How To Write Your Own Rap Song by Jamaal West

Hip Hop is one of the most profitable genres of music around today. Rap music has grown from the street corners of New York City to a world wide phenomenon. You have little kids in Africa and Japan who can quote a Jay-Z or Fifty-Cent song word for word.

Well I can't fault you for wanting to learn How To Write Your Own Rap Song. Lets begin shall we? The first thing you're going to want to do is find a beat that you would like to rap over. This can be a tedious mission. Do you want to construct a club song, emotional song, a song for the ladies or a song for the fellas? The best thing to do is to get 5-10 beats and select whichever one calls out to you.

Now that you have chosen a beat, its now time to decide on a flow or cadence that you are going to utilize for the beat you selected. The cadence you use should harmonize the same way throughout the song.

Now that you've decided on a beat and a cadence for your song. Next thing you are going to do is think of a chorus. Make sure your hooks are strong and catchy. Simple hooks are the easiest to catch on to. You can have a 2, 4, 6 or 8 bar hook. If you don't understand bars there is a great online tutorial that you can use at how2rap.com/bartutorial.html. You must join to get the password but it's free to join.

After you have a hook the next thing to do is to come up with three verses that are 16 bars each. You want to construct your verses around your hook. For example if your hook is about partying at the club, you don't want to rap about getting locked up and going to jail. Unless of course that's what happened while you were partying at the club.

Here is a simple format to use when writing your own rap song.

Hook (Chorus) Verse Hook (Chorus) Verse Hook (Chorus) Verse Hook (Chorus)

That is the standard format that most rap songs use. Now you ought to be well on your way to writing your own rap song. Good Luck!