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100 ideas for next Rap Song
100 ideas for next Rap Song
Updated over a week ago

Looking for some inspiration for your next song? Here's a list of 100 ideas to get started...

  1. Your city or neighborhood growing up

  2. Your city or neighborhood today

  3. A world event that makes you upset

  4. A family relationship

  5. Getting paid

  6. Not having money

  7. Something you learned the hard way

  8. A cause you are passionate about

  9. Your lover

  10. Your ex

  11. Your ex’s lover

  12. Real life

  13. Something you’re proud of

  14. Something big you are going to accomplish

  15. A true story

  16. A made up story

  17. Your goal as a rapper

  18. Why should other’s take you seriously

  19. Someone that wronged you

  20. A life event that shaped you

  21. Something you’ve got to get off your chest

  22. Something you regret

  23. Your religious beliefs

  24. What get’s you pumped up

  25. Someone that deserves a shout out

  26. Your favorite activity

  27. Something you do to chill

  28. A funny story

  29. Your haters

  30. Your fans

  31. Something you wish you could change

  32. Something you would never change

  33. Rap as if you are someone else (ie you’re rich, incarcerated, a kid, in a very different situation)

  34. What you overcame to get where you are today

  35. Life as a ______

  36. What you think of other music artists

  37. Your bucket list

  38. What you would do with a million dollars

  39. Making love

  40. Being in nature

  41. Feeling alive

  42. Feeling down

  43. Mourning someone you lost

  44. The music industry

  45. An epic party

  46. Your mother or father

  47. Your kid

  48. A good friend

  49. A sibling

  50. Your rap skills

  51. Your looks or style

  52. The Summer

  53. Fall, Winter, Spring

  54. Driving in your car

  55. Your go-to spot

  56. An injustice you hate

  57. The system

  58. Empowerment for a group of people

  59. First time you met your lover

  60. A break up

  61. Your average day

  62. Your job

  63. Dancing

  64. Point of view of a famous character

  65. A dream you had

  66. A historical event

  67. Something beautiful

  68. What keeps you awake at night

  69. Falling in love

  70. Falling out of love

  71. An argument (rap from both sides)

  72. Weed, Drugs

  73. Depression

  74. The Beach

  75. School

  76. Favorite sport

  77. Crypto

  78. Traveling

  79. Working out

  80. Quitting your job

  81. An out-of-body experience you had

  82. Your childhood

  83. Your favorite philosophical theory

  84. Finding peace of mind

  85. Your celebrity crush

  86. A toxic relationship

  87. Self-love

  88. A time you felt abandoned

  89. A time you felt victorious

  90. Spiritual enlightenment

  91. Something that’s ironic

  92. If you could write a letter to your younger self

  93. What is it like being you

  94. What you hope people will say about you after you die

  95. A strange experience you had

  96. Something that gives you hope

  97. A question you want answered

  98. Government or authorities

  99. An early memory

  100. Why you make music

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