Rap battles take skills to win

Freestyleling: Depending on the battle, you need to write/Rap solid lyrics. While yes rap battles are subjective, i'm pretty sure people won't appreciate baby lines like "you dead.. Nuff said " or " you suck.. so what? " Those are terrible rhymes. Creativity and quick instinctively rapped lyrics shows that you can rap professionally. A study was done on the effects of freestyle: A study was done showing that when you freestyle, you enter into an altered state of mind and allow creativity to spark. (1) Syllables/words : In real life, you should worry about the number of syllables you have per bar (unless your Busta Rhyme ). Rapping with uneven bars will sound off balance, forced, and the audience will probably not approve of it. Think that online is an exception? It's not. Although you can get away with rapping lyrics that you cannot vocalize outloud, it still has to be within a certain word limit or otherwise: 1. It will sound forced 2. People will lose focus on reading it The effectiveness of how you use your words can either cause you to win the battle or lose. This only comes through practice, demonstrating that it requires skill to battle rap. Battle : Rap battling is basically sparring and as my fighting instructor said "every hit counts." Every round counts and determines whether or not you win the battle, but rapping especially in battles requires that you focus on using your writing style, flow, lyrics, etc. to diss your opponent. That's not even half of what rap battling is. There are still several other factors such as: 1) Knowing other people - what do they look like? How do they behave? How do they walk? How do they carry themselves? What are their skills? What skills do they lack? What flaws do they have? list goes on. Knowing your opponent will enhance your ability to diss them hard. 2) Tone - Whether your writing or rapping outloud, tone is very important. Aggression, humor, etc. are important when vocally projecting your lyrics because it boosts their power. 3) Rebuttals - Where you flip your foe's lines against him, however you cannot just simply steal it and throw it back at them. It's like a counter-attack, you evade their attack and then effectively diss them back. This can greatly help you to win the battle if you can come up with a better punchline. 4) Personals - Knowing your opponent's personal history and such then using it to demolish their reputation. 5) Intimidation - Using your lyrics to brag and intimidate your opponent. 6) Jokes - joking about their looks, gender, religion, race, etc. to spark humor in front of the audience. 7) Lyrics - Writing catchy rhymes, wordplay, multis, etc. can also cause you to win battles if they are creative and diverse enough. Flow: The tone of your voice when you rap is also an important factor. If your flow is weak, your lyrics will also be weak. Conclusion: In rap battles, you must lyrically hit your opponent with everything you can throw at them. Notice that rappers in who use these in rap battles receive far more attention and recognition than people who don't. Just as art and other forms of music take great craftsmanship, rapping in battles does as well. 1. http://www.theatlantic.com...