You Don’t Need To Be a Great Lyricist To Be A Rap Artist

These days, the rap industry has been full of spectators calling rappers “trash” and “wack”. The rise of “mumble rap” has been a very frustrating thing for the older guys who have been listening to rap since it had originated.

They complain that newer rappers only talk about drugs, money and women in their music these days.

Rappers like Eminem, J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar are still going strong in the mainstream rap industry but it seems that they don’t have as much hold over the rap game as they could if this was somewhere in the early 2000s.

That is not to say that they don’t have any success. They do. But rappers like Lil Uzi Vert and Young Thug seem to be having almost the same amount of success with less than half of the hardwork put into lyricism.

Is It About Awards or Money?

If you look at it properly, then this is the main question when choosing between being a lyrical rapper and being a mumble rapper. If you want to have lots of accolades in the rap community and also at billboard awards and other award shows of the sort then yes, being a lyrical rapper could be an option.

Look at Kendrick Lamar: he won a Pulitzer prize for his 2017 album, “DAMN.”. J. Cole has recently topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart with his newest album “The Off Season”. So there is a lot of possibilities when choosing this path. It’s not a bad one but it’s certainly harder than just rapping about drugs, money, and girls.

But the fact remains that you could still get the same effect with less than 50% of the effort on your part.

Lil Uzi Vert had 42 songs on the Billboard Top 100 in the second week of his album release, which was the first week of his deluxe album release. Lil Baby reportedly made $19 Million from his most recent album “My Turn” and his song “Drip Too Hard” with Gunna is well on it’s way to going Diamond in the U.S.

So Then What Do You Do?

There is no single path to success in the rap game and there are a lot of methods to getting there. The secret lies in knowing where your strengths and weaknesses lie, and taking it from there.

If you know that your vocabulary is huge and making eyebrow-raising punchlines seem almost effortless then do that.

If you have trouble with words but you have a knack for smooth melodies then go for the trap aesthetic.

Point is, do what you do best and leave the hard work for those who do that effortlessly. And don’t forget to listen to lots of music in your genre. They will give you ideas and motivate you by showing you that those artists have been successful with that style and if they can do it then so can you.