So i’m 14 and have been writing rapping for 2 years…but dont want to rap about selling drugs or money..life has been good middle class with my grandparents..but dad is in jail for selling and my mom is on drugs.
What do you like, what do you do,m what do you want to do, if you could be anyone, who would that be, what would you do. Keep your lyrics close to yourself, but understand you exist within your own imagination as much as within this world. Lyrics you take from there, as long as them come from something you know and can stand behind, they are just as real as if they came directly from daily experience
ask yourself questions, and dont worry about having to be dark, drug related, materialistic, rap about what you would write about if you were just a storyteller, novelist, or someone writing in a journal. Then just make it rhyme. In fact, keep a journal or notebook.
You don’t even need anything to rap about man……just rap about how you feel….if that’s tough then put yourself in someone else’s shoes and rap about how they feel. Tell a story. How did you mother get on drugs….a song describing her troubles would be touching. What do you and your friends do at school. What are your best character traits, what are you worst insecurities?
[Genius](http://genius.com) is my favorite site, [Kanye West's "Power"](http://genius.com/kanye-west-power-lyrics) is my favorite song and [From whippin' the bacon rolls to outside whippin' the bacon Rolls](1256) is my favorite line
[[Kanye West]] auto-links his artist page
[[Scarface "My Block"]] auto-links to the song
In ["Juicy"](/The-notorious-big-juicy-lyrics), Biggie says:
> It was all a dream
I used to read Word Up magazine
Salt'n'Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine