4 Storytelling Secrets To Write Raps Like Eminem! (Ideas + Examples)

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Today we’re going to explain storytelling secrets to write raps like Eminem (for beginners) using four lyrical secrets that none other than Slim Shady himself uses.

We’ll be breaking down exactly how he executes some of his best lyrical tricks…

…And a few of the main reasons why he is often considered one of the greatest rappers of all time.

So, without further ado… let’s get into how to rap like Eminem for beginners using his lyrical secrets!

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Write Raps Like Eminem: Overview
1. Struggle-Success Storytelling
Eminem uses a format of storytelling we like to term as “struggle-success storytelling” where he is as descriptive with his struggle as he is with his successes. This is one of the first steps to write raps like Eminem on his motivational songs.

2. Recurring Characters
Another common tactic Eminem uses is to have “recurring characters” (or put more plainly, made-up voices) come up again and again in his lyrics. Think of these characters like a TV show where they show up once every three episodes. When you write raps like Eminem, you should find ways to add characters.

3. Entertaining Enemies
A trick that I haven’t seen mentioned very much online is how Eminem creates imaginary opponents in his music who either a “viral” sensation at the time of the song, or somebody, real or imagined, who entertains the audience and becomes an antagonist that Shady (and thus the audience living through him) must conquer.

4. Roleplaying
Roleplaying is a concept taken from drama and theatre, and almost like a “modern day Shakespeare” as he would put it, Eminem consistently impersonates, with full voice and speech, characters in his songs.

1. Struggle-Success Storytelling
One of the first things Eminem does to make his lyrics relatable is use a format of storytelling we’ll called “struggle-success storytelling”.

While in Hip-Hop when fans say that a rapper is a good “storyteller”, they are often referring to the ability for the rapper to construct an entertaining fictional narrative…

Often about some form of a heist or robbery like in Notorious B.I.G.’s “Warning” or Nas’s “Blaze A 50”…

Eminem has perfected the ability to first bring the audience fully into his struggle, make them live there for a while…

So that by the time they reach the heightened joy of success, usually embodied by the chorus or the second to third verse…

They feel an expanded sense of joy, much like Eminem himself would after escaping that feeling of pain.

We can first look at the first verse of “Lose Yourself”. While the song itself is heralded as one of the most motivational songs in rap history…

The first images we see are of someone in a serious mental and emotional struggle:

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti

He’s nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready

To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgettin’

What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud

He opens his mouth, but the words won’t come out

He’s chokin’, how, everybody’s jokin’ now

The clocks run out, times up, over, blaow!

Think of how descriptive he is being about his STRUGGLE from an emotional and physical standpoint:

Vomit
Sweating
Loss of Memory
Choking
This sounds like a series of symptoms on WebMD that could be anything from a fever to full blown AIDS! Talk about struggle!

By the time we arrive at the triumphant chorus, we have truly been through the struggle with him so we can emotional share the taste of victory with B. Rabbit.

For you as a beginning artist, if you want to write raps like Eminem…

Especially if you deal with any form of not knowing what to rap about or writer’s block…

Consider writing more bars describing the struggle from an emotional or physical standpoint so that when you finally ARRIVE at the triumphant chorus, the audience can share the joy with you.

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