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Genius is an American digital media company founded on August 27, 2009, by Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory, and Mahbod Moghadam.The company is known for its eponymous website that serves as a database for song lyrics, news stories, sources, poetry, and documents, in which users can provide annotations and interpretations for.
How to Rap: The Art & Science of the Hip-Hop MC was published by Chicago Review Press on December 1, 2009 with a foreword by Kool G Rap. [2] [5] [6] Publishers Weekly states that it “goes into everything from why rappers freestyle to the challenges of collaboration in hip-hop”, [7] and Library Journal says, "instruction ranges over selecting topics and form, editing, rhyming techniques ...
"The Name Game" is a song co-written and performed by Shirley Ellis [2] as a rhyming game that creates variations on a person's name. [3] She explains through speaking and singing how to play the game. The first verse is done using Ellis's first name; the other names used in the original version of the song are Lincoln, Arnold,
Rap is a primary ingredient of hip-hop music, and so commonly associated with the genre that it is sometimes called "rap music". Precursors to modern rap music include the West African griot tradition, [ 7 ] certain vocal styles of blues [ 8 ] and jazz , [ 9 ] an African-American insult game called playing the dozens (see Battle rap and Diss ...
Born 2 Rap is the ninth studio album by American rapper the Game. [2] It was released on November 29, 2019, via eOne Music. Its release coincided with the Game's fortieth birthday. [3] It was advertised as his final album before retiring, although Game resumed his recording career in 2021.
"Name of the Game" is the first single from The Crystal Method's second studio album, Tweekend. Despite the popularity of the song, The Crystal Method almost never play it live. The track features guitars by Tom Morello, vocals by Ryan "Ryu" Maginn, and scratching by DJ Swamp; it also contains samples from "Calling All Freaks" (1974) by Tina ...
Cheat Codes is a collaborative studio album by American songwriter/producer Danger Mouse and American rapper Black Thought, released on August 12, 2022, by BMG. It followed three albums of solo work for Black Thought, but was Danger Mouse's first hip-hop album since The Mouse and the Mask in 2005.
Multisyllabic rapping is mostly included hardcore, gangsta or mafioso rap and is rarely included in mainstream hip-hop music. Examples of multisyllabic rhymes being included in mainstream hip-hop music include rapper AZ 's 1995 single " Sugar Hill ", Big Pun 's 1997 single " Still Not a Player ", and Cuban Link 's " Sugar Daddy " single from 2005.