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It was the popularity of electronic dance music and hip hop that made rap music extremely popular. With most dance clubs hiring DJs and emcees, the origin of the club based rap music also became more fast paced with rappers and DJs starting to work together to create innovative and unique rap numbers.

♫ Trace the history of rap music and you will observe the huge influence that the traditional music of Africa and the Caribbean countries has had on rap music. There is also quite an influence of the poetry of Beat poets of the 1960s.

♫ If you listen to rap music, you will on careful observation notice how in the background of spoken song lyrics, there is a music that is made up of drum beats and music from electronic instruments. This music is generally pre-recorded. It is essential that a rapper keep up with the beats of the music played in the background.

♫ It is the DJ at the scene that has the responsibility of choosing a track that is complementary of the lyrics of the rapper’s song. In fact in certain live rapping concerts, DJs often contribute to the song by shouting out live slogans as the singer is singing.

♫ Rhythm is synonymous with rap music and there is a constant beat that rap songs have. It is this beat that accounts for the popularity of rap music in clubs. The rhythm structure of rap music is such that there is a strong bass which is dominant over every other form of instrument played in the background.

♫ While the rhythm and beat of rap music is essential to its basic structure, the strength of rap music lies in its lyrics. Rap songs often can use the same pre-recorded background music but the difference in the lyrics of the song makes them stand apart from each other. It is the lyrics of the songs that makes rap music truly unique. Read the rest of this entry »

Raps songs lay great emphasis on rhyming and therefore a good way to write a rap song is to approach it as if you were writing poetry. Again, the biggest audience for rap songs is the youth and hence you should choose a relevant topic for your song. Personal experiences, social injustice, love or any other inspirational matter in the real world could become the subject of your rap song.

You will have to be a lot more creative while writing lyrics for a rap song. Don’t be rigid or stagnant while writing your phrases, instead try different variations. Keep penning down all your ideas as and when they come to your mind. So that you have options while adding verses to your song. Observing people and happenings in your surroundings, gives good inspiration and ideas which you can incorporate in your lyrics.

Make your chorus short, crisp, funny and catchy. It should also convey the theme and idea behind the song to the listeners. You can let your imagination run wild and come up with the wackiest, cheesiest and the most outrageous phrases using various figures of speech like simile, metaphor, personification and pun. Concentrate on building a solid rhyming scheme within the song as well as the phrases. To help you in getting a fast paced rhythmic pattern for your song, keep adding as many quick-fire rhymes within every verse. Use as much alliteration as you can to add more power to your lyrics. Read the rest of this entry »