# @nytimes on TikTok

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.tiktok.com/@nytimes/video/7281726332558478622
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8763544-nytimes-tiktok
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/755ec1fbad.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-09-22T18:57:19.000+00:00

## Caption

Picture a rapper writing a song — but forget about the pen and paper. In fact, in a recording studio these days, there may be no actual writing happening at all. While many fans and listeners might still have that old-school image of an artist scribbling furiously in a notepad — think Tupac, Nas or Eminem — many younger hip-hop artists grew up idolizing stars like Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Future and Young Thug, all of whom have boasted about never putting their lyrics to paper, or even a phone screen. Instead, using technological advances in digital recording, much of modern rap music is composed via a strange, improvisational studio technique known as “punching in” — a mumbling, nonsensical-at-first, freestyle approach to every line, one at a time, until a song is fully formed. Video by Joe Coscarelli and Noah Throop #hiphop #history #hiphop50thanniversary 

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- **Views:** 79,200
- **Likes:** 13,400
- **Shares:** 1,931
- **Comments:** 254

## Tags

history, hiphop, hiphop50thanniversary

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