I keep hearing different responses.

I hear that it is when the beat plays through once.

Imagine the beat playing for "Eminem - Kill You"

He says

"When I was just a little baby boy, my momma use to tell me these crazy things"

Then the beat repeats as he says

"She used to tell me my daddy was an evil man, she used to tell me he hated me"

Would that be two bars right there? Since the beat went through twice?

*OR* Would this be one bar . . .

"When I was just a little baby boy, my momma use to tell me these crazy things
She used to tell me my daddy was an evil man, she used to tell me he hated me"

Because when I hear rappers say they are spitting a "Hot 16" as in 16 bars. I always notice they're verse has the beat play through 16 times. Which would mean the example I gave above would be two bars.

Can someone tell me which is correct, if either are.

That's how I've always counted my bars, and they always seemed ok to me.

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simple definition is, two sentences basically

and anyone with a brain would know that that eminem line was a full bar, you jus gotta know, its natural

I really dont feel like elaborating

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a bar is where im going now to get drunk

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Originally Posted by .Diabolic. Oh and lk I got a serious question 2 ask u baby from me 2u. Will u marry me and be my wife, and the mother of my kids and all?

a bar usually is two lines....... that rhyme in most cases........

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yea, that's exactly what I was gonna say. I heard a lot of people in rap, say "I don't need sixteen bars to blah blah blah" "I can knock you out in sixteen bars blah blah" and Tony Yayo in Ain't no click goes at end of verse "sixteen bars that's it, finito" or some shit like that

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Originally Posted by Kings concidering that i've got compliments from girls off of rv from that pic makes me wonder where your pictures are.....

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Originally Posted by .Diabolic. Oh and lk I got a serious question 2 ask u baby from me 2u. Will u marry me and be my wife, and the mother of my kids and all?

^^^^^ thats a measure....... so is a measure a bar?

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A BAR IS ONE LINE!!

A "bar" (aka a Measure) is 4 beat hits. A rapper sets up his rhymescheme over those 4 beat hits, then finisnhes the rhyme scheme on the second 4 beat hits, called a "bar couplet".


TEXTERS will tell you a bar is two sentences. Anyone who knows what 16 bars are knows that a bar is one line.

Don't believe me? Look in the dictionary for the deifnition of Bar in a musical sense.

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^^^ this is right. LMAO @ two 'lines' = 1 bar.

and fyi - it can always vary depending on the beat, but for a 90 BPM beat (the usual for hip hop) 12-14 syllable "bars" is average. word.

I guess texters have mad long verses once they learn how to do audio and realize they've been spitting 32's, not 16's all this time. hahahaha

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wat if were rappin in 3/4 time? explain to me this 4 beat theory

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