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      • #17 – What Will The Rap Of The Future Sound Like?
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      • Rap Music Analysis #4 – The Rapping Voice As (An Extremely Expressive) Instrument
      • All Of The Rap Data You Could Ever Want
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      • The 20 Most Verbally Complex Rappers – Rap Music Analysis
      • Rap Music Analysis – Importance Of The Rap Team
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      • Rap Analysis #0 – How To Listen Musically To Rap
    • East Coast
      • Black Thought – Rap Music Analysis
      • Rap Music Analysis #3 – Is Nas The Best Technical Rapper Ever…By Far?
      • Rap Music Analysis #7 – The Jeanius of Ms. Jean Grae
      • Eve & Dr. Dre, “Let Me Blow Ya Mind” Rap Analysis!!
      • Rapper’s Flow Encyclopedia – Rone
      • Javotti Media – The Cathedral Album Review
      • Notorious B.I.G. Analysis Now Available!
      • Rap Analysis – Digable Planets
      • Rapper’s Flow Encyclopedia – Talib Kweli
      • Rap Music Analysis – Prodigy and Mobb Deep
      • Rap Music Analysis #11 – Mos Def’s Block Rhyming
      • Rapper’s Flow Encyclopedia – Heltah Skeltah, Rock Rap Music Analysis
      • #15 – The Pharoahe Dynasty Rap Analysis
      • Kweli Vs. Beethoven: What Does Jazz Really Mean In Rap?
      • Rap Music Analysis – Kool G Rap
      • Rapper’s Flow Encyclopedia – MF DOOM Analysis
      • Logic, Growing Pains, Rap Analysis
    • West Coast
      • Rap Music Analysis #1 – Game’s “How We Do”
      • Rapper’s Flow Encyclopedia – Busta Rhymes
      • Rap Music Analysis – Earl Sweatshirt, “Earl”, Pt. 3
      • Rap Music Analysis #9 – Comedic Rap and MC Mr. Napkins’ “The Aggressive Bee”
      • Rap Music Analysis – Kendrick Lamar – Rigamortis, Pt. 2
      • Clipping. Rap Music Analysis
      • Rap Music Analysis – Black Hippy
      • Rapper’s Flow Encyclopedia – 2pac
      • Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly Review – Rap Music Analysis
      • Kendrick Lamar Structural Elision – Rap Music Analysis
      • Rapper’s Flow Encyclopedia – Earl Sweatshirt, Part 2
      • Snoop Dogg – Rap Music Analysis
      • Rap Music Analysis #14 – Kendrick Lamar, “Good Kid, m.a.a.d. City”
      • Rap Music Analysis – Kendrick Lamar – “Rigamortis”
      • Oldies AND Goodies — Eazy-E & Ice Cube Flow Breakdowns!
    • Midwest
      • Rap Music Analysis #8 – Common, “I Used To Love H.E.R.”
      • Tech N9ne Rap Music Analysis
      • Rap Music Analysis – Eminem, “The Rap God”
      • Twista – Rap Music Analysis
      • Bone Thugs…Explained, With Rap Analysis!
      • Rap Music Analysis #2 – Eminem
      • MF DOOM Analysis Article – “Vomitspit”
      • #12 Rap Music Analysis – Big Sean’s Signature Flow
    • Dirty South
      • Rapper’s Flow Encyclopedia – Ludacris And Old School Rap
      • Lil Wayne – Rap Music Analysis
      • Rap Analysis #13 – How To Make a Pitbull Song
      • Rapper’s Flow Encyclopedia – Big Boi
      • Gorillaz Analysis: Humanz vs. The Now Now
    • Interviews
      • Ca$his Interview
      • Talib Kweli Interview
      • Rap Analysis – Jean Grae Interview
      • Godïus R.ichard Oasis & Cartier Jones Interview
      • Pharoahe Monch Interview – Rap Music Analysis
      • Paul Edwards Interview, Part 2
      • Rap Music Analysis Interview – Paul Edwards
    • Sheet Music
      • Rap Analysis – Rap’s Rhythms Transcribed
      • MF DOOM – Vomitspit Sheet Music
      • Dr. Dre – “How We Do” Beat Rap Sheet Music
      • Jay-Z – Empire State of Mind Rap Sheet Music
      • Rap Music Transcription – Rock, From Heltah Skeltah
      • Ludacris/Nicki Minaj – My Chick Bad Rap Sheet Music
      • Outkast – Aquemini Rap Sheet Music
      • Dr. Dre/Time Bomb – LA Niggaz – Rap Sheet Music
      • Nas – One Mic Rap Sheet Music
      • Fugees – Ready Or Not Rap Musical Transcription Sheet Music
      • Kurtis Blow – “Rappin’ Blow” Musical Transcription
      • Kendrick Lamar – Backseat Freestyle Sheet Music
      • Eminem – Drop The Bomb On ‘Em Sheet Music
      • MC Mr. Napkins “The Aggressive Bee” Rap Sheet Music
      • Kendrick Lamar, “For Free? (Interlude)” Sheet Music Transcription & Notation
      • Game/50 Cent – How We Do Rap Sheet Music
      • Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city Sheet Music
      • Cold Crush Brothers – Fresh, Fly, Wild and Bold – Rap Music Transcription
      • Jean Grae – Various – Rap Sheet Music
      • Eminem – Business Rap Sheet Music
      • Nas – Don’t Get Carried Away Rap Sheet Music
      • Eminem Sheet Music – What’s The Difference?
      • Mos Def – RE:DEFinition Rap Sheet Music
      • Eminem – Lose Yourself – Sheet Music
      • Busta Rhymes – Touch It Rap Sheet Music
      • Rakim – I Ain’t No Joke Rap Sheet Music
      • Busta Rhymes/Dr. Dre Rap Sheet Music – “Oh!”
      • Earl Sweatshirt Rap Music Transcription
      • Mos Def – Mathematics Rap Musical Transcription Sheet Music
      • Talib Kweli Sheet Music – RE: DEFinition
      • Notorious B.I.G. – “Hypnotize” Rap Sheet Music Transcription
      • Kanye West – Jesus Walks – Rap Music Transcription
      • Eminem – Way I Am
      • Drake/Lil Wayne – Successful – Rap Sheet Music
      • Common “I Used To Love H.E.R.” Rap Sheet Music
      • Tribe Called Quest – Scenario
      • Talib Kweli Sheet Music – Twice Inna Lifetime
      • Dr. Dre/Eminem – Bitch Please II Rap Sheet Music
      • Busta Rhymes – Holla
      • Rap Music Transcription – Run-D.M.C., Peter Piper
      • Big Sean – Various – Rap Sheet Music
  • Beats Analysis
    • Rap Music Analysis #6 – Dr. Dre Musical Analysis
    • Rap Music Analysis #10 – Dr. Dre’s Orchestration, 2000-2009
    • Rap Analysis – Kanye West, “Monster”
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    • A G.O.A.T. Rapper’s Advice To New Rappers
    • How to Have Better Flow
    • All The Music Theory A Rapper Needs
  • Kick Knowledge Podcast
    • #27 — Ratchet Happy Birthday
    • #19: “Worldwide Family All Over The Earth” (w/ Rakaa Iriscience)
    • #18: “Stay Rich Within My Cipher” (w/ Shawn Setaro)
    • #17: “No Quantize” (w/ Sarah, The !llstrumentalist)
    • #16: “It Takes a Nation of Millions” (Black Panther Soundtrack and Movie Review)
    • #15: “Geek Down”
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RAP ANALYSIS
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Author: Martin Connor

Martin Connor is a music teacher & writer from Philadelphia, PA, with a music degree of high distinction from Duke University who is currently studying for a master’s degree at Brandeis University in Boston, MA, while focusing his research on the vocal melodies of the rap genre. He has contributed freelance articles to HipHopDX, Complex, and Pigeons and Planes, and had multiple articles from his website, www.RapAnalysis.com go viral on BET, The Source, XXL, and MTV. He teaches rap lessons online through the music school LessonFace, and has a book, The Artistry Of Rap Music, forthcoming from the McFarland Publishing House, scheduled for release in late 2017, as a follow-up to his 2014 contribution to their anthology "Eminem & Rap, Poetry, Race." He welcomes all comments, compliments, insults, and restaurant suggestions at mepc36@gmail.com.
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Gorillaz Analysis: Humanz vs. The Now Now

by Martin Connor / October 6, 2018October 6, 2018

The other day, I got an email from a reader named Vinny, asking for my thoughts on the perceived relationship …

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Rap Analysis Article – Every Kendrick/Dr. Dre/N.W.A./Game Reference To Compton

by Martin Connor / September 11, 2018

For me, West Coast music is probably my favorite subgenre of rap. That’s why I love to focus on it …

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Podcast Interview with Marty Zied!

by Martin Connor / September 8, 2018September 8, 2018

Marty Zied is a six-time Emmy award-winning director from Philadelphia, PA. Later this year, he is releasing a new documentary …

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Patreon

by Martin Connor / August 21, 2018October 17, 2018

A very special thanks goes out to all of our supporters on the RapAnalysis.com Patreon page: Alex, Alexander, Amanda, Brendan, …

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Oldies AND Goodies — Eazy-E & Ice Cube Flow Breakdowns!

by Martin Connor / August 14, 2018

We all know Ice Cube. The king, the legend of South Central. I won’t go into all the details of …

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My Rap Lesson YT Channel

by Martin Connor / August 13, 2018

Yo guys! I just finished uploading dozens of new videos of the 1-hour, 1-on-1 rap lessons I’ve done with tons …

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G5 Elz — “I Can’t Live Without My Headphones” Analysis!

by Martin Connor / August 7, 2018August 7, 2018

This week our reader Lawrence asked us to analyze one of his own songs; it’s called “I Can’t Live Without …

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About/Staff

by Martin Connor / July 23, 2018November 2, 2019

RapAnalysis.com was begun in the winter of 2011 as the brainchild of hip hop aficionado Martin Connor. Inspired by the …

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Bookings

by Martin Connor / July 11, 2018May 20, 2020

Want to know what makes rap matter, and why, to so many people all over the world? Then book Martin …

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How Eminem and Kendrick Lamar Create Cinematic Albums

by Martin Connor / December 8, 2017

In Eminem’s new single, Walk on Water, we hear him crumpling and ripping up pages in the background both between …

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