How To Write A Rap Song, From Start To Finish (Step-By-Step)

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:42 Start A Rap Career Today
2:00 Master The Art of Freestyle Rap In 2 Weeks Or Less
2:45 How To Write Your First Verse In A Rap Song
15:34 Rap Tycoon
15:38 Freestyle Fortnight
16:20 How To Write Your Second Verse In A Rap Song
29:04 How To Write A Catchy Rap Chorus
38:27 How To Write A Full Rap Song In 12 Mins. Or Less (Demonstration)

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Now, there’s a million things you can rap about and hopefully this won’t be the only time you sit down and write a rap…

…But for the purposes of this article, we’ve gone is researched what the most common topics to rap about are, based on the top 100 rap songs according to a ranked Google search…

…And what we’ve found is that there’s a common theme, among the Eminems, the 2Pacs, the Kendricks, and so on when they rap in their first verse, and that is…

FIRST PERSON
PRESENT TENSE
DESCRIPTION OF FRUSTRATING CIRCUMSTANCES
In other words, you describing your struggle, your difficulties in your environment, etc. but in FIRST PERSON and describing it as if it’s happening right now.

That’s how songs like “Cleaning Out My Closet” by Eminem, “Hate It or Love It” by 50 Cent and The Game, and “Changes” by 2Pac start.

Be Mentally Prepared

The first step when facing the verse 2 blues and wanting to know how to come up with a second verse in rap is to know that it is extremely common for beginning artists to struggle with this.

When I first started rapping over 15 years ago, I would often just write one long verse with no chorus or give up after the first verse, cut the beat off and call it a “freestyle” or “freeverse”.

(I’m sure many readers can relate to that)

The problem with this is that you are training your rapping abilities to GIVE UP on perhaps the most important part of the song… especially if you quit before writing a chorus.

Songwriting “Blocks”
Additionally understand that overtime it will become easier and easier to come up a verse 2 quickly if you PRACTICE pushing through it.

The way that I personally do this is organize my songwriting sessions into “blocks” where my only goal is to come out with a COMPLETED song in a given amount of time.

In other words, rather than most new rappers who just write rap when they feel like it or wait for “inspiration”, I tell myself “I will sit down for 2 hours and by the end of it, I will have a FULL SONG” done.

Not 2 hours of just writing random verse… 2 hours of a FULL SONG being created.

The more I do these songwriting blocks of time, the more I am reprogramming my brain to write in FULL SONG CHUNKS rather than stopping and starting by having half finished songs.

Anything you practice you get good at. Practice finishing songs.

The 75/25 chorus rule dictates that roughly 75% of your songs should BEGIN with the chorus.

When we say begin, we mean that the chorus should be the first vocals that the listener hears.

There are three main reasons this is a crucial songwriting tip for rappers who want to make catchy songs:

Easy To Remember = Catchy
First, if a future fan of your song can easily remember the most well-known part of your track – the chorus (also known as the hook) – they are much more likely to call it “catchy”.

Whereas us as rappers really dive into the science of rapping and bars, the fan who will will spend their entire savings on your concerts, streams, and merch often will simply define a “hit” by if they think it’s catchy a.k.a. memorable on the first listen (or not).

What better way to be seen as memorable and catchy than introducing them to the most repeated and repeatable part of the song from the very start of the track?

If Fans Can Repeat It, They Can Remember It
And that right there is the second reason. If someone has heard the most iconic part of the song from the very beginning, by the time they’ve hit the end of verse 1…

They’re actually going to be listening to your chorus a 2ND TIME because you’ve already begun the song with the first chorus.

The best part? Fans don’t even notice this simple song structure trick because they spent the beginning of the song just getting in the mood and waiting for the verse to start.

We bet you didn’t notice that of 18 musical tracks on 50 Cent’s legendarily catchy and soon-to-be diamond selling album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’…

A full 13 of them (72%) start with the chorus (including all of the singles such as “In Da Club”, “21 Questions”, and “Many Men”).