superconfessional

[un-]

My biggest obstacle concerning being an aspiring MC, is remembering my lines, so I won't be embarassed at a live show...I haven't got the opportunity to do a show yet, nor have I really recited at any public places, but I usually freestyle/write with friends.

[pwnzj00]

My biggest obstacle concerning being an aspiring MC, is remembering my lines, so I won't be embarassed at a live show...I haven't got the opportunity to do a show yet, nor have I really recited at any public places, but I usually freestyle/write with friends.

Practice in front of a mirror and on the corner and shit. Fuck the haters. Have you recorded any tracks or anything?

[Raskol]

You have to pay to use the fucking search over there so i just pulled up the first one i found from the page I'm on right now. She posts here as heartbrokensoulshaked but either doesnt cross post fits or i have no short term memory.

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edit: I'm a fucking idiot and have been reading topicstyle for 2 weeks now for no reason. Also I should probably get my memory checked out. All of these were posted in our waywt.

http://www.superfuture.com/supertalk/search.php?searchid=938423

why are you searching out her posts on another forum? that's kinda creepy.

[Corbin Law]

try this un

i act. and ive gotten used to memorizing 150+lines in a very short amount of time.

what i usually do is retype all of my lines myself.

the act of typing them and getting them onto a different medium aids in the memorization process. and then you have something else to look on for memorization.

when bored and doing nothing, just scribble down your lines on something to keep it fresh.

but its totally different for everyone.

[un-]

Practice in front of a mirror and on the corner and shit. Fuck the haters. Have you recorded any tracks or anything?

We've been in the process of recording, going to one of my friend's cousin's houses and recording a few freestyles in a makeshift studio. But yeah, we record on ourcellphones lol, pretty much just trying to bolster our skill and get a feel of our styles.

try this un

i act. and ive gotten used to memorizing 150+lines in a very short amount of time.

what i usually do is retype all of my lines myself.

the act of typing them and getting them onto a different medium aids in the memorization process. and then you have something else to look on for memorization.

when bored and doing nothing, just scribble down your lines on something to keep it fresh.

but its totally different for everyone.

Yeah, someone I know got me into writing stuff that comes into my mind, it's usually one good line and if I focus on that, it bears at the least a decent verse as fruit...

Thanks for the advice.

[mizanation]

don't worry, remembering the words is the least of your problems.

when you record a track, you have to do so billions of takes, especially if you're a beginner. then you have to do choruses. then adlibs. if your recording engineer doesn't know what he's doing, then you might have to double up on the verses and choruses a few times. then, you might be around for mixing. by the time you're done, you've listened to the track hundreds of times. even the recording engineer will know each word in the verse.

being an emcee is being a performer. if you have trouble performing, you're not gonna make it as an emcee, regardless of whether you know the words or not.

[JohnnyRed]

We've been in the process of recording, going to one of my friend's cousin's houses and recording a few freestyles in a makeshift studio. But yeah, we record on ourcellphones lol, pretty much just trying to bolster our skill and get a feel of our styles.

Yeah, someone I know got me into writing stuff that comes into my mind, it's usually one good line and if I focus on that, it bears at the least a decent verse as fruit...

Thanks for the advice.

Just practice practice practice. If you record shit and play it back all the time, you'll know the words in no time. I'm a DJ, but I did hype for all my MCs at shows just because I knew all the words from listening all fuckin day. The key is to just keep doing it and doing it.

Live shows are the best though. I focus on records for my rock group, but my hip-hop group was all about rocking parties and shows. Fuck man, getting a crowd jumping is one of the best feelings ever! Honestly, crowd control is just as or more important than having all your verses down. At a live show, most times they don't even know what you're saying and you can get a better reaction with some "when I say hip, ya'll say hop" lines.

Anyway, just practice and play some parties, where it's all good to fuck up a bit and people are way more likely to get into it

edit: beaten my miz, with the truth. can't rep, but I would

[jeepster]

im not the best freestylist, but what i've learned from my friends who can actually rap is - keep a clear mind, you have to be in a sort of "zen" place to channel the words appropriately and without sounding forced or deliberate. before you come out with something, try and go from a stock list (in your mind of course) of transitional phrases that can help lead you into certain rhyme schemes and patterns. try to annunciate the best you can, because if you're mumbling or the words are coming out all garbled and it sounds like a dog with peanut butter on the roof of its mouth, then you'll find yourself slipping up and not getting anything out.

if you're rhyming from pre-written verses, always annunciate, but also, try multiple voices for a certain line and have a type of "voice point of view" that you're rapping from. i know i'm a white boy saying this, but i've taken a lot of poetry courses and rapping, at least in my mind, can be an extremely poetic medium. heres an example (though its from a white rapper), rhyming in different voices and different perspectives. not the best rhymes, but mike skinner is definately original on the scale of things.

gwDRBm-qbQI

[JohnnyRed]

confession: I fucking hate Mike Skinner, sorry man

[un-]

don't worry, remembering the words is the least of your problems.

when you record a track, you have to do so billions of takes, especially if you're a beginner. then you have to do choruses. then adlibs. if your recording engineer doesn't know what he's doing, then you might have to double up on the verses and choruses a few times. then, you might be around for mixing. by the time you're done, you've listened to the track hundreds of times. even the recording engineer will know each word in the verse.

being an emcee is being a performer. if you have trouble performing, you're not gonna make it as an emcee, regardless of whether you know the words or not.

Just practice practice practice. If you record shit and play it back all the time, you'll know the words in no time. I'm a DJ, but I did hype for all my MCs at shows just because I knew all the words from listening all fuckin day. The key is to just keep doing it and doing it.

Live shows are the best though. I focus on records for my rock group, but my hip-hop group was all about rocking parties and shows. Fuck man, getting a crowd jumping is one of the best feelings ever! Honestly, crowd control is just as or more important than having all your verses down. At a live show, most times they don't even know what you're saying and you can get a better reaction with some "when I say hip, ya'll say hop" lines.

Anyway, just practice and play some parties, where it's all good to fuck up a bit and people are way more likely to get into it

edit: beaten my miz, with the truth. can't rep, but I would

im not the best freestylist, but what i've learned from my friends who can actually rap is - keep a clear mind, you have to be in a sort of "zen" place to channel the words appropriately and without sounding forced or deliberate. before you come out with something, try and go from a stock list (in your mind of course) of transitional phrases that can help lead you into certain rhyme schemes and patterns. try to annunciate the best you can, because if you're mumbling or the words are coming out all garbled and it sounds like a dog with peanut butter on the roof of its mouth, then you'll find yourself slipping up and not getting anything out.

if you're rhyming from pre-written verses, always annunciate, but also, try multiple voices for a certain line and have a type of "voice point of view" that you're rapping from. i know i'm a white boy saying this, but i've taken a lot of poetry courses and rapping, at least in my mind, can be an extremely poetic medium. heres an example (though its from a white rapper), rhyming in different voices and different perspectives. not the best rhymes, but mike skinner is definately original on the scale of things.

gwDRBm-qbQI

Really, thanks for all of the advice/info/warnings...would rep if I could, but I'm out for today.

[ProfMonnitoff]

why are you searching out her posts on another forum? that's kinda creepy.

I got those from the most recent pages of their waywt thread? I get some sort of masochistic fashion disaster pleasure from looking at TS, Honestforum, etc. WAYWTs. The rest of that forum is not enjoyable.

[wEstSidE]

tfs haz womenz...

mOnEy TuFf's myspace is awesome...putz myne 2 shame

[jeepster]

confession: I fucking hate Mike Skinner, sorry man

Really, thanks for all of the advice/info/warnings...would rep if I could, but I'm out for today.

haha, fair enough johnny.

and you're welcome. rep is appreciated, but not required.

[Corbin Law]

i feel you about the whole clear mind thing

doing improv and flowing both just come out of me way easier

if i dont focus on shit like "alright ill through out that line next then go into that thing"

if i just let my unconscious do all the work and let my conscios mind just focus on

keeping a scene in order/ryhme scheme in place. it all goes way better than planned shit.

[sean_]

im sitting in yyz waiting for my flight to ireland and i feel like stabbing myself in the forehead with a machete made of fire

[homi29]

on the bright side sean_ at least you're surfing sufu while you wait

[sean_]

hahaha yea i figure i should get in as much as i can before the 3 week hiatus

[un-]

i feel you about the whole clear mind thing

doing improv and flowing both just come out of me way easier

if i dont focus on shit like "alright ill through out that line next then go into that thing"

if i just let my unconscious do all the work and let my conscios mind just focus on

keeping a scene in order/ryhme scheme in place. it all goes way better than planned shit.

I think I've actually tapped into that zen-like mindstate sometimes when flowing, I end up getting interrupted somtimes in the cipher though...

[sunny]

im sitting in yyz waiting for my flight to ireland and i feel like stabbing myself in the forehead with a machete made of fire

how is the security/screening at pearson? i'm leaving next week and don't wanna check any luggage so im wondering if i'll be able to take my shaving razor. And are they really anal about liquids? I heard some places you cant even take a bottle of water..

[broneck]

no bottled water, a safety razor should be fine, don't bring nail clippers. it depends who you get really, if you bring a pen they might make you throw it out, might not, but don't bother with liquid over 100ml

[polishmike]

In the carry-on you can only bring bottles up to 3oz and they have to be all in one zip lock bag. I'm not sure about the razor.

[rome1]

^^yeah its allowed I always bring mine.

[Guest DUM]

I confess that, even in my purple zebra pants, I feel I'm very slightly above your average black kid's rapping skills. I don't ever mention it to people because it's not a skill I pride myself on, but if anyone ever asked me to I've always done so and so far they've (atleast to my face) been impressed. Maybe not because I'm special at all but because they expect nothing of me.

[Kodak]

Confession: 1.) I wan't to knock every person out that every person that asks me if I play basketball. Every 6'2-6'3 black does not play basketball.

[sunny]

thanks guys!! +rep

[un-]

I confess that, even in my purple zebra pants, I feel I'm very slightly above your average black kid's rapping skills. I don't ever mention it to people because it's not a skill I pride myself on, but if anyone ever asked me to I've always done so and so far they've (atleast to my face) been impressed. Maybe not because I'm special at all but because they expect nothing of me.

Pretty cool...people around me want me to rap (part of why I started doing it), I started off with amateur poetry. I don't usually tell people I rap because seemingly everyone wants to rap nowadays..

[jeepster]

im pretty high/buzzed from like 4 beers and a good sized spliff. and i totally said i was gonna sober up until after the weekend because of the acid trip, but well. thats out the window.

im talking to a girl that gave me the run around a couple months ago, and im being increasingly unkind.

[madmenneverdie]

i really got to stop making new accounts (tyler durden)

damn really the first time posting in wyawt and got hated. i really feel like im part of the sufu family now. haha.

[keendream]

thats what you get for leaving a tag on!!! oh those punkls and there tags.

Actually i think its a good fit, i was wondering what that blackthing was though, didn't relize what it was at first.

[madmenneverdie]

yeah i got a bad camera, i left the tag on cuz i knew it was look stupid . i was going for that sin city clive owens mother fucker! i wish i had hot hookers tho.