Battle Rap 101: How To Win Your First Rap Battle

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Imagine the spotlights of the stage centered on you, the deafening silence before the storm. Hundreds of expecting faces gaze towards the stage as the bass thuds in rhythm with your pulse. The moment of truth is upon you. As you hold the microphone, a sense of electric anticipation goes through the air, a current you can almost taste. It’s your first rap battle, where victory isn’t just hoped for, but earned through every meticulously crafted rhyme and perfectly timed punchline. ----------------------- Rap Battle Bootcamp (ft. Corey Charron) (RAP BATTLE COURSE MENTIONED): https://htr.freestylefortnight.com/rapbattle101 ----------------------- Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 2:36 #1 “Let Me Explain Why You Failed At Life” 5:59 Rap Battle Bootcamp 6:14 #2 Question Structure — “Why Do You Act This Way?” 9:10 #3 “I Didn’t Want To Have To Do This” ----------------------- Full Article On How To Win Your First Rap Battle: https://medium.com/@howtorapdrew/battle-rap-101-how-to-win-your-first-rap-d463957a89e8 Diving deep into research for this piece, we found something interesting in the secret “sauce” of rap history. A pattern emerged, loud and clear — the biggest, baddest rap disses, the ones that we still can’t get out of our heads, came as a RESPONSE to an initial dig. Just think about it: Nas’s “Ether” was actually him hitting back at Jay-Z’s “Takeover”. Pusha T’s “Story of Adidon” was an answer to Drake’s “Duppy Freestyle”. Eminem fired “Killshot” in response to “Rap Devil” by MGK… And remember “Back To Back”? That was Drake standing up to a tweet from Meek Mill saying he “doesn’t even write his own songs”. So, as we start our step-by-step guide on how to write a killer rap diss, remember this: Try to use your future “powers for good”, so to speak. Save your most hard-hitting lines for a response. It’s like saving the best for last. Why? Two reasons. One, you get to play the “I didn’t want to do this, but you forced my hand” card (we’ll dive deeper into this in tip #3), making you look like the bigger person. Two, and this is a fact — the crowd loves a fiery comeback more than the first jab. So, save your knockout punch for the right moment. When it comes to understanding how to write fire rap disses, this first tip is pure gold. The key to really landing a punch lies in your ability to highlight just how your opponent has messed up in life, in one way or another. If you want to really tear them apart, or in today’s lingo, ETHER them, you’ve got to master this art. So, the number one aim in any rap diss is to make it absolutely clear to everyone listening that the person you’re up against has messed up big time in life. It could be their career, their relationships, their looks, anything really. In a bit, we’re going to help you shape your own rap disses using this guideline. But first, let’s illuminate this point with some examples from the rap battlefield: Interestingly, both Pusha T’s “The Story of Adidon” dissing Drake, and Drake’s own “Back To Back”, follow this rule of underlining how the other person has failed in life.