There is often a debate as to what is the most important aspect for a rapper. Flow and delivery vs rhymes and complexity.
A lot of rappers make this mistake when they get passed the beginners stage and start to really develop their lyrics beyond simply rhyming. I myself have been guilty of this one in the past.Continue reading
There has been vast increase in popularity of battle rap over recent years. This has lead to a debate over whether rappers should venture into rap battling vs songwriting. I touched on this in an old post where I talked about the battle between Canibus VS Dizaster.
The rap battle scene has been growing steadily over the years. There was a time when a battle was something that would break out spontaneously between rappers and it was often very improvised and less pre-planned. Nowadays battles are far more scripted. Many are setup as big events almost like boxing, with rappers going away weeks to months in advance reading up on each other preparing their disses for the big event. Battling now seems to be far more of a separate entity from that of making rap songs. If we were having this debate during the pre-youtube era it would be far more clear cut in favour of songwriting but with the growth and popularity of battling the answer is no longer so obvious.Continue reading
Here’s a song titled ‘Cyder Attack‘ a cider rap if you will, combining two of my favourite things cider and rap!
This is actually a song I wrote a long time ago. It certainly isn’t new and is one of the first songs I ever wrote and recorded. I decided to post it here as it is one of the songs I get requested to play most when I’m performing live.
There might be some confusion as to what I mean by cider or ‘cyder‘ as I spell it. I’m sure the majority of people reading this in the UK know what I mean by cider but people in other parts of the world don’t necessarily know it as the messy alcoholic beverage that it is in my country. I’ve heard that cider in America is actually a non-alcoholic beverage and is more like apple juice which sounds ridiculous to me but here we are….Continue reading