How To Write Rhymes For Rap: Tips From Kendrick, Eminem, & J. Cole

Okay, so you want to learn how to write rhymes for rap at an advanced level from the very beginning, but don’t know where to start.

You’ve been listening your whole life to the greatest rappers of all-time, love how they can bend and stretch words seemingly at will without any hesitation, and you’d like to do it as well…

But you don’t quite know, in a step-by-step format how to write rhymes for rap like a professional time and time again every time you have an instrumental in front of you.

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:50 #1 The Kendrick Lamar “Start Then Stretch” Method
0:52 Kendrick Lamar On How To Write Rhymes For Rap
4:40 The Infinite Rhyme Maker Course
5:19 #2 The Eminem “Rhyme Then Write” Method
5:21 Eminem On How To Write Rhymes For Rap
8:43 #3 The J. Cole “Stack and Sync” Method
8:46 J. Cole On How To Write Rhymes For Rap
11:29 Comment And Get Your Course!

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“The craziest thing about Wayne, I go all the way back to the “hot boy” days, and being 13, listening to this dude, just remembering the staple that he put on the game back then, all the way to now, to have that longevity years behind it.

The longevity that he created is a great feeling and I could say I was influenced by a certain sound and the flow and the cadence, that he brought to the game, which was very unique.

Me being a young boy in the game and listening to him like, yo, okay, we need to learn this and that, and that definitely was a perspective from that tape.” — Kendrick Lamar on Being Influenced By Lil’ Wayne

In this clip we see Kendrick Lamar where the influence of Southern rap living legend Lil’ Wayne on his sleeve, discussing exactly how long he’s been listening to Weezy and the perspective that was passed on to a young King Kenny over time.

However, one thing that hasn’t been discussed enough exactly in learning how to write rhymes in rap is:

How exactly did Lil’ Wayne influence the rhyming style of Kendrick Lamar and how you can use that to improve your own rhymes.

“ There’s a constant tug of war with me inside my head that how am I supposed to be one of the things that’s that’s happened to me over the years is rapping gets harder, but rhyming gets easier… If that makes any sense.

Rhyming gets easier because when I think of a couple phrases or whatever it is, I think of so much sh*t that rhymes with it, you know, and connecting the syllables and all doing all that like, but by the time it’s all said and done, is this different than anything I’ve done.” — Eminem on Rhyming Getting Easier

Now although there are a lot of videos on YouTube about how Eminem rhymes words (including many by us at How To Rap) or interviews with Eminem on how to write rhymes in rap…

A lot of people have not broken down the science of how he does it.

In order to explain this, let’s look at the handwritten lyrics for part of “Lose Yourself”, arguably Eminem’s most well-known song ever.

What you’ll see when you look at the lyrics is not some big, organized line-by-line sequence of ideas, but rather a “collage” of random short quick sentences of rhymes that eventually will come out in a fully-fleshed idea.
“My cousin rapped like a no limit, like Master P type rapper. So I was imitating him. So I was like, ‘I’m a no limit soldier’ like, it was terrible stuff I wasn’t even doing.

But then I started rapping about like how much better I was than people at that time, Eminem was out big pun all these real lyrical rappers, like, those were the guys I were imitating.

But then I started telling stories more and I started leaning more towards like a nas or like a Tupac who I already loved. But I fell in love more, in love with like the way they told stories.

And that’s kind of how I evolved.” — J. Cole on His Rhyming Evolution

Much like Kendrick utilizing Lil’ Wayne influence to mix-and-match styles to create something unique out of thin air, J. Cole’s admitted influence by rappers as varied as Master P all the way to Eminem comes out in some of his underground hardest tracks.

Take for example, the comparison of this scheme on “Rise and Shine” from Cole’s first album:

“You out of shape, my mind run a mile a minute

The sky’s the limit, I’m so high, I’m divin’ in it

My rides is tinted, my knob’s gettin’ slobbed up in it

She hollerin’ God, man you would’ve thought that God was in it…”

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