Roommates, unfortunately, another family is demanding justice after their loved one was killed at the hands of the police. According to WKYC, Akron police officers fired approximately 90 shots at 25-year-old Jayland Walker on Monday morning when police attempted to stop him for a traffic infraction and equipment issue.

According to reports, instead of Jayland pulling over, he led the officers on a high-speed chase down East Tallmadge Avenue toward State Route 8. Authorities say at some point during the chase, Jayland fired a gun. Sources advised 3News Investigates that one casing was found in Jayland’s car, and a second was found on the roadway near Route 8.

Jayland Walker Was Shot At 90 Times After Exiting His Car

During the four 1/2-minute chase, Jayland jumped out of the vehicle, and police claim they deployed their tasers first and then opened fire after they said Jayland allegedly made motions that caused them to fear bodily harm. Body camera captured officers shooting the young man where he was hit more than 60 times. However, a source said that autopsy records show he was not armed when he was shot. In addition, it revealed that Jayland was handcuffed after his body was filled with bullets.

While a gun was recovered inside Jayland’s car, many wonder why he fled from the police. WKYC reports that the 25-year-old has no past criminal records besides speeding tickets. Protests have begun, and Jayland’s family, friends, and legal representatives have held a press conference to speak about his death. Per Fox 8 reports, his aunt Lajuana Walker-Dawkins said today, “We’d just like you to know who Jayland was. We don’t want him to be portrayed as some thug. We want honor and dignity at any cost.”

She added, “We don’t know what happened. And we’d like to know.” In response to the protests, the city has canceled its ‘Rib, White, & Blue Festival’ and fireworks display set to take place July 1-4th. Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan said, “I completely understand that some residents and guests will be disappointed by the decision to cancel the festival this holiday weekend. He continued, “Independence Day is meant to be a celebration and a time of gathering with friends and family. Unfortunately, I feel strongly that this is not the time for a city-led celebration.”

CNN reports that an unknown number of police officers in Ohio have been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation. Jayland Walker’s death has been ruled a homicide.

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In today’s video we’ll be covering how to write better rap lyrics for any skill level of rapper who is interested in improving their pen game.

With that being said, if you’re inspired to learn step-by-step how to write better rap lyrics and avoid sounding too BASIC as a rapper…

This is the video for you.

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0:00 Introduction
1:00 How To Write Better Rap Lyrics Question
1:47 “Topic At The Top”: Beginner Level
2:50 Idioms and Catch-Phrases
3:54 “Becoming The Beat”: Intermediate Level
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6:04 Rhyme To Reasons (Advanced Level)
6:49 Rhymes To Reason Example 1
8:18 Rhymes To Reason Example 2
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With that in mind, we’re going to tackle the answer to this question with 3 major hacks on how to write better rap lyrics:

“Topic At The Top” (Beginner-Level)
“Becoming The Beat” (Intermediate-Level)
“Rhyme To Reasons” (Advanced-Level)

“Topic At The Top”: Beginner Level

Now, from what we can guess from this commenter we assume he or she might be at roughly beginner or maybe intermediate level of experience.

A beginner is anyone from 0 months rapping to maybe around a year.

With this in mind, our advice to beginners who struggle with, as the commenter says, “just writing what they feel, making it rhyme, but it turns out forced”, is:

First and foremost you need to ALWAYS write a CLEAR topic at the top of your page or notes app when you first start writing.

That means that BEFORE you start trying to just randomly cram ideas together that rhymes, you DECIDE on a specific subject matter or topic you will write on and put that at the top of the page.

If you’re brand new, this can be something extremely simple like “Jordans” as in the shoes…

Or “Growing Up In Brooklyn” if you’re from Brooklyn, etc.

This is because until you have an ability to stick on ONE topic and explore different descriptions and witty ways of attacking that subject matter…

Your raps are going feel scattered (as they do now) but for YOU as the writer and the listener as they hear your music.

Idioms and Catch-Phrases

If you’d like to up the challenge for yourself and feel like simply writing “Jordans” or “Growing Up In Brooklyn” is too simplistic.

You can take a different approach and look up “idioms” or catch-phrases from everyday life and turn them into a rap.

An idiom is a common non-literal phrase meant to represent a behavior or an idea that literally happens in life.

A really clear example of this would be “the ball is in your court”.

If I was to say to you “look, homey, in this situation… the ball is in your court”… You’d likely know that I meant:

“Your success or failure in this situation will come down the decisions you make”.

Therefore you can instead write at the top of your page “The Ball’s In My Court” and then decide to write better rap lyrics about your decision making throughout the life situations you’re going through.

There are literally 1000s of idioms to look up and many major rap songs such as Kanye West’s “Stronger” (built off of the idiom ‘that which doesn’t kill me can only make me stronger’), Eminem’s “Cleaning Out My Closet” (built off of the idiom ‘you have some skeletons in your closet’) and many others are built off of them.

“Becoming The Beat”: Intermediate Level

A step higher than writing a topic or an idiom at the top of your page to help you stay focused to write better rap lyrics is “become the beat”…

In other words, let the beat guide the content of your rap lyrics.

We call this “becoming the beat” because it represents how YOUR job as a rapper is to seamlessly lyrically MESH with the EMOTION the beat you choose brings out of the listener.

So of course step 1 in this process is find a beat with a very clear emotional feeling to it.

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The massacre that becomes a focal point of this series is complicated, as the show quickly establishes that it has a strong moral stance on profiting off queer tragedy, yet frequently uses it to propel its plot and characters forward in a way that doesn’t always appear genuine. The show is quick to say what is right and wrong, but then exhibit some problematic behavior.

In the first episode, Brodie meets Mingus, Fin Argus’s high schooler trying to enter their first drag show, when they have a sexual encounter in the bathroom before the shooting. It is soon revealed that Mingus is a minor, and Brodie is not, and almost everyone in the show brushes it off. Sure, the character turns 18 during the first season, but do we really need another show with a minor having sex with an adult?

This murky area of consent is explored more with Brodie and Julian, when he hires a sex worker to help his brother with cerebral palsy get laid. Julian, understandably, gets upset when he finds out he only had sex with the super hot man he met in the bar because he was paid to do so. However, not a single conversation about the consent of it all is ever really had, and the very iffy situation is kind of forgotten about.

When Noah, played by Johnny Sibilly, is shown to have a meth problem early on that is exacerbated by the shooting and death of his boyfriend, it simply goes away after he confesses his usage, not addressing the serious party-and-play problem in the queer community and brushing over what seemed to be a serious addiction based in trauma.