How To Write Rap Punchlines: The 5 Wordplay Secrets EVERY Rapper Knows

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  • In today’s video, we’re going to show you the 5 secrets to knowing how to write a rap punchline while rhyming basically every bar and the 5 secrets to rap wordplay will include live examples with actual rap punchlines and music throughout this training!
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    TIMESTAMPS:
    0:00 Introduction
    0:47 Secret #1 “Soundalikes
    1:17 How To Write Rap Punchlines Example #1
    1:54 Pro-Tip: Similes Work Well With These Punchlines
    3:07 How To Write Rap Punchlines Example #2
    3:12 Secret #2: Prefix Play
    3:55 Wordplay and Lyric Course
    4:10 How To Write Rap Punchlines Example #3
    4:47 Secret #3: Double-Entendres (Double Meanings)
    5:20 How To Write Rap Punchlines Example #4
    6:52 Secret #4 Expressions / Idioms
    7:47 How To Write Rap Punchlines Example #5
    8:30 Secret #5 Bring It All Together
    8:44 How To Write Rap Punchlines Example #6
    10:02 Comment and Get Your Wordplay Course!
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    ARTICLE ON HOW TO WRITE RAP PUNCHLINES AND IMPROVE RAP WORDPLAY: rapgamenow.com/how-to-write-r...
    Although this might seem like an intimidating task to not only learn but to reproduce yourself…
    We’re confident that after having coached 1,000’s of rappers from around the world personally as well as having close to half a million subscribers on our channel “How To Rap”…
    …That if you’ve been looking an easy-to-follow guide on the science.
    Of rap wordplay and how to accomplish the act of learning how to write rap punchlines while rhyming every bar…
    This will be an excellent step-by-step roadmap for you from beginning to end, so let’s get into it.
    The first secret to knowing how to write a rap punchline and improving your rap wordplay is using a lot of what we like to call, “soundalikes”…
    …Which the academic (or school term) is known as a homonym.
    These are two words that have different means but may sound exactly when spoken (or in this case) rapped aloud.
    Can you identify where the “soundalike” phrase is? There’s a hint in the Marley reference…
    Boom: the word “here” is a soundalike for “hair”. They’re used as homonyms in this case.
    Therefore when the song says: “I belong here like a Marley” the wordplay is in the soundalike for HAIR… hence “I belong hair like a Marley”.
    Similes Work Well With Soundalikes
    The simile “like a Marley” is the hint there’s wordplay in there, and utilizing similes along with soundalikes packs a powerful punch.
    They improve the chances both that your listener will “catch” the line, and that you can have a humorous lyrical connection with the bar.
    Later in the track, there’s a bar that goes… “It’s still process, so I talk less… I got to make the grams last like I’m Aubrey” with the soundalike being ‘gram’ as in scientific grams for that stuff…
    …And Graham as in the LAST name of Aubrey Graham… also known as Drake.
    ARTICLE ON HOW TO WRITE RAP PUNCHLINES AND IMPROVE RAP WORDPLAY CONTINUED: rapgamenow.com/how-to-write-r...
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  • @HowToRapOfficial
    @HowToRapOfficial  2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    COMMENT: Can you think of any examples of the secrets from your FAVORITE rapper’s punchlines?

    • @brokenx354
      @brokenx354 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sir i purchased rap Tycon course but the link isn’t working I’ve sent the ss and everything on your mail please check it’s a request I’ve been trying to contact you from last 4 days but no one replied 🙏

    • @notzeethatcomin966
      @notzeethatcomin966 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I kinda have a better understanding. The problem that I had was trying to make sum wordplay that isn't "corny"
      Wordplay somethin like sean p, Pharoah monch style

    • @TheVisioneye
      @TheVisioneye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@notzeethatcomin966 It's not hard as it seems. I was the same way. To sum it up, think of word, associations, punchline.
      1. Word - plugs
      2. Association - flat screen/ cable box/ game system
      3. Punchline - connected with more plugs than flat screens.
      Having ties with people and also flat screens are connected with lots of plugging to work the TV.

    • @notzeethatcomin966
      @notzeethatcomin966 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheVisioneye right right I had one that I had battled this dude with and told him
      "Only projects you've seen are high school science fairs

    • @TheStampeder
      @TheStampeder ปีที่แล้ว

      @@notzeethatcomin966 check Out Èl Stampede

  • @tyalexandre2793
    @tyalexandre2793 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Amazing video bro. A wordplay I can think of is one from J.Cole he went “I be staying out the way but if the beef do come around, could put a m right on your head, you louigie brother now”

    • @HowToRapOfficial
      @HowToRapOfficial  2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah that was hard!

    • @lex_one9
      @lex_one9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That joint was hard af

    • @darkskinwhite
      @darkskinwhite 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ah yes, louigie

    • @wizardofounces
      @wizardofounces 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@darkskinwhite he ment Luigi bruh he probably 8

    • @InfernalNiteWolf
      @InfernalNiteWolf ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How you spell the easiest spelling of a name so wrong 😂

  • @saneleonly
    @saneleonly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    toughest bar i ever wrote using double entendre and idioms "all blood turns thin when I wash my hands" as in blood is thicker and wash my hands as in "I'm done with you"

  • @darkskinwhite
    @darkskinwhite 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    when I was 13 I wrote "I'm the coldest whether you cough or not" lol. sounds amateur now but my brother had to point out the triple entendre to me I didn't even catch my own shit.
    cold *weather* gives you a cold, you cough when you have a cold, but at the time I wrote it I was thinking more like I say I'm the best and some other rapper clears his throat lol
    a lot of my best shit like that from back then up to today even happened on accident.

    • @TheVisioneye
      @TheVisioneye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nah simple minds wouldn't catch that. I knew whether was pronounced as weather and the cough part too 🔥🍫

    • @darkskinwhite
      @darkskinwhite 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheVisioneye yeah it's not so special now but when I was 12-13 I thought I was Nas 😂

    • @TheVisioneye
      @TheVisioneye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@darkskinwhite Yeah I grew up on him too, the rap poet. And your punchline not weak, because of the associations with it. If you have passion in punchline writing like me, you would know by structure, would need more flavor to it.

    • @darkskinwhite
      @darkskinwhite 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheVisioneye well the subject isnt bad but the way its worded just comes off as amateur. I could recycle that line & make it dope though forsure.
      & yeah Nas taught me how to rap straight up

    • @TheVisioneye
      @TheVisioneye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@darkskinwhite Yeah absolutely could. But try not to make recycling punchlines a habit. Just be very rare with it, I like to be creative with different nouns and write a clever bar around it. But I've recycled some wordplays I've used before, a thought in the moment thing sometimes

  • @xavzerrek2743
    @xavzerrek2743 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been watching this video every day, but today I came back just to listen to your bars 🔥

  • @DbpLukcy
    @DbpLukcy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The gifts in the clause was clean

  • @aPrimarySource
    @aPrimarySource 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    NF
    Outcast
    Been a year and a half, feels like it's gone forever
    Ain't no drink in my hand, but you know the buzz is comin'
    I'm high off the music, my head's in the clouds
    I kinda like it up here, I am not comin' down
    I take a hundred and staple it right to my tongue
    I always put the money where my mouth's at
    Got me thinkin' that I'm cookin' in a meth lab
    How I'm blowin' up in front of my own eyes
    You ain't ever seen no drive like mine, better hop outta my car
    NF - Clouds
    Ripping the teeth out of the back of my mouth's
    The closest you get to my wisdom

    • @cj_8teen
      @cj_8teen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      NF - When I grow up
      I just wanna make a meal
      Huh? Make a 'mil?
      Nah, I said make a meal
      Home cooking, get the grill
      How you want it pretty well?

    • @cj_8teen
      @cj_8teen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I understand you gotta crawl before you get to your feet.
      But I've been running for a while they ain't ready for me

    • @TheVisioneye
      @TheVisioneye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Moves to let us (Lettuce) in the door for the cheese.
      Without cutting onions just to catch up (ketchup), no need.
      Ain't no vegetable (dummy) with white, do I get cream? Yes.
      Rising from sand which comes with more beef than Big Mac's.

    • @TheVisioneye
      @TheVisioneye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      All apart of the Big Mac theme. 🔥✍️😬

    • @data2062
      @data2062 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      “I’ve been crunchin numbers, you ain’t gotta be a mathematician.
      To see the odds ain’t rooting for me”
      One of my faves

  • @po3ticjusticemusic381
    @po3ticjusticemusic381 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is the next step I’m tryna perfect

  • @CartmanB
    @CartmanB ปีที่แล้ว

    Bro your Bars are!!!!🔥🔥🔥

  • @aPrimarySource
    @aPrimarySource 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video

  • @JuniorChante
    @JuniorChante 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lmao I just came across this video randomly and I think this gonna mean a lot

  • @tonespacespace
    @tonespacespace 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "I hustle cold when winter fall (Winterfall), so drag on (dragon) and let ya brain get blown/
    slang bass and ball (baseball) cause I pitch further, in this game of thrown (Game Of Thrones)/
    you boo'd with that same ole song, mine you can play again Sam/
    it'll open up cheers (Cheers), so leave the game alone (Leave the game [Sam] Malone)"
    Quick reminder: Sam Malone opened up Cheers because he had to retire from Professional Baseball.
    -Tone Space
    One of my (somewhat) throwaway lines that I just haven't figured how to format into a song yet.

    • @TheVisioneye
      @TheVisioneye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dope writing 🔥✍️🍫. Same difficulty. When jotting punchlines now, read them like I'm flowing on beat to make it fit

    • @tonespacespace
      @tonespacespace 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheVisioneye thanks yo. Thats why I find (today's) Battle Rap super easy for bombarding bars. You don't need a beat or cadence.

    • @adoreTariq
      @adoreTariq ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dammnnnnnn this is cold ,my jaw just dropped 😮

    • @tonespacespace
      @tonespacespace ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adoreTariq thank you!

    • @johnbarfield4340
      @johnbarfield4340 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      OK I really like it. It’s actually extremely clever and extremely good. That is a good job on your part but don’t make it obvious. Let the listeners figure it out don’t make it obvious that just ruined the surprise and curiosity,

  • @chilechile4458
    @chilechile4458 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Now you know why conscious rap isn't just playing with words.

  • @darkskinwhite
    @darkskinwhite 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    one thing that ive always kind of done naturally is theres probably a word in your last line that can spark the next line. so instead of thinking wordplay first, you have a line and then roll it into the next one, and that way wordplay actually becomes a tool for content/subject matter to keep you writing.
    may not work for everyone, we all think differently but next time you're stuck on a line look for a word you can flip in your last line🤘

    • @SupeDonGH
      @SupeDonGH 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't get you well bro

  • @Pressplay_Media_EU
    @Pressplay_Media_EU ปีที่แล้ว

    wombat is a great example of this homonym tactic and so is this one guy, Chillinit - they will say 3 completely different phrases back-to-back and you'll mistake it for them repeating them self and you'll think they said the same thing 3 times, until you listen to it again and again, slowly getting notes of the differences.. unless you read the lyrics, you still might not get it and that's what can throw a listener off, because it's way over their head

  • @moe5935
    @moe5935 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This shit lit bruh💪🔥

  • @rybcaje
    @rybcaje 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    you're goated

  • @brotherabdul601
    @brotherabdul601 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yo Drew what's the name of the song? You sound phenomenal

  • @briannkosi5892
    @briannkosi5892 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Common on LA leakers: "Wrinkles on time till I met my Tony Starks form. And straightened it out, Iron Man" Extremely beautiful writing 💎

  • @studentofthesaviors.o.s
    @studentofthesaviors.o.s 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    PreFix play
    Number 1 is where I'm headed to cause I'm bueno ¿y tu?
    I'm too nice times two better at spitting like tuuu (spit sound)

  • @DavelosantosDave-sn2xz
    @DavelosantosDave-sn2xz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Man this shit gonna help

  • @x101xMACHINE
    @x101xMACHINE 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    another mad vid, thank you!! 🙏
    eminem - little red engine
    "i be on a higher plane in aerospace, with so much leg-room and air space on this airplane, unlike you 'cause you're on a flight too, but its a staircase"

  • @aPrimarySource
    @aPrimarySource 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    nice

  • @zhoobeenmusic1870
    @zhoobeenmusic1870 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude this vid was soooo bad ass

  • @KayFlowidity
    @KayFlowidity 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:50 👌👌👌
    3:05 Prefix Play
    4:50 Double Entendre
    6:50 Idioms
    8:35 Summary

  • @OverthrowMedia
    @OverthrowMedia 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    clause could be a tripple if you think about your hands

  • @theadvocatespodcast
    @theadvocatespodcast 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    in the example song. It sounds like he comes in ahead of the snare .. I. E. Off beat....

  • @kloopsgram237
    @kloopsgram237 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m early man

  • @khktre1485
    @khktre1485 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can second the breakdown in this video. I used nothing but doubles in the chorus of my most recent song "Metaphors"
    "Put instrumentals in a casket, I'm a dead beat
    I'm sonning all of these rappers, they still ain't seeing me
    My punchlines and wordplay is kind of hard to meet
    Don't entertain no beef, cause your putting your life at steak with T"
    Dead Beat/Beat (Deadbeat dad)
    Meet/Beef/Steak/T
    The very next line had "I'll break your bones" to tie back into T-Bone Steak.
    I'm somewhat just going on a small rant, but my point is that doubles are a neat way to challenge yourself, especially if you're like me where multi-syllabic rhyming is not your best, so work more on your wordplay and punchlines. It's also the reason this chorus says "My punchlines and wordplay is kind of hard to meet" since I'm actually not that good at doing wordplay people can catch but I'm very good at making punchlines, be it basic or complex. Thanks for reading all of this if you did.

  • @studentofthesaviors.o.s
    @studentofthesaviors.o.s 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sound alike homonym. If you were in a rap battle with Drew
    (Quesadilla)
    This burner hot, grill him like cook out recipes
    *This K see D of* course. Fry him for the bread and cheese.

  • @dylanradtke
    @dylanradtke 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So I'm a rapper. And i appreciate this video. But I'm realizing that all these examples are not things that excite me as a consumer of rap music. When eminem puts these double meanings in his new songs, I don't get excited over it. I don't personally like listening to lyrics that take tons and tons of dissection to fully get it and appreciate it. I like straightforward and easy to follow lyrics while using multi syllable rhymes. So that's what I do in my own songs.

    • @coldloner7453
      @coldloner7453 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yo some good advice is just do you, do what you like and want. You don’t need to know wordplay as a rapper unless you want to be consider a real MC. And you are right that the average listener isn’t looking for wordplay but instead flows and rhymes.

    • @dylanradtke
      @dylanradtke 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@coldloner7453 true that thank you man

    • @MC-jn9kv
      @MC-jn9kv 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wordplays are in Details That's Nas Way!

    • @BiLLUJ3VN
      @BiLLUJ3VN 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      A lot of rappers out here making it without using complex lyrics,, so just do u, aint no rules in this bih!!

  • @249budz
    @249budz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    that track is fire tho

  • @kennethbrown5631
    @kennethbrown5631 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “Onto another subject, I’m moving forward but I’m so reluctant, we do the spinning (spending) here so fuck a budget. 12 put warrants on us so I gotta duck the public. Most wanted, back roads, I’m in a ‘97 Cutlass.” - me

  • @DatingInsight
    @DatingInsight 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bro this video got me confused
    I have been learning paunch line from this channel since but here am lost

  • @forever-kq6mf
    @forever-kq6mf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Maan tell us how to make a complete song, all info like
    Do we first write rap or listen to beats....

    • @notzeethatcomin966
      @notzeethatcomin966 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Both u can write first then match the beat to ur flow. Or vice versa

    • @HowToRapOfficial
      @HowToRapOfficial  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That what was literally the last video we did 2 days ago: th-cam.com/video/fjqKtlWeu5o/w-d-xo.html

    • @MarkMcCray-gg3wx
      @MarkMcCray-gg3wx 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s whatever inspires you. If you have a hard time starting writing listen to a sentence or even another song completely and write your response to the vocal sample or your own version of a whole song you listened to, kinda like a response to a song that has already been made.

  • @studentofthesaviors.o.s
    @studentofthesaviors.o.s 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Double entendres.
    Got weight so I can flex now ain't nobody Son-ing me
    Covered in ice like Post workout recovery

  • @AzadAgalzad
    @AzadAgalzad 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can anybody say me who wrote song named never coming down

  • @TheVisioneye
    @TheVisioneye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I use soundalikes a lot in my raps. Nowadays how animals give up they temple, run (Temple Run) from them birds.
    To go nuts, drop all men (Almond), clumsy with these seeds.
    Starving, why would my ass sit (acid)? Hunger, trying stomach nigga. Punchlines from songs I've written

  • @kennethbrown5631
    @kennethbrown5631 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “Check his pulse for an empty vessel
    Ahead of schedule bringing hail gone check the weather
    I play whatever’s clever
    to survive I gotta keep some extra heavy metal
    Start some shit that’s never settled
    Dope getting peddled
    Profit getting buried nigga gone get the shovel
    Do this shit for sport so bitch gimme me my gold medal
    Keep the convo private so the feds don’t meddle
    hustle on another level” - Me “kick in da door freestyle

  • @videnvi
    @videnvi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I belong here like marley
    Gotta be the funniest and corniest TH-cam bar ever lmao

  • @onlymusic1988
    @onlymusic1988 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    what's the name of this song

  • @zodiacmartnio7256
    @zodiacmartnio7256 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That’s easy for me to create a punchlines

  • @Burroughs479
    @Burroughs479 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    💎💎💎

  • @forever-kq6mf
    @forever-kq6mf 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Juice WRLD

  • @Cornelius-dp5nv
    @Cornelius-dp5nv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    spit out the venom
    am a real life villain
    I mean long as am eating
    give a fuck bout what you feeling...

  • @thekingofbars32
    @thekingofbars32 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like doing random punchlines that nobody thinks of like i said in one of my songs "Epidural stabbed me so imma f*ckin stab back step up in a Verzuz i'll turn u all to Hashtags"

  • @OpenizeMusic
    @OpenizeMusic ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought it was clause on the first one

  • @philmomslim526
    @philmomslim526 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    We gotta network fam I got some ideas for u

  • @DewaveProductions
    @DewaveProductions ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These aren’t secrets

  • @brokenx354
    @brokenx354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sir i purchased rap Tycon course but the link isn’t working I’ve sent the ss and everything on your mail please check it’s a request I’ve been trying to contact you from last 4 days but no one replied 🙏

    • @HowToRapOfficial
      @HowToRapOfficial  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Howtorapinfo@gmail.com is our correct support email

    • @brokenx354
      @brokenx354 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HowToRapOfficial thank you bro 🙏 I’ve sent all the information, waiting for your response

  • @boinecastillo7455
    @boinecastillo7455 ปีที่แล้ว

    AYE yo I gets dirty when I shower mc'z wit clean bars no joke! Cuz I spray punchlines that hit ! while u couldn't hold jail time to a string Bruh all you do is drop the soap