What Alternative Hip Hop Lyrics Actually Demand To write alternative hip hop lyrics, you need to deliberately abandon the predictable trap templates of eight-bar hooks and straight-ahead boastful p…
How to Write NY Drill Lyrics: The Beat-First Blueprint If you want to learn how to write NY drill lyrics, start with the beat, not the pen. NY drill typically…
Why Spanish Rap Lyrics Need a Different Playbook When you ask how to write Spanish rap lyrics, you’re really asking how to fuse Spanish phonetics with hip-hop’s rhythmic skeleton. Spanish…
Start With the Ensemble, Not the Earworm If you want to know how to write church choir lyrics that actually work, the short answer is: write for the voices that…
If you want to know how to write baby making music lyrics, start by abandoning the literal image of a nursery. Baby-making songs are a subgenre of slow-jam R&B built…
How to Write Urban Contemporary Lyrics: The Hybrid Mindset You Need First To write urban contemporary lyrics, you must blend melodic R&B phrasing with hip-hop storytelling, using modern slang …
What It Really Means to Write Swing Lyrics To write swing lyrics that actually groove, you must align speech stress with the long-short pattern of swung eighths, craft phrases that…
When I first handed a lyric to a big band arranger back in 2013, I made the rookie mistake of writing 13 syllables per bar over a driving shout chorus.…
What New Jack Swing Really Is—and Why Your Lyrics Can’t Ignore the Groove If you want to learn how to write new jack swing lyrics, start with a hard truth:…
If you’re asking how to write nu metal lyrics, the shortest answer I can give from my own studio sessions is this: take a specific personal frustration, write it in…