Ransom Speaks on Rap Being a Skill and Not a Talent
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It's both. You can teach anyone to rap. However, you can't teach everyone to cultivate their imagination, how to combine words to tell a story, how to put in the imagery, how to sequence the words.
Everyone is taught to write, but not everyone is a writer. Being a writer is a talent.
Everyone is taught to write, but not everyone is a writer. Being a writer is a talent.
spliz
SplizThaDon
It's both. Definitely. It's a talent that needs to be practiced. Same way basketball can be a skill learned but everyone can't be MJ. That's a talent that he honed with practice.
He's right
I think you can teach all of this honestly.
ReasonableMatic
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Rap is a SKILL you can be talented in..
You can learn the SKILL that is Rap,
but not everyone has the TALENT to take it to levels that rappers like Hov, Nas, Big, Pac, Rakim, etc took it.
You can learn the SKILL that is Rap,
but not everyone has the TALENT to take it to levels that rappers like Hov, Nas, Big, Pac, Rakim, etc took it.
RAPPING is/can be a talent (flows, vocal projection, clarity, delivery); WRITING is pure skill. You gotta LEARN great narrative ability and being visual; all while being succinct. That definelty takes trail and error and a lot of studying.
spliz
SplizThaDon
U can’t. Like I said. Not everyone gonna be MJ. Not everyone gonna be Steph. No matter how much practice and work is put in. Playing an instrument is a skill that can be learned. But u have prodigies who just pick up and just know wtf to do. There’s 9 year old kids who know how to play damn near every instrument.
KnickstapeCity
RIP Big Dikk :wow: :mjcry:
Camel’s talent is in them fukking humps
threattonature
Veteran
To add to this there is a reason most of us love artist's early works more. With rap a lot of nikkas just came out early with raw flows, story telling abilities and just ability to put together words. Yet any time an artist speaks on how they learned how to be technically better the music is usually not as enjoyable to the listener because it becomes more formulaic and too much like every other artist and loses that raw feel.
You can’t compare basketball to rapping. Same with playing instruments.
The argument isn’t that talent doesn’t exist, it’s that the art of being a great rapper is a skill that can be taught and not a talent. I agree with him.
Writing on a technical level can be taught. Timing, cadence, flow, etc… all can be taught. Writing techniques can be taught. And depending on how much time and effort you put into it will determine how well you will develop the skill.
Sounds like you’re confusing the arguments.
The argument isn’t about the quality of music. It’s strictly about the technical skill of MCing can be taught. You can prefer a less skillful rap style. That doesn’t really address the argument.
NormanConnors
Detroit/MSU Spartan Life
You can to a degree, but talent determines how far you can take it, always levels.
spliz
SplizThaDon
I've seen nikkas practice day and night and still not be better than nikkas who just naturally had it. Anything can be taught. Basketball was a great example actually. U can teach basketball from when someone is a kid and they still won't be NBA ready. It's like the mantra that hard work takes u further than talent. Thats the absolute truth. But hard work mixed with talent is how u get GOATS.