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Teach Yourself To Rap

Posted: Friday, October 30, 2009

by Marcus Parker
Motivate Our Youth

I have received many emails and comments from individuals all across the world asking me to teach them how to rap. I have been rapping for over twenty-five years and even though I don't perform any gangster rap I have ventured into every type of rap style there is. So with that out of the way, here goes.

The first thing you want to do is to think about what message you want to convey. If you want to rap about hard times, get an idea of the hard times you want to write about. Then I recommend getting a pen and pad and start to jot down the things you are looking to rap about. Some artist like Lil Wayne and Jay-Z claim that they don't write down their lyrics but keep in mind that they have written lyrics for years to get to that point. I have also written entire songs without a pen but you must understand that I have created so many bars and hooks over the years that I can do it in my sleep.

For people who are just starting, you need to get used to writing as much as possible. Then you need to thing about your "Hook". The hook is the part of the song that repeats in between the verses. Writing a good hook is very important because that's the part of the song that people will most remember. As an example, think about Jay-Z's song "It's the hard knock life for us". That is the hook of that song. He hook is usually only 4 to 8 bars. Bars are a music 4-count in the song.

This becomes much easier to understand once you are listening to a beat. But nothing beats reviewing music for your training. check out: www.cdbaby.com/MarcusP

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