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American rapper 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) sporting a hip-hop look at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, June 3, 2010. Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, [1] emceeing, [2] or MCing [2] [3]) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular". [4]
Christian hip hop (originally gospel rap, also known as Christian rap, gospel hip hop or holy hip hop) is a cross-genre of contemporary Christian music and hip-hop.It emerged from urban contemporary music and Christian media in the United States during the 1980s.
Rapper Ice-T. With the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny.Early proponents of gangsta rap included groups and artists such as Ice-T, who recorded what some consider to be the first gangsta rap single, "6 in the Mornin'", [68] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...
Then there's freestyle where you come off the top of the head. [ 10 ] In old school hip-hop , Kool Moe Dee claimed that improvisational rapping was instead called "coming off the top of the head", [ 11 ] and Big Daddy Kane stated, "off-the-top-of-the-head [rapping], we just called that 'off the dome' – when you don't write it and [you] say ...
McCartney was born on August 17, 1989, in Berkeley, California, [5] and attended high school at Albany High in Albany. [6] He adopted the name Lil B, and began rapping at age 15 with San Francisco Bay Area based hip hop group The Pack.
"Rap City," TV's longest-running hip-hop show will soon be introduced to a new audience with a 3-part docuseries on BET. Its creator Alvin Jones believes its success, like hip-hop, is because it ...
Five Percenter teachings popularized many expressions to hip-hop and hip-hop culture such as "dropping science", "What up God," and "word is bond". Rakim (born William Griffin) was one of the earliest hip-hop artists to incorporate references to Islam into their work. [citation needed] He later became a Five Percenter, adopting the name Rakim ...
The hit rapper-turned-Olympics sweetheart gets candid about his wild ride in this week's PEOPLE cover story Snoop Dogg on His Surprising Journey from Rap Rebel to 'America's Most Lovable Person ...