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p class=KonaBodya href=http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kurtydurty1 target=_blankKool G Rap /a was intervied about his new booka href=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1556528167?ie=UTF8amp;tag=hi09-20amp;linkCode=as2amp;camp=1789amp;span class=posible_changer id=spin_83 onclick=ShowSpinOptions(83)creative/span=390957amp;creativeASIN=1556528167 target=_blankemHow tonbsp;/ememRap:The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC/em/a. The following are previously unreleased highlights from that interview, covering his story-rap writing methods, writing to the beat, writing on a phone, recording, and his thoughts on todayrsquo;s emcees, such as a href=http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kurtydurty1 target=_blankKurty Durty/a./p
p class=KonaBodyAs the conversation did not appear in the book, authornbsp;Paul Edwardsnbsp;exclusively provided HipHopDX with insights to the mind, method and techniques for a true master. Those interested should note: Kool G Rap also penned the Foreward to the increasingly popular book ./p
p class=KonaBodystrongInterview by Paul Edwards/strong/p
p class=KonaBodystrongHow to Rap:/strong Do you have a set process when yoursquo;re writing lyrics?/p
pstrongKool G Rap:/strong I wouldnrsquo;t actually say there is a set process, itrsquo;s me just trying to go in that zone. I just try to zone out and let the beat tell me exactly what should be situated on it and let the beat give me the lyrics.br /br /Each track calls for something different, whether itrsquo;s a flow, whether itrsquo;s a subject matter, whatever it is. Some tracks call for you to be a little more hyper, some tracks call for you to fall back a little more and to just talk to them.br /strongbr /How to Rap: /strongDo you write everything down on paper?br /strongKool G Rap:/strong Now I donrsquo;t use paper, I type now. It took a long time to do that transformation, but I finally got the transformation to typing now.br /br /I just type in my phone, I donrsquo;t really type on the laptop or nothing like that because whorsquo;s gonna lug a big laptop around with them everywhere, so I just type in my Sharp Sidekick. I can go to the studio or wherever, do a feature with somebody else and my phone is always gonna be there.br /br /Typing it helps you play around with it more, because instead of crossing out, yoursquo;re going back and deleting words and replacing them. And itrsquo;s not sloppy, as opposed to writingmdash;with typing itrsquo;s easy and simple and itrsquo;s not a bunch of cross-outs and scratches on the paper.br /br /strongHow to Rap:/strong Some people say they write in their head, do you think thatrsquo;s a good way of writing?br /strongKool G Rap:/strong To memdash;I could do that, but itrsquo;d take time. I donrsquo;t even play like that because sometimes you donrsquo;t wanna forget one simple word. Sometimes it could be a three letter word, and if you use another word instead of that word it can make the whole line sound a lot more harder. Simple little words make a difference on how the line hits. So when yoursquo;re trying to write in your head, sometimes you might forget those little things like that, and that shit might not hit as hard. When yoursquo;re writing on your phone or paper, youve got time to sit down and think about it and play with the words and replace one word for that word and be like, ldquo;Oh yeah, it hits better if I say this instead of that.rdquo;br /br /Yoursquo;re not going to remember little small details like that when yoursquo;re just trying to store all that shit in your memory and do it real quick.br /br /I mean, a lot of times it can work too. A lot of times you can rhyme off the top of your head and get lucky and that shit just hit crazy. But when yoursquo;re a professional and yoursquo;re making records for masses of people to listen to, or masses of people to get intomdash;your creativity, thatrsquo;s something I wouldnrsquo;t play with.br /br /Itrsquo;s hard enough writing it sometimes and getting as complex and as intricate as you wanna get. So trying to just do it in your head like that, I mean thatrsquo;s crazy, unless you got a Beautiful Mind like my man Russell Crowe did in that movie. Or you some emRainman/em type dude or something where you can just remember all that shit like itrsquo;s nothing, but I donrsquo;t have that gift right there, so I donrsquo;t even play with it.br /br /strongHow to Rap:/strong When you write a story, do you figure out the whole plot on paper first, or do you come up with it as yoursquo;re going along?br /strongKool G Rap:/strong I do it as Irsquo;m going along. For my story rhymes I never really had like ndash; ldquo;Okay, this is how Irsquo;ma start, this is what Irsquo;ll say in the middle to make it juicy,rdquo; or ldquo;Irsquo;ma end it with this.rdquo;br /br /I start from the first line, and I just go from there and the story just comes out. I think thatrsquo;s the best way to do it, because if you sit there and study too much on how you gonna end it and all that it might not come out as dope.br /br /I donrsquo;t usually have the ending and how the story is going to go, I just do it as I go along. That way it keeps me hyped about it, because Irsquo;m seeing it form in front of my own eyes, Irsquo;m not knowing how itrsquo;s going to turn out, so itrsquo;s like Irsquo;m presenting myself with a movie too.br /br /strongHow to Rap:/strong When you do that, are there ever times when words that rhyme together will influence where the story is going to go?br /strongKool G Rap:/strong Nah, itrsquo;s gotta make sense, you canrsquo;t just put whatever comes next that rhymes, the story gotta be right too. You canrsquo;t just go from: ldquo;went to see Papi and picked up a key /hellip; and now Irsquo;m by the tree,rdquo; nah, that shit gotta be put together beautifully. If itrsquo;s not, yoursquo;re not going to be credited as a good story rapper.br /br /Itrsquo;ll still be as I go along, but once I start going in a certain direction, once I start writing the first few lines and itrsquo;s going in a certain direction, Irsquo;ma keep it that direction until itrsquo;s the right time to do a switch up and Irsquo;ll make it like scenes of a movie.br /br /strongHow to Rap:/strong How do you come up with the flow?br /strongKool G Rap:/strong When I first start listening to the track and I start zoning out, the track is basically telling me how to flow on it. Especially when I write the first maybe four lines or whatever, I know where Irsquo;m going with it as far as the flow.br /br /The flow is nothing but G Rap just staying with a flow thatrsquo;s not dated, but is still G Rap at the same time. Because I could never flow with somebody elsersquo;s flow like that.br /br /And if I did, it might sound like somebody elsersquo;s flow, but these dudes was inspired by G Rap and so they took pieces of G Rap with them and became what they became.br /br /So what might sound like somebody elsersquo;s flowmdash;nah, not really, thatrsquo;s a part of G Rap and if we could go back and listen to each and every record I made yoursquo;ll probably hear those flows and shit that I did before.br /br /Somebody might have took a certain flow of mine and just based their whole style around that and just ran with it. I never just did one flow, I mean you hear a flow I did on Men at Work and you heard a different flow on Road to the Riches, so itrsquo;s like I never just did only one flow.br /br /strongHow to Rap: /strongDoes it take a long time to write raps with lots of complex multisyllable rhymes?br /strongKool G Rap:/strong It depends, sometimes if yoursquo;re really zoning and your wheels is turning, once you start with the first few, they just come to you. And not just shit that just rhyme, but shit that hit hard too, like oh my God, like you canrsquo;t even believe you thought of some ill shit like that.br /br /strongHow to Rap:/strong Do you ever practice just coming up with rhymeshellip; not for a song, but just to practice rhyming?br /strongKool G Rap:/strong What I might do sometimes, if Irsquo;m not writing but my mind is still zoning, like sometimes once you open your mind itrsquo;s hard to stop it from fucking going… like once you put yourself in that zone you can sit down and try to watch a movie, you can try to do anything else, but your wheels is gonna keep turning.br /br /So, yoursquo;ll be looking at a movie with your eyes but your mind is totally, totally different and sometimes shit will keep coming in your head. So sometimes when shit like that happen to me and I think of something crazy, I might write down that rhyme so I donrsquo;t forget that shit because that shit is crazy. And maybe Irsquo;ll put it in something, like one day when yoursquo;re writing something and it fits in then, you just throw it in.br /br /strongHow to Rap:/strong Do you usually write to the beat that yoursquo;re going to be using?br /strongKool G Rap:/strong In the early part of my career I would just write the rhymes with no tracks, no nothing and just place them on beats later. Road to the Riches I did like that, I did a lot of records like that, Kool is Back hellip;all my early records I didnrsquo;t write to the tracks.br /br /I didnrsquo;t start really writing to tracks maybe until emLive and Let Die/em, some of the emWanted Dead Or Alive/em as well.br /br /Talk Like Sexmdash;I wrote the first two verses with no track and then my man, Large Professor played that track for Talk Like Sex and I just started thinking what could go with this shit. I remembered I wrote that Talk Like Sex shit and it went with it perfect, so then I wrote the third verse to the track because now I know the direction. He gave me the track and the track was crazy so I wrote the third verse to the track.br /br /But by emLive and Let Die/em I was writing everything to the tracks.br /br /strongHow to Rap:/strong Do you find it comes out better if you write to the track?br /strongKool G Rap: /strongNo, because Talk Like Sex is a classic! Itrsquo;s about what works with what. I love to write to the track now because I feel like I can tailor make the rhyme to the track a little more.br /br /strongHow to Rap: /strongWhen you record lyrics, do you have them memorized?br /strongKool G Rap:/strong No, a lot of times I read them, because when you first finish writing something yoursquo;re still excited over it. Even though you donrsquo;t have the memory of it down pat yet, you donrsquo;t have the flow all the way down pat, you still got that energy of it being fresh and new because itrsquo;s still new to you, yoursquo;re entertaining yourself when you hear how good you sound on the track, because itrsquo;s new to you. You donrsquo;t exactly know whatrsquo;s coming next.br /br /So I like to record reading off the paper, itrsquo;s more fun if I read it. Even if I make some mistakes, I just do the punch-ins because Irsquo;m so charged up over this shit because itrsquo;s brand new, Irsquo;m amped up over it, I might have surprised myself with this particular verse or whatever.br /br /All that energy is still there, so you want to get that shit out while that energy is at peak level like that. Once you start to know something by heart itrsquo;s not at peak level no more, it might go down to an eight. So you might lose somethinghellip; even though itrsquo;s still up there, it still sounds good, itrsquo;s still hitting hard, but you still lose a little something. They call it that lsquo;umphrsquo;, you lose that little lsquo;umphrsquo; and I donrsquo;t want to lose that.br /br /strongHow to Rap:/strong Do you ever have something that looks great on paper but doesnrsquo;t work when you go to record it?br /strongKool G Rap:/strong Yeah, Irsquo;ve been through that, Irsquo;ve got something in my head and I think itrsquo;s going to come out sounding a certain way and then you go to lay it down and it donrsquo;t come out exactly how you imagined, I scratch those shits, back to the drawing board, thatrsquo;s how I do it, shit gotta come out perfect.br /br /If it donrsquo;t move me, then I donrsquo;t like to put it out there because itrsquo;s not even moving me. The first person I gotta entertain is me.br /br /strongHow to Rap:/strong Does everything you write get recorded?br /strongKool G Rap:/strong Some things I just keep in the bag like for freestyles, competition. If anyone ever call G Rap out in the streets, I got something ndash; I got clips Irsquo;ma blaze at niggas. Those be the clips, like donrsquo;t get it fucked up, I got something thatrsquo;s gonna stop a fucking horse so donrsquo;t play. If niggas come, man, they better come with some fucking elephant guns because Irsquo;ma knock a fucking horse on its side ndash; real talk.br /br /strongHow to Rap: /strongDo you prefer recording or performing live?br /strongKool G Rap:/strong Irsquo;m more of a studio person, like thatrsquo;s really my comfort zone because I love being in the studio, I love hearing the shit Irsquo;ve been keeping in my head materialize, like it fascinates me. I love just sitting there and being creative and shooting ideas back and forth with the engineer or producer or whatever to make something come out amazing.br /br /strongHow to Rap:/strong What do you think about todayrsquo;s emcees compared to older emcees?br /strongKool G Rap:/strong The era Irsquo;m from, everybody strived to stand out and be their own person and to have their own character and have their own image. Itrsquo;s like you didnrsquo;t wanna come out and be another Chuck D, you didnrsquo;t wanna come out and be another KRS-One. You wanted to be as good as those rappers but you wanted to be you though.br /br /But nowadays so many people are like trying to be the same. Somebody gonna want to be T.I., somebody gonna want to be Jay-Z, or somebody gonna want to be 50 Cent, but you canrsquo;t knock people trying to be like other people sometimes, because these are very credible, influential rappers.br /br /But when itrsquo;s on a mass scale, when everybodyrsquo;s sounding the same then thatrsquo;s when the music gets fucked up, because itrsquo;s like yoursquo;re buying the same shit over and over again, just different pitch tones and voices and shit like that.br /br /Itrsquo;s not only the nbsp;nbsp;artisttrying to be another nbsp;artist,he got the same producers, so itrsquo;s like you hear the same music and you hear the same song over and over again.br /br /As opposed to in the past when the same people that love Rakim also love G Rap and vice versa, but G Rap and Rakim was totally different. Same people that love G Rap, love Big Daddy Kane, love KRS-One, love Chuck D, love EPMDhellip; but nobody can say, yo, their shit sound all the same.br /br /So thatrsquo;s how the nbsp;artists today differ from the MCsin the goldenera of Hip Hop ndash; therersquo;s less variety, itrsquo;s mostly the same type of shit over and over again, just different groups./p
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