“Mumble rap” is a form of rap where rappers utter indecipherable lyrics. If so, does it mean that rap and hip-hop are declining? The divisive nature of the current state of hip-hop raises the question of whether the criticism it has been receiving is warranted. Recently, the lyrical style “mumble rap” has gained popularity among listeners, blurring the lines of what the standard for quality is in modern day hip-hop. Older listeners of hip-hop criticize the current state of the music genre and blame new hip-hop artists. Now, over 40 years have passed since hip-hop’s beginning, and it seems as if hip-hop has been split down the middle between its listeners. The music genre has morphed since merging with mainstream society, as a myriad of different artists have adopted hip-hop and made it their own sound. The definition of hip-hop has changed since its birth in 1973 at a birthday party on the West side of the Bronx, New York City. (Insert TikTok clip here when you’re not too lazy to find it.“Lil Yachty” by Anton Mak is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) I’m about to give you the best flow you ever wanted.Īn awesome example of this is when you hear that TikTok video that goes “Dah dah da da Dah dA da da Dah da da” haha lemme just play it for you. I’m going to write 3 tracks with you using this method so you can get a look over the shoulder if the creation process that goes into this.Īnd then how to transform the mumbles and scribbles into a ridiculous sing that sounds really, really dope. Maybe make sure no-one is around you the first time you try this haha. I’m telling it just happens as you do it.Īnd write down what you feel sounds good to you. I’m learning what combinations of vowels and consonants and pauses and sharp and soft consonants or stressed syllables or change of pitch here or there. I’m just saying gibberish that sounds good over the beat. Training all the different types is imperative to change it up and keep a variety.īlack thought handpicked roll right in the leep Lome I find certain people have a tendency to lean toward certain vowel and consonant combinations. Let’s go through some common gibberish and mumble combinations I’ve used before to get desired results. The choice of consonance is SO ridiculously important, yet gets overlooked.Ĭertain placement can really affect the flow. ![]() You can bend consonants to fit the way you want them too. The sharp sounds of the T or the K cannot be replaced by a B sound and so on. Thats mainly because you are forgetting about the importance that consonants play. I love humming melodies, but when you add words it gets all messed up and sounds different. When you hum your bars out in your head, you have less control over the phonetic matching with the beat. That doesn’t mean you don’t need to know how to write dope content that fits into the bars. There is a progression that happens over practicing with the method and doing different things with it. But that’s something I teach you with this technique. You do have to have some interesting voice inflection to make it fun. If I teach you how to mumble rap, you can make the rap music you always wanted.īut in rap, you don’t have to know how to sing. In a completely new and different way than anyone has ever taught before. ![]() Pitch changes based on vowel inflections.īut I figured out a way to take all of that stuff and jam it into one technique to learn how to rap.And for some reason, whatever flow I had in my head didn’t sound the same when I chose words to go with it. I never understood how to write my flows. I mean rappers generally do this when they write raps.īut I am going to teach you the ins and outs of turning those mumbles into dope rap lyrics. Which means that if I can teach you HOW to make your mumbles sound dope, you could rap dope. There’s a reason mumble rap has become popular.īUT, I still say it’s the lazy rappers way out of putting thought into their words.Īnyone can learn to mumble words around and make them sound good.
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