Crooked I Opts For The Pen & Pad

Call Crooked I old fashioned, but in the How To Rap audio excerpt, he says putting pen to pad is better than jotting lyrics in your head.  Ever since Jay-Z admitted to writing with the hand that don’t write, rappers like T.I. and Lil Wayne have claimed to do the same. Ironically, T.I.’s most successful album Paper Trail was spawned after transcribing his lyrics. Write on!

Previously: Royce Da 5’9″ Perfers Flow Over Subject Matter

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  1. IrelandRepresent says:

    I find it hard to believe that Jay-z does this, but yet I find it easy to believe that Lil Wayne does.

  2. Mike Bic says:

    Writing is fundamental.

    If Jay Z didn’t have so many fans that would buy his albums if he did nothing but sneeze on tracks, maybe he would pick up his pen again and give us an album where he actually out shines his production.

    Jay Z writing rhymes >>>>>>>than him bitting biggie bars and freestyling at the end of em.

  3. Ac@pella! says:

    I commend for Crooked I being truthful and saying that he still writes. When Jay said that statement, he kinda fucked up the game with that shit. Now all of a sudden T.I. doesn’t write, Wayne, Kanye, Common, Ja Rule said it, I think Pharrell said it, even fuckin’ Justin Timberlake said he didn’t write shit down. It was cool at first, then it became a fad. Now we got all these wack niggaz that say they don’t write, when they really should, BUT they really shouldn’t rap at all. I think I’ll stick to writin’ shit in my Samsung Moment (shameless plug lol 🙂 No paycheck from Sprint tho 🙁

  4. Paper Mate says:

    @IrelandRepresent

    You can tell Jay aint writing why you think he ughs, ughs, ughs for 8 bars on every song.

    Niggas need to get serious and put some thought into they rhymes imagine if Jay actual wrote…never mind he’d probably be over your heads like shampoo.

  5. BOBBi_G says:

    Exactly!!!!!!! Fuck that writin in the head shit. I smoke too much Good & write too often 2 remember the shit anyway.

    FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @bobbigprofecy

  6. BOBBi_G says:

    @irelandrepresent

    U crazy bruh, I couldn’t agree more. Wayne does go off sumtime but most of the time its garbage.

  7. justbeingreal says:

    yall aint watch that nino brown story: part 2? all wayne does is record bars off his dome then sit and think about some ish 2 rhyme with it then the mixing engineer gets it right 2 sound coherent. those verses don’t just pop off the top of his dome. they can afford that luxury to sit in a studio all day. ppl grinding better have that ish on paper.

  8. Big Homie says:

    I’m posting this without typing

  9. Rhyme says:

    Even Jay-Z write his lyrics down, just a myth he stole from Biggie.

    If Jay-Z could do such, why is he such a horrible freestyler, and never spits off the dome? You have to write your lyrics down at some point, because if your at the movies, then all of a sudden the illest rhyme comes to your head your not gonna try to wait to go to the studio to lay it down, your gonna write it down. Rappers need to cut the shit. Got all these assholes outhere not writing

  10. Blakout615 says:

    I was just on here the other day saying that I hope someone sends Wayne a pen&pad while hes locked down.

    EVERYBODY CANT BE BIG AND JAY!

    Its not as if Jay has never wrote his rhymes down in his life. He started off writing,mastered his craft so good that it got to the point where he could do it in his head. Alot of these dudes just start off not writing. Not a good idea. Take some time out,sit down,focus,and WRITE.

    As an MC myself,I completely agree with Crooked.

  11. Blakout615 says:

    “Even Jay-Z write his lyrics down, just a myth he stole from Biggie”

    I remember hearing Jay say the 1st time he was in the studio with Biggie,he brought Biggie a notebook. And Biggie was like “whats that for? I dont write” and Jay was like “Oh,you dont either?” lol. Forgot where I heard it on tho.

    He also said “can i live” was the last song he wrote down

    And that song on the video is “sickology 101”. Crooked killed that shit.

  12. az5lyrics says:

    HOV THE G.O.A.T.
    IF JAY WRITES DOWN HIS LYRICS NIGGAS WOULD BE BLOWN AWAY

  13. flawda says:

    @ Blackout615

    It was in the XXL “making of Life After Death”, the producers ( i believe Stevie J) said both of them kept pushing the note pad back and forward saying they don’t write. As far as the not writing topic, Jay and Big are the only ones who i’m impressed with, Lil Wayne spits a bunch of incoherent nonsense and TI doesn’t spit anything lyrical.

  14. OOPH says:

    Yo, what was that Crooked I verse from the end of the video from? Song title? Jesus, that was hard.

  15. J-Oh says:

    @OOPH – It’s called Sickology 101 by Tech N9ne feat. Crooked I and Chino XL

    Dope book, I copped it the other day, lots of detailed info and great stuff for discussions bout MCing

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