

Before writing a rap song, write down a bunch of things you want to mention in your song and find things that rhyme with them.

Think of words that rhyme and are related to the subject or person, then take a piece of paper and write those words down. Pick a topic and make it mean something.

Yes. It's your song, do whatever you like to it! Not every rap has to rhyme.

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Socialize with the internet! Get a Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr or Facebook account and post your raps! Wattpad is also great. Then you can post your raps and promote yourself on people's feeds, make internet friends, and watch as they comment and leave their opinions. Friends are always sweet, so expect random strangers to leave a little bit of criticism here and there that your friends wouldn't dare to mention.

It's best to experiment with several rap schemes and see if you can become comfortable in more than one before deciding. The process of learning several schemes will challenge your brain and make you a lot more creative and eventually more proficient. Once you are really good at two schemes, choose one as your main one, but always practice the other top favorite ones as well so that you can keep your mind sharp.

Good tone starts with an ideal balance of air flow across the vocal folds. If you blow too much air, your sound gets breathy or takes on a stressed tone. The most appealing tone comes from less air flow and more resonance, which you can acquire with diligent training. I suggest you use a lower pitch whenever possible and think about connecting all of your words in one long ribbon of vowel sounds, clipping the words apart with only minimal touches of consonant sounds. Vowels are what create the best tone.

Lil Wayne, Chance the Rapper, Ice Cube, etc. Just look up some of the top rappers from the past 20 years and explore some of their biggest hits.

At least 40 words, depending about what you're rapping about.

Then you are the freestyle type, you are hard core. The most legendary rappers that ever lived came from the same method, that way they rapped their real life stories. And this is being real. The likes of 2pac Shakur, Nipsey Hussle, B.I.G, Fat Joe etc. So, grow yourself to be that way, and watch these likes and have a purpose.

Because maybe the song you wrote is not compatible or for the same rhythm like the beat. Try to find a beat that suits you and then start the text writing process, so you can have a feeling in which direction the song is going.

A good rap is genuine. It is a life story as you experience it. It takes your observations of life, people, events and share them as rap. It brings out truths that people can relate to it understand with a rap. To feel the beat is to groove with it. When you feel the message and its rhythm, it makes more sense. Music can create its own feeling.

Most musical lyrics, including rap, make use of poetry techniques. Slant rhyme, for example, creates an imperfect rhyme between two similar sounding words, like orange and door hinge. Another important part of the structure of your rhymes is syllable structure. The syllables in each line will create a beat in your rap.