|
Even posting this is the single most embarrassing thing I've ever done. This is prime 13-year-old-on-r/AskReddit / GBS post in 2005 stuff. Jesus Christ what am I doing. That being said, rapping to a beat is hard. I'm good at acapella freestyle, but as soon as there's a beat it's like it trips something in my brain and everything goes to pieces. I'm not sure if this is an ADHD thing where it's a distraction that overrides everything, or whether it's me being the most rhythmless man in human history, but here we are. Talking to people on the British battle rap scene hasn't helped because that's all acapella, so I'm hoping that, in the middle of the well-deserved bullying this thread will generate, there'll be a couple of actually useful tips on how to get my broken brain to do this thing.
|
#
?
Jan 12, 2022 14:00
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 28, 2024 02:04 |
|
|
Op are you unable to rap along with songs that you are listening to or is this more of an 8 mile type of problem…?
|
|
#
?
Jan 12, 2022 14:13
|
|
|
Much more 8-Mile - I can cope when it's lyrics/a song I know, but trying to find A Random Beat to rap to just absolutely sends my mind blank.
|
|
#
?
Jan 12, 2022 14:33
|
|
|
there are many distinguished rap minds in this forum but we need to know what we’re dealing with. can you post some vocaroos or YouTube’s of yourself so we can begin to analyze?
|
|
#
?
Jan 12, 2022 14:48
|
|
|
It's like dancing OP. If you were born to a culturally white family its simply not ever going to happen. This is why Drake still raps like he's telling mom someone pushed him over despite having had a music career for like 15 years.
|
|
#
?
Jan 12, 2022 18:02
|
|
|
recording and sharing music is for fools but anyone can come up with some improv rhymes and words if you just listen to a beat long enough with no lyrics, even in just longass songs with big instrumental parts if theres enough rhythm just pick a cadence and keep saying stuff to fit it in
|
|
#
?
Jan 12, 2022 18:13
|
|
|
you get weird when the beat comes on because you're looking for the 'right way' to go at it. there isn't one, you gotta make choices. the first choice you made is caring about the beat and not going all chuck d on it and just being adjacent to the beat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCx5Std7mCo
|
|
#
?
Jan 12, 2022 18:20
|
|
|
sounds like you're not feeling the beat. you GOTTA feel the beat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHE6hZU72A4 it's kinda like that, except for words instead of bass. you don't have to hit every one (like in that public enemy song, chuck d skips most of the first downbeats and starts syncopated), but if you're feeling that structure and feeling that downbeat, then you can go hog wild with how you move around between them
|
|
#
?
Jan 12, 2022 19:22
|
|
|
buffalo all day posted:there are many distinguished rap minds in this forum but we need to know what we’re dealing with. can you post some vocaroos or YouTube’s of yourself so we can begin to analyze? this. its key to the process to hear the starting point before any meaningfull advice can be given.
|
|
#
?
Jan 12, 2022 20:21
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 28, 2024 02:04 |
|
|
Dynamite Dog posted:you get weird when the beat comes on because you're looking for the 'right way' to go at it. I reckon that's it, tbh. The "Oh gently caress if I do this wrong then it will be obvious and immediately apparent" thing that gets me all hosed up on choice paralysis.
|
|
#
?
Jan 13, 2022 12:10
|
|