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Rhyme Masters Journal
by Desmond Spann
A newsletter of insights, tips, tricks, and reflections on mastering rap for growth-minded rappers who value the craft over career. rhymemastersjournal.substack.com
Episodes
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Pivot Rhymes: How One Word Can Open the Next Path
Sometimes the mind gets stuck on one sound. That happens in writing. It happens in freestyling. It happens in regular life too. You find a pattern that works, then the pattern starts to feel like a wall. The same sound repeats. The same thought repeats. The same move repeats. I noticed this while...
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What If Wellbeing Is the Real Survival Skill?
In this video, I’m reflecting on what it means to protect and practice wellbeing in a time where hopelessness feels amplified. There is a lot of uncertainty in the world right now. You can hear it in conversations. You can feel it online. You can sense it in the way people talk about the future....
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Pursuit of Mastery Feels Good
There’s something that feels good about the pursuit of mastery. In this Short, I’m reflecting on the process of taking stand-up comedy classes, doing open mics, and building a five-minute set I felt confident enough to deliver. It reminded me of basketball back in middle school and high school....
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Rap is Not a Sport
Rap is not a sport. Poetry is not a sport. Storytelling is not a sport. Competitions can be useful. They raise the stakes, bring people together, and give the audience a clear reason to care. Somebody wins, somebody loses, and that creates a story around the art. But the competition is just the...
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Improve Your Rap Vocab: My Simple Tips for Better Freestyles & Verses
Want to improve your rap vocabulary and stop using the same rhymes over and over? In this video, I share simple tips for building your rap vocab, expanding your rhyme bank, and bringing more of the words you already know into your freestyles and written verses. One thing to remember: your…
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6 Types of Lines in Freestyle Rapping Live with Desmond Spann
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The myths of (dis) connection
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How to Practice Presence Through Rap Writing (Touch) | Vivid Flow Growth Rap Practice
I come back to what I can feel. Texture. Temperature. Pressure. Stickiness. Resistance. Those small physical details are often what make a scene feel real. This is a Growth Rap practice session built around one simple idea. We improve our well-being through mastery of rap skills. And one way to...
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Flow State and Cypher Insights: A Day in the Life with Des & Growth Rap
I Almost Skipped the Cypher, Then Something Shifted. I had a packed day in Portland and almost didn’t go to a cypher because I was behind on work and prepping the Vivid Flow Lab launch, but I went anyway hoping it would change my energy. Afterward, I break down what surprised me most: I hit flow...
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You Are NOT a Problem
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Don't Push Me. I'm close to Growth Edge! (4B.a.D. Podcast Ep. 3)
Grow more, rap more, join our growth rap community skool.com/rhymemasters In 4B.a.D. (4 bars a day) Podcast, Episode 3, we ask: what’s your “growth edge”? Influence gets real about his struggle with ambition and finding time for his family. I share my technique for managing my mental state so I…
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Do What You Can
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The View from the Sidelines
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The Space Between
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Why Did I Rap at all?
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To More Breakthroughs
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Growth rap is simple
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A funny reminder to do what you can
Transcription below… I’m in this moment where I’m like, yeah, I’m gonna do this every day regardless. Shoot, I just realized something. I need to put the trash up. I’m gonna leave that in there though. ‘cause this is kind of the reality of it. Like I set a plan in motion, then it’s like, oh, I...
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Crew Cut 1: Gift of Gab
Crew Cuts are monthly collaborations with the premium members of the Rhyme Masters Community. Here's the 1st we did features: DluxTL, Under Tha Influence, A.D.V.I.S.S., 2 at The Temple, Agni the Bum, Jesse The Imaginer, and Cameron. I titled this one Gift of Gab because during the recording of…
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I was thinking about hanging it up.
Hey morning Desmond, This is Victor just wanted to leave vocally my appreciation for all your time last night. And getting that feedback was so amazing to me. So again, I just wanted to say thank you so much. I don't think you can imagine how much I needed it because I was at the point of…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A newsletter of insights, tips, tricks, and reflections on mastering rap for growth-minded rappers who value the craft over career.
rhymemastersjournal.substack.com
HOSTED BY
Desmond Spann
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A newsletter of insights, tips, tricks, and reflections on mastering rap for growth-minded rappers who value the craft over career. rhymemastersjournal.substack.com
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