100 Rap Song Ideas

Looking for some inspiration for your next song? Here's a list of 100 ideas to get started...

1. Your city or neighborhood growing up
2. Your city or neighborhood today
3. A world event that makes you upset
4. A family relationship
5. Getting paid
6. Not having money
7. Something you learned the hard way
8. A cause you are passionate about
9. Your lover
10. Your ex
11. Your ex’s lover
12. Real life
13. Something you’re proud of
14. Something big you are going to accomplish
15. A true story
16. A made up story
17. Your goal as a rapper
18. Why should other’s take you seriously
19. Someone that wronged you
20. A life event that shaped you
21. Something you’ve got to get off your chest
22. Something you regret
23. Your religious beliefs
24. What get’s you pumped up
25. Someone that deserves a shout out
26. Your favorite activity
27. Something you do to chill
28. A funny story
29. Your haters
30. Your fans
31. Something you wish you could change
32. Something you would never change
33. Rap as if you are someone else (ie you’re rich, incarcerated, a kid, in a very different situation)
34. What you overcame to get where you are today
35. Life as a ______
36. What you think of other music artists
37. Your bucket list
38. What you would do with a million dollars
39. Making love
40. Being in nature
41. Feeling alive
42. Feeling down
43. Mourning someone you lost
44. The music industry
45. An epic party
46. Your mother or father
47. Your kid
48. A good friend
49. A sibling
50. Your rap skills
51. Your looks or style
52. The Summer
53. Fall, Winter, Spring
54. Driving in your car
55. Your go-to spot
56. An injustice you hate
57. The system
58. Empowerment for a group of people
59. First time you met your lover
60. A break up
61. Your average day
62. Your job
63. Dancing
64. Point of view of a famous character
65. A dream you had
66. A historical event
67. Something beautiful
68. What keeps you awake at night
69. Falling in love
70. Falling out of love
71. An argument (rap from both sides)
72. Weed, Drugs
73. Depression
74. The Beach
75. School
76. Favorite sport
77. Crypto
78. Traveling
79. Working out
80. Quitting your job
81. An out-of-body experience you had
82. Your childhood
83. Your favorite philosophical theory
84. Finding peace of mind
85. Your celebrity crush
86. A toxic relationship
87. Self-love
88. A time you felt abandoned
89. A time you felt victorious
90. Spiritual enlightenment
91. Something that’s ironic
92. If you could write a letter to your younger self
93. What is it like being you
94. What you hope people will say about you after you die
95. A strange experience you had
96. Something that gives you hope
97. A question you want answered
98. Government or authorities
99. An early memory
100. Why you make music