Well first it was rap, then reggae, then rap again, then rap and reggae.
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Eminem, the Rap Boy turned Rap God, can no longer save rap from what he created.
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You had put it later on in the song because you just let me rap, rap, rap.
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In 2014, they won four Grammys: Best New Artist, Best Rap Song, Best Rap Album, and Best Rap Performance.
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Kendrick has already won big at tonight's ceremony, taking home awards for Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, Best Rap Album, and Best Rap/Sung Song for "Loyalty," his collaboration with Rihanna.
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He heard me rap, he let me rap with him.
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He knows how to rap; I know how to rap.
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We just all stared at it silently and then there was a rap-rap-rap on the window right next to us.
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And me entertaining myself was to listen to rap music and eventually started me trying to rap and learning how to rap.
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JAY-Z is up for album of the year, best rap album, song of the year, best rap song, record of the year, best rap/sung collaboration, best music video and best rap performance.
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School of rap: The improvisational rap group co-founded by Lin-Manuel Miranda will offer classes in rap, beatboxing and improv next month.
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Rap collective Awful Records contains the art freaks of Atlanta's rap scene.
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Conscious rap Conscious rap is still a thing for the French rap scene even though it is not the genre that sells the most nowadays.
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JAY-Z, 48, is up for album of the year for 4:44, plus best rap album, song of the year, best rap song, record of the year, best rap/song collaboration, best music video and best rap performance.
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It's almost like a rap or something, like thinking of a fresh rap.
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Getting To The Bottom Of The Pussy Rap Remember Issa's "broken pussy" rap?
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How did you feel about the transition from party rap to gangster rap?
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I thought people think I can't rap anymore so I just gotta rap.
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But I am also a rap artist, and rap is about your reality.
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There's business rap, commercial rap, the kind that talks about drugs and girls.
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He is a rap star without rap-star trappings, a parallel-universe champion.
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The 48-year-old rapper was up for album of the year for 4:44, plus best rap album, song of the year, best rap song, record of the year, best rap/song collaboration, best music video and best rap performance.
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Scott scored three nominations for best rap album (for Astroworld), best rap song (for his hit single "SICKO MODE") and best rap performance (also for "SICKO MODE").
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Scott's No. 1 single "Sicko Mode" is up for best rap performance and best rap song, and his latest album Astroworld is nominated for best rap album.
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The humor of integrating incongruous external elements into rap stems from a condescending attitude towards rap; it's only funny if you already view rap as somehow ridiculous.
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I think most people associate Atlanta's music scene with rap and mostly just rap.
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Combined with questions surrounding Paper Boi's rap career—Will he become a rap superstar?
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Rap music Rap music has not been left out in the fight against coronavirus.
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I get why people call it SoundCloud rap, but I call it grunge rap.
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He is up for best rap performance of the year and best rap song.
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Someone proposed it to me because of rap, like gangster rap and all that.
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Scott earned three Grammy nominations for best rap album (for Astroworld), best rap song (for his hit single "SICKO MODE") and best rap performance (also for "SICKO MODE").
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Lamar entered the night with seven nominations, and while he took home Best Rap Album, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap / Sung Performance, and Best Rap Song, he was shut out (again) from less genre-specific awards like Album of the Year, which has historically been unfriendly to rap and hip-hop, as well as Record of the Year.
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The album was nominated for best rap album at the Grammys (Cardi B. won), while his single "Sicko Mode" received nominations for best rap performance and best rap song.
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And I'm Joey Purp and I got a rap name and I don't even rap.
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Saying there's no misogyny in rap is like saying there's no drug addiction in rap.
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There's only like a few young cats that rap over stuff that I rap over.
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What would happen if white rap actually decided to be a part of rap itself?
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It's also just such a blow to rap fans, especially women who listen to rap.
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Batida, kuduro, rap, a bit of everything, but I listen mostly to batida and rap.
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During the rebranding of Rap Snacks, Lindsay used rap group the Migos on its packaging.
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I don't want to rap, because I can't rap—that would be horrible if I tried!
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Last year, her song "Bodak Yellow" was nominated for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance.
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I was a real fucking rap star; I just didn't know how to rap very good.
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His song "Humble" also picked up best rap performance, best rap song and best music video.
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Lil B Lil B was a viral rap star before the age of viral rap stars.
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He won Best Rap Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Hotline Bling," if you care.
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That sort of rap beef, the "I can do more pull ups than you" purely competitive exhibition bout for rap supremacy is a staple, is good for rap and isn't going anywhere.
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"They captured the feel of the rap record business and rap management at the time," he said.
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" by Kendrick Lamar Best Rap/Sung Performance: "LOYALTY." by Kendrick Lamar featuring Rihanna Best Rap Song: "HUMBLE.
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The most political music is probably rap, but even the mainstream rap isn't very political, you know?
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Almost single-handedly responsible for the "cloud rap" sound that defined early 10s alt-rap, Clams, a.k.a.
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Something was connectable as far as us wanting to make rap records, besides just loving rap records.
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He topped Nicki Minaj ("Anaconda"), Kanye West ("Bound 2") and Drake ("0 to 100/The Catch Up") for Best Rap Song and beat Eminem ("Rap God") and Drake again for Best Rap Performance.
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They are craftsmen, aficionados of rap for the sake of rap, guys who above all want to make the coolest rap music they can (we can safely say this about Jay again, finally).
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There are way more people who think they can rap than there are those who can actually rap.
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So I can't, like, do any rap that's politically correct, so I would never rap in my life.
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I love the rap world and I love the rap community… I write pop songs for a reason.
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The rap-obsessed hardcore band Cold World has collaborated with Kool G Rap, Meyhem Lauren, and Sean Price.
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The pride of the Bronx is nominated for two Grammy awards: Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song.
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It revolutionized what rap music could be by simply refusing to let it be labeled as rap music.
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Rap the vote Welcome to Atlanta, where the players play and rap stars moderate forums for mayoral candidates.
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"[My mom] listened to rap," 1TakeJay, a good-natured goofball and member of the rap crew 1Take, remembers.
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My cousin listened to so much rap music, I thought his ass could teach me how to rap.
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I rap because I know that time is an illusion and it's my job to rap right now.
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It was 1999 and the music was terrible: misogynist rap-rock, and rap wasn't even good back then.
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Reggie's Rap was the first syndicated satellite rap radio program not only in Canada, but in the world.
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You're right that civil defense has gotten a bad rap, and preppers have really gotten a bad rap.
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How do you think the Flocabulary staff decide on its Week in Rap and Year in Rap selections?
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In rap, especially Southern rap, the repetitive, ringing ostinato is an alarum that signifies fights, mayhem, and death.
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Malone is nominated for artist of the year; favorite collaboration of the year; favorite male artist, pop/rock; favorite artist, rap/hip-hop; favorite album, rap/hip-hop and favorite song, rap/hip-hop.
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He won four before the broadcast, for rap performance, rap song, rap/sung collaboration and music video (a partial honor he shared with Swift) -- and also gave one of the show's best live performances.
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Drake has previously expressed irritation over winning Best Rap Song for "Hotline Bling," insisting it wasn't a rap track.
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Cardi B.'s "Bodak Yellow" received not one, but two nominations for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song.
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Listening to Desiigner rap on a beat made out of himself would be a game of rap Where's Waldo.
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I tend to listen to rap, hip-hop, gangsta rap and some pop, and my favorite acts are Anderson .
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Every song they play follows the same formula: rap verse, chorus, rap verse, chorus, build up, mosh pit, end.
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In "The Rap Year Book," you ranked the most important rap songs for each year from 1979 to 2014.
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When I told people I wanted to rap as a kid, they were like, 'Oh you want to rap?
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Socially conscious rap is common; its criminal-minded flip side, street rap, does exist, but to a lesser degree.
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But we have our local equivalent, Le rap de rue, or street rap, which is basically the same thing.
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The result is that he may become the first true rap star to barely bother with rap at all.
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Their album "The Lost Boy" and single "Bad Idea" are up for best rap album and rap song, respectively.
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As part of the deal Caffeine will live stream and co-produce new rap battles alongside Ultimate Rap League.
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He's just cool the dude can actually rap most of the guys in Pro-Era can actually rap everyone just isn't on the forefront but everyone in that group can rap, Pro-Era is mad talented.
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Image by Adam Mignanelli and Lia Kantrowitz Most rappers are religious, but most rap fans are leery of religious rap.
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But for many, textceeing was a way to negotiate the rap world incognito, without committing wholesale to a rap identity.
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But you know man; rap is dope because rap has made far more money off cocaine, guns, weed, and drugs.
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UK RAP is just a disgrace to rap culture in general," she tweeted, before adding: "UK rappers NEVER have swag.
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As did his fake Will Smith Hacksaw Ridge post-credits rap, and his fake Will Smith Moonlight post-credits rap.
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She was nominated for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song, both of which she unfortunately lost to Kendrick Lamar.
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Generally, the songs came in two formats: country songs made by rap artists, or rap songs made my country artists.
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" Bow it's almost like, "Zay, you tell me what to rap on, and that's what I'm going to rap on.
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It makes sense that she gets attention from US rap greats, because her rap style owes a lot to them.
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"In my spare time, my friends and I freestyle rap and make funny rap songs about our lives," he says.
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Migos is the hip-hop trio nominated for best rap album and best rap performance at the Grammys this year.
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That inspired me to rap but also made me want to push boundaries of what rap is supposed to be.
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He's been nominated, prior to today, for 21 awards, and he's won four, all in the same year: Best Rap Album for Tha Carter III, Best Rap Solo Performance for "A Milli," Best Rap Song for "Lollipop" (beating himself), and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Swagga Like Us" (also beating himself).
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Writing the Rap Tell students that the goal of their rap is to select their top news stories from 2016 in one category, then share the important parts of that news story with their classmates through a rap.
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Genius originally launched as a rap lyrics data trove, where users could add interesting context and insights about various rap lyrics.
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I could pretend about a life, and rap about things I don't do, or I can actually rap about my life.
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He's not wrong, since the Recording Academy gave him Best Rap Song with "Hotline Bling" when he doesn't rap on it.
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Crucially, Eilish has also absorbed an at times cartoonish, outlaw essence from the world of rap — without actually trying to rap.
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We're always scouring our knowledge of other rap songs in order to figure out how we're gonna make this rap song.
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The long-awaited follow-up to 2013's Acid Rap is a double rainbow in the form of gospel rap, a jubilant and deeply spiritual thing that is already a top contender for the best rap album of 2016.
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"A lot of the sensibility of rock 'n' roll has gone into the sound of SoundCloud rap and mumble rap," he says.
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The musician won the Grammys for best new artist, best rap performance (for "No Problem") and best rap album (for Coloring Book).
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Listen, if you're the kind of person who wants to watch a rap video about scooters, here's a rap video about scooters.
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Cardi B was also nominated for two Grammys this year, for best rap song and best rap performance, both for "Bodak Yellow."
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With its widely-encompassing repertoire and refined visual style, it's surprising that RAP ABC marks Morgan's first artistic foray into rap culture.
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"If you look at the history of jazz and rap, you can make an argument that rap is today's jazz," he said.
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The group's members were raised on Queens rap legends like A Tribe Called Quest, Kool G Rap, Onyx and especially G-Unit.
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Tyler, The Creator released the most beloved and critically acclaimed rap-adjacent album this year (to narrowly label it "rap" feels inadequate).
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But as the American rap scene — both then and now — often incorporated hostility toward women, so, too, did the Oaxacan rap scene.
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That said, there is a difference between a rap festival that takes place in New York and a New York rap festival.
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DaBaby, who's nominated for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance for his hit, "Suge," served up some ham, cheese and veggies.
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As a result, there's a perception that Run the Jewels makes rap music for people who might feel estranged by rap music.
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Cardi B is up for best rap song and best rap performance — two awards that a solo female rapper has never won.
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He took a swipe at his prior best rap song Grammy win for "Hotline Bling," which is not (really) a rap song.
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But this year turned out better for Lamar, as he picked up five awards, including Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song.
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"Hotline Bling" also won best rap/sung performance; along with the best rap song win, they're the second and third Grammy wins of his career and the first since he took home best rap album for Take Care in 2013.
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"[Rap] gave me a voice because then you have younger females who are gay, too, and wanna rap, but they're gonna be like, 'Oh I don't wanna rap about this because of how people might think it's perceived,'" Lee mused.
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Nipsey Hussle Got Three Posthumous Nominations The late rapper scored looks for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song for "Racks in the Middle" as well as, Best Rap/Sung Performance for "Higher," his collaboration with John Legend and DJ Khaled.
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Wang is the leader of a rap group called CD Rev, who performed the song, and they're pretty much rap royalty in China.
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The 39-year-old artist received nominations in categories including Best Rap Album and Best Rap Song (for both "Ultralight Beam" and "Famous").
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The proposal, known as PEC 215, became the name of one the songs of Sao Paulo-based indigenous rap group Rap Oz Guarani.
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Most of them are rap-related, but tangentially connected to the world of gangsta rap is the world of Italian-American gangster films.
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I will be launching a global rap challenge, gathering youth from all over the world to write and rap about ending child marriage.
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"German rap is a scapegoat, because youth culture is always a scapegoat," Ms. Funk, who directed "The Dark Side of German Rap," said.
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Today, Earl Sweatshirt is a symbol of how quickly rap moves, and also an example of how a young rap star can evolve.
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Atlanta is the capital of rap, and Magic City is the capital of Atlanta rap, and Mondays are a holiday at Magic City.
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"On devrait pouvoir faire du rap politique, ce qu'on avait coutume d'appeler le rap conscient", affirme Médine, ajoutant avoir un "droit à l'irresponsabilité".
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JAY-Z, 48, was the most-nominated artist at the 2018 awards, with eight nominations for: album of the year; song of the year and best rap performance ("4:44"); best rap album (4:44), best rap song, record of the year and best music video ("The Story of O.J."); and best rap/sung collaboration ("Family Feud" with wife Beyoncé).
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JAY-Z, 48, was the most-nominated artist at the 2018 awards, with eight nominations for: album of the year; song of the year and best rap performance ("4:44"); best rap album (8255:44), best rap song, record of the year and best music video ("The Story of O.J."); and best rap/sung collaboration ("Family Feud" with wife Beyoncé).
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No one knew what a rap song should be about, what sort of music you were supposed to rap over, if you needed to put a chorus in it, how long it should be, or even what it actually meant to rap.
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Should she return to conventional Atlanta rap after her foray into rock, I doubt rap fans will complain — her straightforward rap songs are exactly as defiant and surreal as her genre amalgamations, embodying the same capricious attitude within trap's sparer formal template.
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At this point, Kool G Rap had the East Coast gangster rap on smash when it came to talking about the real street shit.
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Occupation: Writer, The Ringer; Author of The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
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The book digs into not only the rap group's history, but also their context, examining the world and climate of rap in the 1990s.
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Elsewhere, we discuss the experimenters working on the fringes to bridge club music and rap, the handful of producers ruling pop rap, and flutes.
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Cardi earned two nominations in best rap performance and best rap song for her track "Bodak Yellow" but did not win for either one.
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We now see universities "decolonizing" further by teaching courses on the rap group N.W.A. and dropping Shakespeare, replacing Beethoven with hip-hop and rap.
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The shooting sparked a wave of debate across New York City about the glorification of violence in rap music and security at rap events.
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I say all that to say that we love New York rap, but we were also very, very open to rap from other places.
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Alexa can already sing and rap, but now she's the star of a new music video by the English rap duo Too Many T's.
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Justin Bieber just broke his "no photos" rule in a big way ... letting an obscure rap duo shoot a rap video in his castle.
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Street Rap "Gangsta rap" is not a name we use much in France, since it's usually seen as something typically (if not strictly) American.
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And you know I called it Rap Beats in the first place because I thought it was straightforward shit that anyone could rap over.
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"Even though 'Hotline Bling' is not a rap song, the only category they can manage to fit me in is a rap category," Drake said.
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Jeff Weiss is the founder of the rap blog Passion of the Weiss, which recently named The Infamous the hardest rap album of all time.
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Designed in the accessible, all-ages-friendly format of an ABC book, RAP ABC pairs each letter of the alphabet with a different rap artist.
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In the United States, birthplace of "gangster rap" and hardcore hip-hop, brawls and even gun killings are not unheard of among some rap artists.
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Wayne, the hitmaker behind such pop-rap classics as "Make It Rain" and "We Takin' Over," was also paying attention to the independent rap underground?
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I feel like we met in a food court, and then he asked me to rap on his album but I sang, I didn't rap.
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Her family, who supported her performances in church, felt differently about her choice to rap because they thought rap only spoke about murder and violence.
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His rap roots run deep The Queens-born rapper came to love rap early and by the age of 12 was writing his own rhymes.
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Drake all but rejected his Grammy for best rap song last year because he contended that the track, "Hotline Bling," wasn't really a rap song.
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Are you concerned that as Zack Fox the comedian, if you wanna rap more, it'll be taken as some Weird Al Yankovic joke rap thing?
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Later, he posted a "Pokemon rap" to his Instagram account and challenged his followers to remix the rap to win a t-shirt and hoodie.
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In fact, he is the former associate director of the Cuban Rap Agency—yes, in the heavily bureaucratic country, there's even a government office for rap.
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Girl Code follows their debut, PERIOD, and the first female rap duo since Salt-N-Pepa is still trying to figure out their place in rap.
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When she first began working on Bad Rap, the preconceived notions were simple: Asians can't rap, and black women like herself can't single-handedly make films.
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Even when he comes in with his solo rap verse, Beyoncé mouths the final line, and follows it up with a rap verse of her own.
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Sean, I would pay for you to do a live rap to throw to me one night and I&aposll try to do a rap back.
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His rap is smooth and calculated, something that likely came from a bit more forethought and revision than a rap off the top of his head.
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This was lo-fi collage music, earning an audience amongst left-field rap fans who were becoming enamored by the Anticon's version of nerdy art-rap.
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Drake is nominated for Top Artist, Top Male Artist, Top Hot 100 Artist, Top Rap Artist, Top Rap Tour, Top Billboard 20173 Album, and plenty more.
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Before joining up with the label's roster, he made strictly rap music under the name "Hollywood Holt" and was heavily involved with Chicago's burgeoning rap scene.
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The song was nominated for two Grammy Awards — best rap solo performance and best rap song — and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Instead of bringing southern slang to a rap audience, as artists like OutKast had done, they were appropriating rap and adapting it for a country crowd.
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Once she was introduced to the sounds of Mexican rap groups like Black G and the Northsiders, she fully integrated herself into the Oaxacan rap scene.
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Beaucoup de ses fans louent le rap de Médine pour ses valeurs instructives et éducatives — ce qui en pousse d'autres à moquer un "rap de bibliothèque".
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Which explains why (despite what the most nostalgic fringe of rap listeners thinks) French Rap today is extremely diverse—perhaps more than it has ever been.
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Drake: Even though "Hotline Bling" is not a rap song, the only category that they can manage to fit me in is in a rap category.
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A lot of rap is steeped in hyper-masculinity, and growing up, you go around rapping these tough rap lyrics in your head even though you're not.
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Before Juicero, a favorite poster child for Silicon Valley excess was the rap annotation site Rap Genius, which raised more than $50 million between 2011 and 2014.
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He is up for Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year, and Song Of The Year — as well as Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song.
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Lonzo Ball's international rap career just got the seal of approval from a pretty big rap star ... 'cause Tyga says he 100% supports Zo's upcoming Lithuania show.
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He's released a rap album called "Ninjawerks" and "Fortnite Rap Battle," a compilation video in which he stars, has been viewed nearly 80 million times on YouTube.
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It seems like a lot of kids aren't necessarily encouraged to rap, and they don't even know that the industry has more to offer than just rap.
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After all, if you don't listen to rap to hear dudes rap fractals out of a song called "Gangland," what are you even doing with your life?
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The protracted, slightly messy rollout of rock-rap (not rap-rock) figurehead Lil Uzi Vert's first official LP, Luv Is Rage 2, would hamper any other artist.
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Despite ignorant but popular notions that rap beef is simply about violence, battle rap and rappers as rivals have been foundational to hip-hop since its inception.
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The stage setup that looked like M.A.S.H. meets Rap City, full of Mob memebers decked out in camo and watching VHS videos, skateboarding, and reading rap magazines.
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The criticism largely hinges on perceptions and stereotypes of rap music, particularly those that define rap music and black culture as not being representative of mainstream America.
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Next are two new rap albums, with 2 Chainz's "Rap or Go to the League" opening at No. 4 and Lil Skies' "Shelby" starting at No. 5.
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For what it's worth ... Cardi took home 3 AMAs for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist, Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Song and Favorite Soul/R&B Song. Congrats!
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Neither ___ music nor ___ rap helped me ___ on.
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Remind them that they can choose subcategories from larger categories, so that they might, for instance, create a rap from the World section, but just on events in China; a rap featuring 2016 news from the U.S. section, but focused on education; a rap about the Sports section, but detailing 2016 news about professional basketball; or a rap using the Science section, but focused on stories about climate change from 2016.
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Look no further than rap recidivism cases like Brooklyn rabble-rouser Troy Ave's personal campaign to "restore the feeling" of New York rap dominance—and the frankly floundering creativity and commercial viability of the music it produced—to see what happens when rap prizes record collections over individuality.
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"It turns out that Rap Genius has a much bigger idea and a much broader mission than [rap]," the firm's co-founder, Marc Andreessen, wrote at the time.
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New Orleans duo $UICIDEBOY$ are known for surreal, scary "horrorcore" rap, which makes it very close to too-on-the-nose for them to rap about Donnie Darko.
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It was the culmination of a determined climb from backpack-rap obscurity to pop-rap ubiquity, and perhaps early notice of an imminent realignment of rap's power structure.
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The only thing missing from this clash of rap titans is an actual rap song, but that's hardly necessary in our current era of social media-driven feuds.
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Fresh off Grammy wins for best new artist, best rap album and best rap performance, for "No Problem," Chance the Rapper was expected to be in the lineup.
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The man is James Prince ... CEO of Rap-A-Lot Records and one of the most feared and respected figures in rap ... who also happens to manage Ward.
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Much like Lil Wayne, Lil B isn't necessarily given the credit he deserves as a real rap scholar, but his knowledge, particularly of regional rap subcultures, is immense.
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It wouldn't be the first time Ellen had a major rap star gracing her stage—in fact, she's had some of the best rap performances on daytime television.
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His latest boast-cum-manifesto is "Rap Bruto" — "Raw Rap" — and it gives equal time to Nach, who has been recording hip-hop in Spain since the 1990s.
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The artist and actor has his roots in freestyle rap, joining Lin Manuel Miranda's improv-rap troupe "Freestyle Love Supreme" shortly after his graduation from New York University.
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Of all the great 1990s rap groups, few went more silent than the jazz-rap giants Digable Planets, which disbanded in 1995 and stayed that way for years.
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The much-vaunted beat is a fairly pro forma rap synth loop; the echoing space between keyboard and drum machine is a rap convention rather than sonic innovation.
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In the last year, we've seen how rap has profited from virality of meme culture with country rap hybrids like "Old Town Road" and "The Git Up." As ASMR carves a niche for itself as another part of internet culture, the fusion of ASMR with rap music is not surprising.
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In 1995, the duo won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, making them the first female rap group to ever win that award.
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While the GRAMMY-winning artist will have his own channel on the platform, the deal specifically covers Drake co-producing rap battles in collaboration with Ultimate Rap League (URL).
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Rap Sh*t is a half-hour comedy that follows an all-women rap group just outside of Miami as they try to make it in the music industry.
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Kurtis Blow isn't just a rap pioneer ... he's a Christmas rap pioneer, but this holiday season he's inviting all of hip-hop to join him by the yuletide fire.
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To make the epic rap even better, the video features behind-the-scene clips of the cast members from the film busting a move to Boyega and Ridley's rap.
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Even some of our allies in neighboring cities like UGK, Pimp C, and Bun B. I'm a huge advocate for Houston rap music and Texas rap music, in general.
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Yet "Money to Blow" stands at a key juncture in rap, particularly rap radio, the moment in which more or less the torch was passed from Weezy to Drizzy.
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A lot of the clubs and bars that were friendly to rap music, they kind of closed their doors to rap music because of a lot of the violence.
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Nearly everyone I talked to about it described Lil Baby's music to me as "no cap rap" or "reality rap," and at first it seemed like a familiar claim.
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After months of anticipation and a surprise announcement yesterday, rock-rap (not rap-rock) figurehead Lil Uzi Vert has finally released his first official LP Luv Is Rage 2.
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Louisiana rap legend Master P says Tyrann Mathieu is totally wrong about their home city ... saying rap music is not causing the violence in New Orleans ... the people are.
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I initially saw No Sleep as a collection of rap flyers, but Stretch schooled me to how much more culture there was beyond the rap scene during that era.
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After years of slow, goopy, melodic radio rap that, in recent years, has become almost ambient, Megan Thee Stallion's brand of hardcore rap has emerged as a relevant alternative.
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The timely record by the cool rap mom is used as a catalyst for her to reclaim her abrasive rap persona and discuss her own experiences with sexual violence.
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" - Jessica, 25 "Blurts out indiscriminate rap lyrics constantly.
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" — Kendrick Lamar featuring Rihanna Best Rap Song: "HUMBLE.
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On top of "Bodak Yellow"'s two Grammy nominations — Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song — Cardi B has become a fashion icon, an Instagram darling, and a beloved celebrity.
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A female rap trio named The Sequence released the single "Funk You Up" in 1979 ... a hit that was the third rap song ever to reach Billboard's Top 50 Singles.
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This is what keeps DIY rap shows from being held in Toronto, the unfounded (and pretty dang racist) fear that rap in any form will instigate violence in the streets.
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On the heels on racking up three Grammy awards for Best New Artist, Best Rap Performance, and Best Rap Album, Chance The Rapper isn't slowing down on pursuing his passions.
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I think gangsta rap has never really gone away, it's just taken on different names; ratchet and trap and stuff like that have a lot of similarities to gangsta rap.
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She's one of the most powerful people in rap, and here she ups the ante, wearing body armor which makes her look like the futuristic rap game Xena Warrior Princess.
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It was notable, and unusual, hearing him rap the hook of a major pop-rap hit, G-Eazy's "No Limit," which went to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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If so, my dude has failed conclusively and the entire presentation is probably going to set stereotypes about Canadians, rap, and Canadian rap even further back than they already are.
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Dan: When searching for a subject to cover on your rap song, you looked deep in your heart and came up with the wholly unique idea to rap about drugs.
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Some, such as this section of Rap Pad, are referred to as a cypher, the name for a circle of rappers, beatboxers and dancers who gather around to stage rap battles.
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Fresh from his recent tape We Might Die, Los Angeleno battle rap/alt rap phenom Dumbfoundead has let loose the video for "Murals" which speaks to his upbringing in LA's Koreatown.
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Cardi became a chart-topper and record breaker for "Bodak Yellow" in 2017, and was nominated for "Best Rap Song" and "Best Rap Performance" at the Grammys for the same track.
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She received nominations for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Rap Album, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (for "Girls Like You" with Maroon 5), and Best Rap Performance.
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East and West Coast rap unite on Seventy Nine, the new album from Fresno rap vet Planet Asia and New York production whiz DJ Concept, out March 25 on Coalmine Records.
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The Rap-A-Lot Records CEO has tons of experience with famous rap beefs ... so he's no stranger to reaching across the aisle to try and ease tension and settle differences.
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Berlin-based illustrator and creative Andrew Morgan's new book RAP ABC, feels like the perfect solution for introducing young and aspiring hip-hop heads to a diverse legacy of rap music.
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There's a new major force in hip-hop: mumble rap, a subgenre of rap that is characterized by songs with intense bases and little lyricism, performed by rappers with rowdy personalities.
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" Always into rap music and seeking as much gangster rap as he could in Southern Texas, Dro recalls his early tastes: "I had to have that Tupac Strictly for My Niggas.
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If anyone has an insight into how the UK and rap music blend together, its the founder of Big Dada, one of the UK's most respected underground rap labels, Will Ashon.
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Historically, musicians who specialize in unlikely collisions — any iteration of rap-rock, or country-rap, for example — are often maligned, as if their alchemy were the stuff of confusion, not intention.
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The soft-spoken emcee from North Carolina is nominated for best rap song and best rap album — an award that's only once gone to a woman in Grammy history: Lauryn Hill.
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A rap mixtape whose dominant pleasures lie in the athletic mastery of motion, impeccably streamlined efficiency, and neat formal lines, is a rap mixtape that cultivates a forbidding, determined, composed tone.
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Me — I can rap all of Will Smith's Willennium.
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" He confidently responded: "To be the prince of rap.
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" Ma even mocks Minaj's title of "Queen of Rap.
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LOS ANGELES — Breaking news: Tom Hanks can still rap.
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" Accepting the award for best rap album for "DAMN.
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The very presence of female MCs meant acknowledging them not only as equals in the rap game but as black female rappers in the rap game and as black women in general.
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In 1991, the award was split into two awards – best rap solo performance and best rap performance by a duo or group – before the categories were combined again for the 2012 awards.
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He's not, really, but he does say he was inspired by SoundCloud rap and he puts his songs on SoundCloud, so I feel like that's partially how he got the rap label.
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As Vox's PR Lockhart wrote: The criticism largely hinges on perceptions and stereotypes of rap music, particularly those that define rap music and black culture as not being representative of mainstream America.
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He won Best New Artist, Best Rap Album and Best Rap Performance, performed "How Great" and "All We Got" with Kirk Franklin, and experienced a 206 percent boost in his streaming figures.
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Breaking with staid expectations of rap masculinity, Thug's voice on these seminal cuts broke through the acceptable upper register in ways rap fans had rarely encountered since the days of Flavor Flav.
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Meek Mill was known as the tenacious teen from the grainy videos of rap battles that not only circulated across Philly but seemed to excite virtually any rap nerd with internet access.
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Now he's 71 - he's the actual grandfather of rap - and despite saying he's not bitter about how things turned out for him, he has finally turned his back on rap music today.
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After giving a triumphant performance of "I Like It" alongside collaborators Bad Bunny and J Balvin, Cardi walked away with statues for favorite rap artist and favorite rap song (for "Bodak Yellow").
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And finally, because even the best parody song based on a rap about a Founding Father is still going to be a parody song based on a rap about a Founding Father.
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Image via Wikimedia You know how every rap nerd wants to bore you by delving headfirst into the semantics of how, like, ugh, Illmatic is the greatest rap album of all time?
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While primarily a rap album, the project grabs from electronic music, rap, and rock in ways that prove he has more of a deep understanding than a passing interest in those genres.
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The accident occurred during the closing concert, by the Spanish rap artist Rels B. Martín Tena, 18, attended the rap concert with six friends and was on the pier when it collapsed.
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Drake released "Hotline Bling," a song with no actual rapping (not even really sing-rapping); it would go on to win the Grammy for best rap song and best rap/sung performance.
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The group went on to become one of the most successful rap groups of all time and their album Wu-Tang Forever was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 1998 Grammys.
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The imposing, Brooklyn-born rap artist Christopher Wallace took on the identities of The Notorious B.I.G. and Biggie Smalls and was massively influential as rap became music's dominant style in the 1990s.
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When Chance the Rapper released his sprawling mixtape "Acid Rap," in 2013, he seemed like a lyrical counterweight to drill music, the punishing street rap that dominated his home town of Chicago.
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As an artist who successfully straddles pop and rap, Malone was nominated for seven American Music Awards this year alone and ultimately won best album in rap/hip hop for Hollywood's Bleeding.
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" The roots of hiplet date to 1994, when Mr. Bryant, now 66, created "The Rap Ballet," inspired by a concert he attended in Canada: "I noticed that all the kids in the audience kept the rap cadence, and I said to myself, if I could put rap and ballet together, I could really keep kids engaged.
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Well, Cardi found herself in another one of the interviews on the red carpet for the 2018 Grammys, where the "Bodak Yellow" performer is nominated for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance.
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The Philly rap-singer somehow had a good 2016, dropping both his own R&B 3 mixtape and the effervescent Money, Hoes & Flows with Fetty Wap, one of the year's secret rap highlights.
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That's been apparent since he started getting recognition in 2017 with his track "Lay Down," which joined the nasal harmonies usual heard in Louisiana rap with the bouncy tempo of Bay Area rap.
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If contemporary rap is an industry that creates only slightly varying carbon copies of its performers, today's R & B scene is the woke cousin from out of town trying to set rap free.
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Shortly afterwards, she described UK rap as being a "disgrace to rap culture in general" and that when she performs in the UK later this year, she will be arriving with "armed security".
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F. Gary Gray charts the exultant rap-to-riches story of the group N.W.A, which used beats, smarts, corrosive poetry and powerful rhetoric to introduce gangster rap to the world from Compton, Calif.
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F. Gary Gray charts the exultant rap-to-riches story about the group N.W.A, which used beats, smarts, corrosive poetry and powerful rhetoric to introduce gangster rap to the world from Compton, Calif.
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And yes, you read that correctly: The Street Fighter soundtrack has rap on it solely because a rap label wanted to make a soundtrack, any soundtrack, as an introduction to the movie business.
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Photo by Gunner Stahl, courtesy of Jace Rap collective Two-9 has long since established a reputation for itself as one of the standard-bearers for the contemporary wave of Atlanta alternative rap.
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The man behind some of the most iconic mixtapes in rap history says Lonzo Ball could be the next "rap king" ... and tells TMZ Sports he wants to work with the Lakers star.
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Shut the f–k up – try to write a rap.
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Somewhere along the line, gift cards got a bad rap.
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David Souter, of course, that was the rap against him.
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And the emcee won the award for best rap album.
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Another day, another rap star with their own sneaker line.
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"Still" — Mali Music Best Rap Album 4:44 — JAY-Z
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In the Muppet version, they rap about how they met.
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Sopranos, before rap took over, before, well … before the internet.
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We also got to see the Stranger Things kids rap.
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They rap near the statue of Bob and the lion.
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You can find the entire "Vocabulary of Rap" study here.
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That's her voice during the distinctive "little girl's rap" section.
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Appropriately, negative ads and campaigns get a very bad rap.
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Cardi isn't just breaking new ground in the rap arena.
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Beating Donald Trump may be easier than beating a rap.
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Pumps get a bad rap, at least in our eyes.
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He doesn't necessarily have a lot of history in rap.
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We have to say: Candy corn gets a bum rap.
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The rap is short and gets right to the point.
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SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP (2012) on Shout!
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Clearly, Future's was designed so he could rap through it.
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Even its cast varies distinctly from the Rap of China's.
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The Life of Pablo – Kanye West Best Rap/ Sung Performance
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"That Part" — ScHoolboy Q Featuring Kanye West Best Rap Song
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Forget acting, Gina Rodriguez may be joining the rap game!
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We didn't call him Yelawolf then, that's his rap name.
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You know, ads sometimes have a bad rap with people.
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But if I couldn't sing, I'd just rap or something.
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And why does British food get such a bad rap?
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Bruce24k03 Greedo - "Substance" *World Premiere* Rob Vicious - "Rap Niggaz" prod.
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Everyone is impressed by her hep behavior and rap sheet.
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No, my sister was more into rap than I was.
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The FSA rap on Thursday briefly drove down bitcoin prices.
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But in mainstream rap right now, everybody's very talented. Everybody.
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There's nothing from the rap, metal, or electronic worlds here.
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Do you think it's interesting how your rap career sprouted?
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That was so cool because that was translatable to rap.
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Do you think Rob Ford got a bad rap overall?
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So I wrote poems and turned them into rap songs.
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Others blame pop culture, video games, rap music, Kathy Griffin.
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As well as Koba Prime, from the rap collective, Prime.
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Why is the Chinese government making rap videos, you ask?
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We put all our eggs in the rap battle basket.
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But it's got electronic influences used in a rap way.
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It's a pretty striking image, considering X's lengthy rap sheet.
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I love that whole late 80s, early 90s gangster rap.
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Would you like to bring cat rap to the mainstream?
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Is he the one that made you want to rap?
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I rap off beat and I did that on purpose.
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Let's get some rap bars in here that cause whiplash.
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Pork chops will never get a bad rap ever again!
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"Y'all really thought a bitch couldn't rap, huh?" she says.
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Rini, as it turns out, has a lengthy rap sheet.
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In Germany, Cuspert went by the rap name Deso Dogg.
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Rap nerd confession: I haven't listened to Kendrick Lamar's DAMN.
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My best selling mixtape was a gangster rap mixtape, actually.
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Rap is a product of this reality and these surroundings.
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So, who is stepping up to challenge Richie's funky rap?
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Such is the reality of the rap fan generation gap.
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I mean rap doesn't necessarily aspire to community, does it?
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I close the door, start the track, and just rap.
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"Satire works in standup, film, rap, for sure," he said.
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Kendrick Lamar, with his progressive, political, critically acclaimed rap albums.
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Ten years ago, jerkin' seemed potentially transformative for LA rap.
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My first rap album I bought was College Dropout, though.
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This record is just what I think rap should be.
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Is this the lane of rap you want to occupy?
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Smaller rap shows across the country and a devoted audience?
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I think both hipsters and chickens get a bad rap.
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I wasn't trying to make a rap tape at all.
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Wicker and rattan earned a bad rap after midcentury overuse.
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Trump used to be a detail in most rap songs.
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Rap artist Kendrick Lamar has also teamed up with Nike.
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CNN: "Mumble Rap" is often used in a condescending way.
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His brother was shot and killed at a rap concert.
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I feel like rap is just poetry in life form.
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Noname appeared on Chance the Rapper's 2013 mixtape "Acid Rap."
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The rap was that he could be testy and brittle.
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Such media misogyny -- and the tired, race-baiting rap vs.
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The glee around that freedom felt like a rap holiday.
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"DAMN" picked up best rap album at the award show.
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R. A. the Rugged Man with A.F.R.O. and Jarv, rap.
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Tajikistan's rap scene has had a turbulent couple of years.
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And in this telling, rap is the language of revolution.
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Why do you think metal gets such a bad rap?
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Every act that played was like, juggalo or horrorcore rap.
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Like half rap, half metal coming out of every room.
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Thanks to Southern stereotypes, Atlanta sometimes gets a bad rap.
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But then think about what Lil Wayne means to rap.
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What more could you ask for from a rap song?
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With rap, he found it harder to make things happen.
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The first is full of repurposed old school rap beats.
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Like, I don't have to do bounce or gangster rap?
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Sometimes I got to remind everybody I can still rap.
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Beyond the clunky rap scenes, the prisoners are wholly underwritten.
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Devin Pacholik may have just unearthed some serious rap history.
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He doesn't care about political correctness, not in rap music.
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It's about 90s rap culture and that sort of stuff.
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I mean, there are a lot of perfect rap verses.
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Rap remixes usually mean there's just a new verse added.
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A rap lyric serves as the epigraph of each chapter.
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They don't call her the "Queen of Rap" for nothing.
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"Christianity today has sort of a bad rap," Chung said.
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The social justice organizer hosts rap workshops throughout the state.
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Condoms get a bad rap for being a bad wrap.
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Swagger, patois, in many ways anticipating rap, it was electric.
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Instead of talking about that, we are talking about rap.
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Masia filled in and did what she does best: Rap.
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And Mark Twain, because he needs to hear some rap.
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Best of luck to ZN8tion on their rap career though.
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It was on the Hot 100 and the rap chart.
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Is there less wordplay and cleverness these days in rap?
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I had no idea Lil Wayne could rap like that.
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He wrote rap songs and aspired to be a rapper.
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I love music in general, but rap is my thing.
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Here's the show's take on Eminem's rap against Mr. Trump.
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A criminal syndicate was forcing him to take the rap.
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"It certainly bothers me," she said of the "liar" rap.
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"The Art of Rap," at Kings Theater at 8 p.m.
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Like many rap artists, Drake is no stranger to beef.
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Gita: Dark Nort is my soundcloud rap name actually though.
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" Tyler, the Creator won for best rap album for "Igor.
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The rap should be 12 to 16 lines long. 2.
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Back then, he went by his first rap name, JuiceTheKidd.
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Did you ever foresee rap as a path for you?
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Pork tenderloin gets a bad rap, often with good reason.
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"I have a French cousin who is a rap star."
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She can totally do rap superstar into a political career.
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Story at a glance Introverts can get a bad rap.
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But science has shown that to be a bum rap.
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The SoundCloud rap era, once pulsing with promise, is over.
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This is what happens when Photoshop battle meets rap battle.
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The speakers thump out reggae rap and the latest Afropop.
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As I kid, I picked my place — I picked rap.
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" Hazen said the AR-15 has "gotten a bad rap.
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The empire in "Star Wars" gets a bad rap. Deny.
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Should Lil Uzi Vert rap over a DJ Premier beat?
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The best rap album category wasn't even created until 1995.
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And Lupe Fiasco will perform his rap classic "Kick Push."
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The show pits celebrities against each other in rap battles.
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Lil Wayne is the template for the modern rap star.
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When the vice presidential vetting began, the rap on Sen.
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And rap sheets have error records of over 60 percent.
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I don't wanna do rap that makes people feel bad.
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Eminem and Nelly were dominating both pop and rap radio.
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Name a single Beatle who could rap, for one thing.
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You've recently engaged in some humanitarian efforts outside of rap.
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They tried REALLY hard to rap along with the words.
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I could listen to him rap for hours about nothing.
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It plays well in rap, but feuding doesn't make sense.
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I didn't listen to rap music until I was 14.
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Their song "None of Your Business" won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 1995, making them the first female rap act to win any kind of Grammy.
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Will told his dad in rural Pennsylvania that he was working on The Autobiography, a rap album, and his dad replied, "Yeah, I never got it...never really understood it," referring to rap music.
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In stellar tracks like "Lucky You" (his utterly fire collab with Joyner), "Not Alike," and "Fall," he asserts his confidence that he still has a place in rap — and that rap desperately needs him.
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The only woman of color to accept an actual award on stage was Rihanna when she joined Kendrick Lamar to take home the "Best Rap/Sung Rap Performance" for her feature on his track.
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"Listen up: Casio's new Rapman does just about everything a bona fide rap group does," The New York Times' Dulcie Leimbach wrote back in 1992, clearly having never heard a bona fide rap group.
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The cast album, improbably, reached No. 2800 on Billboard's chart of rap albums in the fall, but nowhere in the show's marketing will you see it described as a hip-hop or rap musical.
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The song, "Prathet Ku Me," or "What My Country's Got," by Thai rap group Rap Against Dictatorship, has been watched more than 24 million times since it was posted to YouTube eight days ago.
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"Adams told police rap music makes him feel 'unsafe' because he had been attacked by people who listen to rap music in the past," the outlet reported, citing police records filed in local court.
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It also oh-so-mildly nods to Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" — a spiritual progressive copying a white Australian carpetbagger copying the sound of minimalist Los Angeles rap copying the thickness of Bay Area street rap.
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Their childish enthusiasm, which to this day induces them to rap and sing in higher registers than sounds natural, made Sremmlife (2015) and Sremmlife 2 (2016) the most sprightly and callow of rap jewels.
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Definition of Down Two D.I.Y. hip-hop memoirs full of OMG details, one by an underappreciated titan of Bay Area rap and the other by the longtime partner of a Los Angeles gangster rap original.
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YBN Nahmir has racked up more than 250 MILLION views on YouTube after exploding onto the rap scene ... and says he's living proof the next place to find huge rap stars is in video gaming.
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The record is a staggeringly innovative blend of folk, pop, and witty rap music, a concoction that sounds awful on paper but felt novel in 21, an expansion of what indie rap could turn into.
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The company, backed by the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, launched initially as Rap Genius but has since dropped the Rap and expanded to covering all kinds of content, by way of APIs and other partnerships.
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" The Recording Academy also announced that the category for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration has been renamed Best Rap/Sung Performance in order to include rappers and vocalists who "blur the lines between rapping and singing.
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I remember when I did the Rap Coloring Book, which came out before The Rap Yearbook, my plan was just to get Rolling Stone to cover it or to get LA Times to cover it.
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Towards the end of our time together, we circle back to the ways rap can be political and begin discussing the need of multiple voices in rap music, especially different sides of the Black experience.
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At the time his standup performance aired on TV, Glover had just released his proper début album, "Camp," a foray into the growing realm of music that is positioned between rap and jokes about rap.
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That's something that's going on right now, and really we ain't got nobody from a rap side, from the rap community really speaking, pressing the line with authority, speaking up for the people out here.
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They were also the first female rap act to go platinum.
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Is the biggest rap album of the year also the best?
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Critic's Notebook To belt, to dance, to rap or to mourn?
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You can come, 'cause what you're doin' is definitely not rap.
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"I know the whole rap!" her sister calls from off camera.
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For EMD, pop, rap, and rock tracks, the earbuds play well.
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Vince Staples' Big Fish Theory isn't up for Best Rap Album?
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If you want to rap, well what you got to say?
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Noisey: Tell us your background with American culture and rap music.
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This EndGame song has a great chorus and Future rap, though.
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It could be a poem, or it could be rap lyrics.
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Miller was posthumously nominated for best rap album fifth album, Swimming.
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Now, at 86, she has another line on her rap sheet.
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Bad Rap premieres this Saturday, April 20, at Tribeca Film Festival.
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"Freedom" featuring Kendrick Lamar was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Performance.
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In 2018, emo rap became the fastest-growing genre on Spotify.
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Throughout human history, we have been dependent on rap to survive.
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The platform has been the battleground for many a rap battle.
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It's even more exciting for those who champion women who rap.
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Sales professionals get a bad rap — Bravado wants to change that
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What do you think about her calling UK rap a disgrace?
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Four celebrities will rap battle and the audience chooses a winner.
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Mentions of the rap stars he idolized typically draw blank stares.
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American chart hits are often influenced by rap and country songs.
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Rap beats are almost always minor-key, even when they're celebratory.
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T.I. also dropped by to wish the rap prince well. 2.
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Now's she lending her powerhouse vocals to your favorite rap songs.
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He can lose a rap battle: Pusha made sure of it.
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There should be music (rap), food (peaches), and a selfie booth.
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I always wanted to rap and nobody really believed in me.
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Our teams have even been known to occasionally rap on stage.
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Samsung has had a bad rap when it comes to emoji.
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She dropped a surprise rap video Monday showcasing her freestyle skills.
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"Pound" sounds like something Issa Rae would rap over on Insecure.
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The aforementioned pop-rap hybrids are deliciously brash in their lyrics.
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He gained this following from his daily vlogs and rap tracks.
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Most importantly, though, why can't you get behind our rap coverage?
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One of the founding members of legendary rap trio Run-D.
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Class actions and class action lawyers often get a bad rap.
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The creators of "Rap of China" had promised a second series.
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For example, its Rap Caviar playlist has over 7 million subscribers.
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While they both can rap, Alexa takes the prize for originality.
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Why isn't it as shitty as almost all other rap-rock?
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This line is the urtext of Young Jeezy's entire rap persona.
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Creole spent much of the '90s collaborating with independent rap artists.
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But as the landscape of rap evolves, so do their lives.
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They'll tell you that rap is currently in its emo phase.
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They'll tell you that rap is currently in its rockstar phase.
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Private equity firms get a bad rap — and not without reason.
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"Live Nigga Rap" was supposed to be on Hell On Earth.
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Both the East and West Coasts had stagnated, and Southern rap,
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It's gangster rap with accordions, the soundtrack to the narco lifestyle.
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Kendrick Lamar earned four awards including best rap album for DAMN.
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The rap duo of El-P and Killer Mike would know.
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Another, "listening to rap music," just seemed like an unfinished thought.
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That was a song I wrote, and he's doing my rap.
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Then, by the late 80s, you were doing a rap thing.
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" Then he asked, "Don't you feel the same way about rap?
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Rap. Since launching, it has amassed a whopping 2.5 billion views.
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It's extremely a product of its time — there's even a rap?
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We also know that one of Jaden's rap idols is Drake.
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Carbs often get a bad rap — but they're not the enemy.
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Today, he's the most important rap export the UK has seen.
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Lil Wayne's good looks are hard to rap your head around.
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Needless to say, things haven't started well for Project Rap Rabbit.
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Summer 2018 was supposed to be a legendary one for rap.
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This is the platonic ideal of rap music about gleeful excess.
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That's what rap about taking over the world should feel like.
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When it comes to the workplace, millennials get a bad rap.
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Then that means only Black people can play basketball and rap?
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We get plenty of gangsta rap and anti-broke boy anthems.
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His expressions of bravado and pain define the paradox of rap.
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Or Andre 3000 and his world of genre-bending ATL rap?
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I just want the album to be like, I can rap.
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The same is happening in the DMV rap scene as well.
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But they didn't just rap together, they were close personal friends.
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"My favorite rap groups were NWA and Public Enemy," Joseph says.
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Yes, this is about to be your new favorite rap duo.
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There's no getting around it: millennials often get a bad rap.
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The rap, the look, and the dance moves were on point.
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In 29, he quit the rap world and converted to Islam.
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So as rap changed, all these elements was already in me.
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BET just greenlit Street Dreams, a show about rap legend Nas.
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As Gene puts it ... listen up rap, country and pop stars!
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Should I sing on a track or rap on a track?
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I build songs, more than I just go and rap them.
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So many people in the rap game get down with Cognac.
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What does Russian rap sound like and how political is it?
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They ain't letting them know, 'Moose inspired me to really rap.
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It's the anniversary of Never Die Gang, the Mexican rap collective.
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You wrote that you think philanthropy's getting a bad rap. Why?
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The rap star covers Elle's June issue, clad in Marc Jacobs.
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It's like the rap equivalent of Bernie fans voting for Hilary.
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Eminem is, like, on the face of 2000s rap Mt. Rushmore.
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"Always wanted to rap but nobody believed in me," he said.
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Rap stars Quavo and Travis Scott make an appearance as well.
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"Kew Gardens got a bad rap from it," Mr. Corrado said.
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As we'd expect, the three rap over a swinging, soulful beat.
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When I ask Drakeo about rivalries within LA rap, he softens.
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The spirit of rap and hip-hop is a uniting one.
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What's it like being able to support your family through rap?
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You could say anything to him and he had a rap.
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Limb also scanned the brains of rap artists as they freestyled.
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Regionality is at the heart of what makes new rap exciting.
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Hint: the high school rap journal she found should probably stay.
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Keith Urban, "Blue Ain't Your Color" FAVORITE ARTIST – RAP/HIP-HOP
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Yet the more traditional Asian community often disapproves of rap music.
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He began bringing down boxes of his Asian-American rap memorabilia.
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But "Some Rap Songs" does not document any sort of resolution.
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Rap star Kanye West praised a survivor of the Parkland, Fla.
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"That's H. Rap Brown," she said, using the man's activist moniker.
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On YouTube, he performs pop-rap about his chill California lifestyle.
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She likes to rap to her reflection in the bathroom mirror.
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The name Post Malone came from an online rap-name generator.
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How long will music writers keep talking about rap being punk?
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Jackie Onassis is also the name of an Australian rap duo.
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To put it simply, this is just extremely good rap music.
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But he also argues that Bill Clinton gets a bad rap.
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Michigan's poor NAEP scores have given the state a bad rap.
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I play a lot of sports, I rap with my friends.
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My career would be over in the streets and in rap.
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Let us cherish this rare collaboration, a legendary moment for rap.
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We have a jazz song, a classical song, a rap song.
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I sing, I rap, I write, I play guitar, I coproduce.
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" She cites rap videos and the idea of the "sexy grotesque.
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Porn tends to get a bad rap — and for good reason.
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You should, it might be the rap verse of the year.
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Tyga: I mean with rap and making a name for myself.
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I hear a lot more rap than country in the campgrounds.
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UK rap and, yes, grime are apparently now broadsheet-friendly pursuits.
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I don't listen to rap/rock music or anything like that.
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And then I though, alright the rap shit's the hard thing.
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How was it like to dabble in the realm of rap?
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Even commercial rap artists have shown us that beef is profitable.
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I'm more of a East Coast rap guy—that's a joke.
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His music has been sampled in rap, dance, and house music.
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That's not much different from the allure of the rap game.
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No you're the boxed mac and cheese of rap, Lil Wayne?
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This is a perfect chill rap track for your Sunday afternoon.
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There's a big hip-hop culture there, they rap in Arabic.
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Face oils get a bad rap among people with acneic skin.
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Everyone was perplexed, and possibly concerned: the rap was in Latin.
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Good gruff tough guy rap will never go out of style.
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Check out their conversation (and a superb Trump rap battle) below.
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Let's start by talking about [your old rap persona] Merk Mikz.
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I think I actually want to take this rap stuff serious.
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"Converting poetry into rap has helped bring me peace," she said.
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Social media and rap share a similar mode — personal, direct, aspirational.
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HOROVITZ That era of rap felt really punk for some reason.
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He also gained confidence from "rap sessions" led by youth facilitators.
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Both insist to Coco that rap and poetry are different things.
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The rap trio Migos, mascots for Season 1, are pop stars.
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But Rich's influence in the rap world doesn't stop at production.
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But for-profit education has a bad rap for a reason.
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And his brand of playful trap-ish rap did the trick.
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Musicians are performing rap songs that take aim at overzealous bureaucrats.
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B's unlikely rap beef over the shape of the planet Earth.
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I can rap Take Care front to back without a problem.
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Is "King's Dead" the strangest rap single of the year already?
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In return, he introduced the classmate to American and British rap.
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Maybe Drake should follow Nelly's lead and dabble in country-rap.
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Wayne doesn't just rap words, he creates new forms of expression.
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But can your grandma rap and rock a thick, winged liner?
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On Friday, Elba shared a rap about his experience in quarantine.
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So Scottish rap isn't big in the drag community just yet?
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I love hip-hop, I love rap, it's in my blood.
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We are in the midst of a glorious food-rap era.
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Over 19963 years ago, rap music made its way through France.
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" Basic Volume is sort of a gangsta rap record," he states.
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Rocky makes spaced-out chillout rap, an ideal counterpart to vaping.
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The word "rote" has a bad rap in modern-day learning.
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Discarding her rap alias, she now goes by her given name.
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Whether it's baseball cards and comics or rap cassettes and magazines.
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The director Amy Seimetz packed the scene with rap video clichés.
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There are rappers who rap in only occasional, seemingly random bursts.
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A code of conduct derived from a bygone era in rap.
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When did he learn he was going to get to rap?
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DJ Khaled didn't need to win for best rap/sung performance.
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Make sure that students have the 2016 Year in Rap handout.
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In addition, multiple rap nominees declined the Grammys' invitation to perform.
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It would be like if a rap battle was on CNBC.
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This Freud doesn't really develop, he just builds a rap sheet.
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It would be like if a rap battle was on CNBC.
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Despite its heartland origins, techno gets a bad rap in America.
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"I think geese get a bad rap sometimes," Ms. York said.
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Among this year's nominees are rap artists Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
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And I think grown-up companies have gotten a bad rap.
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"The word 'protest' often gets a bad rap," Ms. Einwohner said.
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So, Rapsody and Cardi are both up for best rap song.
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Only that they don't rap as much as they used to.
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Shyne became, in essence, collateral damage of late-221s rap excess.
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He is known for his flat delivery and subdued rap style.
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Rose's voice flows between rap verses, and auto-tune drenched singing.
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Freedman notified O'Malley, who quickly found a rap sheet for Martinez.
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K. rap, grime, black music — I'm trying to push those boundaries.
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Rap could literally turn the lights back on at Bri's house.
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Conspiracy theorists get a bad rap these days, and rightfully so.
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The 1980s and early '90s saw rap groups like Run-D.
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So avoid at all costs -- especially with O.J.'s rap sheet!!!
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As a rule, Noisey doesn't condone acoustic covers of rap songs.
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Queen Wendy should rap more, perhaps in connection with other projects.
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The Chengdu Rap House, or CDC, is the scene's beating heart.
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Moreover, unlike the majority of rap albums incorporating rock, it rocks.
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Space food gets a bad rap for not being very appetizing.
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Migos and Rae Sremmurd streamline voguish rap conventions into digestible product.
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It's pretty laidback and wonky, which is rare in Chinese rap.
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Phil Witmer is now wondering who Rap Game Tin Man is.
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" But Ireland, he says, still has a "weird issue with rap.
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Although she was a metalhead, classmates expected her to like rap.
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It was founded by former Apple (AAPL) designer and serial entrepreneur Ben Keighran, who worked with a handful of other Apple alumni to develop a platform that competes with live TV. In collaboration with a New York-based battle rap league called the Ultimate Rap League, Drake is going to stream rap battles on Caffeine, a big move for the platform.
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This was the post–late '90s pop, post-'93s rap, post–first wave of indie rock space in which people listened to a lot of pop punk, emo, Auto-Tuned R&B, and strip-club rap.
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And if you have an HDMI cable, I can put on this documentary about something called "road rap" (like hard UK rap, which can discuss criminal activity, sorry) on the TV. Sure, sure—after Doctor Who.
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However, for Justin Trash and his rap group, Uptown Boy Band, (which consists of Joe Rascal, Roc Lee and himself) the infiltration of the Korean language and culture in rap music is still vastly uncharted territory.
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A mediocre rap album as opposed to a truly terrible one is a rap album where someone who delights in mocking the stupid shit rappers say, like me, can't even find an outrageous gaffe worth quoting.
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Records (read VICE's feature interview about the shop here) is stocked lovingly by a pair of dudes with impressive rap internet credentials: writer and Cocaine Blunts founder Andrew Nosnitsky and Bay rap archivist 12 Man Rambo.
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Fetty Wap, Young Thug, Gucci Mane, Future, and Rich Homie Quan are all proponents of a style of rap which is about 80 percent vowel sounds, best exemplified by rap agitator Hopsin in this parody video.
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Rap Genius was founded in 2009 by a trio of male Yale grads who viewed rap as a poetic movement that deserved to be treated as serious literature — with all the critique and expansion that implies.
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" More recently, Uzi stopped by New York rap staple Hot 97's Ebro in the Morning show and, asked to rap on the spot, began by refusing to do it over "one of them old beats.
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There's an entire semi-lost history of hip-hop—one that as a longtime rap fan I'd always been aware of about but had never paid too much attention to—in which rap was truly "experimental" music.
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After a 25 year hiatus from rap – during which time Tairrie fronted several heavy metal bands including her most famous, My Ruin, with husband Mick Murphy – she released a new rap record last year, titled Vintage Curses.
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Of course, he also noted, while certain forms of rap like "drill" are often associated with gangs, liking or posting rap music is something that millions of people from every walk of life do every single day.
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The incident comes more than a year after the rap star, whose Grammy wins include the best rap album award in 2008 for "Tha Carter III," was treated after suffering what his representatives called two minor seizures.
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It was beautiful, on Grammy night, to see an artist whose rise runs so parallel with the changing rules of the music come away with honors for Best Rap Performance, Best New Artist, and Best Rap Album.
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Lonzo Ball's rap career just got real 'cause DJ Mustard, one of the greatest rap producers on planet Earth, just told TMZ Sports he's down to work with the Big Baller prince, for a big baller price.
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Rap has traditionally been an import for Japan Hip-hop and rap has traditionally been an import for Japan, flown in from America, but Kohh's growing foreign fanbase shows that internationalization is starting to go both ways.
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In a post Friday on her Instagram page, Grobglas, 33, took up the mantle and wowed her fans with a rapid-fire rap of "Guns and Ships" — which has the fastest rap verse in the entire musical.
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Eminem probably didn't mean to have this effect, but "Sing for the Moment" launched this trend; its legacy is a subsection of rap that caters to non-rap fans and exists outside of the mainstream genre conversation.
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Ask anyone around the world about Atlanta's place in music, and you will get a unanimous answer: Atlanta is no longer the trap rap capital of the world; it is the epicenter of the entire rap game.
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The crowd exploded in approval during Feldman's lengthy, passionate rap about Libertarianism.
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Organizing gave me an outlet and rap music gave me a voice.
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Mom's never going to let us go to a rap concert again!
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Social media tends to get a bad rap — and for good reason.
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" JAY-Z chatted with Rap Radar hosts Elliott Wilson and Brian "B.
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This is a textbook way to start a career-defining rap album.
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Anti-virus software gets a bad rap sometimes, and not without reason.
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Do you want hear De Niro rap and use the N word?
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James Corden challenged a Wu-Tang founding member to a rap battle.
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Flower Boy — Tyler, the Creator Best Rap Song "Bodak Yellow" — Cardi B
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Throughout modern history, so-called "comfort" shoes have gotten a bad rap.
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So when you hear anything from me, I can rap fast, slow.
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"Numb/Encore" won best rap/sung collaboration at the 203 Grammy Awards.
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He gained national attention in 2016 after winning Verizon's #Freestyle50 rap contest.
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Word to the wise: Don't challenge Cara Delevingne to a rap battle.
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Instead, he is once again boxed into the urban and rap categories.
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At the time, he was strictly known as a rising rap producer.
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He could rap about Rudolph, or Jack Frost nipping at his nose.
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Who can resist a cranky baby with an ear for good rap?
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I guess rapping is the same as writing: rap what you know.
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Rap and R&B stars have been a big favorite this year.
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This song literally changed history—and rap music, and the dictionary—forever.
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While he loved rap, he had no desire to be an artist.
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When I'm done rapping and having a successful rap career, why not?
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The lead-up to the rap mogul's trial was full of controversy.
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Mashable: I feel like founder-CEOs get kind of a bad rap.
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Mixing styles and flow, the guys rap over a piano-based production.
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This is presuming you're not, like, super familiar with rap or battling.
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He's collaborated often with the genre-blurring Delaware rap-wunderkind Lil West.
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I just wanted to produce rap beats and pop beats for people.
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Andrew: Because what he's doing is not, like, lyrical rap of old.
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Flip through rap radio in the last couple years, and patterns emerge.
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Nicki's rap is so intimidating that it could win you any argument.
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Women who rap are an even rarer sight at the chart's summit.
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I knew how to rap, and I used to write my verses.
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Fuck post-rap: at his slurred peak, Lil Wayne was post-human.
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On one website promoting a rap song he calls himself Prince Dracula.
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You wanna look like her and be her and rap like her.
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WINNER: Keith Urban, "Blue Ain't Your Color" FAVORITE ARTIST – RAP/HIP-HOP
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The Wii U got a bad rap for not having good games.
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And while insurers get a bad rap, Baldwin says it's mostly undeserved.
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