so many different variations in here .....Real Talk got it right when he said the text bar format is gettin people confused ..... i never understood why it's like that in text .... but i just go with it for the sake of battling here ... but... in real song format this shit aint even up for debate ..... i'll post this again
every hook on every track is 8 bars .... but with verses plenty of rappers don't stick to the 16 bars .... you'll sometimes see eminem or jay z drop 40 bars on one verse or w/e ... you can drop 16...20 ...24 .. 28 ... 32 ... etc ..etc ... it goes up in fours .... if you don't stick to that your verse is gonna end short
i'll show you an example ..... i picked this because whenever you get a few people on a track like this they'll stick to the 16 bar verse format ... so it should be easy to break down ...
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiS9-yPvBnY[/media]
Each line is 1 bar
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
[Kanye West]
Mr. West is in the building
Swagger on a hundred thousand, trillion
Ayo I know I got it first
I'm Christopher Columbus, y'all just the pilgrims
Thanksgiving do we even gotta question
Hermes pastel I pass the dressing
My attitude is tattooed
That means permanent so I guess I should address it, huh?
My swagger is mick jagger
Every time I breathe on the track I asthma attack it
Why he's so mad for, why he gotta have it
Cuz I slaved my whole life, now I'm the master
Na-Na-Na,
how it feel to wake up and be the shit And Urine
Na-Na-Na-Na-Na
Trying to get that Kobe number, one over Jordan
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
[Jay-Z]
No one on the corner gotta bop like this
Can't wear skinny jeans cuz my knots don't fit
No one on the corner gotta pocket like this
So I rock Roc jeans cuz my knots so thick
You can learn how to dress just by cheking my fresh
checking checking my fresh checking checking my fresh
Follow my steps, it's the road to success
Where the niggas know you thorough And the girls say yes
But I can't teach you my swag
You can pay for school but you can't buy class
School of hard knocks I'm a grad
And that all-blue yankee is my graduation cap,
it's Hova
dipping different rovers whipping with the soda
Hova
could u even have any doubt that the doubt is over
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
[Lil Wayne]
No one on the corner has swagger like moi
Church But I'm too clean for these boi
I require what I desire
I got stripes, A-di-das
Mami scream papi no mas
Run up in your shit just me no mas
Runnin this shit like I got four thighs
No one has swagger like these four guys
When it comes to styles I got several
Sharper than a swagger dagger all metal
And my jewelz blue and yellow
Type of shit that make em call you Carmelo
Rules as follows stay true to the ghetto
Write your name on the bullet make you feel special
Ha, what the fuck you boys talking about?
I know it's us cuz we the only thing you talk about
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
[T.I.]
You go see Weezy for the wordplay, Jeezy for the birdplay,
Kan-yeezy for diversity and me for controversy,
All my verses picture perfect only spit to serve a purpose,
You ain't living what you kicking and you worthless,
Looking from the surface it may seem that I got reason to be nervous
Then observe my work and see that my adversity was worth it,
Verses autobiographical, absolutely classical,
Last thing I'm worried 'bout is what another rapper do,
Ain't nobody hot as me... Even if they rap they ass off
blast, off and have outstanding qualities,
Sell alotta records I respect and salute that,
But spitting real life on hot beats... I'm the truth at,
you kick it like me no exaggeration necessary,
Living revolutionary, nothing less than legendary,
Gangsta shit hereditary, got it from my dad
Flow colder than February with extraordinary swag
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
No one on the corner have swagger like us
Swagger like us, swagger like us
each bar is on a different line ..... some are long and some are very very short .... one word even...which is down to either a pause at the start or just elongating/half singing that bar ..... the best way to usualy tell when a bar ends is ... it'll have a word (or more) at the end that'll rhyme with the end of the next bar.... like wayne's verse here ..... in fact ... he mostly rhymes a word with itself here ... smh ... lol .... then you got shit like TI here .. where his rhyme schemes are ridiculous ... sometimes he rhymes the start of one bar with the end of the next while rhyming the end of that first bar with the start of the second one .... like this
Ain't nobody hot as me... Even if they rap they ass off
that plus the amount of multis he has going on gives him that super smooth flow.
Now if you read all this and still don't understand what a REAL bar is ... then holla at me and i'll IP ban you .... because your wasting your time on here ..... lmao
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