Nightlife - new rap, newish style. What do you think?

Thread: Nightlife - new rap, newish style. What do you think?

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  1. Jfam said:

    Question Nightlife - new rap, newish style. What do you think?

    Well, this is my new rap "Nightlife" which is inspired through a friends experience rather than mine. It takes the themes from both nightclubs and house parties, much the reason why it wasn't called "night clubs" but "nightlife" to represent all night time activities like this. One change is the style of my writing which is continuously evolving as I get better at writing. One more thing I have tries to do, and will work on more in future raps, is the hook. I use to use it as a 'rest' from the verse but now I realise that what most regular listeners listen to in my field of music is the chorus and it should not be a rest point, but a really catchy, ramped up verse with a good backing track to make people want to tune in for the chorus as the average pop listener listens and sings along to the hook. So here is a new, more happy, higher energy rap and hook, different to previous ones. Hope you like this style

    Nightlife

    (Verse 1)
    Man that nightlife, bright like floodlights
    Straight up chat, go hit the chick had
    Black dyed red and blond in highlights
    Try I might, a shine like skylights
    Damn she's good, she's got the good look
    Great that face, give me the look took
    My love life, got me excited and
    Who can't ask for more? ...
    Straight up stranger, I ain't laid ya
    We got talking, got my pager
    Leave you standing, all lights focus
    Right on you, got bright light locus
    Stray that far, got you to catch I
    Got Scott Pilgrim, skills to match I
    Know you're golden, lot to lose
    And I can't not feel the blues ...

    (Hook)
    Living the life at peak black night time
    Slugging the shots and seat back laughter
    Rolling 'em up like a shop store's carpets
    Searching the hot stuff life can't tarnish
    Partying up since the nightclub started
    Wait for the fight to see who starts it
    ... No stuff could harm it
    No words in life could stop my partying
    I live life just living in the moment
    See this girl, I'd like to go and phone 'em
    Bring her home to live in the good times
    Having the time of my life in the night time
    Glowing in the lights of a lit up dance floor
    Do the Macarena tell 'em let us do it once more
    Sellers running out of the liquor in the rum store
    Showing us all that I'm living in the nightlife

    (Verse 2)
    Wish I told ya, more than liked ya
    Set it free, my head feels lighter
    Just all that to set in motion
    Freelance love, feel deep emotion
    Crazed hands roam your skin all over
    Run my head: feeling decoder
    Try work out if you really like me
    Get it wrong won't take it lightly
    Trust this man she'll spite me down
    Crush to ground, smashed around
    Letting me know if I gave the wrong signal
    Crazed in rage I'm on the wrong wavelength
    Then I know I'm not to get laid then
    Wish I'd chose not to have stayed then
    Bad thing is you got to have one thing
    That I just can't resist ...

    (Hook)
    Living the life at peak black night time
    Slugging the shots and seat back laughter
    Rolling 'em up like a shop store's carpets
    Searching the hot stuff life can't tarnish
    Partying up since the nightclub started
    Wait for the fight to see who starts it
    ... No stuff could harm it
    No words in life could stop my partying
    I live life just living in the moment
    See this girl, I'd like to go and phone 'em
    Bring her home to live in the good times
    Having the time of my life in the night time
    Glowing in the lights of a lit up dance floor
    Do the Macarena tell 'em let us do it once more
    Sellers running out of the liquor in the rum store
    Showing us all that I'm living in the nightlife

    (Verse 3)
    Sitting in the toilets, listen to what's happening
    Hearing the sounds of the lucky banging, having it
    Then see me in my life, forever staggering
    Stuffed my chances with the girls, forever stammering
    Don't see me, don't think I'm hard enough
    Go for the bad boy who don't go far enough
    Alexandra Burke the story of the good girl
    Just pass me cos I ain't so dangerous
    They don't care if the guy so "played on us"
    Just take it all so long as he "Lays on us"
    Yep, that's her afflicted
    Just wants more she's sex addicted
    Take it all so unpredictable
    Wants it all she's so susceptible
    Can't play me i'm no Kinectimal
    I won't play the game ...

    (Hook)
    Living the life at peak black night time
    Slugging the shots and seat back laughter
    Rolling 'em up like a shop store's carpets
    Searching the hot stuff life can't tarnish
    Partying up since the nightclub started
    Wait for the fight to see who starts it
    ... No stuff could harm it
    No words in life could stop my partying
    I live life just living in the moment
    See this girl, I'd like to go and phone 'em
    Bring her home to live in the good times
    Having the time of my life in the night time
    Glowing in the lights of a lit up dance floor
    Do the Macarena tell 'em let us do it once more
    Sellers running out of the liquor in the rum store
    Showing us all that I'm living in the nightlife
  2. Jfam said:

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    And for your information, this was written to my beat "solution" on my YouTube channel

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    Last edited by Jfam; 02-09-2011 at 09:14 AM. Reason: I REALLY wanted to add something to it
  3. jaskailey88 said:

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    I like it. Its got a nice flow. The third verse especially was slick. Nice rhymes and use of multi's 2 . Though Im not sure about the hook. When I was reading the hook I was almost reading it as another verse. Since its meant to be the catchiest part of the song a good idea would be to have a 6-8 line hook that repeats itself. That way it'll fit the beat and will stick to the listener 2. Hope it helped bro
  4. Jfam said:

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    Thanks, I'm gonna look into that now I think the idea is to make a hook which the listener would want to rap along to anyway, thanks
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    Molotova said:

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    How come I didn't read this before ? I'm starting to appreciate the different styles you're bringing, it's really good ! I'm just wondering where you start rappin' ? I'm guessin' at 14 seconds ?
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  6. Jfam said:

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    The rapping starts after 16 bars which is at 26-27 seconds. I used a 16 bar intro on this beat at 140 bpm. But yeah, 26-27 seconds is the start
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    Molotova said:

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    I have no ear for music, really. I can hardly tell when a rap should start or end, that's why I have such a problem 'inventing' an entire song. Sometimes I wonder if I should be rapping at all, but I just love writing too much not to. I checked the beat and the lyric again, tried it at 27 seconds and it flows ! Hahaa Good job
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  8. Jfam said:

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    Thanks, and I'd ask you to keep on rapping cos what verses you produce are good. And glad you found the flow