User blog comment:Brawler19/Can someone please help?/@comment-4490782-20140601195126

Personally, when I try to write a rap battle I do a lot of research on both characters or people. (If it's someone you know a lot about then that's good). When you actually write the battle try to use references and puns on each person's name, history, franchise, etc. Also, have a good combination of bragging and insults (best to have more insults with occasional bragging) and make sure that most of the insults are personalised rather than just "You'll lose" or "You suck" because then it could just be A Random Dude on the Street vs My Friend Dave. Keep each line a similar syllable count so that they fit together well. And most importantly practise and keep touching up on the lyrics so that you're happy with it.

One thing I like to do that takes inspiration from many rappers like Eminem is have lines with similar vowel sounds and rhymes mid line to make it sound slick. For example from my Link vs Ezio Auditore rap battle: I'm a mass assassin slashing at templars / Just remember that attacking me will get you ''dismembered. ''Along with that, I try and make multi-syllabic rhymes, e.g. Battle me / Rather be / Actually / Passively / etc. But that's just what I do so feel free to make your own kind of style and flow. The most important part about writing though is to perfect your style and practise and always keep going over your work and improve as best you can.

However, if you're talking about creating the whole shebang like ERB does with a video and stuff, you'll need to do this.

1. Write lyrics. (You can do this with or without a beat but some people like to find or make a beat first and then base the lyrics around that. Also if you want to use someone elses beat then try for one without someone saying ALLROUNDABEATS or something like that in the background if you don't want to pay $25 to use a non-watermarked beat.)

2. Record the lyrics. You can get friends to help you with this and try and get the best mic you can and get the best fitting accent for the character.

3. Get equipment like lighting, props, costumes, a greenscreen and a camera. Your lighting could just be sunlight, the greenscreen could just be a green tarp and the props could be household objects or homemade things. For the greenscreen you need backgrounds which can be made in Cinema 4D or other modelling softwares. Blender is good because it is free. You just need to practise with these, look at tutorials or maybe find a friend who knows about it.

4. Edit and release. You'll need a software for handling greenscreens. I believe there are some free ones out there but if you can use a non-free one that's better because they're usually more high quality. As always you should practise with these programs to be able to have more fancy effects and stuff.

Remember this is how I do things and you can do it your own way. But if you need any extra help there's a video from VideoGameRapBattles about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBb5W4hozWY

Anyway, hope I helped.

-Bobdave