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A newsletter of insights, tips, tricks, and reflections on mastering rap for growth-minded rappers who value the craft over career. rhymemastersjournal.substack.com
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Pivot Rhymes: How One Word Can Open the Next Path (opens the original)
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Sometimes the mind gets stuck on one sound. That happens in writing. It happens in freestyling. It happens in regular life too. You find a pattern that works, then the pattern starts to feel like a wall. The same sound repeats. The same thought repeats. The same move repeats. I noticed this while looking at a set of bars that came through my journal: Hopelessness amplified to keep eyes on demise Line of sight, crash site, unless pupils aim high Slide to the horizon… The long “I” sound was carryi
What If Wellbeing Is the Real Survival Skill? (opens the original)
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In this video, I’m reflecting on what it means to protect and practice wellbeing in a time where hopelessness feels amplified. There is a lot of uncertainty in the world right now. You can hear it in conversations. You can feel it online. You can sense it in the way people talk about the future. And when so much is changing so quickly, fear starts to make sense. But I keep asking myself: Is fear the state I want to live from? This is not about pretending everything is fine. It is not about ignor
Pursuit of Mastery Feels Good (opens the original)
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There’s something that feels good about the pursuit of mastery. In this Short, I’m reflecting on the process of taking stand-up comedy classes, doing open mics, and building a five-minute set I felt confident enough to deliver. It reminded me of basketball back in middle school and high school. Back then, I was pushing myself from a sense of lack, thinking I had to work twice as hard or four times as hard just to be good enough. But over time, I’ve started to notice something different. The prac
Rap is Not a Sport (opens the original)
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Rap is not a sport. Poetry is not a sport. Storytelling is not a sport. Competitions can be useful. They raise the stakes, bring people together, and give the audience a clear reason to care. Somebody wins, somebody loses, and that creates a story around the art. But the competition is just the format. The real goal is not only technical skill. You can have flawless rhymes, rhythm, cadence, and schemes, and still not move anybody. At the end of the day, rap has to make people feel something. To
Improve Your Rap Vocab: My Simple Tips for Better Freestyles & Verses (opens the original)
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Want to improve your rap vocabulary and stop using the same rhymes over and over? In this video, I share simple tips for building your rap vocab, expanding your rhyme bank, and bringing more of the words you already know into your freestyles and written verses. One thing to remember: your speaking vocabulary is probably bigger than your rapping vocabulary. You use words in everyday conversation that you may have never used in a freestyle or rap before. The goal is to start noticing those words,
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