Him and Larry Flynt... that'd be EPIC. Tons of hot sluts, and epic white-man wheelchair rap battles. My brain just imploded with the potential awesomeness. And no doubt Wheelz would get laid. Win. Win.
Let's break down writing lyrics (I'm just going basic, don't mean to be condescending). The first thing people look for is external rhymes -- the ones that come at the end of lines. These are basically common across all genres of music, but an abundance of them usually let people know it's a rap song. However, good rappers will add internal rhymes to enhance the auditory experience/show off. Contrast: Basic line. Swag. Next, you want to look at the length of your bars. An inexperienced rapper might strictly use pentameter, or hexameter, because they're afraid if they change the length of the lines they're going to lose the rhythm. A good rapper -- even one whose lyrics don't really mean anything -- will be able to ride a beat with so many different flows (this one for this song, the next one I switch it up, this one will get bit up), or one perfect flow, that it still sounds good. Even when they're not saying shit. Hand in hand with that goes cadence. Understanding language to the point where different sets of words have different effects. In poetry terms, this is the meter. While iambic pentameter sounds good in Shakespeare, your mileage may vary with it in rap. You might want to use dactyls. Or spondees. Contrast: Which is a terrible line I just wrote, with: Which looks stupid written but sounds dope when spoken thanks to the cadence. Which I believe is dacytlic, but what the fuck do I know? After you've mastered all those, it's time to add imagery! You want to make your lyrics pop, don't you? There's a world of difference between saying, "I'll shoot you and you'll bleed to death" and "you'll be on the ground trying to sweep your stomach back into your body." After you've done ALL of that, it's time for wordplay. I posted this in another drunk thread because I just got it, but honestly, how many non-rapping fans would get a line like: I'll wait. NOW. You've written your lyrics, and they're awesome. But you have to project properly. Then you have to breath properly so the words don't get aerated. Then you have to convey their meaning via intonation. And so on, and so forth. Did I overly break it down? Yes. Do a lot of rappers suck and ignore all of this? Yes. But even middling rappers do a lot of this stuff really well, and you can't appreciate it unless you know what they're doing. Does this answer any questions?
Guess I should have mentioned that I liked it so much because I DO like funk. My dad used to play The Parliament driving me to school, so Bootsy is someone I'm pretty familiar with. I've basically been ridiculed by every group of people out there for my tastes in music. My black friends laugh because I'm always about two months too late to what's good with current hip hop, my white friends think I'm lame because I don't like their screamo shit (I'll take Minus the Bear/Black Keys/old Kings of Leon/etc over that shit any day of the week), my country friends bag on me because I hate that Jason Aldean/Rascal Flatts shit (Give me Old Crow Medicine Show/Brooks and Dunn/David Ball) and then everyone else piles on because my CD collection in my car is filled with Sam Cooke/Sinatra. I just re-read that paragraph and holy shit I'm a douchebag. Ah well.
This video is especially funny if you watch a lot of rap battles, because nowadays, people bring like 12 friends who have the specific job of hyping up stupid lines. If any of you are actually interested in good battles, I could get you started.
Fucking eh it's a bunch of rap nerds. You fuckers can nerd up anything. You're like the rap version of oenophiles.
Ahh do I miss the days of G-funk. Now they just bite any pop song out there and Eminem does a fucking track with Bruno Mars and it's a hit. There are three major musicians that reside in Cincy, luckily one of them is Bootsy.
It answers some, and brings up a whole bunch more. So as long as I can make words rhyme, I can be an awesome rapper, even though I am speaking complete gibberish?
I'm too introspective when drunk. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/12249821/introspective-downer" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/1224982 ... ive-downer</a>
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