Elevation Centre: writing to a beat

ok so im not as active on here as id like to be but anyway imma try and write more and stop smokin

Ill try n help you a bit more.. this is a lot for beginners, and im assuming you are so try this out..

Telling people what you can and cannot teach says more about your teaching ability and skill than it does for ours. And you still refer to a bar as if it were 2 lines. That's mistaken text rapper terminology.

Think up the flow, THEN write to that flow and do not sacrifice the flow for anything. Never. Anyone can write a "hot" verse that does not flow cause all you're constrained by is the rhyme. When you have to work within the margins of a rhyme scheme AND flow. Syllable number is way more important than you text people have shown. A bar of music is a bar of rap, and a line of rap longer than a bar of music does not work. The only exception is when there is a short line followed by a longer one.

You can have a 12 syllable line and a 12 syllable line in a couplet

or

a 7 syllable line followed by a 17 syllable line


The numbers are not exact, as there can be some leeway and this is an example. However, as long as a couplet (which text heads call bars) fits in the 2 measures (which is a real bar), the bar lengths can be ignored.

Jadakiss wrote: And, I don't know you. But I know a man becomes a man from all the shit that he go through Ya'll ain't fuckin with Jason After I cash in, it's really no justification

Other than shit like that, keep the syllable count reasonable. you people have stupid long lines in your writtens. You can't rap that even though you all say you do. Spit it out loud and see if you can do it taking regular breaths. If you can't, reword the phrasing.

You people sacrifice flow for content not worth sacrificing flow for.

Never understood how people couldn't catch the rhythm to a beat... Common sense... And I couldn't teach it effectively over the internet anyway... Has to be learned from example... Listen to your favorite rapper and follow his pattern so you get the correct feel of what is "on tempo" is my only advice.