“One of the things that’s happened to me over the years is rapping gets harder but rhyming gets easier, if that makes any sense… by the time it’s all said and done, ‘is this different than anything of ever said or done…? I’ve scribbled out many a rhyme on my pad and thought, ‘ah, I’ve already got something that’s like that — Eminem

"(I have) thousands (of unreleased songs). I done lost hard drives. Hard drives from ’05, ’06… we never got them back. Took it to San Francisco to get it fixed, never got fixed…

It’s a need to never be content or to be comfortable." --Kendrick Lamar

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In these two quotes, we see two of the greatest rappers of all time — Eminem and Kendrick Lamar — discuss the science of learning how to write better lyrics.

Throughout this analysis, we’ll watch as Kendrick and Shady dive deep into their respective writing processes, and then mirror those direct quotes from the rappers themselves with information about:

How To Come Up With Lyrics
How To Destroy Writer’s Block As An Artist
How To Write More Authentic Lyrics
But let’s begin by honing in on the first lesson we can pull from learning how to write better lyrics, using the Kendrick Lamar and Eminem Method:

Experiment With Your Lyrics Like A Scientist

“I’ve made a lot of songs. When I think back about how many songs I’ve actually made… I don’t know how many I’ve made but I’ve made a lot of songs… and I make a lot of songs for each album.

But I always try to approach each song slightly different. And even if I can’t — ‘Okay I got a song that was kind of maybe like this ten years ago — let me put a little twist on it” -- Eminem Interview

“I could talk about anything — and this is the challenge for me — being able to talk about anything and make it connect to the listener…

Where the listener can either feel like you or understand you or you have just a deeper connection through the music.

Like, talking to a little kid and making that represent something and making that feel like something. Or saying the most brutal harsh things on record where society might not want to hear it. — Kendrick Lamar Interview

To the outside fan or future superstar who has just started writing lyrics, it would appear like artists such as Marshall and Kendrick simply…

Pull bars out of thin air like a magician with no method to the madness.

Although perhaps we all wish creating better lyrics could be so mystical, the truth of the matter is a better comparison for a lyricist pushing themselves into a new creative realm is that of a scientist, yes…

Lyricists are closer to scientists than magicians
This is because, much like a seasoned scientist trying to test their data and establish a new theory…

After you have been writing lyrics for literally decades, filling up hard drives like Kendrick or having to compete with your 22-year old self at age 50 like Eminem…

You reach a point where:

You Need To Have “Experimental” Mindset
You’re no longer competing with “other artists” or pushing to come up with lyrics just to become proficient in music like your idols… you’re now competing with yourself.

Therefore, the very first step to learning how to write better lyrics like Kendrick Lamar and Eminem is shifting your lyrical content into a constant “experimentation mode”, and then expanding on what you find.

As someone who has coached rappers here, YouTube’s most subscribed channel on learning how to rap, and perhaps more importantly traveled to over 15 countries as a professionally paid rap artist…

Let me humbly offer one quick method in order to implement your new experiment-and-expand mindset:

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