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Description: “This is a tip to anybody that’s an aspiring musician… or a rapper, specifically. If you take the craft serious, I think when you’re spending your childhood in your teenage years listening to music: you should rap along." ----- How To Master The Art of Freestyle Rap In 2 Weeks or Less (FREESTYLE COURSE): bit.ly/319VMz7 The Top 20 Songwriting Secrets of Professional Rappers (FREE COURSE): bit.ly/3HDsd9g ------ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 J. Cole's 1st Tip For How to Rap In Live Performance 1:37 How “Rapping Along” Helps Your Rapping Skills 3:20 3 Secrets To “Rapping Along” To Improve Your Skills 3:26 A) Practice At Full Volume 3:44 B) Record Sessions 4:07 C) Don’t Use This As A Substitute For Writing 5:14 J. Cole's 2nd Tip For How to Rap In Live Performance 5:49 How To Have More Confidence For Rapping 7:12 Comment and pick up your courses! -------- Let’s say you’re a big Lil’ Baby fan and you want to be a rapper… you have to rap with him when you’re listening. Don’t just listen. Rap with him. That’s what happened with me and breath control and top tier breath control and the ability to use these lungs. It came along with rapping along with all of my favorite rappers - from ‘Pac, to Jay, to Nas, Outkast, Eminem. That’s where it came from. It came from that.” In this clip, J. Cole has provided young artists with a window into the hidden science of how to rap that often doesn’t get mentioned in rapper interviews: How to consistently put on a world-class, top tier live performance. This specific portion of the interview relates to the secret to breath control when performing on stage, but as we’ll show you in a minute… Cole doesn’t just stop there. He also provides us with exactly how he instantly built the self-confidence for how to rap in live performance… …And as he’ll show us… from that moment… used his stage presence to get free studio time, a rap crew, and truly begin what would become a legendary musical career. How “Rapping Along” Helps Your Rapping Skills When most people, including yourself, listen to music before deciding to become a musician is by listening to music WHILE doing something else. That might be working out at the gym, that might be commuting to work or school, or that might be dancing along while out at a party or club. The point is, most people are not proactively reproducing the rap the way they would in a live performance. However, when the actual rapper is recording or performing the song live, they’re doing much more focused activity that the person just nodding along to the song while they drive: The rapper is enunciating the lyrics using their voice, practicing breath control using their lungs, and so on. By “re-enacting” the live activities of a rapper while listening to the music, you as a potential artist will vastly improve your skills in breath control, vocal delivery, and flow much like J. Cole describes here. Which is what J. Cole covers here when discussing how he got his first major break by performance at age 14 which lead to his eventual ability to get free mentorship and studio time from The Bomb Shelter crew: “There was a chance that I MIGHT get on stage. I went to Da Skate Zone and they had a part of their show where they invited ‘all the MCs that are in the crowd if you want to get up and rock, come up!’ I’m 14. I’m the youngest dude in there. Everybody is 19, 20, 24, whatever. I get on stage as a scrawny 14 year old. I was skinny, I sounded like a girl, my voice was high pitched. I was nervous as hell, but as soon as they passed me the microphone… I destroyed that s**t. Which is what J. Cole covers here when discussing how he got his first major break by performance at age 14 which lead to his eventual ability to get free mentorship and studio time from The Bomb Shelter crew: “There was a chance that I MIGHT get on stage. I went to Da Skate Zone and they had a part of their show where they invited ‘all the MCs that are in the crowd if you want to get up and rock, come up!’ I’m 14. I’m the youngest dude in there. Everybody is 19, 20, 24, whatever. I get on stage as a scrawny 14 year old. I was skinny, I sounded like a girl, my voice was high pitched. I was nervous as hell, but as soon as they passed me the microphone… I destroyed that thing." How To Have More Confidence For Rapping Inherent in this particular quote from J. Cole is the importance of performing at anytime you’re asked or ABLE to in order to open up opportunities for your career. This is really case in point for what we just covered a second ago by saying that you can’t think just being able to rap along is enough.