A Message to all RAPPERS!!!

By: Jamie Lewis
REACH FAME

Hello Rappers! Practice makes perfect! No matter what your time frame, you should think in 3's. Three (3) separate verses (all different songs) is good, different tempos (or "feels") as well as different subjects. Learn to freestyle as well as write your material. Improvisation (Freestyling) is very important and gives you the freedom to customize your material to possibly fit the presentation. Written material and freestyle are easily told apart from the other especially if an audience is familiar with your style and skill. The freestyle will usually consist of far more simple one syllable rhymes, as well as far more simplistic content matter and metaphors, while the written material is far more advanced and the rhymes can sometimes consist of two (2) to as many as eight (8) syllable punchlines. The thing that is great about being an advancing rapper or singer is you don't need music, you can do it anywhere you might be.

Bad Attitude:

Say for instance you have incredible material, you look great and everything is wonderful, but your attitude stinks. When you are working on getting your first album out, and everyone starts interviewing you, all you have to do is act like you don't like anything, or act a little too cocky, and then you will lose half of your sales due to the fact people are first envious of your success and then now, hate you because you are cocky or boring. Also, even while starting out in the beginning, the industry does not have tolerance for a bad attitude. Your producer might love your voice or act, but if you have a bad attitude, your fired!

Being on your best behavior all the time is a little challenging to say the least, I'll admit, but staying positive through an interview or actual business deal is walking the line in the middle and not risking getting squashed. You should always maintain a friendly persona, even if you were just given $40 million dollars. Enemies and people who do not like you because of your attitude will take you for all you're worth one way or another. But if you always walked in the middle and respected all people, no one will mess with you and make up stories about you because they will know it would be impossible to first, ever be believed; and second, suffer the pounding from the people who believe in you.