How To Write Better Rap Lyrics, Step-By-Step (For ALL Skill Levels)

In today’s video we’ll be covering how to write better rap lyrics for any skill level of rapper who is interested in improving their pen game.

With that being said, if you’re inspired to learn step-by-step how to write better rap lyrics and avoid sounding too BASIC as a rapper…

This is the video for you.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Introduction
1:00 How To Write Better Rap Lyrics Question
1:47 “Topic At The Top”: Beginner Level
2:50 Idioms and Catch-Phrases
3:54 “Becoming The Beat”: Intermediate Level
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6:04 Rhyme To Reasons (Advanced Level)
6:49 Rhymes To Reason Example 1
8:18 Rhymes To Reason Example 2
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With that in mind, we’re going to tackle the answer to this question with 3 major hacks on how to write better rap lyrics:

“Topic At The Top” (Beginner-Level)
“Becoming The Beat” (Intermediate-Level)
“Rhyme To Reasons” (Advanced-Level)

“Topic At The Top”: Beginner Level

Now, from what we can guess from this commenter we assume he or she might be at roughly beginner or maybe intermediate level of experience.

A beginner is anyone from 0 months rapping to maybe around a year.

With this in mind, our advice to beginners who struggle with, as the commenter says, “just writing what they feel, making it rhyme, but it turns out forced”, is:

First and foremost you need to ALWAYS write a CLEAR topic at the top of your page or notes app when you first start writing.

That means that BEFORE you start trying to just randomly cram ideas together that rhymes, you DECIDE on a specific subject matter or topic you will write on and put that at the top of the page.

If you’re brand new, this can be something extremely simple like “Jordans” as in the shoes…

Or “Growing Up In Brooklyn” if you’re from Brooklyn, etc.

This is because until you have an ability to stick on ONE topic and explore different descriptions and witty ways of attacking that subject matter…

Your raps are going feel scattered (as they do now) but for YOU as the writer and the listener as they hear your music.

Idioms and Catch-Phrases

If you’d like to up the challenge for yourself and feel like simply writing “Jordans” or “Growing Up In Brooklyn” is too simplistic.

You can take a different approach and look up “idioms” or catch-phrases from everyday life and turn them into a rap.

An idiom is a common non-literal phrase meant to represent a behavior or an idea that literally happens in life.

A really clear example of this would be “the ball is in your court”.

If I was to say to you “look, homey, in this situation… the ball is in your court”… You’d likely know that I meant:

“Your success or failure in this situation will come down the decisions you make”.

Therefore you can instead write at the top of your page “The Ball’s In My Court” and then decide to write better rap lyrics about your decision making throughout the life situations you’re going through.

There are literally 1000s of idioms to look up and many major rap songs such as Kanye West’s “Stronger” (built off of the idiom ‘that which doesn’t kill me can only make me stronger’), Eminem’s “Cleaning Out My Closet” (built off of the idiom ‘you have some skeletons in your closet’) and many others are built off of them.

“Becoming The Beat”: Intermediate Level

A step higher than writing a topic or an idiom at the top of your page to help you stay focused to write better rap lyrics is “become the beat”…

In other words, let the beat guide the content of your rap lyrics.

We call this “becoming the beat” because it represents how YOUR job as a rapper is to seamlessly lyrically MESH with the EMOTION the beat you choose brings out of the listener.

So of course step 1 in this process is find a beat with a very clear emotional feeling to it.



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