Rap Tutorials: Ink's different Bar Styles

TRADITIONAL STYLE (BEGINNERS STICK TO THIS)

In text battling, there are numerous ways to approach structuring/formatting ur verse. Many writers like to do a straight forward style. Where each line is equal in length. By doing this style you get straight to the punch. This style works well, if you want to just punch. Using this method think of a boxer, who just jabs all night. He is constantly flicking his jab at his opponent. Rarely do you see him attempting to throw haymakers. Just sticks and moves out of the way. This is a very tradional & classic way to write. I will provide you some insight here, some guys love multies, others care more for the technical side of battling. I say as a beginner? screw multies! because they might be awesome for a complex twist on ur verse. But the bread & butter is the set up & punchline itself! Here is a classic style structure.

Ex:

The accomplishments u got? are a hoax! That i'll indeed kill.
theyre so bogus! it makes the footage of bigfoot seem real.

As you can see, this style works very well. I suggest you use this format/structure as a beginner. Focus on making both lines end in the same multi rhyme scheme. I, myself - happen to use this time from time. It has helped many grasp great victories in text. Why do you think i tend to go back to it? It works really nicely, you can always add extra multies to make it more complex. But as i always tout. A Complete well written bar, always beats out a flashy bar laced in multies. Multies aid the flow & build up to the punch. If it hinders it, by just being random multies that have nothing to do with insulting? than its filler which is a negative. You don't want any filler!


REST & PAUSE STYLE. (ADVANCED, INKS STYLE)

This style is a short setup with a longer punchline. If you actually read a verse in this format? it has a natural Pause or resting moment, before you say the punch. This style is only for writers who can write haymakers. If you can't write haymakers, you shouldn't rely on this regularly. It will expose you for your lack of wording. So i do suggest you try this out privately for fun. This is a great way to gauge your ability to word a haymaker. Now it will look staggered or as they say uneven in line length. Whoever says it doesn't flow? is a ignoramus who is terrible at writing themselves. I have use this for years and won numerous belts & tournaments. Alot of the guys on here do not use it. I have seen biggz & traffik use it. I use it alot - i think it gives a very polished sound to your bars. The pause really enhances the effect on the impact of your punch.


EX:

w/ the words? u ain't fly & ur progress rankwise
is slower than a fat tortoise in a race & the rate at which paint dries!
my Dope Scripts are witty. Urs are so atrocious & shitty
That u even make Khloe Kardashian, appear to be Ungross & pretty!


now lets break this down? and show where the Pause is at!

with the words? u ain't fly & ur progress rankwise
is slower than
a fat tortoise in a race & the rate at which paint dries!
my Dope Scripts are witty. Urs are so atrocious & shitty
That u even
make Khloe Kardashian, appear to be Ungross & pretty!

Notice here, the green bolded phrase is the actual Pause in the bar. But if you remove that, the lines are equal in length or close to it, like the classical style. So its more of a flashy way of writing. It does indeed add more OOMPH when you read your bars. It helps alot in live battles too. Its away of really reeling the reader and or listener in. So the key is making your set up really correlate to your punchline. Because when you write in this format, you must make use of that set up, so pause can really have you on the edge of your seat. I'd advise practicing this, but not using this style until you're really good with haymakers. I just notice some people think everything has to line up perfectly to flow fine. This is not true at all, i have proved it time and time again. Everyone says how dope & smooth my flow is. I always use something close to this format.









Edited by INK. - 27 April 2014 at 7:13am

With all due respect this is fuckin' stupid. What you did essentially is explain two basic styles out of the many other possibilities and promoted your own moderately simple version as 'advanced'. I appreciate the effort but this is coming off as half assed and douchey as fuck.

Regardless of what smoothtung was saying I still wanna here what you think of that I asked earlier

OK
thanks for your time

I dont think there is anything to argue... I can see what ink meant
And smooth's perspective was also valid in its own sense..
But the thing is, its just the matter of opinion/preference.