i’ma start off with a little
that’s okay guys good yeah then the
light is time for introspection getting
many lessons flow stretching the Celtics
needed for rent protection in this do
for a session every week it’s an
obsession lyrical weapon killer kid
dreams contraception turn the beat of
some asphalt pitch to record labels with
the Verlander fastball send it up and
then I hope the dude got a glass jaw
you wait for an ass call I’m taking the
mask off I feel like a villain is such a
happy fill and broke his happy
Miller head it’s like a crappy ceiling
caving in with every track he killed a
wicked stick it to niggas breaking bones
with the stones another scone getting
his cover blown my mother’s home Jesse
right there I miss her I miss her as
casually I get work I Spit verbs so she
could live half believe my wrists hurt
my fists burn punchlines hot is dope
bars colliding with your face your
vision turn kaleidoscope chief on the
map already bigger than Monaco savvy
savage scribble and Shakespearean
sonnets so simple with the syllable
slipping in the subliminal assemble in
the sentences feel like a smooth
criminal yes from a song I wrote called
miles I’m rappin for six years I’ve been
pretty good at rapping for about one and
I’ve just been picking up a lot I’ve
been learning a lot and I’ve been a
paying real close attention to what I’ve
learned MF DOOM and me goes and young
thug and audre mm is that I’ve been
listening to in order to perfect my
craft I’ve been trying to figure out how
they mastered their techniques and I’ve
learned a lot from them and I just want
to share with you guys some of the
things that I have learned most
importantly that rap is much more
complex than you think
a lot of people don’t like rapping for a
lot of different reasons it’s dumb and
it’s uninspired nough stood up substance
it’s violent and it’s over sexualized
and it boasts the promotion of material
goods and the objectification of women
it all sounds the same and that’s
probably my favorite one whenever
somebody says that near me or to me I
gotta ask him oh how long did it take
like what are you talking about I say
well you must have listened to every rap
song every creator to come to that
conclusion that all rap sounds the same
right
the thing about rap is that it’s
borderline criminal to confine its
merits and subject matter so what you
hear on the radio or when you walk past
your parents home or walk past your and
it’s borderline criminal to confine the
merits and subject matter of rap to what
you hear on the radio a few times or
what you hear when you walk past your
son or daughter’s room because you know
we play some crazy stuff rap should not
be generalized the three pillars of rap
music is the guys on my shirt D’Amico’s
yeah lyricism flow and delivery when
weaves together on the track these three
things make a song incredible but the
important thing about them is that they
can exist independently of each other
which means that there’s some rappers
out there who make good music who are
only good at two or even one of these
things so I’m gonna evaluate them
independently I’m gonna start with
lyricism which is my favorite one
and also my forte is a rapper before I
start I should reference that out I’m
gonna be talking about the Billboard Hot
100 chart so a few of the songs that I
play later or I’m gonna mention their
positioning on the track on the
Billboard Hot 100 sharp it’s essentially
a popularity ranking based on Nielsen
music data and online music sales so I’m
gonna start with lyricism this is a
candy but she’s one of the best nurses
of all time lyricism is the vocabulary
it’s the word choice the rapper it’s the
literal meat of a song I think it’s the
most difficult one to master because
thing about rap is that everything that
you could possibly say as a rapper has
already been said by somebody else
everything so stories and ideas are
retold they’re repackaged redistributed
countless times so the challenge is to
say things in a way that they’ve never
been said before and that’s what you do
with your words
so there are some rappers who have made
their marks in the game with expansive
vocabularies and
diction and the wordplay that makes you
want to rewind the track all the way to
beginning to hear the entire thing over
again and that’s what I like doing with
my music lyricism it compels you to
listen for things like that for the word
play for the vivid imagery but it also
gives you a little bit of a mirror into
the rapper’s mind and how they use
language to craft their ideas whether
those ideas are meaningful or
meaningless and conversely there are
some rappers you don’t particularly care
about lyricism this is our first song
stupid ho
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
okay so Nikki ends his verse with I wish
I wish I wish I wish I wish a bitch
would and that’s not important because
you know repetition is she wants us to
know that she wishes the bitch wouldn’t
I think we all we got that right my
favorite part about this verse is that
at the end instead of four more bars
there’s there’s room for four lines of
rap music after this but she extends a
word Wood for ten whole seconds which
allows her to segue into the chorus
which is her saying stupid hoe over and
over again coordinate my account is
unofficial completely but 46 times it’s
how many tops is that stupid hoe
throughout this entire song it’s not a
lyrical song in any regard really
there’s not much to analyze about it
either that was it
in 2012 a peaked at number 59 on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart it’s lyrical
significance is cursory and that’s not
really an insult it’s just the fact
there was not much else to this song
next up is woe by Earl Sweatshirt which
is much different
[Music]
stick long Wars Swift this talky Jim
from his wrist launcher chick chronic
thrift shopping stick like the Knicks
Rasta stormed off he came straight back
like pigs pasta probably written with
some few syringes for my rubbish bin
that’s a local loony clinic watching
movies in a room full of quick thought
out right back like a rock fifth spot
Amana rockets watching dollars in for
rocket link the la boîte is sick in
that accomplice blocks it there’s a lot
to unpack with this verse I can only go
through a few lines but I definitely
could do it for every single line the
first line of one of my favorites known
as sitting washes sins off at the pitch
altar so that’s a play on words with two
different spellings with the word altar
al ter and alt a are with one spelling
it’s a reference to how Christians kneel
and confess their sins the altar with
another spelling alt er to referenced
how on Earl songs he washes away his
sins or expresses his evil thoughts on
songs where he alters the pitch of his
voice to make a lower and more sinister
sounding hat never backwards like the
print off legit manga so if for those
video no manga is written right to left
which we in the Western world considered
backwards because we read left to right
so his hat as never backwards like Mongo
stormed off and came straight back like
pigs posture like fixed posture that’s
just a really clever line like a
straight somebody straight back like a
an erect standing person like came
straight back like fixed posture my
favorite one probably written with some
used syringes for mouth the rubbish bin
at your local loony clinic so every
rapper ever has said my bars are sick my
bars are crazy I’ve done it more times
than I’m willing to admit like it’s a
very common theme in rap music but
instead Earl says that his writing
utensil of choice is a used syringe from
an it’s
asylum so he’s literally writing with
traces of sickness and insanity instead
of ink like the visuals he creates and
his music are unreal and that’s why he’s
probably my favorite rapper right now
but uh regardless of how good of rappers
lyricism is their punchlines that word
play it’s nothing without flow the words
have to rhyme well this is one of the
best one of the pioneers of flow of rap
music
b.i.g flow is defined as a song strives
in rhyme schemes and how they interact
with each other I used to be very basic
and simple but now it’s really evolved
as rapid progress they’re slow flows
there quick flows there are frenetic
flows and choppy flows smooth flow
lazy flows rappers used to only rhyme
lines used to only rhyme the syllable at
the end of each line now they’re rappers
who rhyme multiple lines in each line
those are called multi syllabic rhymes
or multis lyricism draws the listeners
in but flow keeps their intention you’ve
got to be engaged and you’re what keeps
your attention is the the variety of
flows I guess the the rhyme schemes and
how they’re used throughout a song and
how they just are very interesting to
note the unofficial requirement for flow
is that you have to rhyme and that’s
really it you can develop as many as you
want but you have to rhyme so here’s
scorn by Playboy car
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
the lyrics note that I said that all you
have to do to develop a flow is to write
more words but repeating the same words
over and over again is now right
it’s just lazy writing flow has the
potential to be much more intricate than
this kendrick lamar’s verse on that part
is a great example
[Music]
Cheston BP on the videos desam jay-z in
a blue dress relate me to your blues
best can heat me a remote your death
from HD cousin photos F my AC and
he’s got a dead hold your breath
for eight feet when I own this tech
protect me from the local threats my IDs
and my I don’t rest my feet qualify
t-rex society kept my IQ facts denied me
from my V school applying me to the
street I slept by quietly has to hold
this tool reminded me of the black I
read the turf I stepped the church in
the roof I blessed the first I guessed
alert was the bloke I shoved ear hurts
to throat were perks of appeal confess
disbursed the worst the first 48 address
to search and loss of personal profile
next up are the curse of opposes
sisterhood the front the pain to reverse
what’s left me no gun was sick okay you
kidding yeah so most songs a lot of
songs now contain one or two rhymes this
excerpt alone contains four in the
entire song this entire verse I mean
contains seven sonically unpredictable
but each of these rhymes there for a
reason it’s not accidental at all and my
favorite part about this verse is how
Kendrick never forgets a rhyme he always
brings it back he’ll start a new one you
know one or two lines focus on one rhyme
then he’ll introduce a new line but also
reincorporate one of the old rhymes to
have for going on at the same exact time
it’s crazy flow is very close related to
my next pillar delivery which is how a
rapper sounds their tome their
inflection their pronunciation there’s
some rappers some rappers like Drake and
ASAP Rocky who have very smooth voices
they’re very easy to listen to there are
other rappers like lil yachty and Kodak
black who have more distinct voices more
of acquired tastes the cool thing about
deliveries that accent speech
impediments and even heavy drug use in
some instances is enough to make a
rapper’s voice very distinct the
unofficial requirement for delivery is
that you have to understand what the
rapper is saying here’s Panda by
designer
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
so the reason I didn’t include the
lyrics in that video or on this slide is
because I want everybody to feel the
same level of confusion I don’t have
much to say about this song but his
pronunciation is very bad but at the
same time the beat is dope the cadence
of his voice is crazy and the ad-libs
are hype enough to make me want to rob a
bank and apparently people didn’t really
care that they couldn’t carry the words
because it reached number one on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2016 stayed
there for two weeks when you come across
a rapper whose delivery is incredible
even masterful then you can really tell
here’s Eminem on the way I am
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
few notes I’m sure you notice a distinct
pattern there
that’s called an empathic to traveler
I’m not sure if Eminem knew exactly what
he was doing when he was writing the
song but it’s a traditional poetic style
characterized by two unstressed
syllables followed by a stress I sit
back with this pack of zigzags this
accentuates the song’s tone like it’s a
very somber jolting song the lyrics are
syncopated which means that he’s rapping
purposefully offbeat to create an
off-kilter tone with the song he jokes
between calmness and aggravation which
is aided by this tetrameter and as the
verse progresses his voice gets angrier
and more intense sounding which
heightens needs the songs intensity so a
few quick thoughts before I go rap isn’t
a monolith they’re rappers out there
with expansive vocabularies and
ridiculous flows and exotic deliveries
and I can attest that personally because
I’ve had more success in this past year
rapping because I’ve learned from them
more success than I ever thought I would
ever have if you evaluate rap on a song
by song basis instead of making sweeping
generalizations based on the one or two
or even more songs than you’ve heard on
the radio or other platforms designed to
push profit over substance then you’re
gonna have a much more enjoyable and
productive time listening to rap music
this is my favorite genre and this is
why I believe in it
so if you haven’t found the rap left for
you if you don’t think there’s any rap
suitable for you I guarantee you it is
there it’s been there for a very long
time and it will continue to be there so
go find thank you
[Applause]
that’s okay guys good yeah then the
light is time for introspection getting
many lessons flow stretching the Celtics
needed for rent protection in this do
for a session every week it’s an
obsession lyrical weapon killer kid
dreams contraception turn the beat of
some asphalt pitch to record labels with
the Verlander fastball send it up and
then I hope the dude got a glass jaw
you wait for an ass call I’m taking the
mask off I feel like a villain is such a
happy fill and broke his happy
Miller head it’s like a crappy ceiling
caving in with every track he killed a
wicked stick it to niggas breaking bones
with the stones another scone getting
his cover blown my mother’s home Jesse
right there I miss her I miss her as
casually I get work I Spit verbs so she
could live half believe my wrists hurt
my fists burn punchlines hot is dope
bars colliding with your face your
vision turn kaleidoscope chief on the
map already bigger than Monaco savvy
savage scribble and Shakespearean
sonnets so simple with the syllable
slipping in the subliminal assemble in
the sentences feel like a smooth
criminal yes from a song I wrote called
miles I’m rappin for six years I’ve been
pretty good at rapping for about one and
I’ve just been picking up a lot I’ve
been learning a lot and I’ve been a
paying real close attention to what I’ve
learned MF DOOM and me goes and young
thug and audre mm is that I’ve been
listening to in order to perfect my
craft I’ve been trying to figure out how
they mastered their techniques and I’ve
learned a lot from them and I just want
to share with you guys some of the
things that I have learned most
importantly that rap is much more
complex than you think
a lot of people don’t like rapping for a
lot of different reasons it’s dumb and
it’s uninspired nough stood up substance
it’s violent and it’s over sexualized
and it boasts the promotion of material
goods and the objectification of women
it all sounds the same and that’s
probably my favorite one whenever
somebody says that near me or to me I
gotta ask him oh how long did it take
like what are you talking about I say
well you must have listened to every rap
song every creator to come to that
conclusion that all rap sounds the same
right
the thing about rap is that it’s
borderline criminal to confine its
merits and subject matter so what you
hear on the radio or when you walk past
your parents home or walk past your and
it’s borderline criminal to confine the
merits and subject matter of rap to what
you hear on the radio a few times or
what you hear when you walk past your
son or daughter’s room because you know
we play some crazy stuff rap should not
be generalized the three pillars of rap
music is the guys on my shirt D’Amico’s
yeah lyricism flow and delivery when
weaves together on the track these three
things make a song incredible but the
important thing about them is that they
can exist independently of each other
which means that there’s some rappers
out there who make good music who are
only good at two or even one of these
things so I’m gonna evaluate them
independently I’m gonna start with
lyricism which is my favorite one
and also my forte is a rapper before I
start I should reference that out I’m
gonna be talking about the Billboard Hot
100 chart so a few of the songs that I
play later or I’m gonna mention their
positioning on the track on the
Billboard Hot 100 sharp it’s essentially
a popularity ranking based on Nielsen
music data and online music sales so I’m
gonna start with lyricism this is a
candy but she’s one of the best nurses
of all time lyricism is the vocabulary
it’s the word choice the rapper it’s the
literal meat of a song I think it’s the
most difficult one to master because
thing about rap is that everything that
you could possibly say as a rapper has
already been said by somebody else
everything so stories and ideas are
retold they’re repackaged redistributed
countless times so the challenge is to
say things in a way that they’ve never
been said before and that’s what you do
with your words
so there are some rappers who have made
their marks in the game with expansive
vocabularies and
diction and the wordplay that makes you
want to rewind the track all the way to
beginning to hear the entire thing over
again and that’s what I like doing with
my music lyricism it compels you to
listen for things like that for the word
play for the vivid imagery but it also
gives you a little bit of a mirror into
the rapper’s mind and how they use
language to craft their ideas whether
those ideas are meaningful or
meaningless and conversely there are
some rappers you don’t particularly care
about lyricism this is our first song
stupid ho
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
okay so Nikki ends his verse with I wish
I wish I wish I wish I wish a bitch
would and that’s not important because
you know repetition is she wants us to
know that she wishes the bitch wouldn’t
I think we all we got that right my
favorite part about this verse is that
at the end instead of four more bars
there’s there’s room for four lines of
rap music after this but she extends a
word Wood for ten whole seconds which
allows her to segue into the chorus
which is her saying stupid hoe over and
over again coordinate my account is
unofficial completely but 46 times it’s
how many tops is that stupid hoe
throughout this entire song it’s not a
lyrical song in any regard really
there’s not much to analyze about it
either that was it
in 2012 a peaked at number 59 on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart it’s lyrical
significance is cursory and that’s not
really an insult it’s just the fact
there was not much else to this song
next up is woe by Earl Sweatshirt which
is much different
[Music]
stick long Wars Swift this talky Jim
from his wrist launcher chick chronic
thrift shopping stick like the Knicks
Rasta stormed off he came straight back
like pigs pasta probably written with
some few syringes for my rubbish bin
that’s a local loony clinic watching
movies in a room full of quick thought
out right back like a rock fifth spot
Amana rockets watching dollars in for
rocket link the la boîte is sick in
that accomplice blocks it there’s a lot
to unpack with this verse I can only go
through a few lines but I definitely
could do it for every single line the
first line of one of my favorites known
as sitting washes sins off at the pitch
altar so that’s a play on words with two
different spellings with the word altar
al ter and alt a are with one spelling
it’s a reference to how Christians kneel
and confess their sins the altar with
another spelling alt er to referenced
how on Earl songs he washes away his
sins or expresses his evil thoughts on
songs where he alters the pitch of his
voice to make a lower and more sinister
sounding hat never backwards like the
print off legit manga so if for those
video no manga is written right to left
which we in the Western world considered
backwards because we read left to right
so his hat as never backwards like Mongo
stormed off and came straight back like
pigs posture like fixed posture that’s
just a really clever line like a
straight somebody straight back like a
an erect standing person like came
straight back like fixed posture my
favorite one probably written with some
used syringes for mouth the rubbish bin
at your local loony clinic so every
rapper ever has said my bars are sick my
bars are crazy I’ve done it more times
than I’m willing to admit like it’s a
very common theme in rap music but
instead Earl says that his writing
utensil of choice is a used syringe from
an it’s
asylum so he’s literally writing with
traces of sickness and insanity instead
of ink like the visuals he creates and
his music are unreal and that’s why he’s
probably my favorite rapper right now
but uh regardless of how good of rappers
lyricism is their punchlines that word
play it’s nothing without flow the words
have to rhyme well this is one of the
best one of the pioneers of flow of rap
music
b.i.g flow is defined as a song strives
in rhyme schemes and how they interact
with each other I used to be very basic
and simple but now it’s really evolved
as rapid progress they’re slow flows
there quick flows there are frenetic
flows and choppy flows smooth flow
lazy flows rappers used to only rhyme
lines used to only rhyme the syllable at
the end of each line now they’re rappers
who rhyme multiple lines in each line
those are called multi syllabic rhymes
or multis lyricism draws the listeners
in but flow keeps their intention you’ve
got to be engaged and you’re what keeps
your attention is the the variety of
flows I guess the the rhyme schemes and
how they’re used throughout a song and
how they just are very interesting to
note the unofficial requirement for flow
is that you have to rhyme and that’s
really it you can develop as many as you
want but you have to rhyme so here’s
scorn by Playboy car
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
the lyrics note that I said that all you
have to do to develop a flow is to write
more words but repeating the same words
over and over again is now right
it’s just lazy writing flow has the
potential to be much more intricate than
this kendrick lamar’s verse on that part
is a great example
[Music]
Cheston BP on the videos desam jay-z in
a blue dress relate me to your blues
best can heat me a remote your death
from HD cousin photos F my AC and
he’s got a dead hold your breath
for eight feet when I own this tech
protect me from the local threats my IDs
and my I don’t rest my feet qualify
t-rex society kept my IQ facts denied me
from my V school applying me to the
street I slept by quietly has to hold
this tool reminded me of the black I
read the turf I stepped the church in
the roof I blessed the first I guessed
alert was the bloke I shoved ear hurts
to throat were perks of appeal confess
disbursed the worst the first 48 address
to search and loss of personal profile
next up are the curse of opposes
sisterhood the front the pain to reverse
what’s left me no gun was sick okay you
kidding yeah so most songs a lot of
songs now contain one or two rhymes this
excerpt alone contains four in the
entire song this entire verse I mean
contains seven sonically unpredictable
but each of these rhymes there for a
reason it’s not accidental at all and my
favorite part about this verse is how
Kendrick never forgets a rhyme he always
brings it back he’ll start a new one you
know one or two lines focus on one rhyme
then he’ll introduce a new line but also
reincorporate one of the old rhymes to
have for going on at the same exact time
it’s crazy flow is very close related to
my next pillar delivery which is how a
rapper sounds their tome their
inflection their pronunciation there’s
some rappers some rappers like Drake and
ASAP Rocky who have very smooth voices
they’re very easy to listen to there are
other rappers like lil yachty and Kodak
black who have more distinct voices more
of acquired tastes the cool thing about
deliveries that accent speech
impediments and even heavy drug use in
some instances is enough to make a
rapper’s voice very distinct the
unofficial requirement for delivery is
that you have to understand what the
rapper is saying here’s Panda by
designer
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
so the reason I didn’t include the
lyrics in that video or on this slide is
because I want everybody to feel the
same level of confusion I don’t have
much to say about this song but his
pronunciation is very bad but at the
same time the beat is dope the cadence
of his voice is crazy and the ad-libs
are hype enough to make me want to rob a
bank and apparently people didn’t really
care that they couldn’t carry the words
because it reached number one on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2016 stayed
there for two weeks when you come across
a rapper whose delivery is incredible
even masterful then you can really tell
here’s Eminem on the way I am
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
few notes I’m sure you notice a distinct
pattern there
that’s called an empathic to traveler
I’m not sure if Eminem knew exactly what
he was doing when he was writing the
song but it’s a traditional poetic style
characterized by two unstressed
syllables followed by a stress I sit
back with this pack of zigzags this
accentuates the song’s tone like it’s a
very somber jolting song the lyrics are
syncopated which means that he’s rapping
purposefully offbeat to create an
off-kilter tone with the song he jokes
between calmness and aggravation which
is aided by this tetrameter and as the
verse progresses his voice gets angrier
and more intense sounding which
heightens needs the songs intensity so a
few quick thoughts before I go rap isn’t
a monolith they’re rappers out there
with expansive vocabularies and
ridiculous flows and exotic deliveries
and I can attest that personally because
I’ve had more success in this past year
rapping because I’ve learned from them
more success than I ever thought I would
ever have if you evaluate rap on a song
by song basis instead of making sweeping
generalizations based on the one or two
or even more songs than you’ve heard on
the radio or other platforms designed to
push profit over substance then you’re
gonna have a much more enjoyable and
productive time listening to rap music
this is my favorite genre and this is
why I believe in it
so if you haven’t found the rap left for
you if you don’t think there’s any rap
suitable for you I guarantee you it is
there it’s been there for a very long
time and it will continue to be there so
go find thank you
[Applause]
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