Writing Emotional Rap Lyrics

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Summary: Writing rap music can be difficult. Learn how to write a rap song from your emotions in this free video clip.

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Jason Jason "Daniel" Deford has ghost written rap songs for several National, Regional, and Local Rap Artists. He is also one of the most sought after featured gues... read more

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Writing Emotional Rap Lyrics

Now we're going to go further into pulling from your emotions. We spoke about it when we spoke about selecting a beat, we spoke about it when we spoke about the subject matter, but now we going to talk about what pulling from your emotions is. I told you I picked an emotional beat for a reason because it's going to be an emotional song to me. We're going to call the song "No Hope". It's one of those things where you have it all based around something to do with you know hope or being hopeful or hopeless in your environment. And that's going to be a real emotional song for me because I want you all to do what I do. I want you to pull from something deep. If you're going to tell a story on a rap record, tell the truth. You know what I'm saying, as to going in there and glorifying or making up an allegory, a story that's not even real. You want to go in there and spin something from the soul because the only way you're going to convince the listener to feel it is if you feel it. How am I going to feel something that you don't feel and you're the one trying to present it to me? It's kind of like the salesman, I want to sell you. It's easier to sell you a product that I have a hundred percent faith and believe in than a product I don't really know nothing about. You want to really dig deep inside your inner man and try to dig out something real emotional. And you want to use that in your drive and your spit.