Hi,
I need to come up with quite song songs in a very short amount of time. I make hip hop music. My main problem right now is I can’t come up with enough original subjects to write lyrics about.
Does anyone have some good ideas? I need to write about 15 songs in 4 weeks, so any help is greatly appreciated!
Fifteen songs in a month? That’s easy for an ex-punker!
Not that these are all good, but:[ul][li]National politics.[/li][li]Why you broke up with your last boyfriend/girlfriend.[/li][li]Cover or redo an old song. [/li][li]Write about whatever you wrote in your diary/journal yesterday.[/li][li]Pick the silliest sounding psychological term and use it in a story.[/li][li]If you’re still in school, write a song about the lunchroom menu, critique each entree one by one.[/li][li]Gossip about your friends, tell everything.[/li][li]Why Brawny paper towels are the real picker-upper.[/li][li]Why movie a sucks and movie b is so much better.[/li][li]Why drugs suck (alt: why the’re cool or why they just cost too much.)[/li][li]If you have roommates, who stole my food out of the fridge?[/li][li]Cover or redo another old song. [/li][li]Clubs want too much to get in.[/li]Why you hate writing fifteen songs in four weeks.[/ul]That, or just read the personal ads in rhythm to the music.
While I do appreciate your input, this is not quite what I am looking for 
I write rap lyrics, and most of the subjects you gave me are not very suitable. The first one is, but I don’t know too much about politics. The second subject is alright too, but I was already working on something similar. Covers are not what I want, I don’t have a journal, I’m not in school, don’t have interesting gossip, …
But thanks a lot for the effor!
How about a vague concept album? Come up with a theme or story and then write a song about each aspect of it. It’s tough to come up with the idea, but gets easier when you have a rough outline to write your lyrics from.
Eh, I didn’t expect to bat 100% anyway. What are your other songs about, and what’s audience? I may not be any help, but someone else might if they knew who you were rapping to.
It’s not for an album but for a gig. My other songs? Most of them are old and are the regular boasting and dissing seen way too often in hiphop… It’s not me, and I want to write more intelligent material, but I’m running out of time.
Are you interested in De La Soul’s more quirky abstract raps? Check out the lyrics to *Tread Water/i] for inspiration.