Tips for Rapping a Chorus

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"Now we're going to speak on a little further on the chorus. But as ya'all know I chose to do a melodic chorus on this, a singing chorus. But if you were to rapping chorus you would go about it the same way with the same bar structure. You know a chorus typically is four bars repeated twice with comes up for eight bars. I'm going to go further in the bars later but you want to do four bars and repeat that twice. But it's like ya'all know my original hook was. I grew up in a neighborhood we had no hope. And our neighborhood role models all sold dope. See what I"m saying? But if I want to turn that into a rapping chorus I would change my what they call swagger which is my emotion, my flow, my feel, the way I feel about it. And to a rapping type swag. Like ya see we grew up in a neighborhood our neighborhood role models all sold dope we had to give money cause our Mom's so broke, bo, we know, yea, yea we know a better day's coming. See I grew up in hood no hope. Our neighborhood role models all sold dope. We had to give money cause our Mom's so broke, but how I know a change yea, the change gonna come. See what I'm saying? So I just had to take what I had and flip it. Cause there's so many ways you can flip it like, I grew up in a neighborhood we had no hope. You know what I'm saying? Theres so many different ways to flip that you just want to get what flows best with the beat. That's the most important part of the song is the chorus. The chorus is the nucleus, the meat of the song. Everything else is just the fat around it."