When you start rapping you can use the musicians that you listen to to gauge how long it's going to take for you to get good. If you listen to 2 Chains, Trinidad, Waka, Lil B, Boosie and a lot of street rappers it won't take you very long to figure out your style because their rapping styles are so simple. So you could be rapping for a year or two and you'll be good enough to gain the audience that those guys have. But if you listen to the best to ever do it, rappers like Eminem, Kanye, Rakim, Biggie, Pac, Jay Z, Big Daddy Kane, Nas, J. Cole Big L, Tech 9 and so on it will take you YEARS to get good enough. Damn near a decade at the earliest. Because those guys flows and styles are way more complex than say a Trinidad James.
Being a musician is just trying to make music as good as your own personal taste in music. The better taste in music that you have and the more genres you listen to the longer it will take for your music to get to a level were that audience will like it. So my flow took a lot longer than my homie Stixx's flow. He figured his flow out way before mine because his is simpler. He only listens to R&B and Rap. I listen to Rap, Rock, Alternative Rock, Classic Rock, some EDM, Pop, pretty much anything but Country. I even listen to more rappers than he does. So my style is so complex. He found what he liked and he learned how to do it as best as he could. He still pisses me off to this day tho because he uses the same flow on every song lol but that's on him. That's what his favorite rappers do. So he doesn't think that it's an issue. Like using Stixx as an example he doesn't use external rhyme schemes, complex rhyme schemes, or change his pattern every four bars, and shit like that because none of his favorite rappers do. So it only took him about 3 years to figure his shit out. He didn't have to learn about cadence and other techniques like I had to because my favorite rappers are more complex than his and they use those traits in their songs. So I had to learn them. It took me nearly triple that time. Because all of my favorite rappers are versatile and have multiple flows.
Same with a rappers beat selection. The better rapper you are, the "worse" your beats are going to be to the majority of people. The less skilled a rapper is, like Waka, the better his beats have to be because he can't rap for shit. That's why people always complain and say that Nas has bad beats. He doesn't have to rap to "hard" beats like Young Thug has to because he can actually rap. #rappers #knowledge #puttingthemupongame
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