Lyrical Content Tips Anyone?

[Atillah]

I've been experimenting with multi's for some time know and I'm thinking of moving on to punchlines...................

Any tips on how to develop those ill punchlines that are both funny and clever instead of simple and corny?


All help greatly appreciated!!!!!!

 

[Me myself & him]

Damn, that's a hard ass question.

Let's see... I hope you have a reeeeal active imagination, that helps.

Not everybody can spit any punchline and get away with it... sometimes it's not the line itself, but how you say it that counts.

If you get one on the fly, just write it down, you can always use it later.

You may want to audition them in front of close friends or music coleagues, I'm real critical of my own, so unless I think it's sharp enough, I won't use it.

Usually they just come to me, or bit and pieces come to me as I write. But if I try to develop some, I just think of Impossible situations, insanely hypothetical, what-if.

You can use a metaphor or a similie as the basis for your whole line.

It's like thinking in Dozens mode, but you can expand it further, you just gotta tax your wittiness to the extreme. For me that's hard to do in a freestyle.

Plus you can use all that useless garbage they taught you in Highschool as fuel for more complex punchlines.

Bottom line..... if you think it's corny, it probably is, you're your greatest critic........................................ or should be

Hope this helps,

do you want examples?

What's multi's?

 

[Flo' Dolo]

MM&H is pretty much on point - I had to think about it to disect the whole "how-to" myself.

For me though, I can write and write and write, but I hate it all. On the other hand, if I come off my knot, shit's butter. I became best friends with a micro cassette jammy years ago. The closest I come to being ill on paper is when I let a beat flow and spit and then write, and spit some more, and then write... Kinda ass-backwards, but it's how I get down...

Keep strivin'...

F.D.

 

[Me myself & him]

man! I'm exactly the opposite, I gotta freestyle for about an hour before I'm properly warmed up and don't sound like shit to myself.

 

[pgm]

dolo.......on point with that micro......I even beat box into mine if I'm like at the mall and a ill beat just pos in my head!those things come in MADD handy!I also write and write(raps) and I'm scratchin' lines through every line because I think they garbage.....writin' rap that is venom is just hard for me...I gotta work for mines.....


me,myself.....I feel ya on the delivery comment ......I've heard some ,for example ,eminem or dmx or even the late greats BIGGIE
and TUPAC say some crazy ass shit just to fit in the bar/measure whatever but there flow is so damn tight that it sounds phat as hell..but then if you write what they said down or read the lyric sheet it reads like hooked on ebonics ...feel me!

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[Me myself & him]

dolo.......on point with that micro......I even beat box into mine if I'm like at the mall and a ill beat just pos in my head!those things come in MADD handy!

Yup, since I was 14 I been beat boxin and hummin in em.

me,myself.....I feel ya on the delivery comment ......I've heard some ,for example ,eminem or dmx or even the late greats BIGGIE
and TUPAC say some crazy ass shit just to fit in the bar/measure whatever but there flow is so damn tight that it sounds phat as hell..but then if you write what they said down or read the lyric sheet it reads like hooked on ebonics ...feel me!
...........one............

I first really noticed that in highschool when this kid in our group tried to be Bustarhymes... all his punchlines was garbage!

Yo, Atillah, I just thought of something else, you can sometimes base your punchline on a movie or popular TV show, even the mindless masses will catch those.

The worst thing is when someone like EMINEM or one of the boot camp guys comes out with the same punchline, maybe just a little different. Eminem done did it twice already But it's even worse when somebody fucks it up and you don't even want to use yours anymore.