That's the most HONEST explanation I've heard about NOT writing lyrics pre-studio session. "It's really organised though. It's not like *clicks fingers* just like that. I THINK about what I'm going to say. I think about what I'm going to do. It's just never Pen & Paper" I can relate to Hov is saying. Back in School High I would always get frustrated with the draft process before submitting essays. Just let the mood flow and express yourself as authentic as possible. That's the God complex at work in all of us!
I'll explain it's better when I'm I'n person!! The thing is you become an instrument to the beat!! First thing bro just listen to the beat and every sound in it EVERY SOUND right!! as many times as you need to!! don't think about words yet while doing that cause after awhile you will become the Beat like your lost in it !! at that point add words certain beats will give you the words off top like hand them to you it's Crazy like having a Thought Process That Takes no thought Process!! Yes a Gift to Us All I Believe just some Can do it a little quicker that's all!! I do have a longer version of this in more detail!! But this is the close I could get it in this Format!!! But no joke to the point a certain Beat comes on it will be like catching THAT WAVE and just Flow!! 🙏🏿 📜~🎁~ 🙏🏿 📜
Only if u write rhymes do u overstand how difficult it would be for the average brain to not only put tgether an entire 16 in your head but then also to remember every word u formulated AND to be able to remember exactly HOW u put it tgether. If u dont write u cant really fathom just how amazing it is and why guys like J and Biggie are so revered by other emcees.
I think they're revered simply because they died in their prime. Not only that, they died before cancel culture. Any artist who dies not long after their works top charts multiple times, will surely gain a cult following. But once you're already on the decline its not the same. People are attached to the potential the person had.
I have a artist I record comes and do 4 songs he wrote and remember all them in his head,he’ll even write a song otw to my house he lives hour and 30 mins from me and he remembers that I’ve never seen anything like it.
He said the 2nd verse an I believe him because that 2nd verse was the best shit he ever spit in his career omg his vocab an word play was insane on that 2nd verse wow
@@willlosobo6435 I stepped up on it another level meditated like a Buddhist licruted lieutenanants with ludicrous dreams of getting cream let's do this ❤️❤️❤️
He’s said it, it ain’t exactly what we think of when we hear freestyling. He don’t spit on the spot he builds the verse up in his head. He been doing it since he was on the block and he couldn’t write it on the spot so he’d memorize his raps until he could write it down when he got home. It’s memory muscle he built after years of doing it.
I've always appreciated what Jay-Z has done for music but had never really looked to deeply on what he is about... Im a little blown away learning he's a genius
Uh, letter to my dad that I never wrote Speeches I prepared that I never spoke Words on a paper that I never read Proses never penned, they stayed in my head - Adnis One of his hardest bars ever imo !!!
I do it too. You say a line in your head. Then another. Then you say the first 2 lines again then add a 3rd. Then you say the 3 lines then add a 4th and son on till you have a whole verse.
Alot of rappers do this after awhile of writing u hust write in ya head n ya memory is crazy i do the same shit i dont write raps anymore jus.do it in my head
I used to think it was so cliché for Jay to be in my top 5 or top 10, but listening to songs like “Dead Presidents” and his feature verses on songs like “Time to Build”...RD, The blueprint album...then to find out he didn’t write most of those verses. I gotta put him up there. He deserves that spot.
DEFINITELY NOT EASY TO DO.MY 💭 THOUGHTS COME OUT AND I HAVE TO GRAB A 🖊 REAL QUICK OR NOW THAT WE HAVE NEW WAYS OF WRITING ✍🏾 ILL JUST TYPE IT IN MY PHONE 📱 BUT SHOUT OUT TO JAY Z 💪🏾🙏🏾✊🏾🐐🐐🐐🐐🎤🎧🎼🎹 THANKS FOR SHARING
Many people don't seem to beleave that he writes in his head in the studio but I have no problem beleaving it. It's kinda like pro chess players can play chess in their head by themselves or with other people. In rap it's just not as common because you don't have to have that good of a memory neccesarily. Like Em has said he needs to write soon as he comes up with something interesting it down because he is a scatter brain and it will just be gone after a while. There is this craazy freestyler Blind Fury and people were talking about how he cannot write and I pointed out Hov and people were to me do I seriously beleave that shit. But to be clear I don't beleave Blind Fury writes all of his freestyles but was just pointing out that it's a possibility that he can write verses.
I have a artist I record comes and do 4 songs he wrote and remember all them in his head,he’ll even write a song otw to my house he lives hour and 30 mins from me and he remembers that I’ve never seen anything like it.
Jay is right, I don’t write either. I use the Mike as a pen and the DAW as a paper when you’re seasoned writing can be a long process,when you improvise it’s great using the mic as a pen gives you more freedom to be more creative. I am not saying writing is bad but some artists don’t need to. I use to write 10 songs a day on paper tho, and could spit them right off the top right away, so I guess that whole process get me where I currently am.
Jay started out rapping fast, so the more music slowed down, the easier it must of been to remember his raps. Take for example if he made music like today's artists... They literally say 16 bars or less. Jay could have a field day if he wanted. Record done in 2 minutes 😂
Just think of how easy it was for Jay to do that record on Khaled album with Nas. 1 B then another B, can't forget the other B and people went nuts 😂😂😂😂💀
Alot of rappers get this confused. It's not freestyled and recorded, it's structured normally but just memorized. Alot of rappers really go in the booth and freestyle, and you can tell because it sucks.
Uh, most of biggies lines are repeated by him in different ways. If he freestyles then maybe he needs to write cause he got tore up by DMX, tore up by Nas, and destroyed by Big L
@@blackinton2526I legitimately didn't mean anything racial about it. It just struck me as a weird lighting choice. I've been in several music studios and none of them had any candles in them. And I do my own lighting for videos sometimes so I'm always tryna peep out the warmth and brightness of shots and shit like that. At some point someone from this production team was like "you know what this shot needs? A shit ton of candles." Which just seemed weird to me. Also it makes me nervous to see fire hazards around a bunch of really fuckin nice and expensive equipment There's nothing necessarily wrong with it. It just struck me as odd and made me curious
@@ky_lani Maybe because that's the vibe maybe Jay Z was recording in that enviroment who knows why it's not a big deal. This is some type of autistic notice
Not the biggest Jay fan, rite..?? I would think niggas would put Jay as one of the best lyricist ever to breathe on the jawn.. and that’s my word is bond uponliî
Not writing anything down limits creativity. Look at Nas and his records, "I gave you power" "rewind" "one love" "undying love" "Get Down". Those records were made possible through writing. I doubt hov could make anything like that by spitting off top.
But does she wrote though, Jayz makes whole albums with out pen and paper, not a verse or a song, whole albums. Even Biggie stopped writing after learning about Hov
Sorry, my mans is brilliant...but at sometime he wrote shit down or had to look up his own lyrics for a show. I get memorizing lyrics...I know a good few dozen songs of J's off the dome but man...Mixed with all the other music I enjoy in my life? At some point you'd have to take notes!
That's the most HONEST explanation I've heard about NOT writing lyrics pre-studio session.
"It's really organised though. It's not like *clicks fingers* just like that. I THINK about what I'm going to say. I think about what I'm going to do. It's just never Pen & Paper"
I can relate to Hov is saying. Back in School High I would always get frustrated with the draft process before submitting essays. Just let the mood flow and express yourself as authentic as possible.
That's the God complex at work in all of us!
How can you Do that I want to Know how to do it .I want to start Doing in my head to challenge myself
That’s not what a God complex is though…
Truth your Absolutely Right 👑 📜
I'll explain it's better when I'm I'n person!! The thing is you become an instrument to the beat!! First thing bro just listen to the beat and every sound in it EVERY SOUND right!! as many times as you need to!! don't think about words yet while doing that cause after awhile you will become the Beat like your lost in it !! at that point add words certain beats will give you the words off top like hand them to you it's Crazy like having a Thought Process That Takes no thought Process!! Yes a Gift to Us All I Believe just some Can do it a little quicker that's all!! I do have a longer version of this in more detail!! But this is the close I could get it in this Format!!! But no joke to the point a certain Beat comes on it will be like catching THAT WAVE and just Flow!! 🙏🏿 📜~🎁~ 🙏🏿 📜
Fuck ya! Just in the past few years I've gotten okay with acknowledging the things I'm good at.
Only if u write rhymes do u overstand how difficult it would be for the average brain to not only put tgether an entire 16 in your head but then also to remember every word u formulated AND to be able to remember exactly HOW u put it tgether. If u dont write u cant really fathom just how amazing it is and why guys like J and Biggie are so revered by other emcees.
They memorize it as follows:
Say line 1. Say line 1 again then add line 2. Say line 1 and 2 then add line 3 and so on.
@@harrisonthorpe7970 exactly it’s just really easy for me. I only just write down so many ideas
I use both techniques and doing it in your head us easier, especially memory-wise
I think they're revered simply because they died in their prime. Not only that, they died before cancel culture. Any artist who dies not long after their works top charts multiple times, will surely gain a cult following. But once you're already on the decline its not the same. People are attached to the potential the person had.
I have a artist I record comes and do 4 songs he wrote and remember all them in his head,he’ll even write a song otw to my house he lives hour and 30 mins from me and he remembers that I’ve never seen anything like it.
In my opinion, when u think of a rap bar its “technically” freestyle and when i mean freestyle its jus off the head without thinkin or writin
I freestyle some bars and then I write it out afterwards. It just pops up sometimes
Sometimes you think when you freestyle too
Listening to jayz spit hot fire..is truly a treat..oh what a blessing..im so privileged..thank you o lord jesus
1:12 shows how professional he is at rap
Hahahhaha
Lol the speaker is weaker
Okay did he just end with a rhyme? “The candle you can’t handle.” lol
Proud of his talent and his accomplishments.
He said ‘ can I live ‘ was the last time he remembered writing and that’s one of my all time favorite Jay z song ..🤔🔥
The second verse only
Man i am in love with that song that beat that steady flow and lyrics everything was perfected I loved that
He said the 2nd verse an I believe him because that 2nd verse was the best shit he ever spit in his career omg his vocab an word play was insane on that 2nd verse wow
@@willlosobo6435 I stepped up on it another level meditated like a Buddhist licruted lieutenanants with ludicrous dreams of getting cream let's do this ❤️❤️❤️
I still think writing is better. The Art Of Freestyle is is especially dope but writing is a Art too
Marquise Cornish he’s writing in his head.
He not free styling he writes... just without the paper
@@TheRealGedaDot 💯💯
It's dope on both ends.
He’s said it, it ain’t exactly what we think of when we hear freestyling. He don’t spit on the spot he builds the verse up in his head. He been doing it since he was on the block and he couldn’t write it on the spot so he’d memorize his raps until he could write it down when he got home. It’s memory muscle he built after years of doing it.
I've always appreciated what Jay-Z has done for music but had never really looked to deeply on what he is about... Im a little blown away learning he's a genius
Uh, letter to my dad that I never wrote
Speeches I prepared that I never spoke
Words on a paper that I never read
Proses never penned, they stayed in my head
- Adnis
One of his hardest bars ever imo !!!
Look how big that studio is those musical vibrations Jesus ❤
That laugh tho 😂😂😂
Yep, shades of Kawhi Leonard.
"I don't write this I just mic this" - Jay-Z in Pump it Up freestyle
One take hov I'm real at this rapping
Bro niggas not seeing how he got the spooky occult candles set up
not that deep. was just a segment sway had back then
I do it too. You say a line in your head. Then another. Then you say the first 2 lines again then add a 3rd. Then you say the 3 lines then add a 4th and son on till you have a whole verse.
Makes Sense 💯
Inspiration
I actually learned how to write like this
Well you shudda just thought that comment , weez a read it here on the blank comment section/ section grabbing it from your mind.
Hov
Alot of rappers do this after awhile of writing u hust write in ya head n ya memory is crazy i do the same shit i dont write raps anymore jus.do it in my head
i wish juice and jay z wouldve made a freestyled collab tape
That’s the reason he’s the goat period
biggie didn’t write the last songs of ready to die . never wrote again . which further makes him being the greatest of all time so amazing .
Probs memorises when written down then its all in his head
Me to ❤
I used to think it was so cliché for Jay to be in my top 5 or top 10, but listening to songs like “Dead Presidents” and his feature verses on songs like “Time to Build”...RD, The blueprint album...then to find out he didn’t write most of those verses. I gotta put him up there. He deserves that spot.
🐐
Damn Jay-Z give direct eye contact
DEFINITELY NOT EASY TO DO.MY 💭 THOUGHTS COME OUT AND I HAVE TO GRAB A 🖊 REAL QUICK OR NOW THAT WE HAVE NEW WAYS OF WRITING ✍🏾 ILL JUST TYPE IT IN MY PHONE 📱 BUT SHOUT OUT TO JAY Z 💪🏾🙏🏾✊🏾🐐🐐🐐🐐🎤🎧🎼🎹 THANKS FOR SHARING
🎤 _--TOP 5...Dead or Alive!!-_-
That laugh is still funny to me..
Jay gotta voice for 🎥
Many people don't seem to beleave that he writes in his head in the studio but I have no problem beleaving it. It's kinda like pro chess players can play chess in their head by themselves or with other people. In rap it's just not as common because you don't have to have that good of a memory neccesarily. Like Em has said he needs to write soon as he comes up with something interesting it down because he is a scatter brain and it will just be gone after a while. There is this craazy freestyler Blind Fury and people were talking about how he cannot write and I pointed out Hov and people were to me do I seriously beleave that shit. But to be clear I don't beleave Blind Fury writes all of his freestyles but was just pointing out that it's a possibility that he can write verses.
full link anybody?
People forget BIG did the same.
people don't forget i would say most people that are hip hop fans over the age of 25 know it.
He just writes in his head. There are plenty of rappers who can do it
Who?
@@getcrunk117 Lil Wayne
I have really bad dyslexia and reading and writing makes the song writing Process longer and more frustrating.
1:12
I have a artist I record comes and do 4 songs he wrote and remember all them in his head,he’ll even write a song otw to my house he lives hour and 30 mins from me and he remembers that I’ve never seen anything like it.
Hov!
His laugh 😂
Jay Z the Goat!
This is insane
The great ones don't rhyme words. They correlate similar sounding thoughts.
damn, jay had a headphone crease
Jay is right, I don’t write either. I use the Mike as a pen and the DAW as a paper when you’re seasoned writing can be a long process,when you improvise it’s great using the mic as a pen gives you more freedom to be more creative. I am not saying writing is bad but some artists don’t need to. I use to write 10 songs a day on paper tho, and could spit them right off the top right away, so I guess that whole process get me where I currently am.
This is why HOV has respect for Wayne. He doesn't write anything down either.
Wayne started that in 2004 with the release of tha Carter
Jay started out rapping fast, so the more music slowed down, the easier it must of been to remember his raps. Take for example if he made music like today's artists... They literally say 16 bars or less. Jay could have a field day if he wanted. Record done in 2 minutes 😂
Whole album done in 30 minutes
😂😂😂
Jay Z f*CK around and do a 40 minute album in 20 minutes 🤔😂👀
How you ask??? Because today's artist say the same thing over and over and over 😂
Just think of how easy it was for Jay to do that record on Khaled album with Nas. 1 B then another B, can't forget the other B and people went nuts 😂😂😂😂💀
Alot of rappers get this confused. It's not freestyled and recorded, it's structured normally but just memorized. Alot of rappers really go in the booth and freestyle, and you can tell because it sucks.
Well maybe if he wrote and actually sat down he would be the goat😂😂
Uh, most of biggies lines are repeated by him in different ways. If he freestyles then maybe he needs to write cause he got tore up by DMX, tore up by Nas, and destroyed by Big L
J is an alien or something.
His lips looks so soft
fag
Of course he dont right it down its most shit he heard elsewhere
Nope! He goes to his rain man ( Satan) and rain man (Satan) speaks through him literally!!
Selling your soul and letting satan take over like that is crazy
So he writes with his subconscious
IMA SAY THIS NOW AND NEVER AGAIN IT DONT MEAN NOTHING!!!!!!! YALL LET WHATEVER THIS MAN DO INFLUENCE YALL FOH!!
I call vullshit. I heard cam give an interview about jay writing a verse....QUICK. But still wrote it.
1mn:12 it seems like a demon possessed him! lol
What are you talking about
At 1:12 he looks at the speaker hahaha then discusses the word speaker in a sentence man.
why they got this shit so candlelit tho
Why yall always gotta emasculate black men though
@@blackinton2526 tf you on about towards me? I'm just asking about lighting
@@ky_lani Why you asking about it though? whats wrong with it
@@blackinton2526I legitimately didn't mean anything racial about it. It just struck me as a weird lighting choice. I've been in several music studios and none of them had any candles in them. And I do my own lighting for videos sometimes so I'm always tryna peep out the warmth and brightness of shots and shit like that. At some point someone from this production team was like "you know what this shot needs? A shit ton of candles." Which just seemed weird to me. Also it makes me nervous to see fire hazards around a bunch of really fuckin nice and expensive equipment
There's nothing necessarily wrong with it. It just struck me as odd and made me curious
@@ky_lani Maybe because that's the vibe maybe Jay Z was recording in that enviroment who knows why it's not a big deal. This is some type of autistic notice
It’s easy not to write anything down when you’re just reciting someone else’s verse, word for word
Not the biggest Jay fan, rite..?? I would think niggas would put Jay as one of the best lyricist ever to breathe on the jawn.. and that’s my word is bond uponliî
Not writing anything down limits creativity. Look at Nas and his records, "I gave you power" "rewind" "one love" "undying love" "Get Down". Those records were made possible through writing. I doubt hov could make anything like that by spitting off top.
Meet the Parents
You mean Jay-Z has to look up to Nas? Bro. Not even close to the same level.
he cant freestyle.
he wrote with different people together and learned the lyrics....than came to the studio and acted as if he is a genius.
The speaker is weaker and you can't handle the candle #bars
If you think that’s considered bars than you shouldn’t judge rap lyrics. He was giving an example of what isn’t bars when he said that.
@@BlackFaithProduction joke went over your head
Joe Rogan
Of course he writes. The rest is nothing but marketing - you can see that he‘s lying.
Of course, Jay z sold his soul
Lies
Mad people that worked with him said he doesn’t write. Cam even said his Welcome to NYC verse in about 6 minutes.
Jay cant freestyle
Still the biggest fraud in rap history 😂😂 he WAS a top 5 MC and that was it he stole too much
Roxanne Shantae was the first artist to make a hit song without writing, straight freestyle!! Jay Z didn't start this.
But does she wrote though, Jayz makes whole albums with out pen and paper, not a verse or a song, whole albums. Even Biggie stopped writing after learning about Hov
Yeah I guess you don’t write when most verses is from biggie😂😂😂
Still ain't better than BEANS
taylor mccoy beans is washed up
@@onyxmorris4070 name one record jay outperformed beans on?
@@onyxmorris4070 every collab BEANS "washed" jay
Jay got Beans on more tracks than not. Definitely the greater emcee. But Beans was dangerous.
@@Jamescarter249 bruh the entire dynasty album jay got MURDERED by beans
Sorry, my mans is brilliant...but at sometime he wrote shit down or had to look up his own lyrics for a show. I get memorizing lyrics...I know a good few dozen songs of J's off the dome but man...Mixed with all the other music I enjoy in my life? At some point you'd have to take notes!