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Rappers: are you starting enough songs with the chorus?
Of the 18 musical tracks on Get Rich or Die Tryin’ a full 13 of them (72% of the entire album) start with the chorus…
Including smash singles such as Many Men, 21 Questions, even street cult classic like “Heat”.
Many modern trap-pop rappers, the extensive use of these two elements (along with auto-tune) have made their voice other-worldly:
Delay
Reverb
The importance of the recording engineer has increased ten fold since the days of battling in the cypher.
Technology Has Opened Up More Lanes For Rap Voice...
2Pac, DMX, or even Run DMC were so straight up LOUD when they rapped. They learned how to project their rap voice on the streets of Oakland, Yonkers, and Queens.
In 2022 up-and-coming rappers don’t have to do that.
You have to realize that in 2022 and beyond, the best rappers in the world don’t just have “one” rap voice that they stick to.
#KendrickLamar on Family Ties, #JCole on Lights Please... #Drake on "No Friends In The Industry"... so many others
After running YT’s most subscribed channel on How To Rap for almost a decade, we’ve found that the BEST definition for rap flow is this:
Drum Patterns In Word Form.
That’s the big mystery. Rap flow is drum patterns in word form.
One of the easiest rap songwriting secrets for rappers:
Keeping the same words or even melody in a chorus or bridge and simply changing the vocal delivery or voice tone to give it more life and energy.
Look at a track like Joey Badass’ “Devastated”.
On this day 22 years ago, Def Jam kicked off one of my favorite marketing plays of all time:
They dropped the DMX album on 12/21 & the Jay-Z album on 12/28, ensuring they’d have the last #1 album of the 1900s, and the first #1 album of the 2000s.
Both went #1 with ease. RIP X.
Selling out for a record label deal is NOT seen as cool anymore, and so don’t feel like you need to wait for that big name or big label to “put you on” to hustle.