As hip-hop grew in the 1990s and 2000s, artists (and their fans) came to usebarsfor lyrics in general. Urban Dictionary first entered the term in 2003. In the 2000s,barsbecame well-established as a term for the rhymes artists freestyle in rap battles and slam poetry, with spectators e...
So you want to learn the art of rap? When you’re starting out, hip-hop songwriting (i.e. learning how to make rap lyrics) can seem intimidating. So, in this post we’ll tell you what you need to know about how to write rap lyrics and perform them for the modern era. We’re...
Who Got Bars is a rap battle show where artists battle each other by either reciting or freestyle spontaneously in live battles.
Now comes the mysterious Freaky Tales, which takes place in Northern California in the late ’80s and features four wildly different intertwining storylines: “Teen punks defend their turf against Nazi skinheads, a rap duo battles for hip-hop immortality, a weary henchman gets a shot at ...