How do YOU get in that creative mood? (Back to the forum)

I know this thread is full of rappers. We all know it can be difficult to write if you’re just not in the mood. Is there anything that you do in particular to get you there, or do you just wait for inspiration to hit you?

I gain inspiration by fapping to Alexis Texas, Lisa Ann, and Gianna Michaels .…

whenever i’m on caffeine i’m in creative overdrive so there you go lol

I feel the most creative in the early mornings when its nice and quiet. I also listen to a large variety of music to inspire my bars.

I sit and think, “if I was Jay Cutler, how would I feel right now”…and work from that.

a blunt, a cup of hot tea, and headphones or silence with minimal people. i like a chill environment, i’m piss poor at staying focused otherwise

For me it’s almost of rituals of sorts.
I get off work from Office Depot every Friday.
I go to a random hospital around 10 PM after picking up an escort.
We sneak into any room with a comatose elderly citizen.
Before we get down to business I have her strip me completely naked.
After that, she gets the privilege of coating me in baby oil.
Then we get down & dirty, real raunchy sex on top the patient.
Then right when I reach my peak, I reach for my pants, pull out a pocket knife, slit the escorts throat & pull the patient’s plug.
After cleaning my materials & whatnot I’m hit with endless visions of lyrics.
Fun Fact: In Europe this is called MC Ride’s Seatbelt.

Masturbation. Lots of it.

But for realz, not sure. It just kind of happens, though it seems to happen a lot when I’m lying in my bed trying to go to sleep. It’s actually kind of annoying. Most of the time, it’s super late and I want to go to sleep, but I end up getting up to write whatever it is down because I don’t want to lose it.

stay up late, eat good food, listen to good music. produces mad dopamine, then i freestyle til im in a groove.

Lozo got me in tears lol.

Late at night and just randomly I’ll get inspired and want to write

I feel you guys. I’m just curious cause I got writer’s block right now. Shit, when I’m feeling creative and write late at night, what seems perfect at 2, seems damn near terrible the next day.

You gotta develop your own ritual, but these are usually components of my writing:

-Drugs. This is not to say that I can’t write sober, this is not to say that you should ever think you can’t write sober, this is not to say that some people can even work while they’re on drugs (we all know that one dude who comes through the studio but always just burns and doesn’t record his shit). All that said, I find that the urge to write (and the type of idea I need to act on it) hits more when I’m intoxicated.

-Night. This is because A) I’m usually active at night, B) It makes it easier to do drugs, and C) At night I have a lot of feelings sometimes and when I do it helps to write them out.

-Motion. This I know for a fact is just some shit I’ve always been on: I, personally, cannot create if I’ve been sitting in place for too long. Or more accurately, I can’t stay in one place for too long while I’m creating. Writing bars I pace around the room & do shit like that, or I write while I’m walking.

-Not stopping. This is advice I’d give everybody. Once I get into a groove of writing things, I don’t stop writing until something prevents me from going on. Do the same.

Also, learn more and more to accept those weird little ideas that just beam into your brain from Pluto and write off them.

It’s when I’m feeling my most un-creative that I desire to write. That’s when I feel the need to write the most

how about this for some inspiration?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlyIOUYCgeM&playnext=1&list=PL1A2190DFC09CB794&feature=results_video

Best beat of 2012.

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide.

I have to get the fuck out of the house and drive. I can’t just sit there in my room, I need a change of scenery to get my mind going.

LSAD? but i didn’t study

That half dream-half awake state right before real sleep..keep a note book by the bed

Other than that, I’m basically on the same shit Caia on…The biggest thing for me is just to keep goin. I will write a bunch of bullshit until somehow I find a grove and start building something I can use. I feel like this is true for a lot of different types of writing.

As far is musical inspiration in particular…the best thing for me is to listen to something completely out of the ordinary. Whether writing, playing an instrument, putting together a beat…shake things up and you’ll find somethin.

I’ll watch a black and white movie if nothing else helps..something inspires me from that time period

That’s my problem. That half dream subconscious state is where I get AMAZING ideas.
Sometimes wonderful music and lyrics will fill my head, uninhibited, better than anything I could think of awake, without the stress of the world holding me back.

But when I awake, suddenly… GONE. Even if I had a notebook by the bed, the idea is gone in a flash, and I am unable to retrieve it. BUT I KNEW IT WAS AMAZING.

I need to learn to meditate or ANYTHING to get me into that state long enough to consciously create something incredible.

im in the same position @Neon
I always lose good lines but what helps is i always have a notepad file open and write down good shit as soon as i think of it.
i’ve also been thinking of just recording whenever i freestyle and playing it back the next morning.

“That’s my problem. That half dream subconscious state is where I get AMAZING ideas.
Sometimes wonderful music and lyrics will fill my head, uninhibited, better than anything I could think of awake, without the stress of the world holding me back

But when I awake, suddenly… GONE. Even if I had a notebook by the bed, the idea is gone in a flash, and I am unable to retrieve it. BUT I KNEW IT WAS AMAZING

I need to learn to meditate or ANYTHING to get me into that state long enough to consciously create something incredible"

That’s exactly how I am. My inhibitions and doubts just disappear when I’m half-awake. Kinda creepy.

Oh God, I hate writer’s block. I can imagine how you feel. My best advice for that is to just start writing. It doesn’t matter how terrible it is. If you’re having trouble even starting, just write shit down, and I mean shit, since that’s what it’ll probably be.

As for leaving off, the best advice I’ve heard was from Earnest Hemingway. It was something along the lines of stop when you’ve reached a point where it makes sense to, but only when you know what you’re going to do next.

writers block smiters block its easy all you do is say what you want and guess what that’s what makes it work :p

I appreciate you guys, haha. My USUAL ritual is to listen to a favorite artists early albums and mixtapes. There’s that kind of raw feeling that comes out of those records. It encourages me that my favorites were at the same spot in life that I’m at now. MAYBE I’ll get there some day. That train of thought always gets me going.

But it’s always nice to draw from other ideas and rituals. And yeah, if I’m not sober, I can’t get anything done. I always want to stop once I feel there’s nothing left to say, but I hate having unfinished lyrics.

ok I really like this thread so lemme think… hmm I’d say never try and force it cus forcing things is just unnatural, whenever I write it feels so natural I sometimes forget that I just wrote it I’ll be like damn where did this come from

I can’t focus enough to write when I’m high, I can freestyle waaay better tho.

I think of lines at anytime, write ‘um down, and incorporate them into verses, which I can write really; at any time.

I either go to an art gallery or listen to classical music. Basically other forms of poetic art get me in the mood to write. Also the City of New York makes me want to write. The energy and history of that place get me in a writing mood.

For me, I’m like about to go to sleep, listening to music from my favorite artists, ACROSS ALL genres. I listen to Eminem, Elvis, Creed, Breaking Benjamin, 2Pac, B.I.G, this new up and coming rapper Anilyst, among others. I listen to the lines and usually derive from one of those lines that I really like. And just start freestyling accapellic till I get a nice flow going, then I go and start working a beat to the lyrics. And it all just comes together. I like to do it at night because I’m a night person, I do everything at night. Not only that, but later at night, as you get more tired, emotions are easier to access and much harder to control and keep inside. They tend to pour out at this time, it’s a great time to write honestly. That is, if you can stay up late enough to do so.

Well for me i just look around the house or the place i’m at and write punchlines about the shit i see.

I gotta do these things for great writing with creativity:
•Play some shit that gets me hyped as fuck
•then I play some thinking music (Jazz or Radiohead) if not something abstract (Jay electronica or Aesop Rock)
•I avoid similes as I see it as a crutch in writing
•my surroundings have to be fairly cold, low light or atleast night
•Alone
•and it always help to think beyond the norm of the subject like in a surrealistic or in a metaphysical fashion

Step 1: Put on Bob Dylan
Step 2: Blaze up
Step 3: Read BigGhostFase’s review of Take Care
Step 4: Listen to Ratatat
Step 5: Write until you can’t anymore

The last few nights I’ve been just digging through random songs in my iTunes until I find something that would make a good sample. I cut it and load it into my iPod (which I make beats on) and then just leave it. And then when I do get some kind of inspiration/vibe for a certain beat I just find the right sample and use it in whatever way works.

For writing lyrics, I get ideas for these huge concept albums. I’ll think of a title, a few different concepts that work with it and think of ideas for songs. This is all in my head at this point. Then I’ll write a song from that idea and that’s usually where it ends. I have a bunch of ideas for mixtapes/EPs/albums that haven’t been written yet. Someday.

I always get really inspired at like 12AM when I have school the next morning. It’s really inconvenient but I never end up regretting staying up til 2 writing shit.

For some people Creativeness comes from inspiration.

^sure, but what about the rest?

Shit nigga, what are you inspired by lol. Any Artists? Songs strongly preferably.

I’m inspired by me. Very self-centered lifestyle. I’m just saying that because if I said I live to help other people it wouldn’t be taken seriously

In all seriousness, my biggest inspiration is just the present… right now.

• Inspiration — Things that inspire me get me into a writing mood; things like this.

• Nighttime — Like Caia, I’m predominantly active around nighttime. And a soundless, tranquil environment — that I usually experience at night — helps.

• Music — I guess this can fall under inspiration. Certain music marinates my mind. Something about the sound gives me vibes and drag out emotions from me that lead to an idea or a few.

• A walk — Sometimes a simple walk can be most effective. Getting out of my seat and breathing in motion while experiencing nature really helps.

• In the shower — A lot of the time a shower is a good remedy for writer’s block. Being along while warm water hits me gets my mind jogging. So, I get bombarded with ideas.

You should try walks. They really help.

well in the morning after i take my shower is usually when lyrics hit me and i usually finish by the time i get off the bus and chat with my friends, but sometimes i’m still at it during class. But after a bad day i just lay there on the bed and sometimes write about it….

What gets me writing (well, used to) is I would drive to a local supermarket or mall and park in the lot and just sit there for hours on end listening to music, away from my computer, phone etc other distractions and just write using strangers as inspiration.

Sometimes though I rock back and forth on my couch with my hands on my head just saying random words that rhymed, everything around me shuts off, my friend recorded me doing it once and it was weird as fuck to watch.