7. Control Your Breathing
“Breath control … I think this is super underrated. Breath control and composure are super important.”
“It doesn’t matter if you got the best bars in the world. If you’re running out of breath at the end of each line. They won’t hit. It’ll lose its effectiveness. Up there on the stage, your words will lose their impact if you can’t deliver them right. I think breath control is one of the highly underrated aspects especially as far as battle rap goes, and even in regular rap. Even in the studio, you definitely need breath control. Some guys are masters at it and some people aren’t as good at it. A lot of these rappers smoke a lot of weed and smoke a lot of cigarettes. They do a lot of drugs and that affects their breath control. They don’t exercise. They’re not working out and you know, they’re just not working on their body in general.”