Thus, when aspiring rappers talk about getting rap dictionaries to make rhyming a bit “easier”, I naturally balk. A rap dictionary is literally ‘cheating’ in my book. It kills the very soul of the music. It says, “I have no skills or interest in working hard to be a rapper. I just want a quick fix solution that will make me semi-famous”. Such a hack mentality can’t take you very far in the rap game.

Of course, I’m not saying that you need not consult a dictionary at all. A strong vocabulary is, after all, a cornerstone of rap. But for that, I would really recommend a regular dictionary over a rap dictionary. This is for the reason mentioned above, and because rap dictionaries tend to be very genre specific and lack the killer words that can make or break a song.

Most importantly, if you follow the rap dictionary too closely, you will start sounding like the hundreds of other rappers who took the advice of the dictionary. Instead of sounding original and fresh, you will sound like another soldier in an army of rapping clones. Surely you don’t want such a reputation to be associated with you or your art.

The best rhymes involve words that are complicated and are not commonly found in most rap dictionaries. Longer words with more syllables make for great rhymes, but are unfortunately missing in such dictionaries.

Try this out: pick up a dictionary (a regular one) and write down a dozen words you have never even heard before, let alone know the meaning of. Make sure that they are multiple syllable words such as “megalomaniac” or “metamorphosis“. Try to find ryhmes for these words and include them in your song. You will be surprised how the includsion of a few such words can make your song stand out completely.

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Find a Beat to Inspire You. Ever wonder how the pros commencement prose a crack song? 9 era made known of 10 they commence by looking pro beats to inspire them. They are looking pro something with the intention of touches them in way with the intention of inspires and motivates them to enter lyrics to. Everyone has a uncommon taste in composition, so discover a beat with the intention of YOU like and can enter genuinely to. Find something with the intention of instantly grabs you and relates to you. You can discover beats straightforwardly on the internet. Just search Google and Soundclick and you will be guaranteed to discover a beat to enter crack song lyrics to.

Choose a Main Topic. Once you discover a beat with the intention of you aspire to aid, commence thinking of a theme with the intention of goes nicely chicano rap the beat you chose. Remember to point out a theme with the intention of relates chicano rap both YOU and the beat. If you chose a depressing, emotional-sounding beat, at that time pick a theme with the intention of is depressing and emotional and with the intention of you relate chicano rap. If you pick a bash stylishness beat at that time point out a theme with the intention of is significant to the bash vista. Listen to your beat, ask physically could you repeat that? Kind of impression you would like your crack song lyrics to be inflicted with on public, and decide on your foremost theme. Remember with the intention of how you enter crack song lyrics will greatly depend on your theme.

Write Your Hook. A ration of rappers and producers alike discover it preeminent practice to commence a crack song by initially prose the hook. Now with the intention of you be inflicted with your beat and foremost theme selected, you be inflicted with a splendid foundation to commence prose your hook lyrics to.

To explain how to enter crack hooks, I’ve kaput hook-writing down into a hardly any steps with the intention of I be inflicted with found to be very effectual.

Consider these things: Do you aspire the hook to be catchy? Do you aspire it to be deep and emotional? Do you aspire to sing it or crack it made known?

Listen to the hook part of your beat. Vibe chicano rap the beat and start freestyling approximately ideas. Even if your terms aren’t making significance, freestyle to the beat to set up approximately uncommon flows. Experiment and map made known could you repeat that? You like.

Now with the intention of you be inflicted with approximately ideas flowing, commence prose lyrics down. Make a catalog of terms with the intention of you might aspire to incorporate into the hook.

Look by your word catalog as you take note to the beat and commence freestyling approximately extra ideas chicano rap these terms.

Once you occur up chicano rap approximately strong ideas, it could be a skilled perception to quickly confirmation them to think it over which lone sounds the preeminent. Once you’ve resolute, we can move on chicano rap the verses!

Begin Writing the Verses. Now with the intention of the hook is finished, you be inflicted with everything laid made known pro the verses. So how sort out you enter crack song verses?

Start all verse rancid strong in order to develop a connection chicano rap the listener aptly away. A skilled way to sort out this is to commence chicano rap a controversial, funny, bold, or catchy opening line.

Now with the intention of you’ve got the listeners attention, close made known your verses chicano rap content with the intention of is significant to your theme. Rhyme more than solely the continue word in all sentence as you can. Try to aid uncommon tide structures right through as a replacement for of solely sticking to lone the total calculate.

If you are having vex or writer’s check, enter made known a catalog of rhyming terms with the intention of relate to your theme (use a dictionary and thesaurus if necessary) and refer to this catalog to flash ideas.

Just as you ongoing rancid strong, aim the verse lyrics strong too! Make guaranteed you transition into the hook smoothly and close chicano rap a bang!

Practice! Perhaps the generally underrated part of rapping…Practice.

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Its a site dedicated to deciphering the slangs in hip hop, and its absolutely hilarious. This is what happens when Grandpa decides he wants to know what exactly the heck Ice-T is singing about on “99 Problems”.

Anyway, I think such a site/service was sorely needed. Remember that rap has fans throughout the world, many of whom aren’t aware of hip hop slang, and sometimes don’t even have English as their first language. Perhaps sites like UnderstandRap.com will help them decipher rap song meanings and in turn, help artists sell a few more albums. Its super lame, but its also necessary.

What do you guys think?

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One of the best songs on the album, along with “Deja Vu” is “Beautiful”.

“Beautiful” reminds me of “Hailey’s Song”, in that it has a chorus that is sung rather than rap. The lyrics despite being on different subjects, have the same ‘me against the world’ depressive tone.

Here, MM is looking back at his life, his career as a rapper. He contemplates that his rapping career might be over when he sings in the first verse, “but i just cant admit or come to grips the fact that i may be done with rap“. This is Eminem at his best, when he makes himself the target rather than morbid fans, idiotic magazine editors, or his mother.

Clearly, the weight of celebrity has started to sag MM down. He sings, several times on this record, how he would like to just blend in, to not be so conspicuous. He hates himself for being famous, and even more so for not being able to, neither wanting to, give up that fame.

“im not looking for extra attention i just want to be just like you
blend in with the rest of the room”

Eminem is also aware of his own place in rap history. He knows he will be “one tough act to follow”. Most importantly, he wants you, the listener, to walk in his shoes, to see things from his perspective.

“Beautiful”, and Relapse itself, is, in essence, a desperate plea for understanding.

“Beautiful” Lyrics

(Musical intro)
im just so fuckin’ depressed
i just cant seem to get out this slump
if i could just get over this hump
but i need something to pull me out this dump
i took my bruises, took my lumps
fell down and i got right back up
but i need that spark to get psyched back up
and in order for me to pick the mic back up
i don’t know how or why or when
i ended up this position im in
im started to feel distant again
so i decided just to pick this pen
up and try to make an attempt to vent
but i just cant admit
or come to grips the fact that i may be done with rap
i need a new outlet
and i know some shits so hard to swallow
but i cant just sit back and wallow
in my own sorrow but i know one fact
ill be one tough act to follow
one tough act to follow
ill be one tough act to follow
here today gone tomorrow but you’d have to walk a thousand miles

Chorus:
in my shoes, just to see
what its like, to be me
ill be you, lets trade shoes
just to see what it’d be like
to feel your pain, you feel mine
go inside each others minds
just to see what we’d find
look at shit through each others eyes
But don’t let ‘em say you aint beautiful
they can all get fucked just stay true to you
don’t let ‘em say you aint beautiful
they can all get fucked just stay true to you

i think im starting to lose my sense of humor
everything’s so tense and gloom
i almost feel like i gotta check the temperature of the room just as soon as i walk in
its like all eyes on me so i try to avoid any eye contact
cuz if i do that then it opens the door for conversation like i want that
im not looking for extra attention i just want to be just like you
blend in with the rest of the room maybe just point me to the closest restroom
i don’t need no fucking man servant tryin to follow me around and wipe my ass
laugh at every single joke i crack and half of them aint even funny like hahhhhh
“Marshall your so funny man you should be a comedian god damn”
unfortunately i am, i just hide behind the tears of a clown
so why don’t you all sit down
listen to the tale that im about to tell
hell we don’t gotta trade our shoes
and you don’t gotta walk no thousand miles

Chorus:
in my shoes, just to see
what its like, to be me
ill be you, lets trade shoes
just to see what id be like
to feel your pain, you feel mine
go inside each others minds
just to see what we’d find
look at shit through each others eyes
But don’t let ‘em say you aint beautiful
they can all get fucked just stay true to you
don’t let em say you aint beautiful
they can all get fucked just stay true to youuuuu

nobody asked for life to deal us with these bullshit hands we’re dealt
we gotta take these cards ourselves and flip em don’t expect no help
now i could have either just sat on my ass and pissed and moaned
or take this situation in which im placed in and get up and kick my own
i was never the type of kid to wait by the door and pack his bags
and sat on the porch and hope and prayed for a dad to show up who never did
i just wanted to fit in in every single place every school i went
i dreamed of being that cool kid even if it meant acting stupid
and Edna always told me, keep making that face and it’ll get stuck like that
meanwhile im just standing there holding my tongue

Tryna Talk Like Dis *donald duck like vioice*

then i stuck my tongue on that frozen stop sign pole at 8 years old
i learned my lesson then cuz i wasn’t trying to impress my friends no more
but i already told you my whole life story
not just based on my description
cuz where you see it from where your sittin its probably 110% different
i guess we would have to walk a mile in each others shoes at least
what size you wear? i wear tens
lets see if you can fit your feet

Chorus:
in my shoes, just to see
what its like, to be me
ill be you, lets trade shoes
just to see what it’d be like
to feel your pain, you feel mine
go inside each others minds
just to see what we’d find
look at shit through each others eyes
But don’t let em say you aint beautiful
they can all get fucked just stay true to you
don’t let em say you aint beautiful
they can all get fucked just stay true to you
so
don’t let em say you aint beautiful
they can all get fucked just stay true to you
so

(music outro)

Em:
yeah
to my babies
stay strong
daddy will be home soon
and to the rest of the world
god gave you shoes to fit you
so put em on and wear them
be yourself man
be proud of who you are
and even if it sounds corny
don’t ever let anyone tell you you ain’t beautiful

“Beautiful” Video

The video is, just like the songs, Eminem contemplating his life. He’s been a joker for much of his life, but the irony of life is that it often takes a joker to make us see the futility of our actions – namely the pursuit of wealth and fame.

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Now Cracked is pretty unforgiving when it comes to rappers (yes, its the same Cracked that used to be MAD’s ugly competition/step cousin) – just do a search for “rappers” on the site and behold the hilarious rubbing Cracked’s writers have heaped onto hip-hop and music in general.

My favorite on the list? It has to be Ice-T’s, “I got a bitch who’s a man” from the song “99 Problems” (See lyrics), which is just what a misunderstood, out of context rap lyric has to be: short, to the point, and absolutely full of contradictions. To be fair to him though, that song is all about his bitches…

If you haven’t done so already, check out the list…

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One of our favourite websites, Cracked.com ran an article some time (okay – quite some time) back about the most unintentionally gay rap lyrics ever.

You know it’ll be funny when Cracked writes it. And you know it’ll be even funnier when confirmed badasses like 50 Cent sing about “dudes being hot”.

Check out the original Cracked article on 11 most unintentionally gay rap lyrics

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