I'm going to put up some rules for you netcees who insist on infesting the boards with your (mostly) half-arsed lyrics. If you fail to obey these laws I will visit you in the small hours and put a bat up your nightdress.
1. Don't give yourself a name like Black the Undead Sculptor or Illustrator the Forgotten Poetical Poetician or, as a matter of fact, Daz da Cyfa Logikk Psudonymous Phantom Psychologist. I mean, what the f***?
2. If you have to look up a word in the dictionary, you are not allowed to use it in your verse. If you go through the dictionary looking for long words, you are banned from this website.
3. Just because it rhymes, doesn't mean it should.
4. SA has eleven languages. Write in the language you know best. If you speak Xhosa, don't write your verse in isiZulu. If you speak ten languages, but English isn't one of them, don't write in English. You'll look like a prat.
5. TURN THAT GODDAMN CAPSLOCK OFF.
6. Unless you are super-experimental (and if you're posting lyrics on the net you probably aren't) then most raps are in 4/4 time. Four bars, people. Write one line per bar. Don't split up your lines because you think it looks cool. It doesn't.
I'll add more as I think of them. Happy Christmas motherf***ers.
