How To Rap:

THE TAKEOVER

CODE

What You Can Learn from the Greatest Rappers Ever about

Hustle and Work Ethic• Most Rappers Biggest Problem: LACK of

Work Ethic

• Envision Your “Average Rapper” In Reality

• What do the BEHAVIORS of a great MC look like? 2Pac, Eminem, Lil’ Wayne, Kanye West, etc.

Spy on the Greats to Transfer Their Success to You

• Listen like a STUDENT, listen like a PEER… don’t listen like a FAN

• Drew’s Story About How To Study The Greats• EVERY SONG can be broken down

• Song Structure

• Flow

• EMOTION (as opposed to simply delivery)

• In comparison to other parts of their career <-Important

How to Use Daily Drills to Pimp out Your Rhymes

Shower Practice The one place that you’re almost guaranteed to be alone

Can practice MOST of the major parts of being a great MC (flow, rhymes, vocal tone, etc.)

You sound GREAT

Public Verses The one place that you’re almost guaranteed to be alone

Can practice MOST of the major parts of being a great MC (flow, rhymes, vocal tone, etc.)

You sound GREAT

Secret Weapon to Memorize Rap Lyrics to Perform like a Pro in the Studio or on Stage

• The Rule of 18:• Anything you perform eighteen times will get memorized in your brain

• QuestLove of The Roots Fame• Even after performance 10-11 you will almost have it down

How to Perform in Any Situation to Instantly Gain Fans

• The average fan does not know as much you do about how to perform

• Proper memorization along with the three KEY’s of performance are guaranteed to garner respect

How to Perform in Any Situation to Instantly Gain Fans

• The Three Key’s To Live Performance• Voice • Eye Contact• Proper Delivery of Rhymes

• Memorization• Ease of flow when freestyling

How to Unlock the Hidden Skills of the Greats to Become a Rap Legend Yourself

1. Impersonations

2. Practicing Their Flow As If It Was Your Own

3. …and then writing the same in your own voice

4. Being willing to STEP AWAY from your influences when it’s time

Discover the Power of Flow to Unleash Your Hidden Creative Powers

• Drew’s SECRETS To Flow• KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID

• Start with your baseline fundamental flow AND THEN BUILD it up over time

• Action Step: Write a simple flow, and then write a more complex flow on verse 2, and then go NUTS on verse 3

How to Switch the Flow to Overpower Your Audience with Swag

• Easiest CHEAT CODE To Switch The Flow:• Separate your “flows” into 4 bar segments

• Write four bars in a certain flow

• STOP

• Write another four bars in another flow (even if it takes hours)

• STOP

• Rinse and repeat

Crack the Code of Your Unique Style so You're Heard over All Your Competitors

• Identify what in YOUR story has not been told in rap music yet• How To Rap’s story: Identifying a NEED

• The Internet = Billions of people… many of whom have your same background

• MOST rappers are trying to sound like each other

• ACTION STEP: What in your story is totally unique that can be told?

How to Switch the Flow to Overpower Your Audience with Swag

• Easiest CHEAT CODE To Switch The Flow:• Separate your “flows” into 4 bar segments

• Write four bars in a certain flow

• STOP

• Write another four bars in another flow (even if it takes hours)

• STOP

• Rinse and repeat

Flow Mastery Most of your day-to-day “practice” should be flow

related Day-to-Day Drills: Performing classic flows on other beats Performing YOUR flows on other beats Freestyling as an agent of FLOW ACTION STEP: Force yourself to freestyle/and write to

the beats YOU DON’T LIKE

Vocal DynamicsThe ideal rap voice is a mixture of

“sounding louder than you are” One of the most common problems with

rappers voices: in ability to go from HIGH TO LOW in a song

Spiking of EMOTIONSWillingness to INSERT YOUR VOICE into a

conversation your audience is already having

Rhyme Building

Building a RHYME VAULT(The secret hit-list)

Multi-syllable… two columns and “the alphabet trick”

Practicing in freestyling Action Step: Fill two pages full of

rhyme schemes and practice them in your next flow

Freestyling

Keep it simple stupid“The 40 Ways” Game

There are 40 different ways to describe the same thing

Involving The Audience as a way to build the fun and take pressure off of yourself

“FUCK IT I’LL RAP ON ANY BEAT” – Drew’s Hidden Trick

Demonstration of Concepts

Question and Answer

Thank You!!!

Special Offers