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Throughout the book, Dean refers to himself and various individuals as being "down-low" or "down-low gay": men who have sex with men but do not consider themselves gay or are in the closet. [ 1 ] Dean discusses the "macho", "gangster" image that is the corner-stone but does not define the hip-hop industry, [ clarification needed ] and how it ...
In the book Rap-Up: The Ultimate Guide to Hip-Hop and R&B, Cameron and Devin Lazerine say Big Daddy Kane is "widely seen as one of the best lyricists of his time and even today regularly gets name-checked by younger dudes", [32] and music journalist Peter Shapiro says Kane is "perhaps the most complete MC ever". [24]
After closing the magazine, the Ego Trip team (Jenkins, Wilson, Mao, Alvarez and Rollins) continued on to a series of multimedia projects, such as the old-school rap music compilation The Big Playback (Rawkus Records, 2000), inspired by their first book, Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists (St. Martin's Press, 1999).
Diddy's 50th birthday party was one for the ages. The rap mogul celebrated a half century with a star-studded party at his Beverly Hills mansion on Saturday night, with an A-list roster of guests ...
Royce da 5'9" and Fredro Starr of Onyx both describe Jay-Z's emphasis on flow in the book How to Rap—Starr says that Jay-Z is "a master of the flow—he can flow fast, he can flow slow". [142] The book describes how Jay-Z uses 'rests' to provide structure to a verse [143] and how he uses 'partial linking' to add more rhymes to a verse. [144]
The 50 Greatest Rappers of All Time" is a music editorial and ranking of the finest rappers in history, published by the American magazines Billboard and Vibe in February 2023. The ranking was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip hop music 's inception and was compiled by the magazines' respective editorial boards .
Richard Duane Griffin (born August 1, 1960), better known by his stage name Professor Griff, is an American rapper, spoken word artist, and lecturer [citation needed] currently residing in Atlanta. He was a member of the hip hop group Public Enemy , serving as the group's Minister of Information.
It happened after the rapper, whose real name is Tyron Frampton, performed a gig in Oxford, the city's crown court heard. Mr Frampton, 29, and Mr Blake-Walker, 27, deny three joint charges of rape ...