Structure.

[Hannibal Adept]

Wassup, I've been writing for almost 2 weeks and i'm confused about acouple things.

1. What's the difference between a multi and an in-rhyme?
2. What's a verse? How many bars are there before chorus?
3. What's the best way for me to practice word placement and flow.. what I mean is how do I practice writing, do I just freestyle about anything? Choose a topic and write?

Here's something I put together today.
Been writing 2 weeks so judge me ruthelessly.
Been going through alot of shit the last 3-4 years, this piece reflects it.

Never really wrote-a free style before.
But I do have acouple-a idea's 'for'.
I have a fire inside-a me bomb in my core
Don't know whats right or wrong really anymore.

Ima sheep in wolf's clothing.
Sick just tired of self loathing.
A time for me to start showing (continue next line)
True skills, whether it's ill or its not.

Bout to discover what it is that I really want.
A name, do it for the game not the fame.
You can change your clothes, attitude, your entire appearance.
Then you come to realize most things-are gonna stay the same.

Time to serve, send me on my life mission.
For every battle there's a 'fee' my 'ad'-mission.
Im almost there, gonna be me against the world.
I don't expect it to be clean but grimy, so listen.

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I dont know if its killin me or healin me.
Gotta fear of it just bein' me alone ina alley
Poor, broke, starving acouple years it'll be to late to see.
Makin choices now choose what I'm 'gonna-gonna' be.
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Like my esteem, dignity, respect nd reason's been taken from me.
9th grade I start stealing, lieing, just prying every door open.
It starts piling up, hit a jackpot just as I'' was hope' in.
Get the money, I 'm brainwashed but it's keepin' me cope'in.

Think ima turn into a beast if I dont finda way to vent.
Time I start livin' I'ma realize my times been spent.
I just wanna take-a break.
My life's like just-a big head-ache.

Im filled with an anger. A bomb bout to explode.
Life as fragile as origami, Ima collapse nd fold.
It's life and life only, there ain't no cheat code.
Addicted stuck ina room alone nd cold.

Tryin to find somethin' to brake me loose.
Wake up - go back to sleep I just 'hit the snooze'.
Three no four years been stuck in the same shoes.
Everything I do from now on - I'ma do to win not to l'o'se.

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I dont know if its killin me or healin me.
Gotta fear of it just bein' me alone ina alley
Poor, broke, starving acouple years it'll be to late to see.
Makin choices now choose what I'm 'gonna-gonna' be.
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I don't wanna make a mistake lose my pace.
Going in circles, I'm slowly losing my place.
Can't lose this race. Outta breath same case.
Hide my face. A disgrace to the world.

I'm bout to fall, off my feet learn to crawl.
Life's just an endless brawl, feelin so small.
Make your call, might be the only one your offered.
We all tend to blow up so get up nd stand tall.

[Trucker T]

You want a topic in mind so you can focus on it instead of trailing off to something else. Stuff like you wrote that kind of structure seems like thats what the textees like here. They don't much like any structure they haven't seen before in a battle other than that I can't tell you much

[RhythmAndPoetryF]

1. When you hear the kids online sayin "multi" they mean multi-syllabic. This is where you rhyme several syllables in consecutive or parallel scheme.
Ex:
I expell flows like they too much of a burden/
On my brain so you the one its merkin/

You can see the bolded words include syllables rhymed. In this case it is 4.

An "in-rhyme" i assume is what you mean to be an internal rhyme. Internal rhymes are merely rhymes that occur within a bar with respect to eachother.

"Vocals vocabulary and verses you stuck in/
The mic is a drain tho/ volcanoes erruptin/"
- Rakim

In this quote the bolded words are solely the internal rhymes syllables. These too can be multi-syllabic or occur in however much frequency as long as they occur before the bars end and isnt parallel to another bars rhymes.

[RhythmAndPoetryF]

2. A verse is a set number of bars. Usually an even number for musicality's sake but really has no set in stone predetermined number. The standard verse has 16 bars. This numbers musical importance is that its a perfect square of a perfect square.

A chorus or hook is by standard 4 or 8 bars for similar reasoning. Theres usually 3 verses with a chorus or hook in between each verse as well as the begginin (this one often made shorter).

[RhythmAndPoetryF]

I aint read ya shit so i dunno what you need to work on, but a good thing to start off with is the rhyme. Vocab can help here the most to. You want to become quick at finding words to rhyme. So maybe think of a word that rhymes with any word you say at the end of your everyday sentences. Might not wanna say em out loud tho lol.

With that you will achieve what you really need to be better... flexibility. Also dont write to any beats to begin with either. And dont worry too much bout bar counts but worry bout makin bars, by that i mean mark ur lines where you would imagine a beat's bar/measure would end.

Dont hit up all the aspects of rap at once, thats too much. Work on sylls independently, then maybe internals, then maybe wordplay. Try to accumulate em. Then try to keep your bars within a certain amount (16 prolly)

I dont know whats best, but id work on the lyrical first. After you get comfortable start rappin to beats. Rhythm/flow is a pretty natural thing that cant be taught so you gotta get your own. And thats the musical aspect of rap so definitely no set things to it. Just try to stay on beat (the drum taps) , try to stay within bars (to atleast finish fore the chorus/hook), maybe take up drummin on the side lmao idk.

Content your own thing. Id save this for last cuz its more personal and if you get the others down first youll have more flexibility for this. Try writing stories to make you focus on coherency, youll notice your lyrics will hinder here, work at it till its improved.

This is how i would do it and kinda how i went about rappin and figurin it out.