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critique this verse for me?

Not sure if I should continue with it or leave it at that. I'm new to rapping and songwriting still so I know it's probably not good, I'm just trying to get better.

Whats self control if youre not free

Whats a freedom if the cops see

What do I got if they got me

Well **** I wish they just shot me

But they hit me with charges like its hockey

So I hit mics with hooks call me rocky

Goin uphill from rock bottom don’t stop me

Growin up quick I’m speedin don’t clock me

It’s just not your time yet got a curfew

It’s not the cops but the law that’s gonna hurt you

So seek legal advice but lawyers are pay per view

They found an 1/8 now it’s vice versus virtue

Gimme community service hours to work through

I guess everything worked out the way it’s supposed to

My dream is far from the reality Im close to

Prepare to sink if life is something you coast through

Im not askin for liberty or death

Just a second for me to catch my breath

It seems im headed to court every right and left

And if I have to sell my soul for salvation

Then please give satan my salutation

All this from a traffic violation

No mercy its annihilation

Sittin on the curb yes I’m there again

Hearin my rights as an American

People stare as they pass but I bear and grin

I’ll get back up, just don’t know where and when

Update:

Solid advice, thanks both of you.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Honestly this isn't bad. I have a few specific points of advice. Raps are most pleasing to the listener when the rapper has multisyllabic rhymes (you have a decent amount of 2 syllable rhymes) and a complex rhyme pattern (you have mostly the same style of end rhymes in each line). Try expanding on the syllables you are rhyming and try including some internal rhymes on top of just end rhymes. Also, your subject matter is, at times, cliche, which there is really no excuse for. But honestly this is decent for someone who just started, so keep it up. If you want some help writing verses, check out my page: http://fiverr.com/users/kgilmore465/gigs/write-a-g... and I'll show you how to put some of these techniques I've been talking about into a really dope rap verse. You won't be disappointed.

    Source(s): 10+ years of rapping
  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I believe you are pretty good for songwriting, except you seem to be trying to hard with the rhyming just let it flow together. You don't have to rhyme in every verse.

    If this helps try to think outside the box.

  • cermak
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Keep doin' ya factor - scorching quotables come from folks who rap approximately what is truly - be certain you pair your rhymes with a bangin beat and give them such as you suppose them. By the best way, do not reply to the detest - upward thrust above it.

  • 10 years ago

    Your rhyme are out of a dr.seus book. Be more complex

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