![]() I start looking for cool multi’s that relate to the impressions I wrote down. Now what I do is scan these concepts for potential wordplay ability or some dope patterns or rhyme schemes. Looks like he could be in the age range of 17-35. Hair parted in the middle – like he’s in the 90’s still But if you’re freestyle battling this dude, then you’re going to have to come up with some solid jokes immediately. Flip through the photos and music and videos and just start writing your first impressions of funny things about them or weird quirks. Usually you’ll have Facebook or other battles on YouTube to watch of your opponent so that is the research process. We don’t know a lot about him but let’s use some creativity to tear down his appearance. This is a white nerdy man standing with his eyes closed. It’s not as easy to make fun of someone generic. And I picked a super generic looking guy for a reason. This is one of the first people that showed up in a Google Search. But let’s pick our opponent at random, so we have a starting point. Writing down a whole bunch of bullshit and then tweaking it. This is actually most of what writing battle raps is. How To Rap Battle Guide Start To Finish Brain Dump / Research Let’s see if I can get across some cool concepts to you in this guide. I’ve choked so many times, it would be impossible for me not to learn something from it. Writing hundreds of jokes, bars, flows, patterns. I did about 16 or so battles with 200k views on Youtube over the last 10 years.Įither way, just know I’ve spent hours and hours discussing battle rap. And I definitely was not the best battle rapper, but I got some reactions. So let’s choose an opponent and go through from start to finish. The majority of battles are done this way now, though you can use some of these concepts for freestyle battles as well. I’m assuming you know your opponent, and have time to write bars and memorize them. Most of the crowd is too, they potentially don’t really know your opponent.įor the sake of this guide on how to battle rap. And craft bars around those ideas and find creative ways to make the crowd react to those ideas.įirst of all, a lot of people are judging off their first impression. Write it all down because you’re going to go back to it and find your angles and pull wordplay possibilities. Now you brain dump insults, things that are funny about them, things that stand out, behaviors, the weird quirks you notice right away. The goal of battle rap is to tear someone down verbally by being dope yourself. Just start writing everything you think of. Using that in tandem with other violations like light racism, sexual preference and other things that we generally should NOT talk about or support.Ĭan you find a way to say something that is clearly WRONG and socially unacceptable in a lighter and funnier way? Brain dump everything in a random Google doc People generally like puns/double meanings because they play on the misuse of the English language (violating expectations). You must violate people’s expectation of how the world works. Write down random thoughts and impressions about your opponent and skim through for cool double meaning options. The best way to find the relevant ones to your opponent are to brain dump like I will show you below. Over the net – Tennis OR sending something over the web You find new and unique double meanings easily. We can take it to another level by breaking larger words or phrases into smaller chunks. There are many resources online to give you lists of these types of words. The key is to take these simple words and put them into different sayings or combinations with those words. Or words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings: And much of the time it includes double meanings words to create this wordplay.īall/Ball – Like ball as in round object or ball as in a ball for dancing. The best punchlines in rap battles almost ALWAYS have some sort of wordplay included. The difference is you need to include rhyme scheme and rap flow in it to make it interesting. So the first bar is the setup for the punchline. Two bars together in a rap battle can be broken down into Setup bar/Punchline. So that’s why I feel confident in writing this guide and that you will get a little bit out of it. It’s not that many, but I want you to know that I’ve gained some experience from doing them. I’ve amassed over 200,000 views from my battles. I should start this by saying that I have been in 16 King of the dot battles on YouTube.
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