How to Write a Hip-Hop Track

When writing Hip Hop music it is best to write to a beat. Writing the song and then trying to find the beat afterwards may cause problems like having a written song that no one ever gets to hear. After finding the beat the immediate question that must be asked what are you going to talk about? As an artist is it your job to get a point across. Don’t worry about whether the information is true though writing about things you are familiar with and related to will help produce better quality material, it doesn’t matter if you stretch the truth a little bit as long as you get the point across and your careful not to go too over board. You want to get the point across without presenting yourself as an orbital liar, however. When writing for Hip Hop it’s telling the story with a twist. It’s dull and boring to tell you I went to the store yesterday but if I go into the reason’s what happened or could have happed along the way now your drawing up some attention. When writing a Hip Hop track you want to set your track up into two parts sometimes four depending on if you want to do an intro/outro part. However two parts is the basic format. The first and most important part is the Hook/chorus. This must be very catchy hard hitting or containing a very nice combination of rhymes. You want to make sure that you have a nice even pattern of Syllables. Let’s just say you have 10 syllables on the first line you don’t have to necessarily have 10 on the next line. You can do 8 or perhaps 12 but the next like have 10 syllables and then repeat the process. (Choosing 10 and 8 every two lines will have 18 totally syllables) The amount of syllables you have on a line is important in any genre of music however especially important in hip hop sense usually it will be rapped; you want to make sure that you create a pattern that is easy to flow. As long as your lines syllables are even you can do that. This is also the difference between the professionals and amateurs. It is simple and easy to just write something that rhymes at the end of each line. It’s more professional and harder at times to have multi rhymes throughout your lines and even syllables. You’ll also find that your lyrics will be a little bit more complex as you’ll have to think of new words to add to your rhymer/vocabulary. The next part is the verse, now on a Hip Hop track it is important that you have good punch lines. A good punch line will have a set up before it, for those that don’t know how to set up a punch line. You can’t just put the line out there or some blah before the line; you must reference the punch line right before you release it. When writing a Hip Hop track it is good for you to have at least the first four bars and last four bars extremely hard hitting, containing the best rhymes set up’s and punches, as well you must keep your syllable lines even throughout. If you do this you will have much success with your hip hop track.