I don’t write.” “Today, ProTools is essentially, like, the pen and paper, and that’s where it becomes this different type of art form.” “It’s improvisational versus writing the stand-up piece. I just be rapping.” “Do you write, or do you punch in?” “I punch in. They’re just going in and punching in.” “Punch in.” “Punch method.” “Punch and recording.” “Punching three more bars.” “I ain’t never wrote raps. My lunch ticket let me eat rappers at lunch time.” “What I know is, when you see your hero can jump seven feet, it makes you want to jump eight.” “If it depends on me, 10 out of 10.” “You’re telling me, you’re falling out of love with me.” “I came up at the trenches.” “The problem is that not all of them are as great or as capable of doing it.” “Yeah, turn me up in my ear.” “That’s no pen, no pad. I didn’t want to ever see a pen or paper, again, in my life.” “He has class, first in the lunch line. Word starts to spread mid-to-late 90s that Jay doesn’t actually write any of his rhymes down.” “So you literally come in the studio and then formulate sentences in your head?” “Yeah.” “And then spit it to that beat?” “Yeah.” “And you never write down the lyrics?” “Never.” “Which leads to other rappers wanting to do the same thing.” “I found out that Jay wasn’t writing. We don’t have it.” “Fast forward a little bit. Come here prepared.’” “We don’t have time or the luxury to spend all of this time doing one song. It’s a lot more laborious, a little bit more tedious.” Rapping: “Three strikes and we might just blast -” “I’ve watched Tupac giving a speech - ‘Hey, we have two hours of studio time. You had to have it figured out.” “Most music up until about 20 years ago was always recorded on tape. If a singer went in, you had to sing that, top to bottom, baby. So everybody had to be on point.” “There used to be a time before the 24 track, for instance. Not many people write.” “Back in the day, when people were just using tape, you just had one take. “I think a lot of people picture, like, modern rappers who really just, like, pen and paper in the studio, writing down their raps, figuring it out, scratching it out, changing it.” “Yeah, no, we stopped writing a long time ago. Transcript Why Rappers Stopped Writing: The Punch-In Method Fifty years into hip-hop’s constant evolution, many of today’s rappers don’t write down their lyrics at all.
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