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[color=olive]Lol. . You make it sound like i'm doin a favour. KJ-L helped me elevate. If you can, IM me and i'ma give you some few links[/color]

[color=olive]Lol. . You make it sound like i'm doin a favour. KJ-L helped me elevate. If you can, IM me and i'ma give you some few links[/color]

[color=olive]Would have done vocabs but I got go out soon. Prolly when I'm back[/color]

[color=olive][center]Multies[/center]

Multies is the short word for multi-syllable rhymes. They are phrases in which more than one syllable rhymes. Multies can be double, triple, quadruple (etc, ) rhymes.

Normal rhyme: cat / hat
Multi rhyme: my cat / hi-hat
Or a longer multi: bit my cat / hit the hi-hat

Rappers who use these style frequently are Ludacris, Papoose, Busta rhymes, Dizzie Rascal and Eminem.

[center]Why Should I Use Multies?[/center]

'Multies are hallmarks of all the dopest flows, and all the best rappers use them. They are more complex and more complex and more impressive than normal rhymes and so command a lot more respect. Multies add variation to your verse and will help you craft better rhymes.' - Escher.

[center]How Many Multies Should I Use[/center]
'That's up to you. Some rapprs use multies only occasionally, while others (like Eminem) rhyme almost exclusively with multies. Example is with Eminem's Lose Yourself and Papoose's Thug Connection.' - Escher

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
to drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting

- Eminem, Lose Yourself

My lyrical tendency's equivalent to a critical felony
Precise behind bars like a criminal's penalty
Pinnacle definitely, hold so much jewels in my miracle memory
It's like I'm a physical treasury
Deep into weaponry[b], psychotic Ni**as [b]who envy me
Wanna be nuts, so I bust nuts like my genitals sexually
Punished in my mother's stomach by swimming through Hennessy
I was born with a difficult destiny, not your typical mentally
Giving my vision through treacheries
Syllable therapy, invincible visual energy
No artist identity resemble me, I flow like a mineral chemically
Cause I flow with a chemical chemistry
I can flow like the river through Tennessee
The mystical seventh sea or currency at the Senegal embassy
At birth although it's umbilical regularly
They cut a mic chord and disconnected me
Leaders political threaten me for what I write in my lyrical melody
While others broke laws, I broke lyrical legacies
Flip forever, live for infinity, and respect the P
It's Papoose, I conquered this caliber, next degree

- Papoose, Thug Connection.

Example can also be seen in 'Trade it All RMX by Fabulous and Puff 'Man of Many Names' Daddy. I listen to Fab's first verse and was like 'Wow!' - there's the power of multies.

Hope you ge' it.


Bibliography
[list][li]The Rapper's Handbook[/li]
[li]Eminem - Lose Yourself[/li]
[li]Papoose - Thug Connection[/li]
[li]Fabolous - Trade It All RMX[/li][/list][/color]

[color=olive][center]Punchlines (a.k.a. Punches)[/center][/color]

[color=olive]Imagine that you're in a boxing ring and there's your opponent. He's being talkin' trash about whoopin' ya ass and all ya homz are with you and hailing all the way. The bell goes for round 1 and the crowd goes intense. You've got more people screamin the other guy's name and you're tryin' to get your due place in the match. You gots do what you gast do - throw Punches.

This is the same with rappin. In order to gain respect, you have to use punches. Punches - the short forms for punchlines - are the weapons of a battling rapper.

[center]What are punches?[/center]

"Punches are any phrases in your verse that diss(disrespect) your opponent. Punches can be general, broad attacks or personals." - quote from the Rapper's Handbook. Broad attacks are disses you can use on anyone while Personals are disses that are meant for a specific person, a direct diss - specific.

Whichever one it is, a punch has got to hit hard. If you got flows and you can rhyme like erm. . Jay-Z and you don't got punches, then you're a no-goer. You can never win or knock out your opponent if you don't jab a fist.

Check these examples I got from the Rapper's Handbook:

The tightest flow on the planet to prove i'm the best
I'm the illest king of the land, ruling the rest
No punch

The tightest flow on the planet to prove I'm the best
Yo flow's like thick mucus that get caught in yo chest
Broad punch

My flow's tight like your shirt, how can you breathe?
Your shirts got the right idea, I think it wants to leave
Personal punch - if your opponent is wearing a tight shirt

"Ideally, you want every line in your verse to be a punchline but the ones that really weigh are the first and the last lines - Openers and Closers." - Escher.

Also, avoid using broad punches. Make it personal, personal punches hit more and connect with the audience more. I'll also talk about punches in details later.[/color]


[color=olive]
Bibliography
[list][li]The Rapper's Handbook[/li][/list][/color]

[color=olive][center]Metaphors (and Similes)[/center]

Metaphors and similes are an advanced but very important part of rapping, especially when you're freestyling because this is the part that connects to the audience (second to punchlines, that is). They are often found in a rapper's funniest and cleverest lines. They define a rapper.

[center]Definitions of Metaphors[/center]

1. A figure of speech in which a word or a phrase is used for another of which it is an image. - Webster's Reference Library Concise Dictionary and Thesaurus.

2. A figure of speech in which a word or a phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" or "All the world's a stage" (Shakespare). - American Heritage Dictionary.

3.A metaphor is basically a creative comparison between two things. - The Rapper's Handbook.

All these definitions bore down to the same thing. The art of using metaphors is comparing words to create a better impression (to make it lucid and funny sometimes).

In schools, we're thought that Metaphors and Similes are different in the sense that Metaphors are comparisons using 'is' while similes are comparisons using 'as' or 'like'. In rap, most times they are both called METAPHORS.

Take a look at these lines:

Me without mics is like a beat without a snare
I'm sweet like licorice, dangerous like syphillis
- Lauryn Hill on 'How Many Mics'

Ooh, girl, your breath is harsh,
Cover your mouth up like you've got SARS
- Kanye West

Can you spot the words 'like' and 'is'? Those are metaphors.
Metaphors are best when you reference them to current events. . e.g. Inflation, Politics, Culture.

[center]Types of Metaphors[/center]

There are two types of metaphors - Simple metaphors and Metaphors with wordplay. I'll dissect this much later.


Bibliography
[list][li]Webster's Reference Library Concise Edition Dictionary and Thesaurus 2007[/li]
[li]Kanye West[/li]
[li]Lauryn Hill - How Many Mics[/li]
[li]The Rapper's Handook[/li][/list][/color]

[color=olive]@Crude,

Sorry, I'm a very busy peep now. . I'll do it when I can. I've done a lil' research bout what you asked me and here's how I see it.

The Elements of Rap

Intro
Rap is a means of expression. It is a genre of music that cuts across a vast people, especially among the US. Rap, as we all know, is different from Rap. It all depends on the elements of raps which are employed and they include:

[list][li]Metaphors[/li]
[li]Punchlines[/li]
[li]Wordplays[/li]
[li]Multis[/li]
[li]Vocabs[/li][/list]

I will explain in the succeeding threads.[/color]

[color=olive]I'll tell Seun[/color]

[color=olive]Cool. . But 'd have to do some research first inorder to be lucid. . [/color]

[color=olive]Flo Rida - Elevator[/color]

[color=olive]Yolanda Adams - I Believe
X-Project - Lorile[/color]

[color=olive]Modo ain't even concerned bout this but peeps are here nearly tearing their hairs out to prove a point. . how ironic![/color]

[color=olive]You're welcome[/color]

[color=olive]Damn. . y'all see why the new rule was made. There's more posts than the verses and none of them are votes. This is why battles don't get completed. I'ma add ma vote to this post when I'm done reading them[/color]

[color=olive]Yeah, you can rhyme as many bars as you want but every bar (two lines) have to rhyme[/color]

[color=olive]Hey. . Marycute. Welcome. . (Whatever happened to the Meeters 'n' Greeters on this side)[/color]

[color=olive]Y'all shouldin go insulting and yeah, maybe Nellydamz should have asked in the Religion or Romance Section cuz there'd be people to answer politely[/color]

[color=olive][center]NO OFF-TOPIC POSTS. THEY WOULD BE DELETED IMMEDIATELY. THANKS

_{Hey. . temper, temper, it's the new rules on battles. Because when people start posting freely, the verses won't be easy to locate. Example was on the last tourny. . I would have deleted those above too but they were before the rule was made and so that those that think I'm deleting them for my own good would see that I didn't delete Makavele's diss on me. . except he wants them to be taken out.} [/center][/color]

[color=olive]Crude,

It is bad to rhyme three lines because that in standard battle terms is 1.5 bars. Altho, in the real terms a bar is 4 beats - so it depends on whether you're on audio or text. But just to be on the safe side on text, rhyme four lines. For instance, check this:

I want to rhyme just three lines
I'm wondering if they gon rhyme
But it seems I'm running out of time
Switch the game up like a PS console

The rhyme scheme is A A A B which aint right except the next two bars are gon be the same way, e.g.

I want to rhyme just three lines A
I'm wondering if they gon rhyme A
But it seems I'm running out of time A
Switch the game up like a PS console B
Bleep catridges, i'm workin on Blu-ray C
Reincarnate myself like Babatunde C
God is gon show me the key today C
So I can unravel the stories untold B

Hope this is lucid enough. Just to be on the same side (since most people want direct rhyme schemes and can't be bothered to see the arrangment) make each bar rhyme.[/color]

[color=olive]Moyola, how Shasha side? All them Legacy pikin stil dey wakadugbo? To ya question. . you are IN the radio now. . you grab?

Now I got a mail sometimes sayin: Michael Jackson is dead. All una playa-haters. . what'z up wid that? MJ is alive o! For more info, check it here at: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/michael-jackson-dead.html .

So just a word of advice. A fool and his money are soon parted. Don't be penny-wise and pound-foolish. A rolling stone gathers no moss - an ambitious person is more successful than a person not trying to achieve anything. And never air your dirty laundry in the public.

And yeah, just shouting a HAPPY BUFFDAY to all Nairalanders that were born today, more years and grace and send una party cake o. . if una no do party, erm. . just akara will do. POSTAL ADDRESS: tba. . lol.

Hasta manana.[/color]

[color=olive]I wanted to be the one to rip Makavele's throat out but seems he might not stand the test. . ha

Goodluck, y'all[/color]

[color=olive][center]Yo. . This thread is now Updated and Closed[/center][/color]

[color=olive]Yo Brid. . May i suggest we use all the voting categories on this one : Metaphors, Punchlines, Personals, Rhymes, Flows, Multis, Wordplay, Structure, Creativity and Originality[/color]

[color=olive]Yo Brid. . May i suggest we use all the voting categories on this one : Metaphors, Punchlines, Personals, Rhymes, Flows, Multis, Wordplay, Structure, Creativity and Originality[/color]

[color=olive]Ibk. . What's good? You sabi shubz' jamz . . Lol. . But that squeeze her breast song is funny[/color]

[color=olive]May I inform those that don't know that the only hosts now are Chiccy and I. . There's no such person as an husband, either. . The girlz is flossin lyk candy[/color]

[color=olive]The Beat Down pre-lim doesn't need any poll. . it's a qualifying stage. . and the votes oin the main pre-lim will be decided by Hybrid-X and him alone. [/color]

this aint about a tourney ~ it's nothing but a journey
makavele will reach the end ~ so there's no need for me to worry
[color=olive]Cold opener. .' no isht in it[/color]

am da next lyrical illest ~ and am spitting ma ' lines on shaz
put 'em on the scale ~ her weight aint up to ma' bars
[color=olive]How do weight and bars correlate. . that's no punch.[/color]

i'ma go "boom" on her and make her my dog's bride
reduce her to nothingness and strip the hooker of her pride*
[color=olive]How can you go boom on someone one. . Makavele lacks the right use of words and he knows it. . he''ll find out in the beat down and he also lacks structure. .The last line of this bar was a punchline due to the use of wordplay. . that was the only place an element was used. . Makavele has no control over in-rhymes, multis, flows, metas and sims and personals[/color]

wack babe be getting paranoid, brain's empty~ but this is just the intro
am more explosive than TNT ~ aggresive than fans of WCW Nitro
[color=olive]Forced simile. . In all I'd give the verse a 4/10[/color]

[color=olive]Lol. . I don't laff at peeps lines because to be honest, it aint beans to bust 16s, people without the knowledge of the basics of rap usu make the mistake of thinkin it is. . [/color]


king crude, king dodo, you just a kid from outter space,
battling a self-acclaimed ace, is like fightin a lost case - u'll be left defaced,
erased,disgraced, like the rest of your wack-races - i'll leave u all debased,
[color=olive]This is one line short of two bars. . you can't just switch rhyme scheme in the middle of a bar. . punches and metas are there. .[/color]

calling me for battle(LOL), dude DO You think this was some WAR FILMS?
am REALITY Nikkur, am NOT some Jamie Foxxie on JAR HEADS,
You's a JOKER, charging at me like You got TIGER HEADS?
Am an ACE Nikkur, going to discharge u in a FLASH, am the illest RAP HEAD.
[color=olive]Just fillers[/color]

You is a Sewage, no need to waste time on you, i got a show to Catch,
my manager's callin, my fan's are waitin, its time to let the stage BLOW.
[color=olive]Fillers and no rhymes. . try using multis and in-rhymes. . Slant rhymes would do you good too[/color]

epilogue,
your not coming back,
ensured no post-attack,
bygone-be-bygone,
BANG!!!, CLICK!!!, BANG!!!,
You'll never mess with an Ogba Boy,
No more soilin of nairaland,
Rest in Pieces, some business needs my attention.

[color=olive]@Javaprince, sorry I am very busy, I'm just ruishin thingz through 4 y'all[/color]

yeah, yeah, the prince of rap is back,
all u wacks better disperse,
this a SARS letter, go on a adjust, or u might be d latter,
back to the former, hear dumb-ass, is been on d rattle,
[color=olive]Yo, you need to get your rhyme scheme goin and your flows too. . And yeah, your vocab - ain't no thin as a SARS letter[/color]
bitch quit the sulkin, this battle is uncalled for,
your not on my altitude, am way too fly for u to explore,
am a veteran at war, u just a post-thread fighter, a fake poster,
cheap nigga seekin publicity, u wouldn't even get that from your toaster,
[color=olive]Punches are embedded but they don't hit hard[/color]

2 minutes nikkur, comin at me, like i was the next gay on the roster,
pleease, don't make me child-molest u, i spit adult contents.
Am the Spartan warlord, my job is to extinct u,
lyrically emblaze u, blow your ashes to the cruising high-way,
then re-incarnate u, bless u, re-state u as a doorway,
make u an eye-opener for the upcomin wack-MCs,
diss a sample, a lesson, for the new generation,
the prince of rap is back, applaud in admiration,
in desperation, am sure, u want to do a comeback,
try to counterattack, now your defense is at my dispense,
too late to seek recompense, your dead now, no more pensions.
[color=olive]I lost the structure again. . But i read thruogh. . get your flows in gear. . the thing is you got the LL Cool J's sydrome - you waste most bars talkin bout you and wht you gon do that you end up not doin it, d'you get me?[/color]

[color=olive]Hey Chiccy. . guess we can spare some time. . lololol. .Okay, whathas changed? Erm. . maybe ma ID and I talk krazy(that aint really new) . . lol , Any yeah, I use double periods. When I mean 'periods', I aint talkin bout the red train, nahhhhhhh, I'm just bein 'Ame'. . they don't say fullstop maybe that's why they things don't go no fullstops. . lol. . ok, what's good, y'all?

I was on FB (u know that the social life has so much captured people now, that they spend half of their life watching other people's lives , una kno urselves. . Facebook, Myspace, Hi5, IMEEM, photo after photo, adding people you'll never get to kno and shit. . lol. . I kno you kno it's you i'm talkin bout). .Anyways, I was on Facebook and a friend posted this 'fantabulously fantastic' isht - A greek boy singing Gongo Aso, it was as if it was a Yoruba guy singing. . infact, him try pass 9ice. Check that here. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVFPGXVte4Y

I'm sure you'd see what I was sayin. . So if y'all say 'Nigerian songs are too silly, you won't catch me dead listening to them (Mr. Jayvin, I see you), you better get the nails screwed back into your head and keep those nice songs on your ringtone. . Talkin of tunes, Mode 9's got a nu joint with Banky W - Talkin 2 me abi wetin they call am - www. myspace.com/modenine.

Comedian of the month goes to this guy who's tried to impact good morals to the girls of England that are jumpin up and down doin 'toush ma borry'. . lol. . y'all gats see this b4 u start sayin that i'm the only one that sees the good stuff. . it's not my fault. . Meet my Lekan from Barking side . .okay, not now, I'll post the vid laters. .

Much props to y'all for stayin thru dis narrow 'broadcast'. . I'ma get back at cha. .

It's Shaz[/color]

[color=olive]Even his Wey Dem A Do since like last year. . cool thin. Check out Busy Signal too[/color]

[color=olive]Movado Rocks!

From his song - Never Stop Me (Jehovah Guide Me) ft. Jay-Z down to 'Squeeze her' . . his bash man tunes are hits. . i'll post links when i can[/color]