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Okay. So, for everybody who's just learning about how to write lyrics for hip hop, one
of the first things you want to do is to actually listen to other rappers, especially old school
rappers, because by practicing, it's almost like tracing over somebody else's picture
and learning to draw.
Then you kind of get an idea of shapes and size and how to do certain things that you
just may not be able to do yourself. And then, from learning how that person did it, then
you can do your own.
Another way to write lyrics is once you've learned how the cadence works, because that's
the hardest part about rap, is the cadence in which to flow on the beat, but I like to
also study literary devices. Literary devices are tools that you use to convey what it is
that you may want to say in a cool, slick, and creative way.
So, one popular literary device is a metaphor. And what a metaphor is is comparing one thing
to something else without using "like" or "as". For example, you can say something like,
"I'm sicker than an AIDS patient." Sick, in hip hop, means very good. So, that is a way
of using literary devices in a rap song.
If you study literary devices and you study the old school rappers, or rappers that you
like today, modern rappers of today, you can discover how to write rap lyrics.