Dirty

For all of you MB members who make music. How do you go about starting your songs? Do you build verses around a chorus or write your verses and then try to add the chorus??

I'm curious to see which way you think is most effective. I usually write in the order of: Verse 1, Chorus, Verse 2, Verse 3.

I usually write the first verse and then write a chorus after that, and have the next few verses follow along those subject lines. Luckily some guy in the UK sends me sick beats with cool 90s samples for choruses so sometimes I don't even have to worry about it. I'd probably prefer to write a chorus and have my whole song revolve somewhat around it, but I usually don't even have a real solid idea about my song content when I start writing. I just pick up a pen and over a few days have some lines that I like and the song takes on a course of it's own, and I make a chorus later that fits well enough.