Rapping For Dummies

How To Become A Rapper:

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There are many little things you can do to become a rapper, but you must be careful of the way you approach these simple steps; you have to realize there's no point in being famousd in what you love to do if you're disliked by everyone, otherwise your career will go down the drain. For rappers, there's the right way and the wrong way. If you copy other rapper's lyrics or style/beat, or send bad messages through your song, you're taking the wrong path and it's more likely that nobody will respect you or your music.

The baby steps to becoming a successful rapper is to first understand what your voice is capable of and to build and practice upon these skills.

• Spit out sentences in rap to get a feeling of what it's like
• Make up some rhymes to put together on a sheet of paper and save them
• Practice in front of honest people, such as: family, friends, relatives, you could even perform at public places like local or school talent shows

Along with the lyrics of the song, you need to have a unique beat, but not just any kind; you need one that

• Is your own (not copied from other artists)
• Fits in with the lyrics
• Is catchy and different from the mainstream ones

If you want to become a famous rapper who's successful, you most importantly need to set out to be different from other artists, otherwise you will be labeled as someone who can't make their own music and you will become original.

Alot of times, people just assume good rap is fast rap, but that's not always the case. Be careful in the way you rap; it doesn't need to be fast, but be sure it's something that's relevant to people and makes sense. You can't just put together words that rhyme and call it good; rap is simply more complicated than most people assume. It's good to have lyrics that people can relate to and it's also the easiest to send messages through rap. 

• Don't use repetitve words. People will think you're uncreative.
• Don't rhyme words together and call it good. Make sense out of what you're saying
• Try to put a good, positive message through your lyrics

If you send influencial messages through your song and lyrics, you will most likely open up your music to alot more people. For example, if you rap about drugs and negative and harmful things, parents would limit your audience by banning their children from your music, only opening up to the limited amount of people who are in a downhill spiral in life. If you have good quality rap, along with postivie lyrics, your audience will increase tremedously because parents will allow children to listen to you and more teens will think you are a genuinly good rapper. 

(WikiHow)

These are little things you can do to become the successful, appreciated, influencial rapper you've always wanted to be when you grew up. Follow these simple steps and you'll be signing records in no time.