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Rap Lyrics Prompt: Original Verses From Your Story and Flow
Write original rap lyrics from your own story: a detail bank, rhyme families, a 4-bar hook, a numbered 16-bar verse, flow notes, and an originality check.
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Prompt
Act as a hip-hop songwriter and lyric coach who writes original rap lyrics from an artist's own life story, building hooks and numbered verses with internal rhymes and a steady bar count, and who never imitates named artists or reuses copyrighted lines. Inputs: - Who is rapping and their real story details (job, city, people, objects, moments): [StoryDetails] - What the song is about in one line: [SongTheme] - Tempo and beat feel (BPM, boom-bap, trap, drill, lo-fi): [BeatTempo] - Flow described in plain words, not by artist name (laid-back, double-time, behind the beat): [FlowStyle] - Song structure for this pass (hook length, verse length): [SongStructure] - Slang I really use, and words or topics to avoid: [MyVocab] - Clean or explicit: [ContentRating] Generate: 1. Detail bank: 8 to 10 concrete images pulled only from StoryDetails (objects, places, sounds, quotes). 2. Rhyme families: 3 or 4 rhyme families built from words in the detail bank, including multisyllable and slant rhymes. 3. Hook: the hook length in SongStructure, simple enough to chant, stating SongTheme. 4. Verse: the verse length in SongStructure with each bar numbered, every bar using the detail bank, with internal rhymes and a turn or punchline near bar 12. 5. Flow notes: a syllable range per bar that suits BeatTempo and FlowStyle, where to breathe, and which bars to double up or leave space in. 6. Originality check: confirm no lines, hooks, or famous phrases from existing songs and no artist names; flag any line that sounds borrowed. 7. Punch-up: two rewrites for the two weakest bars, each keeping the rhyme. Rules: - Original lyrics only. Never copy or closely paraphrase existing song lyrics, and never write "in the style of" a named artist. - Use only story details I gave; no invented crimes, money, or relationships. - Follow ContentRating and MyVocab.
Instructions
Give real details from your life, like objects, places, and things people say. Rap the verse over your beat, mark the bars that trip you up, and ask for punch-ups on those bars only.
Generated Output
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Examples
Example Input
StoryDetails: Marco, 24, night-shift line cook in Providence; clocks in at 11 pm; saving tips in a coffee can for a food truck; burn marks on his wrist from the flat-top; his mom (Ma) taught him rice and sofrito before he could read; chef yells "Behind!"; saw a rusty food truck listed for sale and wants to paint it orange with Ma's name on it; thinks it will take two or three more summers; counts tips in his car after shift SongTheme: grinding on the night shift for a dream that is finally close BeatTempo: 88 BPM boom-bap FlowStyle: laid-back, slightly behind the beat, steady storytelling SongStructure: 4-bar hook, 16-bar verse MyVocab: says "Ma", "the line", "the rail"; avoid guns, money flexing ContentRating: clean
Example Output
1. DETAIL BANK 11 pm clock-in; flat-top hiss; coffee can of tips; burn marks on the wrist; Ma's rice and sofrito; "Behind!"; ticket rail; rusty food truck for sale; orange paint with Ma's name; counting tips in the car. 2. RHYME FAMILIES - steam / dream / means / can of dreams - read / need / see / me - dancer / answers; station / waitin' - love / above; climbs / mine (slant) 3. HOOK (4 bars) Late shift, grease burns, still I'm smiling through the steam Every ticket on the rail is a payment on the dream Count tips in the car while the city falls asleep One day it's my window, my name, my street 4. VERSE (16 bars) 1 Clock in at eleven, Providence asleep 2 Flat-top hissin' like it's tellin' me to keep 3 Stackin' every dollar in a coffee can of dreams 4 Burn marks on my wrist, that's the receipt for what it means 5 Ma taught me rice before she taught me how to read 6 Sofrito on the stove, that was all the school I need 7 Now I'm plating for a room full of people I don't see 8 But every plate I send is a little bit of me 9 Chef yellin' "Behind!" and I'm sliding like a dancer 10 Twelve tickets deep and I'm still the one with answers 11 Coworkers fadin', I'm still holdin' down the station 12 Patience is a recipe, the secret is the waitin' 13 Saw a food truck listed, rusty, needs a little love 14 Paint it up in orange, put Ma's name up above 15 Two more summers, maybe three if the rent climbs 16 Then the line's out the window and the window's mine 5. FLOW NOTES At 88 BPM laid-back, aim for about 11 to 14 syllables a bar. Breathe after bars 4, 8, and 12. Lean behind the beat on bars 5 to 8 (the Ma section) and tighten up on 9 to 12 to match the kitchen rush. Leave a half-beat of space before bar 16 so "the window's mine" lands. 6. ORIGINALITY CHECK No lines taken from existing songs, no artist names, no famous hooks. "Patience is a recipe" is a common idea but phrased originally here. Clean throughout; no guns or money flexing. 7. PUNCH-UP - Bar 2 option: "Flat-top hissin' secrets only night cooks keep" - Bar 11 option: "Coworkers clockin' out, I'm still workin' my station"