Your rap ability
 

Do you feel it is god given, or a honed skill? I never really thought about it but id say everyone has a % of each, were all able to rhyme on some level (god given)but progressing to be ill is the honing, im sure someone didnt just wake up one day rapping like it was a god given gift and they ill from first try but im sure the talent was there but all things are to be matured no? Your thoughts

definately a skill u gotta learn. cuz no one can be good at free stylin with out practice.
also i've rapped with a lot of newbs on songs where we write our verses and some people just have more rhythem than others and thats god given i think. but everyone needs practice to really be good at all. so rhythem is god given but rap ability isn't.

Yeah it's a part of both. I didn't start good, had to work and elevate and stay humble. But also, some people jus even with all the elevation and work they put into it won't ever hold a good rap ability nah mean

Word, its all potential, i was ass when i first started, but i can ride a beat nice and get my shit goin now, but even still i would rap all the time but i never record, i just recently started recordin, first time was pretty bad, but im getting better each time, the lyrics are fine, its just fine tuning the delivery and trying to maintain the same volume and a bunch of shit people mess up with when they start, plus my mic is shit but i wont bring excuses :laugh:

My ability to write and rhyme is god given to a certain extent but my delivery and patience are things i need to develope

its all about potential
then honing that potential
potential is god given
if you hone that god given potential you can be dope as fuck
but if you have no potential.. but still hone your skill
you can be alright

example

potential with honed skills - Joe Budden
No potential with honed skills - Mike Jones

^- Word i hear that, lol @ mike jones honed skill, hes got marketability or had..

Dont for once get it twisted, rapping is an acquired skill...u have to learn it to be good at it. Now, u may have a natural love for it an a natural disposition for creating music but u have to direct that natural ear, sometime it might be more for singing or composing. Which will take u over the top becuz u will grasp it faster an better than others. The problem is rap is an a acquired skill meaning anyone can do it jus those with a natural ear do it at a higher level that can take them places.

^nigga thats what I just said.

yeah..something I learned....

^^^I didn't read ya comment but anyways mine was a more expanded viewpoint of what u said. to put our comments in perspecitve u said something like :

The sandwiche is good cuz it was made good

I said:

The saindwich was good becuz it was layered with mayo, ham, cheese, tomato, lettuce, an some soft lightly toasted hero bread.

All true talents are natural, i.e., GOD given to us internally.

Now, harnessing and havesting those talents are up to us. However, being your best at your talent requires NOTHING, NOTHING more than just letting that natural energy flow through you.

When I'm at my best, I don't even have to think about it. I'm in a zone where my talents just flow through me as if they are being channeled.




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hahahahahah
word, I guess

Potential isn't shit...



That 'channeling' is called 'words' through your 'mouth'.

i feel it takes some talent as a foundation then modify from there.

It was a god-given ability that I can rap, but I had to learn how to rap well. Although I was never wack.

no matter how good you are, to some audiences somewhere, you're wack.

just like inversely, no matter how wack you are, to some audiences somewhere, you're good.

apexx can't be black diamond, there is already one from here that raps,

www.myspace.com/jsummersandbreezus he's on my top list...
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LOL WTF..... thats a hella random...i think someones hungry or somethin...

lol that was funny tho..

i think rap is def. mostly an acquired/honed skill.... even in singing there are MANY basically "god given" things u need to be good, such as a natural ear and tonal quality to progress... but in rap u dont have to be melodic and sing..... all u need to know is put words to a beat....

i would say like 10% natural talent 90% honed...... but the "natural" part is VERY basic... like being able to stay on beat, having a good voice/breath control/delivery.... but then AGAIN, all those things can be taught as well......

i think that people naturally word things that is appealing.... there have been tons of times where ive heard two people with basically the same type of concept, and one can blow me away with it, while the other is a "meh", based on how they word it and express it.... this i think is basically ur natural ability.... ur ability to write can be improved but it takes A LOT of discipline to break habits and find a better way to state ur ideas without slipping into ur old habits, if those habits are unnappealing...

but like someone said earlier. NO ONE can naturally freestyle.... even if u are naturally a quick thinker, free styling is way too hard of a thing to even be able to DO more than a few lines of ur first time trying, let alone having it be good..... this is the same with making songs... no ones first record take is gold, even if theyve been the best battler on Smack DVD.... u needa learn the tricks of the trade