I’m assuming you know your opponent, and have time to write bars and memorize them. Most of the crowd is too, they potentially don’t really know your opponent.įor the sake of this guide on how to battle rap. And craft bars around those ideas and find creative ways to make the crowd react to those ideas.įirst of all, a lot of people are judging off their first impression. Write it all down because you’re going to go back to it and find your angles and pull wordplay possibilities. Now you brain dump insults, things that are funny about them, things that stand out, behaviors, the weird quirks you notice right away. The goal of battle rap is to tear someone down verbally by being dope yourself.

Just start writing everything you think of. Using that in tandem with other violations like light racism, sexual preference and other things that we generally should NOT talk about or support.Ĭan you find a way to say something that is clearly WRONG and socially unacceptable in a lighter and funnier way? Brain dump everything in a random Google doc People generally like puns/double meanings because they play on the misuse of the English language (violating expectations). You must violate people’s expectation of how the world works. Write down random thoughts and impressions about your opponent and skim through for cool double meaning options.

The best way to find the relevant ones to your opponent are to brain dump like I will show you below. Over the net – Tennis OR sending something over the web You find new and unique double meanings easily.

We can take it to another level by breaking larger words or phrases into smaller chunks. There are many resources online to give you lists of these types of words. The key is to take these simple words and put them into different sayings or combinations with those words. Or words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings: And much of the time it includes double meanings words to create this wordplay.īall/Ball – Like ball as in round object or ball as in a ball for dancing.

The best punchlines in rap battles almost ALWAYS have some sort of wordplay included. The difference is you need to include rhyme scheme and rap flow in it to make it interesting. So the first bar is the setup for the punchline. Two bars together in a rap battle can be broken down into Setup bar/Punchline. So that’s why I feel confident in writing this guide and that you will get a little bit out of it. It’s not that many, but I want you to know that I’ve gained some experience from doing them. I’ve amassed over 200,000 views from my battles. I should start this by saying that I have been in 16 King of the dot battles on YouTube.

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