The Secret Philosophy of Pop Smoke (How To Rap Like Pop Smoke)
Pop Smoke tells us: “I don’t really write like that… I don’t write at all, to be honest… I just go in there and go crazy. I always got people around me who do different things, so my boy Al was just around and was like, ‘You know how to do this?’ And I was like ‘Yeah… bro, and it just went from there”
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 50 Cent Talks About Pop Smoke
1:01 #1 Study The Mentor (But Don’t Follow The Mentor)
1:39 50 Cent Talks About Jam Master Jay
2:34 Free Songwriting Course Below
2:51 Pop Smoke On His Writing Process
3:13 #2 Don’t Write, Relive
3:37 Big Sean on His Writing Process
4:33 Kendrick Lamar on His Writing Process
4:51 #3 Be Your Own Fan First
5:47 Comment and Pick Up Your Free Course
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“You see Pop Smoke… I liked a n***a man… I swear to God I really liked that n***a. I met him, we was talking. And I was like ‘Yo’… I’m watching him and this n***a keep playing with his phone and he was playing with his phone ALL the time… I’m like ‘Yo, what the f**k is wrong with this n***a?… he’s like “yo… what you say?”
50 Cent Interview on Pop Smoke
In this clip, 50 Cent describes the first step in the philosophy of Pop Smoke that every new artist, and indeed every new creative person must walk through on their journey to master:
#1 Study The Mentor (But Don’t Follow The Mentor)
Almost every single newcomer rap artist sounds like their number one mentor(s).
Jay-Z lifted his early “triplet” flow from mentor Jaz-O… Eminem on Infinite sounds like a mixture of It Was Written Nas and Treach from Naughty By Nature, and even 50 Cent himself was step-by-step trained by fellow Queens native Jam Master Jay of Run DMC how to master hit song structure:
“I didn’t actually know how to count bars when I met Jay. I would write a verse and it would be 12 bars, sometimes 14, sometimes 18… everything but 16 bars you know… he kind of trained me to write the chorus, and he was like… he’d write make the chorus to the record 3-4 times before I started. And this is why sometimes I have habits based on that. Sometimes I’ll put more than one melody on the actual record. So for example, on P.I.M.P., I’ll say, “I’m a P.I.M.P… and then there’s a part in the record where I’ll say, I’m ‘bout my money you’ll see… ” So, there’s a bridge area on the record and I learned how to do that under Jay’s tutelage”
50 Cent Interview on Jam Master Jay
The difference between copying and studying an artist lies in exactly what Pop Smoke did here with 50 Cent… he emulated the “mentality” of 50 Cent rather than simply reproducing the exact same outcomes.
This reminds us of an underrated Jay-Z line where he once said, “don’t follow me, homey, follow my moves”.
Artists in the 21st century should strive to focus more on the mentality of their favorite rappers and attempt to “read between the lines” of the philosophy the icon is representing…
Rather than just copying the same old song format, which is why so much modern rap sounds exactly the same.
We discuss exactly how to follow the philosophy of 21st century song structure in our free course, “The Top 20 Songwriting Secrets of Professional Rappers” which you can pick up above…
But the first step in the philosophy of Pop Smoke is study the mentor, but don’t follow him.
#2 Don’t Write, Relive
“I don’t really write like that… I don’t write at all, to be honest… I just go in there and go crazy. I always got people around me who do different things, so my boy Al was just around and was like, ‘You know how to do this?’ And I was like ‘Yeah… bro, and it just went from there”
Pop Smoke Interview
Our last article titled, “How Rappers Write Their Songs” which you can view by clicking HERE described the ‘Mind Only Method’ style of writing that rappers such as Lil’ Wayne, Jay-Z, Big Sean, and now Pop Smoke use wherein a rapper does not actually write their lyrics down…
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