Rapper's Music Theory

All the music theory a rapper needs to know in order to make good flows. What beats are, how to count them, what syncopation is, and so on.

The accompanying hand-out is below:

-->How to get a better sense of rhythm: Rap along to everything you hear while rapping beats.

Follow this increasingly difficult series of songs to become a better rapper:

1.     NWA – Express Yourself

2.     Eminem – Way I Am

3.     Kanye West – jesus Walks

4.     Hypnotize – Biggie

5.     Mos Def - Mathematics

6.     How We do – 50 cent/game

7.     Busta Rhymes - Holla

8.     Eminem – What’s the difference

9.      Outkast  – aquemini, 2^nd verse

10. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, MAAD city song

Don't get discouraged! Try to make this song of Eminem recording, starting at 3:03, with the same man who raps, "Zoning off of one joint / stopping a limo, hopped in the window / shopping a demo at gunpoint." He is one of the unquestionable GOATs, but he had to start somewhere.

early eminem song on youtube