Eminem and Kendrick Lamar Teach How To Write Better Lyrics In 3 Steps

“One of the things that’s happened to me over the years is rapping gets harder but rhyming gets easier, if that makes any sense… by the time it’s all said and done, ‘is this different than anything of ever said or done…? I’ve scribbled out many a rhyme on my pad and thought, ‘ah, I’ve already got something that’s like that - Eminem
"(I have) thousands (of unreleased songs). I done lost hard drives. Hard drives from ’05, ’06… we never got them back. Took it to San Francisco to get it fixed, never got fixed…
It’s a need to never be content or to be comfortable." --Kendrick Lamar
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In these two quotes, we see two of the greatest rappers of all time - Eminem and Kendrick Lamar - discuss the science of learning how to write better lyrics.
Throughout this analysis, we’ll watch as Kendrick and Shady dive deep into their respective writing processes, and then mirror those direct quotes from the rappers themselves with information about:
How To Come Up With Lyrics
How To Destroy Writer’s Block As An Artist
How To Write More Authentic Lyrics
But let’s begin by honing in on the first lesson we can pull from learning how to write better lyrics, using the Kendrick Lamar and Eminem Method:
Experiment With Your Lyrics Like A Scientist
“I’ve made a lot of songs. When I think back about how many songs I’ve actually made… I don’t know how many I’ve made but I’ve made a lot of songs… and I make a lot of songs for each album.
But I always try to approach each song slightly different. And even if I can’t - ‘Okay I got a song that was kind of maybe like this ten years ago - let me put a little twist on it” -- Eminem Interview
“I could talk about anything - and this is the challenge for me - being able to talk about anything and make it connect to the listener…
Where the listener can either feel like you or understand you or you have just a deeper connection through the music.
Like, talking to a little kid and making that represent something and making that feel like something. Or saying the most brutal harsh things on record where society might not want to hear it. - Kendrick Lamar Interview
To the outside fan or future superstar who has just started writing lyrics, it would appear like artists such as Marshall and Kendrick simply…
Pull bars out of thin air like a magician with no method to the madness.
Although perhaps we all wish creating better lyrics could be so mystical, the truth of the matter is a better comparison for a lyricist pushing themselves into a new creative realm is that of a scientist, yes…
Lyricists are closer to scientists than magicians
This is because, much like a seasoned scientist trying to test their data and establish a new theory…
After you have been writing lyrics for literally decades, filling up hard drives like Kendrick or having to compete with your 22-year old self at age 50 like Eminem…
You reach a point where:
You Need To Have “Experimental” Mindset
You’re no longer competing with “other artists” or pushing to come up with lyrics just to become proficient in music like your idols… you’re now competing with yourself.
Therefore, the very first step to learning how to write better lyrics like Kendrick Lamar and Eminem is shifting your lyrical content into a constant “experimentation mode”, and then expanding on what you find.
As someone who has coached rappers here, KZbin’s most subscribed channel on learning how to rap, and perhaps more importantly traveled to over 15 countries as a professionally paid rap artist…
Let me humbly offer one quick method in order to implement your new experiment-and-expand mindset:
Start Doing “Don’t Leave ’Til It’s Done” Sessions
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COMMENT: Do you write lyrics with a notebook, on your phone, or simply “think” your lyrics like Lil’ Wayne and Jay-Z?

[@angryiris5544]

Notebook

[@ashokareddy145]

notebook

[@simonwilson-ayer856]

Notebook

[@tech2973]

I do both

[@yehhhhhh234]

Both

[@d.michael372]

What helps me write is the detailed approach. Let’s say the subject is an apple. Verse one can strictly be about the stem, verse 2 the skin and verse 3 the core. Now you have a full song because you stuck to each detail of an apple. This technique keeps you from veering away from the topic. I find the studio the worst place to write lyrics because of how closed in it feels. I get my inspiration from just being outside doing everyday things. Once I’ve finished my lyrics, then I go to the studio to only record. The studio is not the place to be thinking about what you want to write. Use your studio $ wisely!

[@1SportyBoy]

Thank you very much, that actually really helped

[@d.michael372]

@@1SportyBoyglad to be of some help!

[@MacSegras]

This is the smartest thing I’ve ever heard

[@ThatRedHeadedMenace]

Em and Kendrick are two of my favourite emcees. They both inspire me in different ways. I want to make music as good as theirs one day. I’m a rapper too, but I’m not very good yet.

[@non-expertguy9805]

Sing for the moment, I'm Dying Of Thirst

[@OfficialBabyboii]

Never say that. You putting yourself down. Anything you do is magnificent. I put myself down for so long and never thought I was good enough. Now I write songs without a problem, because I taught myself to believe!! It you make yourself believe you can’t do something, you’ll spend the rest of your life believing it’s true when it’s not. PUSH YOURSELF, even when your own brain won’t believe in you. You got this!

[@eduardmanecuta5350]

How does Eminem writes his witty lines?

[@ClipzyJ]

The power of yet.......

[@ilikedazshak]

I started off writing my lyrics in a notebook but switched to my phone since it’s easier to erase/tweek lyrics. Plus it’s easier for me to look at when I’m at work or anywhere I wouldn’t take my notebook to

[@natebrady414]

Too many distractions that way though

[@ilikedazshak]

@@natebrady414 easily can turn on airplane mode and play a beat downloaded on your phone. Or just zone in and type it out

[@savagekid9094]

@@natebrady414keep ur phone on dnd (if iPhone) and u can turn off notification banners now it’s just up to u to stay focused so it depends how passionate u are ab ur music

[@younggod3906]

@@ilikedazshak💯💯

[@JaradLennon]

​@@ilikedazshak ik this 1yo comment but he is right

[@lynkozz]

I appreciate it drew. I’m a rapper that’s been dragging this shit out way to long and I recently started incorporating these don’t leave until it’s done sessions. It’s hard but I’m lovin the finished product

[@Gotothelui]

Literally my two favorite rappers

[@angryiris5544]

I hope I'll be a good rapper one day 🤞

[@Yusaka-category100]

Hopefully you do

[@sonshine_konoha]

No need to hope, put in the work and you got this!

[@sprooka9527]

You can be a good rapper but if you don’t have good music that’s different, you must find the balance to both young padowan

[@Knots92782]

Competition’s getting higher I’m in too ._.

[@hellnah9453]

Same here🤞🙏🏼

[@MetalSwingBlues]

This video basically serves as a reminder to those who already do these things since nobody would ever pick up these habits unless they loved writing to begin with.

[@4everyonebutyou]

(Sry for text wall) So I’ve been rapping since I was 16 (22 now) and when I started I was pretty much strictly writing because I didn’t really know what I was doing I just knew you had to write something to rap if you can’t go off the top. Over time you get comfortable and some may get more comfortable than others and find the flow/style that really works for them while at the same time having that experimental mindset like said in this video , it will give you that versatility to rap in different voices ,styles , genres even. Now after making hundreds of songs I just hear a beat and every time I can just go off the top and destroy that shit . It’s taken years of dedication but I noticed it’s just like acting in a sense , you can’t tell a good actor is acting really because he’s playing the character so well. If you play the character of yourself better and better every time you make a song it’s just like having a conversation you don’t necessarily have to try so much like em said the rhyming gets easier but rapping gets harder. The actual technical ability to rap is much more difficult imo than writing good bars, that’s the thing that you just have to practice over and over again until it becomes fluent and like muscle memory . To sum it up , it’ll get easier but don’t think you can just ride the same flow every song and expect to get better that way, same goes with lyrics you gotta push yourself to write story’s , stupid shit sometimes for fun, good metaphors , double entendres, alliteration , all of that stuff is needed if you really want to be taken seriously but don’t forget to have fun. it seems like it won’t be but if you really love music the work never feels like work

[@4everyonebutyou]

Lmao im the typa person who talks too much people get annoyed. I used to Watch how to rap videos and smart rapper kinda religiously when I was younger, tbh KZbin and the great teachers on here have really been the biggest help to me throughout my time rapping I could not recommend enough just to hop on Yt if you want to learn anything

[@FranklinSaiint]

Thank you bro I been studying these videos for months so I can sharpen my pen ✍️ game

[@HowToRapOfficial]

Dope! Glad to inspire you Tu Smoove4tv!

[@ryanpendley1826]

Here's something I came up with... Tower of Babel and an apple; wisdom bedazzled// Like Heaven untraveled, that's your life for an example// So if you want to battle, you'll have to go through an eye of a needle with a camel; the dragon that chya cant handle, your left behind and dismantled, going upstream without a paddle, life sucks; you have no dick for a girl to straddle, your nothing but dirt and gravel to trample upon as the world travels// My grace is sufficient,// wish you weren't so fragile, you're bound by sin and shackled on the pedestal in the chapel, nothing but a pharisee to tackle// I'm the Holy of Holies in this tabernacle, trapping souls in little gel capsules, to shine on my mantle, you can never put the flame out on this candle, Messianic ramble, slaughtering of lambs to be raffled// lyrical blades, ancient of days, blank kicks like Guile to the brain donkey kong country where you go insane, and I play you like a video game, gotta to be born again to step to my fame, treat you with the mark of Cain for saying your hard in the paint to the public domain such an antichrist when your rap'pin in vain, I could go on and on for days and days putting you to shame now the ball in your court for the rap game Writer Ryan K Pendley

[@wellwhatdoyakno6251]

Kendrick and Marshall’s voice so nice.

[@williamcordova9152]

Great video, my take away is that anyone can honestly learn how to write music , they just gotta be in touch with themselves in one way or another to know what they want put out or say to the world. Maybe it’s different for you than it is for me . Just gotta find a process that suits you even if it has to come through trial and error

[@sycofya1677]

i do all 3, notebook, phone and just think them while im driving.

[@dabariummalak]

I've always been a writer being that It was poetry that got me rapping on a personal level. It's still a thought process involved as I write what I'm thinking but never been a from off the brain rapper to its definition. I got a lot of practice to be a freestyle rapper. I started off with paper as many have but I use the song keeper app.

[@DiemAitch]

I’m 37 and have only just started putting music up on KZbin. Eminem inspired me to begin but for years I battled self doubt and the opinions of others, finally decided to just do it for the fun of doing it and have music on my channel now. I might be a bit old to have started but f**k it, it’s something I wanted to do so I did it.

[@Mic33rd]

notebook and phone. I've written in my head before but I feel like that way takes me longer to "write" and come up with the lyrics since I'm trying to memorize simultaneously

[@jaeclaude100]

Write on my Phone, Book and in the booth

[@tonecorlyone]

I usually Think my lyrics and recite on the mic, but i started off as a writer and slowly getting back into writitng

[@Hashoaktree]

As a kid I used to write my lyrics down in my notebooks from school, so I had all those lyrics and ideas in my schoolwork everywhere. But now everything's on laptops and shit, so I demanded my school that I didn't have to use my laptop lol

[@rich.life_daily]

Thank you for always being he for us,I know I will be an amazing rapper .

[@HowToRapOfficial]

One love! Tyree Smith!

[@ItsOSAbaby]

I can sit down and write and if I do it’s on the phone or computer and write. But most of my songs are Freestyle, for the past 18 years.

[@KWOODZ_]

Still experimenting, right now I use a phone but once I really get into the stu on da regular I might try to think it out

[@shawnjackson65]

It's depends on the vibe I'm in I can definitely think of bars off the top of my head like Wayne and Jay z I have a extremely good memory but I do have a notebook of bars as well I like the artistic aspect of writing bars the only time I write if I wanna write a conceptual record with details but I just rather let my mind be free flow from my subconscious mind and memory

[@mayankpatel1111]

I mostly get the ideas and bars when I'm on toilet seat or in bathroom. I always run towards my phone or notebook or anything where I can write it down before I forget it or the idea is gone. Doesn't matter if my hands are wet or I'm naked.

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

I look forward to the Droppin' Shit mixtape.

[@mayankpatel1111]

@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 Aiight bet.😎

[@dominiquemitchell5969]

Mine is a combination of notebook paper,my phone, and thinking of lyrics like Jay-Z and Lil Wayne.

[@dallascobbshoww]

Kendrick Lamar please keep dropping

[@donnydarko7624]

I may not be able to stand Em's voice but, he always makes sure to give it up to the artists that have influenced him.

[@VoicelessVoid456]

From the very beginning this is very relatable.

[@dubg7likemike]

Another great way is whatever is most comfortable to you, meaning once you set a limit. That's death to a bunch of ideas. Study everything, acting, writing books, scripts, kobe bryant.

[@mwendamayaka5264]

I will be one of the greatest rappers of All Time

[@WORDWEEAVER]

Learning from the best 🔥❤️👍🏽

[@Merc-FPS]

Who ever found that pink notebook em lost, your worth millons rn.

[@Newbsolo]

I write em in a notebook and then type em in a doc print and save that way I don’t lose em

[@dkmma3312]

Eminem shows you what like 3 or 4 decades of high level rapping does

[@sugarfly321gaming8]

Is this why I make so many notes ! 📝 I can freestyle off my random notes 📝

[@basvanbeek7926]

im not tryna be a rapper im tryna express myself cuz ive got nothing that resembles ME

[@samarrni]

I will become one of the greatest rappers one day, no option bro I do it or die trying.

[@madisonfambro2273]

i believe in u

[@EM.OTIONCHILLBEATS]

Rappers hit me up for beats

[@padmakardipke1629]

I'm going to be super successful rapper in few months, I'm open and ready to for this now ,❤

[@bthewis3_1277]

I think my lyrics but sometimes it's better, but others I wish I would've wrote it down

[@Gurux-v1w]

I hope I will be a rapper♾️🎤

[@JahMoneyyyy]

what do you mean by uninterrupted writing ? as in writing your feelings down in or writing some lyrics ?

[@JahMoneyyyy]

when I write in the uninterrupted writing session, do I need to finish the whole song by then or no ?, if not then what's the goal by the end of the hour ?

[@carlosgil4196]

I write both paper and cell phone note pad

[@jaykt8102]

Can y’all tell me how this sounds Niggas like to play so i told them I got it I was running your favorite rappers pockets Now we at the top and we ain’t tryna stop it I just found 100 dollars in my pocket This got me feeling like a rocket This for my ladies out in the projects We made 100 grams in the projects We started running ems and firing poppets Now we got coppers out tryna find us We was ditching school and doing projects Niggas was being flam so we hoped in the cockpit I got skinny bitches flying in my cockpit We took a trip to go and see the rockets We left to go and see him lock it He was being a bitch so we had to pop him Niggas was snitching so we had to rock them

[@HawkWRLD578]

I write my lyrics in a notebook

[@HoangLongNhan-pi9tj]

Just Used Little Bit Lyrics Comment Before Of Me ... This is lyrics and the comments too bro Eminem😊❤

[@sugarfly321gaming8]

Yeah my 19 year old self is better at rhymes then this 33 me, that's wy I'm here, retraining and part of that is studying my old stuff and all eminems , some tentacion, tiny bit of king von, 50 cent dre, and that's about it, aaaahhh maybe some immortal technique hidden track

[@Jaytv-]

I hope my music make it one day 🙌🏽

[@Bobtani8w]

I wanna be a rapper but i cant cuz i dont know what words to use

[@benvindojesus6507]

Aside of being good rapper's what else does Em has in common with kendrick? 😂.. One Love

[@madeemhategaming5815]

Yeah All that “ I only freestyle ish” is for the birds soon as I hear someone say that I know they ain’t got it

[@dubg7likemike]

Studying nba players is a GREAT way! So undderated

[@Yusaka-category100]

One day I be the greatest rapper ever

[@kelvinkolleh5320]

Foshizo cuz

[@younggod3906]

Subscribing now 🔥🔥💯

[@DV-dk5hd]

These guys are nice. But who are the five greatest rappers of all time? 1.Dylon 2.Dylon 3.Dylon 4.Dylon 5.& Dylan

[@josephan6953]

Em literally left the room before the song was done…

[@Savitar_in_reverse]

Ok

[@eduardmanecuta5350]

How to write witty like Eminem?

[@SuaveDante]

What are you supposed to write about for an hour before deciding what you're gonna write about😂

[@AjeeMonfortetyree]

I wanted to share my music someday, and i wanted to know some tips or advice thats why im here haha, and i do write in my book or type on my phone everytime, so ama subscribe thanks G🇵🇭

[@GuyWhoDoesPushups]

im gonna be a famous rapper someday..

[@mannatbhullar7795]

Heii

[@MORENAMOJALEFA-r5q]

THERES IS ALWAYS A NEED TO LOSE SOMETHING

[@TerriYoung-n3n]

Can you make my song a little better?

[@adambeecroft9305]

it doesnt appear like that at all

[@iampinball3669]

Don’t wanna see no one takin lyric advice from Eminem. Not after “That’s an awfully hot coffee pot” and “bornana”

[@unikumvakuuma]

Эминем - Величайший, Кендрик - просто мейнстривоя звезда. (голос фанов Кендрика: да ты просто хейтер, им восхищаются многие.. это и есть мейнстрим, когда восхищаются среднечками нахайпе)

[@saintflirt]

Why Kendrick looks so fat in the Thumbnail man😂😂

[@sugarfly321gaming8]

Deep in 5 min? You narrating other 5... lol nahhhh