Earlier this year my feed was full of AI rap videos: someone's selfie, their cat, or a cartoon character dropping a verse. When I tried to make one myself, it took a whole toolchain: one tool for lyrics, another for the song, a lip-sync app, then a video editor to put it all together. Most "AI rap generators" also stop at an audio file, but what people actually share is a video.

AiRap.me AI rap video generator

So I built AiRap.me: upload one photo, pick a style, and get a finished rap video back, usually in about 20–30 seconds.

What it does

  • One photo in, rap video out. The AI writes an original verse, makes the beat, generates the vocals and lip-syncs the face in your photo. You don't need a song, a voice recording or an editing app.
  • Solo or duo. Use one photo, or two photos where two performers trade verses.
  • People, pets and characters. Selfies, dogs, cats, and cartoon, anime or 3D characters, each keeping its own look.
  • 8 styles. Trap, drill, boom bap, melodic, phonk, rage, old school and Afro trap, plus birthday, roast and love themes.
  • Ready to post. 9:16 or 16:9, 768P or 1080P, 6, 10 or 15 seconds, downloaded as an MP4 with no watermark.

AiRap.me AI rap video maker

A few product decisions I care about

1. Only charge for videos that finish.
AI video generation fails sometimes: a bad photo, a model hiccup, a timeout. Credits are reserved when a job starts and refunded automatically if it fails. Photos that can't work (group shots, faces that are too small or blurry) are rejected before the job starts, so they never cost anything.

2. Show the first frame before you pay.
Your photo becomes the first frame of the video, so you drag and zoom the crop first. You see exactly what you'll get before you spend credits.

3. Async by default.
Generation takes a while, so you don't have to keep the tab open. The finished video waits for you in "My Videos".

4. Privacy.
Uploaded photos and generated videos stay in the user's account and are never used to train models.

Free tools along the way

AiRap.me AI rap studio
While building the video generator I also shipped two free text tools that need no sign-up:

There are also one-click templates for viral formats, like the Hotel Lobby AI rap trend.

Try it

New accounts get free credits, and no credit card is needed:
👉 https://airap.me

I'd love feedback from the dev.to community, especially:

  • Which rap styles or trend templates should I add next?
  • Anything confusing in the upload → style → generate flow?

Thanks for reading! I'll reply to every comment. 🙌