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    • General
      • #17 – What Will The Rap Of The Future Sound Like?
      • Rap Analysis – 10 Unique Rap Voices
      • Rap Music Analysis #5 – Upping The Ante
      • Excuse My French, But Is This REALLY French?
      • Rap Music Analysis #4 – The Rapping Voice As (An Extremely Expressive) Instrument
      • All Of The Rap Data You Could Ever Want
      • 10 Historic Hip Hop Items That Should Go To Auction
      • The 20 Most Verbally Complex Rappers – Rap Music Analysis
      • Rap Music Analysis – Importance Of The Rap Team
      • Rap Music Analysis – The 23 Most Repetitive Rappers
      • 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
      • 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”
    • 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
    • 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
  • Production Analysis
    • Rap Music Analysis #6 – Dr. Dre Musical Analysis
    • Rap Music Analysis #10 – Dr. Dre’s Orchestration, 2000-2009
    • Rap Analysis – Kanye West, “Monster”
  • Music Discovery
    • UZOO, “ATTACK” *5-Alarm Chili*
    • R.ichard Oasis – My Degree
    • Apollo, “Euthanasia” *5-Alarm Chili*
  • For Artists
    • Now Offering Rap Lessons on Lessonface
    • Rap Analysis – How To Have Better Delivery
    • An Aspiring Rapper’s/Producer’s Guide To My Articles
    • How to Have Better Flow
    • Rapper’s Music Theory
    • A G.O.A.T. Rapper’s Advice To New Rappers
    • If You Rap, Hit Me Up
    • Take Rap Lessons
  • My Music
    • The Rap Analyzer Is Now…The Rap Maestro
    • Christmas Cantata Premiered
    • Premiere of Martin Connor’s “Haitian Requiem”
RAP ANALYSIS
More than listening.

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 [email protected].
Rap Analysis

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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Rap Analysis

The Continuing Influence Of Eminem After 20 Years

by Martin Connor / November 3, 2017

The Continuing Influence Of Eminem’s “Guilty Conscience” On Rappers Today This week’s analysis is coming by request of our girl …

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Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” Rap Flow Analysis

by Martin Connor / October 30, 2017October 30, 2017

She’s been at #1 on the Billboard charts for dozens of weeks. Multiple readers have requested my thoughts on her. …

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Rap Analysis

New Exclusive Maestro Podcast Guest Spot!

by Martin Connor / September 23, 2017September 23, 2017

Hey guys! Fresh off the Vox triplet flow video here, I was just interviewed last week by a super cool …

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Rap Analysis

The Patreon Page Of Awesome Subscribers!

by Martin Connor / August 11, 2017August 11, 2017

THE RAP MAESTRO’S PATREON WALL OF FAME: William! Sheila! Chris! Will! Don! Austin! Lee! Mikhail! Waqas! Bryan! Danya! Molly! Brendan! …

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Rap Analysis

*5-Alarm Chili* “Am I Weird?,” by Chip The Black Boy.

by Martin Connor / May 18, 2017May 23, 2017

  https://thmole.bandcamp.com/ That’s it and that’s all.

Rap Analysis

Myka 9 Rap Flow Analysis

by Martin Connor / April 18, 2017April 18, 2017

Hey guys, this is today’s exclusive analysis for the week. I took a listen to Haiku d’Etat, which is made …

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Rap Analysis

UZOO, “ATTACK” *5-Alarm Chili*

by Martin Connor / February 20, 2017February 20, 2017

The brainchild of Joey Batts, UZOO came to existence in the winter of 2015. Aware of the depth of talent …

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Rap Analysis

The Rap Analyzer Is Now…The Rap Maestro

by Martin Connor / January 21, 2017January 23, 2017

One of the reasons that I am able to analyze music so incisively isn’t just because I listen to a …

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