Rap is about rhyming. Period. If you can’t string together a few solid rhymes, you can’t be a rapper. Sure, there are plenty of rappers who have become quasi famous on less than stellar rhyming skills, but these guys get little respect or success. The best rappers out there (Jay-Z, Eminem, Tupac, 50 Cent, etc.) all have killer rhyming skills.

Thus, when aspiring rappers talk about getting rap dictionaries to make rhyming a bit “easier”, I naturally balk. A rap dictionary is literally ‘cheating’ in my book. It kills the very soul of the music. It says, “I have no skills or interest in working hard to be a rapper. I just want a quick fix solution that will make me semi-famous”. Such a hack mentality can’t take you very far in the rap game.

Of course, I’m not saying that you need not consult a dictionary at all. A strong vocabulary is, after all, a cornerstone of rap. But for that, I would really recommend a regular dictionary over a rap dictionary. This is for the reason mentioned above, and because rap dictionaries tend to be very genre specific and lack the killer words that can make or break a song.

Most importantly, if you follow the rap dictionary too closely, you will start sounding like the hundreds of other rappers who took the advice of the dictionary. Instead of sounding original and fresh, you will sound like another soldier in an army of rapping clones. Surely you don’t want such a reputation to be associated with you or your art.

The best rhymes involve words that are complicated and are not commonly found in most rap dictionaries. Longer words with more syllables make for great rhymes, but are unfortunately missing in such dictionaries.

Try this out: pick up a dictionary (a regular one) and write down a dozen words you have never even heard before, let alone know the meaning of. Make sure that they are multiple syllable words such as “megalomaniac” or “metamorphosis“. Try to find ryhmes for these words and include them in your song. You will be surprised how the includsion of a few such words can make your song stand out completely.

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Find a Beat to Inspire You. Ever wonder how the pros commencement prose a crack song? 9 era made known of 10 they commence by looking pro beats to inspire them. They are looking pro something with the intention of touches them in way with the intention of inspires and motivates them to enter lyrics to. Everyone has a uncommon taste in composition, so discover a beat with the intention of YOU like and can enter genuinely to. Find something with the intention of instantly grabs you and relates to you. You can discover beats straightforwardly on the internet. Just search Google and Soundclick and you will be guaranteed to discover a beat to enter crack song lyrics to.

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Consider these things: Do you aspire the hook to be catchy? Do you aspire it to be deep and emotional? Do you aspire to sing it or crack it made known?

Listen to the hook part of your beat. Vibe chicano rap the beat and start freestyling approximately ideas. Even if your terms aren’t making significance, freestyle to the beat to set up approximately uncommon flows. Experiment and map made known could you repeat that? You like.

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If you are having vex or writer’s check, enter made known a catalog of rhyming terms with the intention of relate to your theme (use a dictionary and thesaurus if necessary) and refer to this catalog to flash ideas.

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Practice! Perhaps the generally underrated part of rapping…Practice.

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How to Roll Your Own Beats From Scratch – The Easy Way
By Sammy “JMZ” Jamz

A lot of beginning rap producers think that making hip hop beats is all about having the right equipment or samples. The fact of the matter is that some of the greatest beats of all time have been made with just 3 drum sounds and a lot of creativity. It’s better to start learning beat production with the basis before focusing on collecting samples and buying equipment. Here are 5 basic tips to keep in mind when programming your beats:

1. Roll Up Your Sleeves And Get Your Hands Into It
I highly recommend starting your beat by actually playing it into either a keyboard or a drum pad. If you start with step programming or visually writing them into a computer, you’re writing your beat from the left side of the brain instead of the right. Dig in by pounding the beat out with your hands – you’ll notice the difference.

2. Don’t Be Afraid to Get Messy
Don’t quantize your beats right away. Embrace your human-ness by keeping your mistakes and building the beat around them. Some of the most original beats were build around glitches or mistakes. This is why Pharrel starts all of his beats on a real live drum kit.

3. If You’re Going to Quantize – Less is More
Try starting with just quantizing the kicks – try to keep as much of the human groove as possible. If you’re going to quantize the snares, try dragging them behind the beat a little bit so they have a bit of shuffle. Try a swing quantize on the hats. All in all try to be as creative as you can with the quantize – less is more.

4. Don’t Tweak Your Sounds Until You’re Pattern Is Finished
Its very tempting to go in right away and start testing different snares or EQing the kick for that perfect boom – but if the beat isn’t written, you’re wasting your time. While you’re doing your building, you want your sounds clean so you can focus on the writing and the performance. Once the beat is banging, then you can go and mess with the sounds.

5. Try Layering Sounds For Originality
If you want your beats to stand out, you’re going to need an original sound. The best way to break out of the standard kits and sounds is by layering them on top of each other. Take two different snares (or kicks), put them on top of each other to create a brand new sound. This is a great way to mix the boom from certain kicks with a sharp attack of others.

All in all, originality in Hip Hop is key. If you can create original drum patterns and original sounds – you’re way ahead of the game. Encourage and embrace your mistakes – capture them and build entire beats around them – they’re what creativity is all about. Experiment with sounds – layer and tweak them to perfection and your hip hop instrumentals will be rocking hard in no time.

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Any debate about the “best rapper” ever is bound to turn into a battle of contrasting opinions motivated not by reason but by loyalty and love for one’s favorite artist. After all, the “best rapper” as a term, is vague and open to debate.

Some might say it’s a rapper’s speed and flow, others will say “rhythm”, while some will point to a rapper’s lyrics, while another group will say that freestyle rap skills are the most defining characteristics of a great rapper.

They all have their valid points. Great freestyle rap skills, for instance, are a delight to listen to. But freestyle rap skills seldom translate to huge record sales, or eternal lyrics that generations listen to. Despite their superlative freestyle skills, MCs like Eyedea and Supernatural haven’t had the kind of success that the likes of Tupac or Eminem have got.

The first thing that an MC can add to his arsenal if he wants to be a great rapper is to have a very unique, trademark voice. Your audience should immediately know who the rapper is when they hear your voice without any need for visual feedback. The best selling, most popular rappers have had a unique voice – think Tupac, Jay-Z, Eminem, or Lil Wayne. You can recognize their voices from among a crowd.

A strong rapper’s voice should be able to convey a host of emotions through just words. Can you, as an MC, convey hate, anger, love, sarcasm, confidence, vulnerability and more through just your voice? An MC whose voice can rap in just one vocal/emotional range is an MC who will always remain a one trick pony.

Moreover, you must be able to convey the emotion that you are singing about with complete honesty. Think of all the angry Eminem songs. Do you believe that he was really waving a gun, cock-eyed, while singing those songs? Of course he wasn’t! He, like an actor, was able to get himself into that mode where he could rap about being angry completely convincingly. This is an essential quality of a rapper: to sound believable, no matter what you say.

While MCs can get away with poor vocal range as compared to R&B stars or classically trained musicians, you must have a resonating singing voice, nevertheless. Practice singing or talking through your chest. A poor voice comes from the throat (hence the term “throaty” to describe a weak voice), while a strong voice comes from deep within the chest. Practicing resonance will really give you the edge when it comes to becoming a great rapper, and lend your voice that unique touch that will help you stand out from a crowd of MCs.

Lil Wayne is one of the most popular rappers among fans and MCs alike. He’s one of the largest selling, most talented artists around and has sold millions and millions of albums. Like any of the top artists such as Jay-Z, Eminem or Kanye, Lil Wayne has a very unique rapping style that can be instantly recognized. For obvious reasons, a lot of aspiring rappers want to be able to rap like him.

To rap like Lil Wayne, you’ll first have to learn to recreate his Southern drawl. If you listen to his tapes closely, you’ll notice how he stretches his syllables. Instead of saying “ya all”, he’ll say “ya aaalll”, putting emphasis on the last syllables. His rhymes often tend to get stretched over the beats.

A key aspect of Lil Wayne rapping style is his vocals. While some rappers like Eminem have great lyrics, some amazing production skills (like Kanye), and some have great flow (Jay-Z, Andre 3000), Lil Wayne has great control over his voice. As a rapper, you are not expected to have the strong vocals of an R&B crooner, but to rap like Lil Wayne, you’ll have to strengthen your vocals.

The easiest way to strengthen your vocals is to perform some vocal exercises that are designed specifically for rappers and not classically trained singers. First, stretch your vocal chords by opening your mouth wide as if you are yawning. Do this 5 times in a row, slowly.

To really get the Lil Wayne sound, you want to add strength and power to your voice. To do this, practice your resonance by humming from below the navel. Your voice should feel as if it is coming from your gut, deep, resonating and powerful. Of course, this is easier said than done and can be very difficult to achieve, particularly while rapping. But if you really want to be able to rap like Lil Wayne, this is an essential step to building the power and strength that Wayne has in his voice.

If you are reading this, chances are, you are either a rapper, or aspiring to become one.

A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that rapping is easy (which it is not). The flow and rhythm involved in rapping can take years to master, and that too if you have the aptitude or the talent for it.

Nevertheless, these are 5 tips every aspiring rapper should keep in mind:

1. Become acquainted with all rap styles: East Coast, West Coast, South. Listen carefully to rappers from with different styles and note their rhythm, flow and lyrical structures. A good ear for different rap styles is probably the number one thing you can have to be a good rapper, and will eventually help you create your own individual style.

2. Invest in a dictionary. While this may not sound very “hip hop”, but a strong vocabulary can really set you apart from dozens of other aspiring rappers. If you don’t know a word, look it up, and learn to use it in appropriate situations. Cleverly rhymed words that depart from the norm are the best weapons in the arsenal of any rapper.

3. Don’t be very strict about your song structure. You don’t have to start from verse to chorus to verse and so on. Experiment with different writing styles, and let the tune come to you naturally in whatever order it appears. If you get the chorus before the verse, or the outro before the chorus, don’t worry about it; the song structure can always be modified and tweaked later on.

4. Record yourself rapping as often as you can. This is the best form of feedback you can get. How you sound in person may be very different from what you sound like in your records.

5. Practice your timing. Rap is all about rhythm, flow and timing. Note how rappers like Eminem will accentuate the the lyric at the end of a beat. Little tricks like this make all the difference and really sets you apart from the crowd. Get a few beats (or make your own) and practice rapping to it using any random words that pop into your mind (it doesn’t have to sound good or professional), varying your timing to see what sounds the best.

There is no expert technical “trickery” involved in becoming a great hip hop beat producer. All you need is talent, and the determination to work hard, and a deep underlying passion for the music. If you have all these three qualities, there is really nothing that can stop you from joining the ranks of Kanye or Dr. Dre as a great hip hop producer.

When you start off on your beat making journey, you might get a little overwhelmed with all the options that you have at your disposal. You can literally do anything with your beats, imparting any flavor or twist you might want to (that’s why it’s a creative and highly rewarding field). Of course, that’s not the way to really go about becoming great at beat making; a far better route would be to pick one style – say East Coast beats – and sticking with it until you learn all the tricks of the trade.

One obvious consideration for any aspiring beat maker is equipment. Too many wanna-be beat producers never let their dream materialize because of some deep belief that you need the best equipment and the most expensive software with the craziest set up to make great beats. This is, of course, untrue. You can start off with a little less than a hundred dollars and make beats that sound more than professional, provided you know what equipment to purchase.

The cheapest, and the easiest option is to purchase a beat making software. This software have been designed specifically to help you make beats and come with a huge library of pre-created beats and loops that you can tweak and modify to impart them your own flavor. Being in 2009 has its advantages; all those veteran beat makers you see on TV didn’t have access to technology like this, otherwise their journey would’ve been a lot smoother. One of the best beat production software out there is Sonic Producer, and is something that you should definitely check out.

The key is to stay focused and dedicated. You might start off with a lot of energy when you want to learn the art of beat making, but fizzle out after a while. Keep practicing, keep making beats with your beat production software, and soon enough, you’ll be an expert too!

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Hip hop culture has spread across the world and in terms of its cultural impact, rivaling rock n roll. Some commentator rightly said that hip hop has become the world’s “local” culture. Just listen to the songs by artists from across the globe to see how they incorporate local issues and cultural values into their music.

Of course, hip hop is not merely a music genre. Its an entire lifestyle with its own lingo, clothing, and well, accessories!

Even as the sales of rap music (all music, for that matter) continue falling every month, the business of hip hop accessories doesn’t see any sign of slowing down at all. The sales of clothing, postures, jewellery, and shoes related to the rap culture, has in fact, become the chief livelihood of many retailers.

Some of the biggest regions of growth in terms of sales of hip hop accessories are not in the US, but in emerging markets like Russia, Latin America, Africa, East Asia, and even the Middle East. China, in fact, is one of the biggest markets for hip hop accessories and clothing today, just a tad behind the United States.

And of course, like the rest of the retail world, some of the biggest growth in this market has been seen online. While the online market still dwarfs physical retail, its growth rate has been envious. Despite the recession, the demand for hip hop accessories hasn’t slowed down at all.