I tried RAP and...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Well it has been years sincve this incident occured. Happened around 3 years back. Had been seeing too much of rap and was too excited to be a popular rapper. I had been dreaming of rapping in front of thousands of people. People were striving to get my autograph . I was driving away in a ferarri looking out of the glass. Then came the harder part ; to learn how to actually rap. I started with wrting rap songs soon to realize I was writing more of what could be called kindergarten poems. Sometimes with much effort I would sweat out to make up a rap which my friends would can more of a literature piece instead of a rap. I was nowhere getting close to writing a rap.
Then surfed the internet. Spent hours reading how to rap and write rap songs. Well one day while chatting I got an important tip ; observe and copy. Well , I started out by observing musics videos on TV. I wrote down the meaning of their songs. Then tried to convert each sentence into lyrics. But alas I was again into poetry and not rap. After a little brainstorming I found out what I was missing. The fact was that I had to use street language to rap. After all rap was an invention of the street culture.
I then started replacing all the good and smooth words from my 'poetry to rough street language and wallah ! I had half a dozen good raps.
I bought a synonyms dictionary and started referring to it often and in no time I was writing good raps. But the most essential quality for good rapping is to rap any time and every time. I mean you should be rappign in the bathroom , in the toilet whenever you are free. If you do you'll go a long road ahead of the average rapper and may rise to the top some day.
Then surfed the internet. Spent hours reading how to rap and write rap songs. Well one day while chatting I got an important tip ; observe and copy. Well , I started out by observing musics videos on TV. I wrote down the meaning of their songs. Then tried to convert each sentence into lyrics. But alas I was again into poetry and not rap. After a little brainstorming I found out what I was missing. The fact was that I had to use street language to rap. After all rap was an invention of the street culture.
I then started replacing all the good and smooth words from my 'poetry to rough street language and wallah ! I had half a dozen good raps.
I bought a synonyms dictionary and started referring to it often and in no time I was writing good raps. But the most essential quality for good rapping is to rap any time and every time. I mean you should be rappign in the bathroom , in the toilet whenever you are free. If you do you'll go a long road ahead of the average rapper and may rise to the top some day.
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