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* RAPTECHNIQUE

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RapTechnique

- This will show you everything you need to become the ultimate lyricist. It doesn't matter if you want to learn how to rap or are an experienced veteran. The knowledge shown here cannot be learned anywhere else. Its large lyricist dictionary is an absolute must-have (with examples bar shown for every single definition). We also include exclusive up-to-date tips and tricks that the greatest rappers in the world use and much more. - www.RapManual.com

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* RAPLABEL

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RapLabel

- Any producer in the rap and hip hop genres of music needs to know what it takes to operate a successful, profitable record label and the business knowledge behind it. This intimate knowledge was once held only for producers making profitable music in the country, rock and pop music industries. Only now is this information specialized and revealed to the hip hop producer. Because this book specializes in only rap and hip hop music, your questions posed are directly assessed and answered. - www.RapManual.com

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* RAPSTUDIO

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RapStudio

- A rapper that wants to record his music needs to know how to build a studio without buying a home-studio book that only fulfills the needs for mainly rock, pop, country groups and singers, This book is specialized to tell you the precise type of studio a rapper should build, minus all the excess clutter you usually find. There is no discussion on hip hop non-issues such as "drum-kit microphone set-up techniques" and "amps" and "guitars". This is 100 percent specialized for the studio lyricist. -www.RapManual.com

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* BEATSTUDIO

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BeatStudio

- Beatmakers need to build studios for their music equipment just like every other type of musician. For someone that makes instrumentals for a living it can be discouraging to find that there is not even one book specialized for the needs of a hip hop beat maker. Unlike other home-studio books, this focuses only on the "beatmaker". No talk or mention of microphone equipment, acoustic, wind and string instruments are in here to waste your valuable time. This leaves more room for what is important in making a great beatmaker studio. - www.RapManual.com

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* RAP ENGINEER

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RapEngineer

- So you've bought a ton of professional music equipment and made a bunch of music, but it keeps coming off as sounding "amateurish" no matter what you do. You know that you're much better than these bubble-gum music clowns, but your music doesn't prove it. You feel inadequate to other music professionals, so much so that you think of quitting often. You know they have some type of edge, but you just can't seem to figure it out. Honestly, the only thing separating you from these so-called "pros" is that the either they know how to mix and master their music well or they give it to somebody who does. For example all this "loudness" you try your best to attain is just basic finalizing and limiting that major music labels have taken to an extreme nth power. another example is your instruments are sounding muddy in your mixes or your vocals don't sound as "isolated" from the instrumental as the pros. A quick brush-up with this book should cure you.

This "home sound engineer" book is specialized for hip hop only, meaning it addresses the needs of hip hop rappers, singers and beatmakers with precise settings you should use. None of that vague "roll off the bottom, raise the mids" garbage that advanced hiphop producers or some rap forum "groupie" will tell you. (Hint: they keep the good stuff for themselves, they figure in their selfish minds "Why give someone else my edge I worked so hard to get? Especially this newbie."). Once you learn how to mix and master your own music you will instantly sound thousands of times more professional taking your music career much further than before. - www.RapManual.com

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Allegory & Alliteration

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ALLEGORY

An explained metaphor. (i.e: “Your sic wit it, BECAUSE the crowd’s screamin/”. The word “because” explains why “your sic wit it.”)

ALLITERATION

Repetition of the same sounds or types of sounds at the beginning of words. (i.e; “spit, sit, slit, some split sure cents/”. Note that “cents” does not begin with a “s” but still sounds the same.)

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Anti-Personification & Antonym

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ANTI-PERSONIFICATION

Comparing a human to an inanimate object. (i.e; “Your girl’s like a refrigerator , everyone sticks meat in it/”. The girl is compared to the refrigerator.)

ANTONYM

A word with the opposite meaning as another word. (i.e.; “hot/cold”, “sun/moon”, “up/down”.)

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Apologue & Assonance

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APOLOGUE

Based on a fable. Where you compare inanimate or animate creatures and compare them to people using fables or stories. (i.e: “Stayed steady like the tortoise, now ahead of the hare/” / Story of the tortoise and the hare.)

ASSONANCE

Repeating similar or identical vowel sounds, but contains changes in the consonants that are intervening. (i.e; “silly bill, killed Nifty Bill at Six fifty/”)

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Bar Shift & Biting

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BAR SHIFT

A bar shift is when a bar ends with a word that you would not expect )(i.e; ending with dog, then ending in rat)

“Grimey lyrics, transform like alchemy, going off like balconies/
But clear like falcon sees, I spit em once, and now they’re chalkin me/
STALKIN ME, with lights but told em all, the flows invincible/
Intimidate your cards, I fold em all, uncomprehensible/”

In the above “stalkin me” is where I continued from “chalkin me”, I then shifted and used the word “invincible”, a totally different fhyming word from the first 2 bars. To shift, put a rhyming word from the end of your second bar to the very beginning of your third bar.

BITING

Can mean many things where you copy and repeat with words, schemes or technical use. It also means using a quotation and not giving immediate credit to the author or creator.

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Callback & Colloquialism

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CALLBACK

Callbacks are a rhyme at the beginning of the first bar that eventually rhymes with words at the end of the second bar.

COLLOQUIALISM

Quote, slang, or verbal expression used. (i.e; “ride the beat”, “get down”, “get head”)

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Dueling Proverb & Flow

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DUELING PROVERB

A bar shift is when a bar ends with a word that you would not expect )(i.e; ending with dog, then ending in rat)

“Grimey lyrics, transform like alchemy, going off like balconies/
But clear like falcon sees, I spit em once, and now they’re chalkin me/
STALKIN ME, with lights but told em all, the flows invincible/
Intimidate your cards, I fold em all, uncomprehensible/”

In the above “stalkin me” is where I continued from “chalkin me”, I then shifted and used the word “invincible”, a totally different fhyming word from the first 2 bars. To shift, put a rhyming word from the end of your second bar to the very beginning of your third bar.

FLOW

Can mean many things where you copy and repeat with words, schemes or technical use. It also means using a quotation and not giving immediate credit to the author or creator.

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Hendiadys & Homonym

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HENDIADYS

Using two or more nouns describing something instead of using one. (i.e; She has boobs like a porn star, voice like Mariah/ But she has a forehead that’s bigger than Tyra’s/”. This hendiadys uses three, comparing to a pornstar, Mariah Carey and Tyra Banks.)

HOMONYM

A word that is spelled the same, but means something different. (i.e; “tell and tale”, “whale and wale”, “sight and site”.)

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Idiom & Implication

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IDIOM

Slang or words that have no meaning except through figurative speech. (i.e; “throw dem bos” symbolizes fighting; “follow the white rabbit” symbolizes the start of a journey.)

IMPLICATION

Implies something or words that are not direct. (i.e; “I see you’re comin’ out the closet/” implies they are homosexual and embarrassed of something, therefore hiding in the closet.)

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Inners & Kenning

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INNERS

An inner is just a word that rhymes but not at the end of the bar. (i.e; “Chokin up VETS like a kamikaze fighter/in SETS. Take BETS on whos hot spitfire is lighter/”. “Vets”, “Sets” and “Bets” are the inners.)

KENNING

A name given to something for what it is essentially used for, or what it does. (i.e; “My records touch the DJ, soundwaves hit the back/needle like a drug and you’re addicted like crack/”. The DJ needle on the record player becomes a drug needle.)

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Metalepsis & Metallage

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METALEPSIS

This is the advanced form of metonymy. (i.e; “I’m poppin’ lyrics to shatter your dome piece/” . “Poppin” here equals to guns shooting, “dome piece” is compared to a stadium dome.)

METALLAGE

Comparing a colloquialism to a person. (i.e; “I ride the beat like the master of a horse and carriage/”)

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Metaphor & Metonymy

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METAPHOR

Saying one thing is another. (i.e; “She’s like a sickness/” compares her to being a sickness.)

METONYMY

Comparing something to what it does. (i.e; “I talk much smack/” where you actually talk much “words”, but the sound of the words you talk make a smack sound so you substitute “words” with “smack” because that is what the words do.)

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Multies & Parable

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MULTIES

This is the art of consistently rhyming multiple syllables either in one bar or more. There are actually diverse definitions depending on who you ask. Three or more syllables in multis is even better.

PARABLE

This is when two different things in a simile get compared and described. (i.e; “I get high as flappin wings, so I never fall down/ Like a bird with eagle flight, I’m never touchin the ground/”. This describes the similes “flapping wings” and “bird with eagle flight”.)

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Personification & Proverb

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PERSONIFICATION

Making an inanimate object act in a human way. (i.e; “This song hits, the snares be clappin/” . Snares don’t actually clap, but here they are compared to the human function of clapping. The song doesn’t actually hit, but here, the song is compared to humans fighting/punching.)

PROVERB

Repeating an old sayin. (i.e; “What goes up must come down/”)

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Quotation & Rhyme Schemes

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QUOTATION

Repeating a line someone else said and usually gives tribute to the author. (i.e; “Like Jay-Z said, I’m Big Pimpin/”)

RHYME SCHEMES

A rhyme scheme is the following:
Word, word, word, RHYME/ (Bar 1)
Word, word, word, RHYME/

Or another

Word, RHYME, word, word, RHYME/ (Bar 1)
Word, word, word, word, RHYME/ (Bar 2)

Or

A,A,A,B
A,A,A,B (where B is the rhyming words)

Or

A,C,A,B
A,A,C,B (where B and C are the rhyming words, C are the “inners”)

It is the order of where rhymes go in your bars.

(i.e; “I got money and a benz, my wallets bigger than a car/
Got more bars than a millionaire who’s playin guitar/”)

Easy simple scheme, but you can make more ear catching ones.

(i.e; “Grimey lyrics, transform like alchemy, over the balconies/
But clear like falcon sees, I spit em once, and now they’re chalkin me/”)

Notice how the bars rhymed in two places each with multiple syllables. Every word didn’t rhyme perfect, but close enough as not to pay attention to it, that is not bad in rap. In rap it is known as a “slant rhyme”.

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Simile & Slant Rhyme

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SIMILE

Any time you say “as” or like” . (i.e; “I’m like a bird”)

SLANT RHYME

A slant rhyme is when words do not rhyme exactly, but still sound like they do.

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Switch-Ups & Symbols

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SWITCH-UPS

Switch-ups are basically when you switch your usual rhyme scheme pattern for a different or faster scheme then fall back on your original scheme. To find your natural rhyme schemes just listen to a plain instrumental and hum a freestyle over it, you’ll automatically add the extra emphasis on the words that rhyme.

SYMBOLS

A word substituting the actual thing. (i.e; “I’m walkin in my flip-flops/”, saying flip-flops instead of just saying slippers, flip-flop is the symbol used because slippers make a “flip flop” type of sound when you walk.)

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Synonym & Bars and Hooks

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SYNONYM

A word with the same meaning as another word. (i.e; “cold/freezing”, “cut/slice” “money/currency”, “dead/diseased”.)

BARS AND HOOKS

A bar is the time it takes to count to 4 on rhythm in any song, this is because the time on any rap song is in the 4/4 time format. A usual verse in a commercial song is 16 bars, sometimes 8, and on freestyles nobody counts. To count bars simply count to 4 in rhythm on any song and add one after each succession. In a normal rap song you should be able to count to 64 on beat, remember after each 4 is a new bar. Hence 64 divided by 4 is 16.

A hook is the chorus part of a song that comes immediately after the verse or bridge and is usually 4 to 8 bars and above after the breakdown part of the song and sometimes may fade out.

The breakdown is after the first two choruses and is sometimes continues by another verse. Sometimes the instrumental music may change slightly and an extra verse or chorus may compliment it.

The Bridge is like an extra chorus that can be used anywhere.

Basic song structure:

intro
verse
chorus
verse2(*1)
chorus
breakdown(*2)
chorus
chorus
outro

*1 = there may be more than 2 verse or choruses
*2 = a breakdown/instrumental sequence varies in bars and in some songs do not exist.

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