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You Just Freestyled Ep. 3 (Filler Words) Script
(If You’d Rather Just Read The Books I’ve Recently Published On This Subject & Others In Regards To Freestyling; please consider, (The E-book & The Paperback) (which is an extended version of the E-book)) :)
3 min readDec 9, 2023
- Filler Words are a conscious, or unconscious way of filling space in between a bar
- Some of the popular filler words are “coming off the head”, “I’m coming down”, “I don’t know”
- Filler words at least in my personal experience evolve out of the first attempts to freestyle, and as practice continues becomes artifacts of the particular style of that rapper.
- This can involve filler phrases, with a rapper returning to a particular phrase, gesture, or sound i.e. ad-lib as a way of resetting, centering themselves, or continue their interaction with the rap, and or instrumental until the next set of lines flows from them
- This is similar (more so on the ad-lib side) of saying “yo”, “yeah”, or some form of vocal sound as a means of matching up with the beat.
- Flows can also take the precedence over the words themselves, such as someone speeding up, and or slowing down when they fall into a comfortable pattern, or when they find themselves losing their place, or even wanting to create a familiar pattern i.e. the feeling of them rapping in a way that is familiar to them.
