Thursday, April 7, 2011

Freestyle Rapping Made Easy

By Daniel Akinson


Freestyle rapping - the ability to improvise and rap "off the top" of the head, is an important skill that rappers develop early on in their careers. It can make or break an MCs reputation. For example, MC Supernatural has never released a hit song, let a hit record, and is still considered a great rapper based on his freestyle rapping expertise. Let's take a look at how you can improve your freestyles within a matter of weeks.

First Of All, you have to discover yourself to as many various battle styles as potential. Start with ones you see on YouTube, particularly those from JumpOff TV. As you watch these fights, take notes on what the rappers are saying about each other: why do some work better than others? Try to come up with punchlines to apply on the MCs in the combat, and publish rebuttals to what is being said about them. Picture yourself in the battle itself, as you will be in your private battle briefly.

After taking a feel for the unique fight proficiencies, you require to step up your freestyle skills. A dope freestyler can learn to battle quickly, whereas a great trashtalker must first study how to rap (which takes longer). Here's how you may improve your freestyles: write a name of fifteen to 20 words and attempt to freestyle your way through it. If you stumble, no worries... but save rapping your way through the list. Alternatively, you can freestyle about what you see on television, down the street or a series of photgraphs in a room. Sometimes I'll freestyle my way through a room- a trick that gets in handy when on stage.

The more words you know, the better. Reserach 20 interesting words (not evident ones like "bat") and refer a rhyming lexicon to build a list of words that rhyme with it. The next step is to memorize them, so that you will ne'er draw a blank when freestyle rapping. For example, some of my words include lyrically; without yet supposing about I can employ empirically, clear to me, spherically, fear to be, etc. Notice these aren't the same tired phrases you listen on the radio all the time. Make sure you choose initial words and phrases, and have sure to update your number from time to time.

Freestyle rapping is not rocket science. Just grow your lexicon and linked rhymes, practice freestyling and don't give up! Like push ups, it's hard at first, but soon you take the hang of it and begin seeing effects.




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