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Table of contents
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Child pages
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Related pages
- Rhymecraft - Rap/Poem-creation tool
Forums
- Lil Wayne HQ - http://www.lilwaynehq.com/forums/
Books
- Lyrics
- Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
- This is by an English professor, so I wouldn't expect much from this book.
- The Complete MC ← Website is dead.
- How to Rap
- This series seems like it's probably the most legit of those in this list, but Vol. 1 covers the entire process of rapping, so the process of writing lyrics only takes up a fraction of the book.
- How to Rap 2: Advanced Flow and Delivery Techniques
- This seems like probably the most-useful book of the books in this list.
- How to Rhyme Vol. 1
- Seems useless. There's no table of contents, the rating is 3.5 stars with 39 reviews, the book just looks shoddily put-together.
- How to Rhyme Vol. 2
- Seems useless for the same reasons as with Vol. 1.
- The Rap Rebirth Lyricist Guide: How to Write Amazing Hip-Hop Lyrics
- 16 reviews, 4.5 stars, but the sample was pure fluff, and the samples on the author's website are not good.
- The Rapping Manual
- This is a song by the author, so I wouldn't expect much from this book.
- Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
- Beats / Melodies
- Books about different rap songs' lyrics, but not exactly a 'how-to' for writing lyrics:
- Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
- Decoded by Jay-Z
- The book consists of lyrics "decoded," where Jay-Z explains both where the song ideas came from and the way all the lyrics are connected to each other, as well as portions of his real-world story
- Rap-Up: The Ultimate Guide to Hip-Hop and R&B
- This is just a simple history of hip-hop.
- Not rap, but related:
Rap-analysis websites
- http://www.rapanalysis.com/
- https://genius.com/posts/1669-The-rapper-s-flow-encyclopedia
- https://genius.com/posts/1610-How-to-listen-to-kendrick-s-backseat-freestyle
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Anderson Cooper: I've heard you say that you bend the word.
Marshall Mathers: Yeah, it's just in the enunciation of it; like, people say that the word "orange" doesn't rhyme with anything, and that kind of pisses me off, because I can think of a lot of things that rhyme with orange.
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MM: If you're taking the word at face value and you just say "orange", nothing is going to rhyme with it exactly. If you enunciate it and make it more than one syllable, "o-range", you could say, like, I put my orange four-inch door-hinge in storage and ate porridge with Geor-ridge. You just have to figure out the science to breaking down words.
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Narration: His words are stored but they're not exactly locked away. He actually keeps them in boxes.
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Nar: Inside are hundreds of scraps of paper on which he's obsessively scrawled words and phrases.
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Nar: They're not lyrics, really, they're just ideas that he collects. He calls it "stacking ammo".
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Good Amateur / Underground Rappers
- Andrew hartman - Good flows, but half-nonsensical lyrical myricals, and they're trying to use a persona that doesn't fit with their likely upbringing.