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    "Damz" I Am Muzik Damz's Avatar
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    Style Change. Need help.

    Alright, Well over new years and Christmas vacation I
    had time to think and rap with my old hood and everyone,
    Well I was thinking maybe I should stop rapping.
    New years eve, We had a huge house party back in D.C.
    And we held a free style comp.

    There was a bunch of friends throwing down,
    This boy from Florida who moved there after I left,
    Was dropping free styles like trap/hood/south style.

    And it was music too my ears. He made me feel like shit.
    I was trying to go all lyricist, and i blew.

    I made the decision and I'm done being topical.
    I wanna rhyme a trap/hood/south rhymes.

    I lived in the hood for awhile,

    How do I change my style from topical to hood?

    Please give as much help as possible

    I'll teach you writing topical if you teach me to rap trap/ hood.
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    Re: Style Change. Need help.

    Upping.
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    Re: Style Change. Need help.

    walk outside... n rap about what u see...

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    Re: Style Change. Need help.

    Ughh. Thanks i guess
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    Re: Style Change. Need help.

    Okay, so I was told I had sort of a "hood style."
    I'm not the best example and I'm clearly not the best but I'm labeled into that style so idk..
    I think it's just about doing those quick rhymes and not going really in depth with it. Like what i do is i keep my verse like this

    ie:
    blah blah blah (rhyming word) blah blah (rhymingword)
    blah blah blah (rhyming word) blah blah (rhyming word)
    LOL
    etc. not too long.

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    Re: Style Change. Need help.

    Here, See I'll show you two bars from The best Trap artist,
    (In my own opinion). Gucci Mane.
    And then two bars from my topical lyrical shit,
    Compare:

    Gucci "My Own Worst Enemy"

    A hard head makes a soft ass,
    Didn't your mother teach you that,
    Pick a spot to beef with me;
    An that's were i will meet ya at.
    Damz - "The Cannibal"

    This treacherous place beholds menacing screams,
    Empty bottles of hennasee and white evergreens,
    This fight of a blizzard, Might be a murder scene,
    A triggered wizard, Precision with scissors so clean,
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    Re: Style Change. Need help.

    so basically u wanna dumb down ur rhymes....

    thats not the way of doing shit


    see gucci rhyming bout the trap

    but u can talk about like

    not having money for example rite

    and still make it not sound like a topical

    because a topical does not really sound like rap

    what u doing is poetry

    so my suggestion would really just be

    start writing...

    try different rhyme schemes as illin said

    try using multisyllables and inner rhymes... but what u need to do is make your topic relevent dont see it as a topical piece... look at it more of a song... cuz when u flow on a beat ur mind works differently.

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    Re: Style Change. Need help.

    Thanks for the help man,
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    Re: Style Change. Need help.

    you spelt it hennasee.

    i dont think you got much to worry about.

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    Re: Style Change. Need help.

    It sucks, Because the topical shit i write for om will never hit a beat you know
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    Re: Style Change. Need help.

    I'm in the same dilemma as you most of the time. Extremely complex shit will never ride a beat correctly unless you have a custom beat, and you are tech n9ne or some shit. In battles, forget it, you will get killed, and accused of having pre-written shit.

    Here's a little example of something I am working on, as soon as I get my new mic and shit set-up I will record and master it. I plan on leasing Benny's I'm good with hook beat and I edited an OM I dropped a few days ago, to flow and fit the beat.

    Here's the Original OM:

    White

    Down and out, time to hit street for some yay...
    Blow up some digits to score...and forget my day...
    Drop cash, then dash, this is my escape, don't knock it..
    Haulin' ass, mind stuck on the ROCK in my pocket...
    Call up some hoe's, cause I like broads yipped up & next to me...
    Pull out the Visa and smash, while the chics poppin' ecstasy...
    Roll up a Franklin for kicks, it just takes 1 sniff to open the gate...
    Numb your brain and boost your heart, as you fill it with hate...
    Second bump dissapears.....used to be a Mile Long...
    Grabbed some bitch by the throat, cause she looked at me wrong...
    Not doing this for fun anymore...with every line I get older...
    Giving up control to all I know, powered by the White Soldier...
    My hearts pounding out of my chest, this is really killing me..
    But I'm ready to destroy any in my path, and take on invincibility...
    Takes more and more for my nasal, some say i'm addicted...
    But at any time I could take this habit, and kick-it...
    With gums numb, and a nose bleed, some may think that im odd...
    It's just the price I pay for my time as a GOD...



    Here's edited for audio:

    Down and out, time to hit street for some yay...
    Blow up some digits to score....gotta forget my day...
    Drop cash, then dash, i chose this...don't knock it..
    Haulin' ass, minds stuck on that ROCK in my pocket...
    Call up some hoe's, cause I love it.....when they chillin next to me...
    Pull out the card and smash.... while they pop that ecstasy...
    Gotta roll up a Frank, it takes a sniff to open the gate..
    Numb your brain and boost your heart, as you fill it with hate...
    Second bump dissapears.....used to be a Mile Long...
    Grabbed some bitch by the throat, cause she looked at me wrong...
    Not fucking fun anymore...with every line I get older...
    Giving up all that I know, powered by this White Soldier...
    My hearts pounding this shit....its really killing me..
    I'll destroy any in my path, and take invincibility...
    Takes more and more for my nasal....some say i'm addicted...
    But at any time I could take this fuckin' habit......and kick-it...


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    Obviously it's not nearly as in depth, and I have to rely on mic presence to get out my story after all the detail that I cut. For lack of better terms, dumb your drops down, and cuss more. If you want some real help, PM me and we'll talk.
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    Re: Style Change. Need help.

    Quote Originally Posted by Damz View Post
    Alright, Well over new years and Christmas vacation I
    had time to think and rap with my old hood and everyone,
    Well I was thinking maybe I should stop rapping.
    New years eve, We had a huge house party back in D.C.
    And we held a free style comp.

    There was a bunch of friends throwing down,
    This boy from Florida who moved there after I left,
    Was dropping free styles like trap/hood/south style.

    And it was music too my ears. He made me feel like shit.
    I was trying to go all lyricist, and i blew.

    I made the decision and I'm done being topical.
    I wanna rhyme a trap/hood/south rhymes.

    I lived in the hood for awhile,

    How do I change my style from topical to hood?

    Please give as much help as possible

    I'll teach you writing topical if you teach me to rap trap/ hood.
    I avoided this thread last night, but I gotta speak on this

    My best advice is to DO YOU... ask yourself why you do this?? Dreams of fame/fortune/commercial-success? Just a hobby that you're into? Fun? Hip-hop boilin in your veins and you can't help but spit out fire on tracks????? To impress X/Y/Z (ladies? friends? internet strangers?)?? Props and respect?

    You CAN emulate a trap/southern style of flow or lyricism, but YOU AINT TRAP! I had to speak on this, because you're straight up asking for advice on how to front. If you wanna switch your "style" on the mic, then maybe dumb-down your lyrics a little and focus more on delivery/flow. If you puttin 95% into raw lyrics and 5% into delivering that fire, it don't add up... try puttin less time into the lyrics, and make it 50/50 (aka dumb-down)

    All I'm saying is, IMHO, creating a "rap persona" that ain't you is a fuckin clown move word up......
    Last edited by DKfromNY; January 7th, 2010 at 11:42 PM

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    Re: Style Change. Need help.

    Thanks for the advice, What this more or less meaning,
    Is how do i get back to being able to write for audio,
    I used to write so much shit that could kill beats in Va,
    But when i moved to p.a. i became a topical writer, and
    I can't really kill a beat anymore
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    Re: Style Change. Need help.

    Honestly, I don't know why you wanna dumb down your lyrics. I don't even like trap/hood shit cause it's so dumbed down and repetitive. Honestly, you should stick to the way you are, work lyrically on improving, there's never a sign of perfection and just get better bro. Honestly, Hip-Hop and everything with it is upside-down now.

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    Re: Style Change. Need help.

    Honestly, That's what I needed. But i was so god damn pissed,
    When that kid was spitting my old genre, And i was dropping lyrical shit,
    And they all favored him, His flow was oh so sick. My flow is horrid.
    Well it didn't use to bee. It's like i lost my mojo
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