Bad Rap

Description

In a circle, the group sets a rhythm. One person raps a rhyming couplet, leaving off the last word. It should be a pretty obvious set-up for the word, eg:

“Going out tonight and I want to flirt

What shall I wear? I guess this…”

Instead of staying the obvious rhyming word, the next person in the circle should fill in anything that doesn’t rhyme.

“Spider”

Then everyone raps to the beat:

“Bad rap, bad rap, bad-rap-bad-rap-bad-rap”

We begin again with the person that just gave one word.

Variations

• Try it with a word that fits the set up category but doesn’t rhyme (e.g. like in the example – “dress”)

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