How to Read Rap in Free Style

Listen to a lot of freestyle songs. The word-of-mouth rap in the community will be a little rougher, less polished than the songs you’ve heard, but because of that, it’s more unpredictable and creates more emotion. Freestyle rap has a feel to it, and listening to different freestyle rapists is an effective way to learn particular techniques.

• Catch live matches or freestyle hip-hop competitions where you live. If you have a chance, go see and listen. This is a great opportunity for you to meet rhymes who are making a name for themselves and to make connections in the industry.
• YouTube is a great resource, it offers a lot of videos of freestyle rap fights from the past to the present. Everything from rapper Notorious BIG rapping on a street corner when he was 17, guy Eminem’s wars of words to some underground rapping videos of underground people. tradition) and new songs by Kanye West are worth your research.

Let’s start with an accompaniment. Go online to find an instrumental accompaniment or play back the accompaniment of your favorite song on Youtube and listen for a while. Listen and feel the accompaniment. If you already have a pre-written rhyme for this song, start from there, or you can try writing new rhymes while listening to the piece of music. Listen over and over again until you start to feel the rhythm of the music and how the rhymes fit the song. Also don’t worry if you get lost.

• Start with the first beat of the measure. Most rap songs are written in the traditional 4-4 rhythm, also known as four-beat music. This means that every first note in a staff is a strong beat: ONE-two-three-four-ONE-two-three-four. Let’s start with such accompaniments.
• Usually, there will be a break in the song where the rapist is waiting to enter the lyrics 2. If you can’t find the lyrics or can’t get on Youtube, use that piece of music to practice.

Extemporaneous. Once you get a feel for the accompaniment and use up your rhymes, try taking it one step further towards freestyle. Repeat a sentence you already wrote, but come up with a new rhyme for the second half of the sentence.

• If you say something meaningless, don’t worry. This is normal when you are just starting to feel the rhythm and are forcing yourself to make rhymes quickly. Anyway, no one listens so don’t worry too much.

Stop thinking. If you keep wondering what to say in the next sentence, sooner or later you will stumble at the sentence you are saying. Let your mind freely think from one sentence to the next. A freestyle rapist succeeds when he is relaxed and comfortable with the pieces of music he is making. If you feel you can’t rhyme, don’t force it. Listen to the accompaniment and then start writing a few lines or try another piece of music.

• Lock yourself in your bedroom, basement, or garage if you don’t want anyone to hear you practice. Investing time in yourself will ensure success when you introduce yourself to your audience.

Continue your speech. No matter how many mistakes you make, train yourself to keep trying. If you stutter while rapping, you keep saying things like: “Am I stuttering? My words should be as sweet as corn.” Rap is like comedy: timing is paramount.

• Experienced rap readers often have backup sentences so that when they get stuck, they can take out the fire. This can be a sentence, a phrase used when you can’t think of anything else and need to “buy time” to get back to the main topic. The more advanced, the shorter these buffers. Truly professional freelancing raps will use one-syllable accompaniments like “Yo” or “Truth is.” There are times, you even unconsciously say those buffer words.