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How to Write a Hip – Hop Song


How to Write a Hip Hop Song How to Write a Hip   Hop SongThe rhythm and speed together makes the Hip Hop song popular and the main key for this type of music is the fast vocal style of the artist. They speak in a fast speed and introduce a rhyme in the verse. The beats are added with drums or synthesizers and the lyrics generally represent themes like drugs, girls, love, guns, money, cars and many other issues. When you want to write Hip Hop songs – you need to follow a few simple steps and you will soon discipline yourself to become a great song writer. The steps are –

  1. You must have a book or a journal that holds all your songs and thoughts that can later bloom into a song. You must keep your mind free of all inhibitions of writing song while studying or watching a movie. You must keep this journal ready to jot down your goals and some other serious quotations that can boost you to take this song writing seriously. This book will help you to keep you in the track which ends in making a writer out of you.
  2. Write a song or a verse or even a line everyday. It does not matter if it is not a very good song but you must write down the song which has given you some hours of restlessness. If you continue writing down the songs each day – you get into a set of mind and a practice of song writing – which becomes a habit after a few months.
  3. You must have a story line in your mind about anything that has happened and when you have written down the story you must think of the beats or the rhythm that you would like to enhance the song with. The song is a mixture of good lyrics and music, so you must find the right type of beats for the story that reaches out to the listeners to make them enjoy the Hip Hop music.
  4. To develop a personal style – you need to find out the type of Hip Hop you like and the stories or type of song you feel comfortable in expressing the feelings that you have. You keep a track of the songs of others and make improvisations in your song as per the songs written by others. This does not mean you steal the songs of others but you can get the idea to develop the song from a new idea to a complete song. These are lessens that make your base as a song writer stronger.
  5. The song has a structure and you must have the details of the structure generally followed while writing the songs. You must have an introduction, a verse and then a hook and an outro in the song and you need to keep this structure in mind while writing the song as this is the main structure on which the song develops. Stay in touch with the real world happenings and base your songs on the simple life of people of the country. You will be the favorite of the general people as you keep on inventing a style and source of inspiration from your experience.

You must keep in mind that you need to know the rules. Again more than rules for any art – the people find the artist more acceptable if the art or the song touches the reality of everyday life.

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