I hit Tiiiiiiiiiip up about burgers, raps, and raps about burgers, and hilarity ensued.
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Wielding the weapon of his vanquishers, he has made the New Raps the Old Raps once more: poor and sad and defeated.
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The band has two singers, the suave Nick Hexum, usually on clean vox (although he sometimes raps) and the even suaver S.A. Martinez on raps. (S.
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"Crime fame / I only had crime fame," he raps.
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You can view a couple of the full raps that I made here, here and here to get a taste of the kind of raps that you'll have to go up against.
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"Got it from the 18003rd Street liquor store," TayDaTay raps.
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She raps about the bizarre, bewildering effects of sudden fame.
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The real war isn't against the raps ... it's against ourselves.
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"I must be LeBron James if he's Jordan," he raps.
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When I was a kid, I was really writing raps.
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Next morning a diss raps ... Then the pre-order links!
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"Wondering, well, wonderin' how I got this high," he raps.
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"If you have surgery, nobody picks you up," Fallon raps.
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Watch our episode of Noisey Raps with Post Malone below.
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And, while Nick raps, he definitely doesn't have her pipes.
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"I don't care if you kick five fits," he raps.
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"I'm a big dripper, you a sound stealer," Gunna raps.
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"I'm a rich bitch with some rich friends," she raps.
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"I get out of control when I'm alone," he raps.
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Trouble raps with a swallowed drawl and an arched eyebrow.
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One of his raps, "Grand Champion," extols his pinball prowess.
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"Every verse I do I need a coroner," he raps.
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He raps him for his departures from conservative policy dogma.
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When did the raps become a part of the show?
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When Ed raps, it's Ed. It's not some carbon copy.
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Crack specializes in 90-second snippets of tossed-off brilliance: a 16 here, maybe a hook there, sometimes all hooks and no raps, sometimes half-raps and half a recording of someone talking shit.
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The breakneck raps on No Ceilings differ from the tangled insanity of his mixtape tracks a few years earlier; the punchlines are more direct, and there are more than a few quote-unquote hashtag raps.
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As he notes in the book's opening paragraph, his full legal name is Matthew Be Who You Want To Be David Morris Raps, or possibly Matthew Be Who You Want To Be Raps David Morris.
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So why not make a song that's all disruption, all the time: faux horns, splashing water, pseudo-explosions, Auto-Tune howls, scraped-up yells, self-interrupting raps, raps that wait for the music to stop.
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"Cardi don't need more press," she explicitly raps in the song.
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"We never gonna let the elevator take 'em down," he raps.
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Correct that now, and enjoy these good raps from Hollygrove's finest.
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The guys went into the bathroom and started recording freestyle raps.
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"Driving with my eyes closed, missing all the signs," he raps.
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"Your son picked up on your beef, real shit," he raps.
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He's not one of those people who just raps and leaves.
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Kendrick Lamar calls out white fan after she raps N-word .
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"We've gone through a lot, and you're temperature's hot," he raps.
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But I went back and wrote raps to my mumble flow.
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"Don't let me have a son, I'm a fool," he raps.
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TC: People are going to start referencing Elon Musk in raps.
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Three light raps on the door with her opal-encrusted knuckles.
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"Tell 'Ye we got an invoice comin' to you/," Drake raps.
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I still shouldn't just be labeled as a woman who raps.
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The raps are direct, the guitars flamboyant, and the mood exuberant.
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"Some people call it ghetto, I prefer 'another level,'" he raps.
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Do you think your raps might turn a few people vegan?
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"Stop the divorce rumors and mind your damn business," Smith raps.
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GoldLink raps over BPMs more apt for house than hip-hop.
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He raps with something more than urgency — it's more like insistence.
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"You want the strife of humankind to finally cease?" she raps.
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The proceedings began with three fast, muted raps on the door.
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"Twitter fingers, how many times ya gonna tweet me?" he raps.
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On it, he raps with the impunity of a mafia don.
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Watch "Minnesota" below and our Noisey Raps episode with Lil Yachty.
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Wayne slips into the beat with complete effortlessness, and he raps.
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"You ain't finna murder me like everybody else," Kanye raps, to Wayne.
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"I did an interview for GQ while taking a shit," he raps.
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Levine sings the chorus while Samberg raps lyrics that scream Lonely Island.
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"Happiness is all that matters, this I hope you know," he raps.
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"Maybe I should meet Tami Lauren, I'll Lauryn Hill her," he raps.
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"This is America," he raps in a chant as his voice drops.
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On the track "Yikes," Kanye raps: That's my bipolar shit, nigga, what?
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"I done told y'all, all I needed was the infrastructure," West raps.
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"Yo, you can't wear Nicki wig and then be Nicki," she raps.
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I made that b—- famous," West raps on track four called "Famous.
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Or of the way Young Thug uses his voice when he raps.
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Future bounces between powerfully candid street raps and woozy, leaned-up singing.
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Bitch, you was happy when they took me," Remy raps in "ShETHER.
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"I'm taking that crown and that mic from you boss," Eagle raps.
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"You tryna change your life, but they won't let you," he raps.
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Over smacking bass, X sing-raps with a sense of dogged purpose.
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Speaking of being a Minecraft rapper... Can we talk about your raps?
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"Pray the real live forever, man," he raps in the first verse.
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"Here it is, the groove, slightly transformed," Smith raps, and he's right.
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Someone told me to get in touch with you with these raps.
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"Blac Chyna f—ing Rob, helped him with his weight," West raps.
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan's Eekwol raps about her Canadian prairie surroundings and Cree culture.
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" 2 Chainz raps, "I'm so high I can sing to a chandelier.
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"I got power, poison, pain, and joy inside my DNA," he raps.
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By her early twenties, Khan was experimenting with samples and freestyle raps.
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There are props and effects and the cast sings and raps well.
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Drake consistently raps about Instagram and his DMs there within are legendary.
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"You shouldn't flip on him 'cuz Dill is really cool," he raps.
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"When the raps would come on, I would do them," he explains.
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"OVO 40, hunched over like he 80—tick, tick, tick," Pusha raps.
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Politics is why the National Rifle Association greases palms and raps knuckles.
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"These expensive, these is red bottoms, these is bloody shoes," she raps.
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Daveed Diggs, the "Hamilton" alum and "black-ish" actor, wrote the raps.
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"Starting to see this life [expletive] from a bird's view," he raps.
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"A stone's throw from the city center lies another life," he raps.
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"Yo, drop the beat, with Mecca girls you can't compete," Slay raps.
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Raps must be submitted as comments on this post by 7 a.m.
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Next, give students time to review the Week in Raps from 603.
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He raps for her mom (and closes one eye while doing it).
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Toronto fans should almost hope that the Spurs embarrass the Raps again.
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It was a theme that would consistently crop up in his raps.
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Mango Dassle—real name Karl Mangan—raps in a growling Dublin accent.
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Drake raps about his ex-girlfriend on the hit song "In My Feelings."
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The lyrics fit the character of Brandon, who often raps his interior voiceover.
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Little Simz raps in a cadence that is never rushed, but always immediate.
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"I ain't even meet you and I love you to death," she raps.
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"I saw you on YouTube, you had me in tears," Nick Carter raps.
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" In the song, Ross raps, "Ballin', ballin', like I play for New England.
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"Ain't no hustler on the street could do a whole community," raps Riley.
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Lonely Island and Lajoie play characters in their raps to make a point.
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"Now I'm making racks while they're rapping on my old tracks," Monica raps.
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In the song he raps about being frustrated with how the world operates.
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"And I'm fresh out of debt in this motherf*cker," he gleefully raps.
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"I said your name but always tried to hide your face," he raps.
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"I got you President tweetin' / I won't even meet with him," he raps.
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MC Tianyou raps about the hardships faced by other young, working-class men.
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She dances and gyrates to the beat as Kanye raps about fading love.
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Junk listed the merits of smoking marijuanas in his raps; I took notes.
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"You've exploited and stolen the music, the moment," he raps at one point.
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In fact ... Nas is a fan of battle raps and appreciates the culture.
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But if the documentary indicated anything, it was that Wayne breathes in raps.
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Noname raps about a love she does gymnastics for, only to denied reciprocity.
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"It's like God is my… on the side of my ear," he raps.
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Lil Wayne's raps about drugs really permeated that far into mainstream pop culture.
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Watch the video below and watch our Noisey Raps episode with Lil' Boat.
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Sometimes, as on the bonus track, "Don't Mind," Ferg just raps without frills.
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"Apologies in order to Blue Ivy, my daughter," he raps on the hook.
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"Loved by all the children, worth a couple million," Fallon, as Sanders, raps.
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YG raps from the roof of a moving car, framed by palm trees.
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Mr. Collazo's raps blared from his friends' cellphones and echoed off the walls.
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This doesn't really prove anything, but maybe you, too, can enjoy these raps.
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"Like the Force and that lightsaber, I am calling to you," he raps.
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It's a lifestyle more so than it's just me fucking just writing raps.
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"The liquid soluble that made up the chemistry," GZA raps on Liquid Swords.
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Well, I would have never started writing raps if it wasn't for him.
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All the while, Moor Mother sings, murmurs, screams, and raps over the top.
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"Never seen a ceiling in my whole life," she raps with impressive conviction.
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"I'm not no nice guy, I'm just a good guy," he raps here.
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He raps his whole verse and chorus in Spanish, tentatively but not terribly.
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From what I can tell, a lot of the songs were joke raps.
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Raps Kanye: I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex Why?
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"The soul infinite/Never mind who cares/I'm gettin' lit," Kool A.D. raps.
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She raps as if she's pushing out each line with a vigorous heave.
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She raps in a cafe, surrounded by young male and female backup dancers.
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"Duck away, she wanna lay up and hibernate," Travis raps on the song.
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"I'm a licensed gun owner with no prior convictions," he raps in character.
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"This really my first day out, I ain't wait a day," she raps.
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Consider the work of YG, who raps frequently about life as a Blood.
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And his latest is a dizzying flurry of quick raps and self-reflection.
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The dynamos pouring forth raps about American history are not really fomenting revolution.
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"I'm blanking on the address of the place I wanna be," raps Fallon.
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"How's that for real?" he raps, finishing the song with a gruff surliness.
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Sometimes, Teejayx6 raps about scamming people and places who most certainly deserve it.
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"A lost soul can't lead the people," she raps, repeating it for emphasis.
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I feel like we should talk about Issa's hype-up raps now. Yes!
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"Species with memories longer / Don't bother with sweating the old shit," Diggs raps.
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This time, the King raps, sings and even maniacally laughs at his haters.
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The flawless one-two punch of "Down" and "All Mixed Up" blew our minds, not least of all because Nick sings while S.A. raps on the one, but then S.A. does the singing and Nick does the raps on the other.
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I know I don't just wanna be a voice or someone who just raps.
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"You best believe I'm gonna take me a knee for the anthem," he raps.
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Talk about writing the beef raps — did you ask Drake for help with those?
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Drake raps plenty, but fans of the statement album will miss his guiding hand.
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Then tune in right the fuck now because whoaaaaaaaaa buddy here are some raps!
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Bitches talk all that s— in they raps but in real life they p—-!!
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In "Ring," she raps about the lengths she'd go to for a romantic partner.
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Then, hundreds of people started using this hashtag to label their little love raps.
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Ask for advice, get money twice," raps Pitbull in his hit "Feel This Moment.
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"Actually wearin' the hat'll show people that we equal," he raps in the song.
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"I am not poison, no I am not poison" he raps in the chorus.
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Bitches talk all that shit in they raps but in real life they pussy!!
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Teenager Loski raps as a solo artist, sometimes crossing over into more 'pop' stuff.
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In "BLACK EFFECT," JAY-Z raps about "false arrests" and also name-drops Martin.
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Bitches talk all that s— in they raps but in real life they pussy!!
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However, this just means there's room for more hit raps from Nyong'o's alter ego.
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It's a key turning point: From then on, he famously stopped writing his raps.
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So do you consider yourself a rapper who acts or an actor who raps?
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Jay Z raps about his experience on the streets and his own rap career.
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" She raps, "Man, fuck you and your lady, gun butt you, cause you're Shady.
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"And yeah we get crackin' like we up at the Super Bowl," she raps.
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A very white Addison raps the words along with Future… all of the words.
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"I'm making brilliant innovations in a race against the dark ages," raps fake Musk.
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She raps with swagger, one a lot less understated than she has projected before.
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Cardo raps a repetitive lyric, "I just want my home back" throughout that song.
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"I got my own Benz, I got my own ends, immediate friends," she raps.
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"You know me, you know me," he raps over the DJ Dahi-produced beat.
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Watch the video above and see Rich The Kid's episode of Noisey Raps below.
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It's a retributive move – like a lyric from one of Dre's old NWA raps.
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He raps like Eminem's sweeter younger brother and carries himself with a Bieberesque swagger.
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She raps with a grin to match the propulsion of the snappy drum machine.
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They are both the best athlete raps of all time and still pretty embarrassing.
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Watch the performance below and watch our Noisey Raps with Young M.A right here.
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The Lonely Island started out as three longtime best friends crafting silly parody raps.
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Mare Advertencia Lirika's raps are an ode to the women who have influenced her.
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The music represented a culture clash, but harmonized into some amazing raps and songs.
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In "All the Stars," Mr. Lamar raps about conflict between hopeful choruses from SZA.
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He sing-raps with a slur, leaving his vocals round and a little fuzzy.
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When he raps, he's almost gruff, but when he sings, he's sweet, whimsical, dreamy.
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"They thought I was gone, back from the grave," Brown raps, all cowboy spirit.
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J Hus is a cheeky, charming performer who raps with a lingering, mottled flow.
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Paak, who on "Malibu" sings and raps amid the utopian grooves of 1970s soul.
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Each publicly accused the other of cheating, and he even dropped several breakup raps.
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When he diversified his tool box with auto tune raps, everyone on Earth followed.
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White supremacists use the character to make videos where he raps using racist rhetoric.
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"I don't really need the D, I need the money," Cardi B, 26, raps.
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The Chicago artist raps about Russell Simmons and the MeToo movement, according to The Guardian .
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"I fight the world, I fight you, I fight myself, I fight God," he raps.
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"Well, didn't know what I was missing / Now it see a lil' different," he raps.
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"Like a horse show from the back," she raps as she proudly rubs her crotch.
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The mixtape largely includes a number of remixes of pre-released tracks and freestyle raps.
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" And he was like, "you have to write your own raps, and you can't cuss.
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She raps with a slowed-down tempo, in a style that reeks of Southern influence.
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Listen to Meekend Music below and watch our Noisey Raps with Meek Mill right here.
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" On "Every Single Thing," he raps with weary contempt: "The economy killed the rhyme star.
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Sometimes they gave voice to that feeling in explosive screaming and in-your-face raps.
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"I bought the Chicagoist / just to run you racist [expletive] out of business," Chance raps.
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Do you know what it's like to sit in your room for hours writing raps?
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He raps almost entirely in Korean over throwback beats and a laid back stage presence.
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Listen to "Hot Sauce" and watch our episode of Noisey Raps with Young M.A below.
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But the majority of his raps have been much more specific, even down the officer.
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When I was there I would say, Kevin Durant raps and we already knew that.
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Everyone that raps tries to play basketball and everyone that plays basketball tries to rap.
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"You want to be a real man, but you're just a mannequin panicking," she raps.
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The stuff that she sings about and raps about are things that I experienced, too.
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" Later, Miller raps, "So hard to stay sober when you're feeling f— over so much.
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His Instagram, pictures, and stories and skits and raps, all of that is there forever.
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He's by far my biggest influence, whether it's for his raps or his human side.
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That this happened to Ibaka really is the symbolic nail right in the Raps skull.
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He raps, "I love Benjamin Franklin more than than his own mother," which is hilarious.
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Check out the video below and watch our Noisey Raps with Schoolboy Q right here.
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In city after city, Mike Stud downs bottles of alcohol, signs body parts and raps.
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Mr. Lee brings biting force to Quang's angry raps about his desire to return home.
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"Inside Amy Schumer" goes gutsy — and patriotic — as Ms. Schumer raps for Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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"We been hurt, been down before," Lamar raps, preaching about the glory inherent in struggle.
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"A million ways to get rich my nigga / Fifty did it right," Kevin Abstract raps.
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Kanye raps, "Blac Chyna fucking Rob helped him with the weight," on his new album.
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"You better be ready for a crime," she raps over a minimal, bass-heavy beat.
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"Used to arch my back for you and now you my arch nemesis," she raps.
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"White kids are brought in alive / Brown kids are hit with like five," he raps.
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"I go to church, they want a flick/I wanna flip the table," he raps.
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Doja Cat's raps are amusing, and this video — lo-fi, hilariously salacious — is sharply executed.
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Jiang raps under the name FUCKSKY, but is far more polite than his moniker suggests.
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He sings and raps, and occasionally his music dips into new wave or pop-punk.
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He raps with a heavy, gnarled drawl and at a creeping pace — he sounds weary.
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Instead of going outside and playing, I was staying in the house and writing raps.
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"Broke a fingernail and then some / Tryna squeeze into my True Religion denim," she raps.
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He raps with almost no affect, in a voice that's part stern, part wholly uninterested.
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So I started doing little raps here and there, 'cuz I knew I could rap.
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Brening raps the second verse, then continues to sort of ad-lib beneath Muscat's verse.
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"I said no to the Super Bowl / You need me, I don't need you," he raps.
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For someone who raps about sex so much you'd think he could use the extra material.
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Jauregui raps as much as she sings, allowing the unique raspiness of her voice to shine.
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Sometimes, users claiming to be children write in, asking to have raps about them taken down.
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He sings and he raps, and he's just one of my favorite cats to work with.
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" The fiercely independent rapper also raps that his Grammy statuette "hasn't come in the mail yet.
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El-P, a Brooklyn resident who raps and produces, has also expressed his support for Sanders.
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No, but seriously, the languid pace she raps at is like a balm to my soul.
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Like keeping a journal, writing comedic raps about my anxiety is a form of emotional release.
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Yet Mr Legal, who raps in French about war and corruption, thinks it is a problem.
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Dude even got into it with Warriors stud Draymond Green after the Raps took Game 1.
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Taking on the recent trend blending rap into vocals, Bane raps over a drum-based beat.
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"I ain't even meet you and I love you to death" she raps in the song.
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It was the triathlon of raps trying to land every rhyme with same ferocity as Wayne.
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"It's a bonfire, turn the lights out/ I'm burnin' everything you muthafuckas talk about," Glover raps.
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"I drunk text J.Lo / Old number, so it bounce back," he raps in the second verse.
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"Ran to the dealer / Bought twin Mercedes / The European trucks for the twin babies," he raps.
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Stunna, the guy whose number Lil Wayne raps about blocking at the beginning of this freestyle.
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He raps about it because that's what people like to hear, he said at the time.
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" Kids watched on the internet and said, "Oh, yeah, Vince never takes breaks when he raps!
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One of raps against you from some within the LAPD is that your discipline is inconsistent.
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Meanwhile, the Raps suffer slowly and painfully, the weight of destiny slowly breaking their fragile bones.
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He writes, sings, raps, produces, hosts, designs… he's basically a freakish powerhouse of talent and skills.
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NOW: J-Boog still raps and sings with B2K, but also works in the movie industry.
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Bitches talk about all that s**** in they raps but in real life are p***y!!
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" In the song, West raps, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why?
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" On the track, Drake raps that he, "Got so many chains they call me Chaining Tatum.
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MTV Raps like Video Music Box and trying to talk to other first graders about rap.
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If you're a girl who raps out of her diary, you're not gonna have a chance.
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It sounds like vintage 'Ye, and Kendrick raps "come Erykah Badu me" as a pickup line.
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On "Letra," Tariq Disu, of the Zulu Park project, both raps on a feature and produces.
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"You ain't stressing on no lover in the past tense / You already had them," he raps.
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Alizadeh raps, "Let me scream, I'm tired of silence," while lifting a Western-style wedding veil.
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But he raps with the pensive tone of someone in no rush, answering only to himself.
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On "MBTD (Mental Breakdown)", a saccharine mainstream EDM-inspired backtrack blares as CL raps in Korean.
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His dad was even HAPPIER -- because Dennis Graham had $100,000 riding on the Raps ... AND WON!!!
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Finding someone who solely raps, in the classical sense, in the mainstream is becoming increasingly rare.
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" Stormzy had his own belligerent, high-speed raps, like "First Things First" and "One Take Freestyle.
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Their raps about class, caste and poverty caught fire around the nation, especially among younger generations.
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In the video, which has since been taken down, Slay raps in both Arabic and English.
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Awkwafina attracted a following on YouTube with comedic raps about her life as a New Yorker.
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We'll feature the lyrics to the top five student raps on the Learning Network and Flocabulary.
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And often, Mr. Cole raps with a forceful tone at odds with his contemplative subject matter.
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Her raps are, as a rule, provocative, absurdist, and violent, often all at the same time.
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Eighteen-year-old Dieuson Octave, who raps as Kodak Black, expresses teen skepticism even more bluntly.
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He consciously censors himself, skipping over the curse words in the song as he raps along.
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"Don't tell a lie on me / I won't tell the truth 'bout you," Mr. Lamar raps.
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She knocked on his door and let the raps play out a jaunty, half-comical rhythm.
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Kanye dick-raps over Nina Simone samples because those are the immutable laws of his universe.
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MTV Raps VHS tapes dubbed so many times that they were often in black and white.
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He's Muslim, but that is hardly ever the topic of discussion among raps about the library.
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And buffering this song on every side, and from within, is Lil Uzi Vert, whose spaced-out sing-raps are so ethereal they serve as a rejoinder to Ms. Azalea's heavy-effort off-kilter raps, even as they're being appropriated and used as a protective shield.
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Orlowski meanwhile half-screams, half-raps, half-yelps lyrics about trauma, violence, revenge, and the police state.
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" The reference was to West's "I&aposm In It," in which he raps, "I be speakin' Swaghili.
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MTV Raps and I was in the studios doing makeup on the VJs and whoever came through.
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"I used to fuck b----es that Usher Raymond passed on," The Game raps on the track.
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On "Yung Mommy," Polizzi raps about being one herself, while waxing lyrical about her bygone party days.
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"I ain't nothing like these hoes / Don't compare me to no one," she raps in the chorus.
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Haddish raps so hard as Cardi that she's out of breath by the end of the bit.
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The public got wind of the saga when Mill accused Drake of not writing his own raps.
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"I'm sorry, 2AM photos with smileys and hearts / Ain't the way to my juicy parts," she raps.
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He's part of a growing trend of young, Florida-based rappers who specialize in short, repetitive raps.
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"Jumpman, jumpman – that boy's up to something," Swift raps as if she's starring in a music video.
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"Gimme my check, put some respeck on my check," Bey raps on "APESHIT" — so far, so good.
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He uses a microphone—turned up loud for politicised raps—and mobile phones with augmented-reality apps.
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One of their raps reminds the audience that those who sleep rough are really "just like us".
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Perhaps the most telling line is when Cordae raps, "Ayy, we like a cold team" to which .
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On "Real Love," Thug raps over Future whose echoed singing sounds like it's built into the beat.
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"I've made it my personal mission to make your life more exquisite," he raps in the song.
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It's full of big, beautiful synth washes cut through with melodic raps and harder-edged bars alike.
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" In the 22016 song, "211," Master P raps, "Put more cash in my pockets than Donald Trump.
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Unlike KEPHA's laid back raps in the first verse, Blaise's deep voice occasionally elevated to a grunt.
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Dolph raps in a deep, accented garble that you either enjoy for its directness or can't stand.
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" On "Waybach," a song from the new album, he raps, "All these folks impersonate me like Elvis.
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" Drake also raps about not seeing his child: "I got a empty crib in my empty crib.
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"I've garnered / The rhyme has to be perfect / The delivery flawless," he raps in the second verse.
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When he plays "Shape of My Heart" ... one of his backup singers raps one of Juice's verses.
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And from the fury with which he raps, you can tell his means every word of it.
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Early on in the album's conception and creation, Kanye was apparently saving his raps to his phone.
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"You know you made it when the fact your marriage made it is worth millions," he raps.
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And while Chance's raps shine on their own, his lineup of featured artists is off the charts.
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He raps about Santa leaving gifts, the house covered in Christmas lights, snow on the sidewalk outside.
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Glover), the manager to his cousin Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry), who raps under the name Paper Boi.
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If we're talking greatness, let's talk about how he raps a single verse for three minutes straight.
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She sings in Korean, raps in English and, in the video, dances and pouts with equal intensity.
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Over an acoustic piano, he raps steadfastly in his gravelly voice, describing the havoc of his childhood.
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Just as he's about to drive away from the station, a police officer raps on his window.
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The schoolmarm also raps their heads for uncouth laughter, bad grammar, cigar smoking in class, and tardiness.
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The beat is skittish and urgent, and Lil Uzi Vert raps as clearly as he ever has.
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The only time he exudes anything like joy is when he raps about fleeing an assault charge.
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Queens shut down Paris, then drop hits on #QueenTime… Been writing my own raps since I was 11.
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"I've been smoking since I was eleven / I've been popping pills since I was seven," raps Lil Pump.
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Both Desiigner and Ty Dolla $ign handle the hook and ad libs while Pusha raps over drowsy production.
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In the opening track "Free Smoke," Drake raps that he sends J-Lo messages while under the influence.
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Watch the music video and full episode below, and stay tuned for more Noisey Raps over the fall.
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"Everything everything this my only single thing / Everything I hear is my answer," she raps at one point.
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"I clean up like hands and soap / Get a mink let it drag on the floor," he raps.
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After Future spits rhymes, JAY-Z takes over and raps, "Riding around town with FLOTUS," seemingly introducing Bey.
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"Los Angeles love, kinda of like Hussle and Boog," Nipsey raps of his girlfriend, using her nickname Boogie.
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Despite having never met, I live in fear of Nicki Minaj destroying me in one of her raps.
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He is, at root, a reality star, a rapper who raps about being a brilliant businessman on television.
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"Still spitting that cash flow – DJ Khaled/ I got a penthouse on both coasts – pH balance," he raps.
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"I can't believe that we made it," Bey raps on "APESHIT," the second track on Everything Is Love.
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If they get through a whole marathon without playing Natalie Portman's iconic outburst "Natalie Raps," we'll be pissed.
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"Nobody wins when the family feuds," Jay Z raps, and honestly, things couldn't be ticking along more nicely.
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Ravioli's owner is self-proclaimed "cat rapper" iAmMoshow, who raps about his cats on a delightful Facebook page.
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Earlier this month he released "HIGHER", where he raps like a computer chipboard might if it became sentient.
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No spoilers, but it's actually comedian Rebel Wilson (so yes, spoilers) who claims her raps are Pitch Perfect.
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" You'll recall ... Meek Mill said as much in 2015 when he tweeted, "He don't write his own raps.
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The track is dripping with bravado and Rihanna raps about vacations in France and drowning in cash. Casual.
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" Meanwhile, Rich the Kid raps, "Hillary hit the dab, Ima vote," in the 2016 song, "Rich the GOAT.
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"I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex," West raps in the song, referring to Swift.
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In the video, premiering today on Creators, Krussia raps as he walks through the streets of New York.
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"I got the soul of an Amazon healer / Better be sure to put them cameras on," Action raps.
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Briefly, orchestral leader John Key takes his drumsticks and raps on a pillar, transforming architecture into an instrument.
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Rosalía raps in a low deadpan about her own inventiveness: "Bite if you have to bite," she taunts.
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"Everybody say you got a lot to be proud of," he raps on "Downward Spiral," the opening track.
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He raps with a slurry intricacy that's inscrutable to old-fashioned hip-hop purists, but holds consistent thrills.
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On the lead single "Comix," he's joined by Spanish rapper Mala Rodríguez who raps an auto-tuned verse.
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"The chalk's only for the art, homie / how they trace ya after I erase ya?" he raps here.
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"I seen it with my own eyes, my brother changed up on me for dead guys," he raps.
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She raps twice on the wood door frame, and shivers with a nervous jitter as someone inside approaches.
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So, in an episode of Noisey Raps, we decided to answer the question: who the fuck is scarlxrd?
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"Niggas respect violence so I become it," Nas raps on "One On One," perfectly bridging the two worlds.
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Ryan: You know how they say no one can imitate Tupac's cadence because he raps from the heart?
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Cartlidge raps, sings, bleats and does something in between with a near-yodel register break in his voice.
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The beat is soothing and languorous, and Sheck Wes raps with deliberate calm (in pace, not subject matter).
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The rapper dropped a new track, "Sauce," Saturday on SoundCloud and straight up raps he banged 3 Kardashians.
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"Hospital band a hundred bands," he raps on "Yikes," referring to his hospitalization in late 2016 for exhaustion.
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Give the head of lettuce one or two hard raps on a solid surface, such as a countertop.
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"Real mob ties—mob / Real frog eyes—frog / Real whole pies—whoa / All time high—high," he raps.
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Malone said during an interview a few years ago that while he raps, he doesn't make rap music.
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These raps stood out in a docket crowded with the usual misdemeanours of a huge, close-packed city.
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Many of his raps are inspired by personal stories, like one he wrote about his lack of education.
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West raps in a Twitter video that's more than 11 minutes long, appearing to preview some new music.
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"Everybody says they trap, but here up north yeah we do rounds," he raps, referring to drug-dealing.
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And back in 2016 Tony K even mashed up Game of Thrones music with 13 of 2Pac's raps.
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He raps on beats as if lightly touching them, fearful that they might snap under too much force.
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He raps, "I'm connected, I got more hoods than a coat store," and that's basically a throwaway line.
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Listen closely when Queen Wendy raps — you can almost hear the marketing team giggling in the back room.
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"Life's amazing, far from basic / We stayed patient, now I'm on a higher vibration," he raps on the hook.
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She raps and sings in two languages, has strong feelings about tax transparency, and is open about her politics.
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During an open mic moment, Issa takes the stage and raps, something she usually does in her bathroom mirror.
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L. Cool J Raps to the Beat of His Box, While His LP Does Better Than Dow Jones Stock.
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Burlakoff raps to the song while wearing a Subsys costume clearly labeled with the drug's maximum dosage, 1,600 micrograms.
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"Consider me a dangerous man/ But you should be afraid of this dang candidate," Eminem raps in the song.
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In the video, the 14-year-old actor grooves and shakes and raps to the tune of the song.
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How the hell can Stevie Wonder fit on a track with a guy who raps about weed and pills?
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"You know death around the corner and prison my next-door neighbor,: he raps on "Close to the Grave.
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"Mama had four kids, but she's a lesbian/ Had to pretend so long that she's a thespian," he raps.
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"I said when the lights shut off, and it's my turn to settle down… my main concern," Kendrick raps.
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I understand the verse Uno raps in his song 'Amsterdam': "I choose my words like I choose my friends".
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Their material can veer into misogynistic territory, reducing women to little more than props for raps about sexual conquest.
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"Told them I met Slim Shady, bag the Em/ Once he go black, he'll be back again," she raps.
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Nine vendors submitted prototypes for what would come to be known as MRAPs (em-raps): mine-resistant, ambush-protected.
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In one scene, she raps along to MOP's "Ante Up" while driving, flushed with a bit of sleuthing success.
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"He got a girl and I got a man / When he ain't around, I'm sneaking him in," she raps.
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Thanks to North West, we will never hear the first version of the raps in The Life of Pablo.
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"Guess I'm just a lonely rolling stone / rock star put it on my tomb" Towkio raps, and, well, true.
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"I made this beat back in 2K, and you youngins was like 8," he raps midway through his freestyle.
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The PG County native and self-proclaimed tomboy is charismatic in her raps and arrestingly experimental in her sounds.
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And critics say many people of color get slapped with warrants after failing to appear for petty BS raps.
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"Yeah, this life is something I would die for / October's own but it's looking like July 4," he raps.
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"I'm getting pounds in my sleep / I'm at the top of the mountain, it's peak," he raps early on.
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I used to stay at home from school and write raps, stay home from school go to the studio.
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During the services, West often sings and raps gospel versions of his own songs accompanied by a large choir.
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Dr. Damania, who raps, rants and interviews guests on YouTube and Facebook, has felt the wrath of vaccine protesters.
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The Chance the Rapper song about Steve Jobs is years old, and now all anyone raps about is Instagram.
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"I wonder how long you'll last / Cardi you're trash / We don't like you like bullies in class," one raps.
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The crowd, familiar with some of the lyrics, chanted along with the rappers, Muzi Raps and Raed Bassam Jabid.
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Megan Thee Stallion's CrossFit-intense raps tend to put her collaborators on alert, and "Big Booty" is no different.
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Anyone who's ever read the words to Dave's raps will know how ridiculously talented a lyricist the guy is.
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"I don't be trusting these tricks 'cause they tricky / Send him a pic of somebody else titties," she raps.
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Some tracks included drums and other instrumentation; others were made up of loops with Antney's raunchy raps on top.
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Quavo sing-raps about empowerment and leadership, but it's the serrated pop-trap production from Marshmello that punches hardest.
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"He got a girl, and I got a man / When he ain't around I'm sneaking him in," she raps.
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And dig how casually he varies his falsetto with bass-baritone chant-raps and juices his keyboards with percussion.
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But when she raps, as a woman, she finds people are often more concerned with her sexuality and gender.
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I didn't like rapping so I would write raps for my homie, and I would sing on the track.
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He raps his regrets about major milestones he will miss in his children's lives, including holidays, graduations and even weddings.
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Our montage runs now come with Vince Staples raps over a Bill Conti beats; dashing urban spice on 1980s sensibilities.
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Adele fans love Adele the way she loves Beyoncé or raps Nicki Minaj's verse in "Monster": fiercely and loudly.
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"They say she young, I should've waited / She a big girl, dog, when she stimulated," he raps in the video.
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"They call me Yao Ming 'cause my eyes real low," he raps while belting out "ching chong" over the music.
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As his performance of "They Won't Go When I Go" proves, he can sing just as well as he raps.
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The song itself is a mechanical rager that finds vocalist Julian Cashwan Pratt veering between half-screamed raps and chants.
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"Hold the selfies / Put the 'gram away / Get your family / Now hold hands and pray," Kanye raps in the song.
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"Hold the selfies / Put the 'gram away / Get your family / Now hold hands and pray," West raps in the song.
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"Hold the selfies / Put the 'gram away / Get your family / Now hold hands and pray," West raps in the song.
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Cardi insinuated in the interview that the verse Minaj raps on "Motorsport" was different from the original one she heard.
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"Got my hands in the air in despair/don't shoot/I just wanna do good," he raps on the track.
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"Don't catch you slipping," he raps, which takes on an even more sinister meaning if you are black in America.
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"Tell Tim Chalamet to come get at me," raps Tyler, and immediately a million Timmy/Tyler shipping fanfics were born.
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"Los Angeles love, kinda of like Hussle and Boog," Nipsey raps of his girlfriend Lauren London, using her nickname Boogie.
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The video then moves to Sally's funeral, where Azalea raps her lyrics from her seat, while sporting lilac-colored hair.
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Apple's digital assistant raps the first verse of "Rapper's Delight," bringing any iPhone user back to the days before smartphones.
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When West raps the infamous line — the line that sparked it all — the camera lingers on the fake Swift's body.
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"Get a mink let it drag on the floor / Its a nine in the bag that I tote," he raps.
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While Drake raps about being hip-hop's new king, Ross rhymes about the many women and cars that he has.
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Since they don't feature any raps, the other two tracks are more suited to Earl's production moniker, Random Black Dude.
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"You love my style / You love my skin," he raps through the chorus over Da-P's bass-heavy, bubbling beat.
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"And Rahm you&aposre done, I&aposm expecting resignation," Chance, whose given name is Chancelor Bennett, raps in the song.
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Goliath, who raps about topics including politics, identity and love, said Afrikaans was becoming more popular, especially among the young.
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"Rollie got charms, look like Frosted Flakes," she raps in a crucial verse of her chart-busting hit 'Bodak Yellow.
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It adds a layer of complexity to Scorpion, as Drake raps about his relationship to fame, family, and social media.
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"The black and brown been going through a holocaust/ You see Obama just a house n**** to me," Staples raps.
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He sings, lets out tortured death screams like Kurt Cobain, and raps with a flow that hints at Eminem's influence.
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At the same time, Brandon, who occasionally narrates the film, raps his story in a hard-boiled hip-hop argot.
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James Kennedy was at the DJ booth with Flipping Out's Jenni Pulos, who penned and raps WWHL's iconic theme song.
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Then she raps a verse from "All I Do Is Win," accompanied by T-Pain, while busting some sick moves.
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On "Django Jane" she raps over a mid-tempo beat, painting vivid images with cascades of confident, rapidly delivered lyrics.
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For years, artists from Nelly to Lil Tracy have laid raps across country productions, fusing the storytelling-centric genres together.
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Much of "...Ready For It?" is taken up by two-note jilted-lover semi-raps over a plodding, industrial beat.
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On it, Webster raps with a polished force about his disgust with tabloid culture and the people who consume it.
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We've been shouting about this Chicago rapper for some time now because her raps are flinty and cool as fuck.
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He's a trapero who raps into hot pink microphones, wears studded hoop earrings, dons short shorts, and gets lacquered manicures.
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Stanfield still raps, and recently freestyled homophobic slurs in a video he posted to Instagram, deleted and then apologized for.
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Lyric Lab also offers dozens of Flocab beats for students to choose from so they can perform their raps live.
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Kodie Shane is a member of Lil Yachty's Sailing Team, and sing-raps in Daliesque fragments similar to the boss.
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On "Humble," Kendrick Lamar raps "I'm so fuckin' sick and tired of the Photoshop" and pleads to see something natural.
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But the breakout collaborator is Rico Nasty, who out-eccentrics the hosts with quick-tongued raps and pop-punk yelps.
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"They put me on some medicine / Never thought that my depression would depend on it / I resented it," he raps.
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"White man will never know what the underhand is / I mean look what our country was built on," he raps.
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In one particularly sublime moment, Teejayx26 raps that he loves a stolen online profile with a credit score of 26.
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Everyone raps about buying expensive new things, but only Gunna links the ability to spend money wantonly to emotional intimacy.
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"Y'all put n----- on a t-shirt, it hurts you ain't never meet 'em," raps Jay Z, possibly calling them out.
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It's just a bunch of pals hanging out in a spooky room, rapping good raps about One Direction and fancy brands.
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"We started off simply mucking about with chords and raps," Halliwell shared in her autobiography, If Only, of the writing process.
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"Another black woman, had to put her seed in the ground / but only this time around it was you," he raps.
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She floats here, skittering between hard as nails raps and bubbly hooks over what sounds like a flayed sample of Biggie.
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As Dawson raps about old jobs and the intricacies of the American income tax system, he slinks through desolate, murky environments.
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" At this point, as he raps on Pretty Girls Like Trap Music, he's done "everything except a fucking song with Jay.
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On it, Wayne raps over the majority of the Black Album tracks, which can be credibly read as homage or challenge.
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Booty-pleasing prowess raps are ten a dozen these days, so genuine odes to facing the nation still feel pretty radical.
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Looking for people who writes music, plays an instrument(s), raps/sings, photographers, video blogs, produce beats, has a studio, etc.
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Looking for people who writes music, plays an instrument(s), raps/sings, photographers, video blogs, produce beats, has a studio, etc.
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"I started winning when the whole world was doubting on me," she raps of her success in the song she posted.
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Bad Bunny strikes a good balance between his rapid-fire raps and croons, and Drake, well his Spanish is pretty impressive.
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Some of the raps are peccadillos, such as rioting or unlawful assembly—par for the course in India's raucous local politics.
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"We eat up artists, as if there's going to be a famine at the end of those three minutes," Giovanni raps.
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"Prince left his masters where they safe and sound/We never gonna let the elevator take him down," Jay Z raps.
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Their shows will also pay tribute to Lopes, whose fast-paced raps added a distinctive sound to the R&B band.
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"And the funny thing about it is my ex wanna write a tell-all," Big Sean raps on his new song.
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Lamar raps out "Alright" with his signature speed and precision as the Johnson family dances and mouths along in the promo.
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You wanna do it?' the The Late Late Show host raps in PEOPLE's exclusive sneak peek at the special's opening number.
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"Dinnertime and you're on my mind, you probably always were," raps Justin Swinburne, his voice breaking as if he's in pain.
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Snoop Dogg not only raps about gin and juice, but he is now the official record holder for bartending it too.
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One person who has allegedly heard the song says Durant raps the first verse and James comes in for the second.
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Like Side B does with R&B, Side A shores up his long track record of witty, but routinely catty raps.
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Last year's Martin Lucid Dream is packed with socio-political raps that eschew preachiness in favor of the personal and heartfelt.
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Payne also posted a quick snippet of his new song where he raps, and we gotta admit ... kid's got some bars.
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Budenholzer weighed in on the Raps' ambassador Wednesday ... and he ain't happy with Drizzy seemingly getting special access to the hardwood.
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Drake also seemingly mentions Hadid on "Finesse" when he raps about traveling to New York City to see a special someone.
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"Yeezy, Yeezy, Yeezy, they line up for days," West raps early on in "Facts," referencing his Yeezy Boost collaboration with Adidas.
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Andre 3000, who has said in the past he was dismayed with the direction of hip-hop, raps on neither track.
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You could also argue that it's more productive to laugh than to despair, though, so watch Killer Mike's senior raps below.
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"Seventh grade I got caught with a pistol, sent me to Panthersville," he raps, referring to his time in juvenile detention.
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"I hate coupons / I hate futons / And niggas with that little bread, I hate croutons," she raps in a near growl.
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"If somebody raps the safety demo, then maybe that's why some people aren't putting their masks over their noses," he said.
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Quincey White, formerly known as DUBB, is a rapper from South Central LA who offsets his straightforward raps with airy singing.
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In his verse, Makonnen raps about being emotionally unavailable to someone he regularly hooks up with while still enjoying their company.
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Skepta raps, "We don't really need Netflix, I'll give you something to watch / After we're done, bill a spliff and cotch".
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People can then comment on your raps and "like" them, and you can try getting them to trend on the charts.
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Like when you see me and Wayne going back to back, me and him used to write our raps like that.
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To wrap it up, you'll hear Rihanna's way too huge track "Consideration" featuring SZA, and the atmospheric raps of Amir Obe.
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Joined by DJ Milo and drummer Luke Harris, Tricky showcases his wide ranging vocal abilities from cherubic croons to growling raps.
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Uzi barely raps—and when he does, it's not always into the microphone—but the crowd supplies all the words anyway.
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"The son of the legend, and the message is the same," raps Rick Ross on one of the album's many collaborations.
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"Versace, Versace, medusa head on my like I'm 'Luminati," Papi raps, before turning the track over to Quavo, Takeoff, and Offset.
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Together, the pair showcases Anderson's range: "Oxnard" packs some of his fiercest raps, while "Ventura" features some of his smoothest grooves.
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Rick raps, "Turk came home, take that boy a three piece" -- insinuating he can't afford food because Birdman ain't paying him.
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" At the song's end, in one of his calmest moments, he raps, "I'm stressing/Mama saying, 'Don't cry, count your blessings.
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Wayne raps "I'm so gangsta / if she don't go down no thank ya" so smoothly you can't help but admire it.
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The app has inspired videos by prison guards, raps by children and adulatory song-and-dance routines by power plant workers.
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This collaboration finds common ground with Vallejo's E-40, one of hip-hop's premier linguists, who politely raps circles around them.
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For Gucci Mane, it's an elevated version of the plain-spoken raps he's been leaning on since his release from prison.
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The femcee kept at it though, partaking in freestyle cyphers and battle raps, until eventually ... broke through the mainstream in 2019.
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"Took a couple years off / Shed a couple tears, dawg / Messed up here and there / No fear here dawg," he raps.
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Ms. Jepsen sings the hook, raps a little bit near the middle, and doesn't burden the song with overcompensatory vocal force.
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Nearly a year after that party, in the coffee shop in Culver City, Mike raps the hook of that demo version.
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Black Rod summoned MPs with his usual three raps on the Commons door to come to the Lords to hear her speak.
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There are places on this album where Mr. West raps with that sort of fervor, but more often he is showing restraint.
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In the song, titled "Kingdom" -- Bron raps about docking his yacht off the coast of France, having dope cars and TWO RINGS!!
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"Don't go wasting your loving on me/When I see your tears I'm likely to run," he raps between glimpses of guilt.
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"Shortly thereafter, Helena raps about her sorrow to those "fatherless and abused," saying she "guesses that's why there are so many confused.
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For example, in a 10-minute short film for his 2016 EP Prima Donna, Vince raps as a bobblehead version of himself.
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Mr. Splitfoot, communicating with a Morse code-like system of raps, claimed to be a murder victim long buried in the cellar.
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"And son, if you do worry about material things in life, then be loyal to Putin forever, son," Ms. Tolokonnikova raps softly.
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"If they're tryna party with the queen / They gon' have to sign a non-disclosure," the "Formation" singer raps on the track.
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"You know you need to come give me that dick," Megan raps, setting the tone of the song with her opening lines.
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The premise of the song is that T-Pain raps his ass off, and then Wayne sings his verse in Auto-Tune.
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If they read the raps in On the Come Up, they can pick up a Nikki Giovanni book and read her poetry.
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On "She Bad" and "I Do," she raps about sex with the assertiveness and raw detail of Lil' Kim or Too Short.
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" The rapper also seemingly hinted that his first child will be named Robert, when he raps, "Welcome little Bobby to the world.
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Before this mean muggin' little man was rolling out raps and rhymes, he was just another stand up stud in Champaign, Illinois.
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He should be rested up now, though, because like he raps on "Sicko Mode" ... the 767's got a double bedroom, man.
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"Rappers get off of my dick, get your own bars up / Now the mirror lizard's breath got the clones scared," he raps.
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At best, Iggy Azalea raps this song like someone who wrote these words without considering how they would sound uttered out loud.
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In it, Blue raps the iconic line, "Never seen a ceiling in my whole life," which, TBH, should have won a Grammy.
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Madrigal and Raps also reached out to students at the McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul for some additional firepower.
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Puerto Rican trap artist Anuel AA raps in Spanish with Minaj sprinkling in some of her own Caribbean roots into her verses.
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He acted on Broadway and wrote braggadocio raps that we called poetry because, at the time, we didn't know what rap was.
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Here was this young, self-described "pretty" boxer who could dazzle you with his raps, who was always bubbling over with confidence.
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With its slinking, minimalist beats and coldhearted dope-dealer raps, ShorelineDoThatShit thrust Shoreline Mafia into a vibrant scene at its inflection point.
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As far as being a hip-hop artist, being a rapper, being an emcee, I've never considered myself a woman that raps.
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Say what you will (and you will), she has a virtuosic ability to lay down complex raps over smooth electro-house beats.
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Now 17 and still sporting his trademark braces, he recently released "Glo Up," in which he raps about his rise to stardom.
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One of the directors of the group, the prosecutors said, was Anthony McKoy, 21, who raps under the name Ant Stay Maccin.
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Achol, barely nine at the time, raps about school and her mum's chicken dish and Akuech spits some lines about playing basketball.
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"I was responsible / For every time I fought with you," he raps, halfway to tears over Dadras and Sporting Life's woozy beat.
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But, it seems that Kanye didn't save his raps to any other devices before the piece of technology swam with the fishes.
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On the remix of Fat Joe's new song "All The Way Up," Jay raps about Bey's latest album, which deals with infidelity.
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Everybody raps about having Gucci flip flops now, so to expand he'll tell you what his toes look like inside of them.
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How are you going to listen to all the spiritual drone records and abstract noise raps that fill Bandcamp every single day?
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To a Cracker Barrel audience, Kid Rock raps about knuckleheads that make it impossible for him to hang at the Waffle House.
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"Just Got Paid"'s most endearing quality can be found in the snarl of Kemp's voice as he nearly raps the hook.
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On "Trouble on Central," he sing-raps smoothly, with a sidelong reference to Skee-Lo's "I Wish," over a lithe funk production.
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"I'm just a middle-class nigga whose class was a mixture / Of them spelling bee winners and them PG killers," he raps.
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Bennett says as much on the first track on Restoration, "I had to show him that I'm not lil' bro," he raps.
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Are we wrong if we're inclined to sleep on the guy who raps "I remember when they slept on me: memory foam"?
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Gathigi Gishuru, known as Thig Nat in the hip-hop trio The Physics, raps alongside Webster in the "Give It Up" video.
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The song has an easygoing bounce, complimented by Zay's mellow key strikes, while Uzi raps about the usual cars, jewelry, and cash.
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"My leading lady is really my wife / She ain't a stuntwoman but she really risking her life," he raps at one point.
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Screaming his raps like a latter-day DMX, 6ix9ine calls back to a time when New York hip-hop had rawer edges.
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As TT raps about shunning a relationship's usual trappings in favor of pure pleasure, that staccato wail is like an exclamation point.
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The rapper will perform unreleased wrestling raps along with some of the darkly absurd music he has spent the past decade refining.
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Former star of the show and executive producer, rapper 50 Cent, raps on both versions and didn't appear to appreciate the criticism.
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An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to a video in which Mel Brooks dances and raps while dressed as Hitler.
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Awkwafina's early career as a YouTuber performing novelty raps like "My Vag" prepped her to follow the McCarthy/Haddish path to stardom.
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Before long, she was writing her own raps -- many of which were deemed too aggressive, suggestive and sexual to tons of critics.
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Boosie says the dude had it coming because battle raps are NOT the forum for white guys to be saying such things.
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Rich with multileveled allusions, the raps confront gentrification, nativism, the dumbing-down of hip-hop and the rise of Donald J. Trump.
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Drake's gotten a lot of heat for his antics -- remember when he gave Raps coach Nick Nurse a mid-game back rub??
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Then, it was the insurgent sound of black youth in East London — lo-fi, muscular and brittle, full of intricate, chaotic raps.
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It is the music of rebellion, as rock and roll once was—hard beats and raps calculated to drive any parent crazy.
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Lil Yachty's raps about positivity and good cheer serve as a fitting bridge between the original song's era and the present day.
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But "Junction 48" hits its stride as soon as Kareem takes the stage and raps about Lod's drug culture and police harassment.
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"I got so drunk, I left Privé and I crashed a Bentley," he raps, as if he still can't quite believe it.
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Potentially kryptonite for those who expect rappers to boom and declaim, Black startles with the gruff, gravelly, dribbly drawl he raps in.
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"Father, forgive me, I'm scared of the karma / 'Cause now I see women as something to nurture / Not somethin' to conquer," West raps.
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"Can you stand over there and cover your eyes cuz Imma break glass ceilings, is that a surprise?" raps one of the Belles.
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"Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect," 2 Chainz raps on the track, and that might be the smoothest encapsulation of his whole appeal.
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"Man, I'm just a dog / I'd be faithful if I could / But I'm Tiger Woods, I'm Tiger Woods," he raps on the hook.
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Hannah did really seem to like him, though, so we fully expect him to share his raps with Bachelor Nation for a while.
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In the song, Cardi raps and sings about a man who decided to "creep and s—" after she "poured my whole heart" out.
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Hefe Wine raps in a super low voice and sings in a semi-high one, which suggests a full range of masculine appeal.
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"And my flow be so tight, nobody in R&B like me since MJ turned white," he sing-raps with the utmost confidence.
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"Never Stop" is Angélil's attempt of ditching the emo raps that filled his first two tracks and sticking to a more "traditional" sound.
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And sometimes, Pete Davidson raps about his Stanley Tucci fandom with Sam Rockwell at his side, in the guise of the veteran actor.
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Slim Jxmmi is the older one, who raps like he swallowed a handful of rocks and is spitting them back out at you.
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"When it comes to class size, yes we need a cap," raps Lindsay Prossnitz, a second grade teacher at Chicago Academy Elementary School.
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" James made a post Saturday quoting the song "ASMR," in which 21 Savage raps, "We been gettin' that Jewish money, everything is kosher.
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Toward the end of the song, Kanye raps a plea to Black women to keep supporting Black men on their quest for achievement.
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Kanye West takes a guest verse on a new Travis Scott track, in which he raps about his recently revealed addiction to opioids.
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Take "Dirty Harry" in which Bootie Brown raps from the perspective of an American soldier ("I'm a peace loving decoy ready for retaliation").
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In his opening verse, JAY-Z raps about how "after all these years" he has "no fear of anything," including jail and death.
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His channel is a mashup of daily vlogging, JackAss style pranks and stunts, inspirational advice, and raps that would make Vanilla Ice cringe.
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"I feel an obligation to show people new ideas and if you want to hear 'em, here go two right here," raps West.
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Go deeper: "Almost half of all new drug approvals in 2018 relied on one clinical trial," Zachary Brennan of RAPS Regulatory Focus reports.
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Noisey Raps will return with new episodes featuring Meek Mill and Playboi Carti, among others; Noisey Meets comes back with artists like Anderson .
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" Before "Run & Hide" played, Nicki mentioned that her process of removing raps was the same as she did with "Thought I Knew You.
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He raps with a similar acrobatic dexterity, using his voice as though he stumbled across a toy chest full of weird new instruments.
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Chris Pratt can make us laugh, have us bopping along to his raps, and apparently, impress us with his ability to identify snacks.
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Bella Hadid isn't the chick Drake raps about hooking up with on his new album ... the two are close friends, and that's it.
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She raps about bullying ("Sticks and Stone") and partying ("Wake the Neighbors"), where most Juggalo rappers write songs about murder and horror scenes.
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"Slow songs, they for skinny hoes / Can't move all of this here to one of those," she raps on the song's frenzied hook.
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Turning it off, he proceeds to explain where his writing process stems from and the dark nature of the content he raps about.
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We had some Raps fans hanging of the dang roof of the CN tower to get a better view of the historic parade.
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Even when he raps there's a soothing melody in his delivery, not unlike acid jazz acts of the early 90s like Digable Planets.
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ATTN: Blue Ivy, who is but 5, raps for a full 45 seconds on a track from Jay-Z's new album 4:44.
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"Pussy got power, this pussy got power / Fuck you on the sheets, skeet skeet for a hour," she raps on the song's chorus.
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Wale popped in the late 2000s with an onslaught of mixtapes that joined go-go with relentless raps and spoken word-inspired bars.
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In his raps and on social media, he comes across as a weathered and jaded old man rather than as an excitable youth.
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Miller began to use his scratchy, cocksure voice differently, his raps growing more singsong, as a way of deciphering his ever-changing moods.
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A model who previously lied about being transgender has now released a song in which she raps about people being "jealous" of her.
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The fembot Swift saunters down a dark alley full of Cyberpunk cliches while she soft-raps about romantically torturing the men she dates.
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The track features a quick introduction and verse from the late Pimp C as Drake raps and sings about his favorite topic: relationships.
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He raps, "the only date marked on my calendar is payday," which would be a good inspirational placard to put above your desk.
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"Shootouts outside the studio / I was in the hood while you was playing Yu-Gi Oh," he raps, later calling himself Chicago's Prince.
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By the time Hayes raps his first words of the record saying "I be feeling fantastic," you find it pretty hard to believe.
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Young Tiller, is more famous than many of his rap contemporaries: Namely, he has a good voice, and he sings and raps confidently.
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"Runaway" follows the "Stairway" model to the hilt, and also has a verse from Pusha T, who raps like Jimmy Page plays guitar.
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" Lahren tweeted about it the following day, saying, "As opposed to you who raps about bitches and sisters and brags about selling crack.
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The first, from "Toccata," by the Italian composer Scarlatti, requires a series of punctuated, or staccato, raps, usually performed with the index finger.
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"But I'm contemplating yelling 'Bombs away' on the game like I'm outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting," Eminem raps on the song.
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He also has some of the bleakness that's been central to the rise of 21 Savage, who raps with an almost gothic severity.
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Forget them — the only essential moments here belong to Yachty, who casually talk-raps, hitting unlikely cadences that challenge the song's disco rigidity.
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"Concerns over how FDA can adequately track the drug and API supply chain is starting to worry Congress," Raps wrote at the time.
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"Relax your mind/ Let your conscious be free/ No matter what they say/ I'm gonna still be free," he raps at one point.
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"SO RIGHT NOW just let me talk / And tell you lot it's grim up north," raps Blazer Boccle in his thick Bradford burr.
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"Too many babies in suits," Noname raps over the cooing of a child on "Casket Pretty," about her city's plague of gun violence.
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On songs like "Southside," he raps as fast as his Southern drawl will allow, reminiscing on the days in Atlanta's Zone 4 neighborhood.
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Justin eyeballs the photog and labels him part of the Biggie/Tupac era, and then listens as the guy raps his owns verses.
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"When Banksy put the vest on me/It felt like God was testing me," he raps on the album in a near-whisper.
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As Wayne raps, "today I went shopping, and talk is still cheap," which is sale-themed, thus making this song appropriate for today.
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Between rounds one and two, a Japanese rap crew spits frenetic double-time raps in Chicago Bulls jackets, dark beanies, and camo pants.
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Awkward Black Girl used both the raps and voiceover to express Jay's inner thoughts, and I didn't want to use voiceover for Insecure.
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There's a lyric, "She took you for everything, You let her do it again" and as Belly raps, Chyna winks at the camera.
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Blocboy, by contrast, raps with infectious exuberance and percussive force, a deep-voiced, obstinately masculine twister of syllables and progenitor of surreal inflections.
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" While she says her fiancé, Migos' Offset "raps of the top of his head," she prefers to "sit down, focus, and take my time.
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"I know this shit sound foul, but I / Rather him be back in jail then not here / Not to see his child," he raps.
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"Shoutout Megan, make a nigga cum in two seconds / It was all good til' no one wanted see me with it," he sing-raps.
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She raps and sings effortlessly in both French and English across these oozy, low-lit productions, her words occasionally obscured by tasteful vocal manipulation.
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Last night, Drake did his first gig as a sideline reporter when the Raps took on the Charlotte Hornets at Toronto's Air Canada Centre.
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"Enjoying every pleasure, anticipating the stress," she raps on "Parables," employing what seems to be a "Don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness" approach.
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" In "7 rings," Grande, 25, raps, "My wrist, stop watchin', my neck is flossin'/Make big deposits, my gloss poppin'/You like my hair?
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I started making raps in 2014, recording stuff from my iPhone and putting them together in Sony Vegas, which is a video editing program.
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MTV Raps, among many other things, directs this documentary about the history of weed in America and the racist dynamics that shaped its reception.
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"Ain't privy to the local politickin,' man / I'm intercontinental," raps Tasha over her own co-produced beat, all blaring synths and rattling hi-hats.
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" XXXTentacion raps about suicidal thoughts and simulated his own hanging in a recent video, as did rapper Father in his clip for "Suicide Party.
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Together they created Rapchat, a service for making and sharing raps, and the conjunction of rapper and nerd seems to be really taking off.
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The plot is simple: Issa raps along to the radio enthusiastically in her car, then has an embarrassing run-in with her co-worker.
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In another, more specific sense, it is men in their thirties recording raps about Kemba Walker while the very foundations of our republic tremble.
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The interviewer asked her about how she felt when Kayne raps about having sex with other women, a pointed reference to the Swift line.
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"All you needed was a n—- with the money, cars and cribs," Cannon, 35, raps in his new single "Oh Well," shared on Soundcloud.
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Footage of Jenner's big moment shows her in a slow-moving roller coaster with Scott as he raps and she takes in the view.
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My thoughts dark as fuck, like the barrel of the pistol when I saw he sparked it up," he raps on "Who Shot Me?
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You now have rappers incorporating melodies in their raps; everyone's bringing back the chords and the stuff that makes you want to sing along.
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" On the song "BIG BRO," Quavo raps ... "Think you poppin' Xanax bars, but it's Fentanyl // Think you're living like rockstars but you're dead now.
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The Pacers are extremely tough to score on, but luckily for the Raps they're not all that tough to keep from putting up points.
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Soon, a YouTube video of the track appeared online, and the jazz-style song features a nearly two-minute instrumental before Smith even raps.
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"I get it, get it your friends did it, they famous /And you rap, too, so when you got' make it" he raps on .
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"Say you're running out of time, that's life/Said your heart been broke, that's life/Just pick it up and keep going," he raps.
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"Seen a black president, I ain't see no change tho/ They say street life numb ya, all I feel is pain tho," Jeezy raps.
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He raps about his personal debt and calls himself "this generation's closest thing to Einstein," and Sampha turns in a typically strong guest vocal.
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Also, he raps in at least two voices—one higher than his Detroit homeboy Shady's, one so street-manly he sounds like someone else.
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In that same song, "Freedom," Kendrick Lamar raps about himself as an object of persecution, by the news media and consequently by law enforcement.
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Over a whiplash-inducing beat (courtesy of davOmakesbeats), TT the Artist delivers sharp but sassy raps followed by a vogue-inspired verse from JoQ.
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The "Rapper/Engineer/Actor/Producer" and general genius businessman, according to BuzzFeed, is named DeMonté Lane, and he raps under the name Fantastical Carpé.
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"It was impossible for us to modify the exterior walls of the house because of its protected location," explained Eric Raps, the Winters's architect.
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Missy Elliott raps, "Let's smoke these ghosts like Backwoods," as if someone were holding her loved ones hostage until she wrote 100 paranormal similes.
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"Racism's the only thing he's fantastic for, 'cause that's how he gets his fuckin' rocks off and he's orange," Eminem raps at one point.
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"GELATO", in particular—in which Tyler raps over an instrumental of Jacquees' "No Validation"—is soaked in the potential of the year's best months.
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He raps, "Lil D with me on the road to riches," and, sure enough, right there in the Oakland City West End Apartments, a.k.a.
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Kanye sounds absolutely bent on delivering chains of raps, leading the way for Sampha to finish up the song with a nicely sung outro.
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"I just left the strip club got some glitter on me / Wifey gonna kill me, she the female O.J." Kanye raps on the track.
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Wayne slides in with a verse that pretty much sounds like stoned Weezy ramblings—his just happen to take the shape of fire raps.
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His dialogue in the game references rhythm and music, he raps at other characters, and his ending after defeating Bison details his music career.
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It's an insane combination of MIA inspired raps, trap beats, and catchy hooks that are exactly what we wanted to see from the artist.
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In "Cruel World," the second song on Far from Familiar, he raps "Wise till' I die," in reference to his commitment to his label.
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Toward the end, as he cracks in frustrated claustrophobia, he raps his knuckles against the isolation chamber's chronometer — again breaking it at 6:15.
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It sets the tone for the rest of the album, which pulls together influences from all across the globe to bolster GoldLink's colorful raps.
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Nipsey Hussle's raps boasted of his exploits as a young man in South Central Los Angeles and the perils of becoming a gang member.
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" After listing theological characteristics like accepting the LGBTQ community and following Jesus, Peters jumps into frame and raps along with Saweetie, "That's my type!
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Album Review When Pusha-T raps, it's with the air of a stern father lecturing his children, who may or may not be listening.
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"I'm too rare amongst all of this pink hair," he raps on "Hard Piano," a sidelong shot at the excesses of the SoundCloud generation.
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One of that scene's rising stars is Lil Xan, a lighthearted young California rapper of Mexican descent who raps in a cheerily woozy slur.
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" He claims Taylor Swift's fame and feels entitled to her body when he raps, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.
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Fans have mostly drawn art of Akali, the kunai-twirling assassin who hides in a shroud and glows in psychedelic neon colors as she raps.
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" He raps about drugs, not because it's his personal habit but "because I feel like that's the number one thing everybody likes to talk about.
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"When life cuts so deep try and remember, you are not alone, we've all been there, scars come with livin'," he raps on the song.
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Drip Harder, a joint mixtape released in October, put the best parts of him and Lil Baby (Gunna's drip, and Baby's street raps) on display.
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Then, he doubles down and invites his favorite iconoclasts to share the mic: Jay Electronica raps about God, Young Thug gets to changing the culture.
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"Letter to my dad that I never wrote," Jay Z raps on the track over images of Oscar-winning star Mahershala Ali and Danny Glover.
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"I met this girl when I was 3 years old, and what I loved most, she had so much soul," he raps in one verse.
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"Shoutout to Kapoor for what you created," one of the salesmen raps, referring to the company's 75-year-old founder, who has pleaded not guilty.
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TREASURY RAPS COHEN RECORD LEAKER, UNDERCUTS RATIONALE FOR BREACH The official told The New Yorker he did it out of concern over allegedly missing files.
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He raps: And then at the end of his verse, singing and riffing on Bankroll's hook, he reflects on each member of the group. Juvie?
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Over a foreboding bass synth, Rave Goth Taylor raps about a budding relationship, all but likening the chase to a game of cops and robbers.
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The raps take the place of a diary as Issa adopts different voices and dispositions to perform the life she is too afraid to pursue.
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"Yeah call me Worldwide Towki / They know just who I am / Getting booked at festivals / We used to have to hop a fence," he raps.
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He raps about his relationship with God, about the grit of Chicago's South Side violence, and the bores of bling and materialism (his clique: Savemoney).
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" And in the 2016 song "Let Me Know," The Game raps, "Trump and Hillary both cons/ Backstab us like the bullets in back of LaQuan.
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The Knxwledge-produced track has Action in full flow, having fun: "I'm in a club with a condom on / All Under Armour on," he raps.
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Baba Brinkman's peer-reviewed rapThe lyrics are checked for scientific accuracy, and the raps span a wide range of topics: consciousness, medicine, climate change, evolution.
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Yes, but some things can't be kept out as assorted raps and shrieks — as well as talk of supernatural entities known as jinni — shortly prove.
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"Just like Hillary Clinton, who masqueraded the whole system," she raps, which serves as a grave reminder of Clinton's "super predator" comment in the 90s.
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BC dropped her debut single Monday ... it's called "Deserve" and features Yo Gotti and Jeremih ... but make no mistake, Chyna really raps on the track.
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Ohio teen Trippie Redd is making a mark with quasi-Satanic aesthetics and raps that don't feel like they're tied to any particular life event.
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Those family-friendly raps are preserved in the amber of the jiggy era (a term Smith coined), never to have their legacy tarnished... until 2017.
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It's that Smith may be attempting to relive his younger days by updating his party raps and adopting what he thinks the kids will embrace.
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Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, who raps under the moniker of Sammus as an ode to the classic Nintendo video game character, is Ithaca's undisputed rap queen.
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" He raps about smoking weed with Willie Nelson to a bunch of bros who can't smoke because it gives them all kinds of "weird thoughts.
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And finally, it's a distillation of Drake's fundamental appeal: He raps stuff that sounds appealing to dudes but that is empathetic and relatable to women.
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In "I Got A Story To Tell," Biggie raps about having relations with a woman who is also involved with a New York Knicks player.
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On the entertaining if erratic "15," Bhad Bhabie raps like someone who is learning to rap in real time, which to be fair, she is.
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On "Tie My Hands," Lil Wayne raps about everyone abandoning New Orleans, from the basketball team and football team to the governor and the mayor.
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If J. Cole rapped the way Wayne raps on "Throw It in the Bag," today's pick, well, he'd be going double platinum with no features!
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Her catharsis was poetry, which she then transformed into raps, performing throughout the city and ultimately joining local rap collective Live From Da Corner (LFDC).
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Listen: When Megan Thee Stallion raps, the words arrive like jabs: confident, precise, disorientingly direct, our critic writes in his review of her new album.
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The subjects of these interactive presentations in the Clay Family Picnic Pavilions at this Bronx garden are animals that usually don't deserve their scary raps.
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Mr. Rosa listens to a wide variety of music, including the Fray, Suicideboys and Clariyah, a YouTube artist who writes poetry and raps about bullying.
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"Sandi used to tell me all it takes is one time/And all it took was one time," he raps, repeating his mother's cautionary advice.
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The top five raps, as judged by The Times and Flocabulary staff using this rubric, will be featured on both The Learning Network and Flocabulary.com.
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Students who would like to create the raps on their own time should not have a problem following the rap section of the lesson independently.
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Jae's oblique lyrics and the animated video allude to warfare and inner struggles: "Demons all around me I've become," Jae raps, almost with a shrug.
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At one point Mr. Spicer raps in Dracula's voice; later, as Aladdin, he invests in an oil well, then abandons the desert for the disco.
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"I said there's nothing great about the place we live in / Nothing great about Britain," he raps on the title track of his 2019 album.
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"This is America/Don't catch you slippin' up," he raps, setting terms for negotiating a white society that leaves barely any margin for black error.
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The artist, Jamal Knox, who raps under the name Mayhem Mal, was sent to prison for two years for threatening police officers in his song.
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Our sources tell us ... the track -- titled "Don't Matter to Me" -- is actually a previously unreleased MJ song that Drake raps and sings along with.
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He raps, "I smoke it in a paper, Weezy smoke it in a leaf," which is a reference to Wayne preferring blunts to Birdman's joints.
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Excited but also imperturbable, Blocboy raps on behalf of all those who decline open hedonism for the perversity of finding joy in coldness and abstraction.
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Instead, behold crunchy drums at half speed, ostinato synthesizer gradually dissipating, and a performer whose mumbled raps exhibit the stupor he wishes listeners would emulate.
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"Stoney"—a tender, ambient pop song produced by ISOBeats in which Yachty sing-raps about love without saying much at all —sticks at the end.
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" Similarly, on "7 Rings" Grande raps about hair: "My wrist, stop watchin', my neck is flossin /Make big deposits, my gloss poppin' / You like my hair?
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Even last year's "Braids tuh'da (flo)w" sees the rapper commanding women to put their hands up—or "Nails, nails to the ceiling," as Leikeli raps.
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"Ravioli" is just an incredible word to rap, and Frank raps it not once but twice in the first version (Frank, as always, has two versions).
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Fergie struts in shiny leather and tailored suits through a stark monochromatic set, playing ping-pong and chess with herself as she raps about her comeback.
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The eight-minute-long collage of spliced videos from both black culture and his personal life, including footage of Blue Ivy, who raps on the album.
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In it, Manuel raps over top of Meek Mill's "Monster" instrumental in front of such popular Newfoundland backdrops as bridges, cabins, and an abandoned industrial space.
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On "Top Off," the first single from DJ Khaled's upcoming album, Queen Bey stood out — not just because she's Beyoncé Giselle Knowles — but because she raps.
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On a new track that was debuted Thursday night at his listening party, The Game raps about his sexual history with West's wife Kim Kardashian West.
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"I won't see Stunna write checks to me / They can't put no more Weezy Baby out / That's that Cash Money vasectomy," he raps on the song.
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The talky pace of his raps was an anticlimactic downturn from what the rest of the night offered, though some were in favor of the switch.
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Banks's jittery electrohouse-rap would win my heart on formal grounds alone, not to mention quick, witty, gender-subverting raps totally free of such offensive content.
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Photo by Maggie Elizabeth "Scarborough made the world stop," raps Toronto MC JiMMY B on the opening track of his new EP Return of the JiGGY.
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"Had to find my rope/To pull me up/Because I needed some kind of hope/To fill me up," raps the narrator in the prologue.
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And sure enough, Drake raps harder here than anywhere on Views: it's studded with dozens of Diddy disses, references to hip-hop classics, and unrepentant stunting.
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Whether writing reviews or raps, creating vocabulary videos or found poems, crafting written editorials or editorial cartoons, we hope there's something on the list for everyone.
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As a teenager, "I was such a fan that I was copying his style, the way he moved onstage, his flows, his raps," J Balvin said.
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Yelawolf, too, raps about Chevy trucks (on literally five iterations of a song called "Box Chevy") and booze (he loves Jack Daniels, which I experienced firsthand).
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"Saweetie so monotone / Saweetie look like so and so," she raps on "Pissed," which she released with a Game of Thrones-inspired music video last December.
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Issa's comfortable enough with herself as she cleverly raps affirmations in the mirror but she's not yet comfortable enough to share that self with others around.
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He's released three projects over the course of a year, all of them filled will raps frenetic enough that people question whether he's breathing at all.
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His raps, highlighted by a pronounced DC accent, are fiery and urgent, and they pack enough power to carry him far beyond his Southeast DC home.
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Having worked with artists included Yung Lean, Main Attrakionz, and more, Baton Rouge-based producer Suicideyear's no stranger to making spacey beats perfect for melancholic raps.
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I'll probably get some hate for my sweet sweet raps but that's fine because you can hate the playa, but you can never hate the game.
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"He raps very fast and very melodically, and very percussively, and it helped me get rid of the stutter," he said in a speech in 2015.
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Craft raps each verse from a different character's perspective: a racist white cop, a Klansman, and an African-American serving a prison sentence for armed robbery.
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Bell raps under the alias "Juice" -- and recently dropped a 10 track mixtape called "The Interview" which already racked up more than 100,000 plays on SoundCloud.
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He raps at one point, "the cool kids from high school can't sit with me now," which suggests that he was not cool in high school.
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"Honestly I don't think anybody can outrap him," Inglish, who raps on the album, says of Rocks before noting that his bars have gotten quite heavy.
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With the young Slimes' cathartic, ferocious raps bleeding through the relentlessly dynamic production of Brodinski and his BMC crew, the unorthodoxy is nothing less than dizzying.
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" In "Yikes," a pulsing, plunging synthesizer bass line and echoing, hooting voices accompany Mr. West as he raps about drugs and fears — "sometimes I scare myself.
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JON PARELES The best 2 Chainz is casual 2 Chainz, when he raps so deeply in the pocket he sounds as if he's not even trying.
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" There, he raps that "it's all political, if my music is literal and I'm a criminal, how the f--k can I raise a little girl?
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A week after dropping 31 and nine on Houston, Lillard — who also raps and hosts lyrical competitions on social media — dropped a song on the Internet.
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"As I look around I see so many millionaires with skin like mine, don't pretend that I'm with that bullshit your president been tweeting," he raps.
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In his music, 93 Savage rarely raps above a whisper, and in person, he was contained and disarmingly calm, speaking forcefully without ever raising his voice.
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" It's one of the few spots where she raps on the EP, but she brings traces of her skill on the partner-in-crime bop, "M.
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"Now, that's a very creative refrain," she quipped, referring to the song's chorus, in which YG — not Hussle — raps "Fuck Donald Trump" over and over again.
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"Of sun on skin and dandelion, I left the shackles in my mind / Behind, the forest floor beneath my feet," she raps over sultry guitar strings.
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At one point he raps "I get flashbacks / Look at all the people I backstabbed," though it's unclear intended as a mea culpa or a flex.
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"A man that don't take care his family can't be rich," he raps on the third verse of 215:212's "Family Feud," which features Beyoncé.
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Over Junior MAFIA's "Get Money" beat, Megan raps about her Texas upbringing, being a rapper while going to school, and how she can easily take anyone's man.
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Apparently, actor Donald Glover, who also raps under the name Childish Gambino, didn't love watching the clip either, according to a tweet from his manager, Chad Taylor.
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"We brown girls revolt against our own reflections every single time an Indian magazine puts a light-skinned girl on a cover, calling her brown," Johar raps.
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Unable to leave the city without looking over his shoulder, 210 remains in Matamoros as the Gulf Cartel he raps for has become less and less powerful.
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"Press, press, press, press, press / Cardi don't need more press / Kill 'em all, put them hoes to rest / Walk in, bulletproof vest," she raps on the song.
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Sometimes his rapping is tart — "Everybody wanted 'Yandhi'/Then Jesus Christ did the laundry," he raps on "Selah," referring to the album he scrapped for this one.
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When I go in there I can record a song in ten or 15 minutes because he trained me young to memorize your raps and don't cuss.
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The whole album is exactly what he wants it to be and he raps about what matters to him, not what will climb the charts straight away.
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He casually strolls up to the window of the West Covina police department, raps his bat against the window a couple of times and then starts hacking.
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" On "I Thought About Killing You," West raps about premeditated murder — though fans are divided on if he's referring to Kardashian West or his own "shadow self.
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The final straw appears to have been rumors surrounding a track Drake had been sitting on in which he raps about an alleged affair with West's wife.
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Her reaction to bad raps, dozens of counts of fraud and theft as well as the killings, was to raise a defiant fist and then to appeal.
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In a bonus footage snippet, West talks about how the song came together, and raps a couple lines from the song at the 21:45-minute mark.
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"Melamine milk had affected so many babies, and they all suffer from malnutrition," raps one of the singers in a lyric lacking any kind of flow whatsoever.
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When Chance raps, "Man I swear my life is perfect, I could merch it," it isn't in with braggadocio, but a genuine gratefulness to a higher being.
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In this episode of Noisey Raps, Stizz opens up about what's gotten him to this point and the challenges he's faced as we hang around Field's Corner.
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Subject matter varies from the playground to painfully heart-breaking, such as Dylan Brewer's "Deep Thoughts" where he raps about dealing with the death of his mother.
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"I can introduce you to this life we live forever," he raps slowly, atop a beat that is propelled forward by what sounds like enchanting, ethereal chimes.
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"Hillary Clinton still tellin' lies on the channel ... so Democrats never did ride for me .... we don't want no more Bill Clinton hand-me-downs," he raps.
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For her part, Cardi channels a mixture of Old Hollywood glamour and Lil Kim circa Hard Core as she raps gleefully about her money and her pussy.
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In person, Bibby is terse, saying little unless prompted and speaking in short, vague statements, but his best raps are almost disconcertingly direct in baring his emotions.
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Image: Dextar Murray Like Young Tapz, 21-year-old Mzwètwo also raps about his past, which involved moving to New Zealand from Zimbabwe when he was six.
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"As a kid, I got into music, like writing little raps and stuff because I was a big Lil Kim fan," the now 23-year-old explains.
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Videos from the concert show Michelle dancing with Beyoncé's mother, Tina Knowles, in the front row as Jay-Z raps to a packed Stade de France stadium. .
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The autobiographical struggles he raps and beatboxes about don't always seem momentous, but he seems half-desperate to please his audience and nearly always succeeds (1:30).
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" In the single, West raps lines like "Make America Great Again had a negative perception/I took it, wore it, rocked it, gave it a new direction.
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Then known for her car raps, freestyles she recorded in her car over notable rap beats, she used social media as a vehicle to push her music.
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This Trump was already doing a general-election pivot, and he had clearly decided to confront the greatest resistance to him and the biggest raps against him.
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She followed the track with High Maintenance, a nine-track EP that forced her to evolve beyond the car raps she'd been posting on Instagram for fun.
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"Meek still be in my DMs I be having to duck 'em / 'I used to pray for times like this' / Faceass when I fuck him," she raps.
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The autobiographical struggles he raps and beatboxes about don't always seem momentous, but he seems half-desperate to please his audience and nearly always succeeds (22727:28117).
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The autobiographical struggles he raps and beatboxes about don't always seem momentous, but he seems half-desperate to please his audience and nearly always succeeds (21:235).
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But Sheeran also has a roving eye—he enjoys breaking out into raps whenever he needs to express an antagonism that is ill-suited for guitar pop.
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In the remix, she has co-conspirators: "Let's be honest with ourselves/we're way too high to try/So let's take on the night," Khalid sing-raps.
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He sings more than he raps throughout the song (though you do get some straight-to-the-chest bars about midway through) lending it an emotive softness.
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He is one of the most slyly affecting lyricists in hip-hop, and one who sometimes raps about the heavy weight of morality in an amoral world.
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Rosalía brought Spanish-language songs to a wider audience and, likewise, Pongo eschews English and raps largely in Portuguese and in Kimbundu, a language spoken in Angola.
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"I know me and Mariah didn't end on a high note/ But that other dude's whipped — that p— got him neutered," Eminem raps on his new track.
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"I know me and Mariah didn't end on a high note/ But that other dude's whipped — that p— got him neutered," Eminem raps on his new track.
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MTV Raps," which started in 21, was expanding the hip-hop audience beyond its urban core, and MC Hammer had a worldwide hit with "U Can't Touch This.
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"I'd like to thank the Migos, not for being on the show, but for making 'Bad and Boujee,'" said Glover, who also raps under the name Childish Gambino.
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A month after the release of her second EP, Tina Snow, Megan Thee Stallion raps like her life depends on it in one of her first viral freestyles.
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Asked about 4:44 opener "Kill JAY-Z," in which he raps openly about his recent, prolonged dispute with Kanye West, Hov tried to focus the track's intent.
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As reported in the New York Times, Jamal Knox, a Pittsburgh artist who raps under the name Mayhem Mal, was arrested in 2012 on gun and drug charges.
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Of course, Drake was LOSING HIS MIND when the Raps won their first ever NBA title on Thursday night ... and decided to hit up Steph (probably to gloat).
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She raps about how she's less interested in a white horse and a carriage than she is, say, a sick car and diamonds, which I very much support.
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Besides, Drake raps earlier on the project about Kendall Jenner's 21st birthday, so it's only fitting that Scott comes in later just so Kylie doesn't feel left out.
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They're paying me because I have a maybe unique talent on the landscape, where I can add comedy raps in a very specific way to a television project.
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" The line "chucking my deuces up" (throwing a "peace sign") is another Jay call-out: In "Part II (On the Run)," he raps, "Chuck the deuces, chugging D'ussé.
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"She a superstar / She got it bad for me / If I hang up, she call right back to me," he raps on the song, which features Vince Staples.
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T.I., who added his raps to the track after it was first recorded, was also named in the suit and found guilty, the AP reported at the time.
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I could see them clashing a little bit because Starr would be concerned about how the things that Brianna raps about how affect young people in their neighborhood.
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Like Issa of Insecure, J of Awkward Black Girl raps to cope with stress, to vent about her experiences, and to better understand her day-to-day troubles.
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"They put me in a situation forcing me to be a man/ When I was just learning to stand without a helping hand," Simmons raps in the song.
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The flute's whimsy gets your attention; the little piano doodles lock it down; 2 Chainz raps like he's freestyling to himself to pass the time while folding laundry.
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"Reflecting on the situation since you acting agitated, I just want a break from all the petty mental masturbation," Mykki raps over a minimal beat and heavy bass.
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It seems like Cardi B is just getting started, or as she raps on her new single "I Do", "My lil 15 minutes lasted long as hell, huh?"
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Beyonce captures that giddy feeling in her first No. 22016 solo hit, with help from a killer horn riff and raps from her then-new boyfriend, Jay-Z.
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We talked to Cole and his producer "Phazz" Clark ... and CB says the toughest thing about being an athlete that raps is that he isn't that at all.
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On the project, Latasha raps with a powerful vigor, not unlike the rap that she absorbed during her many trips to Empire every other Friday as a teen.
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"Don't need no flowers in my hair to be carefree, bruh" he raps at one point, before making a nod to "black boy magic" in the next line.
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The eclecticism of the bill spoke to his wandering ear, and ranged from the terse hardcore of Show Me the Body to the wise-ass raps of Wiki.
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" On A Tribe Called Quest's "Skypager," from 1991, Phife Dawg raps, "Beeper's goin' off like Don Trump gets checks/Keep my bases loaded like the New York Mets.
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"That one decision changed both of they lives / One curse at a time," Lamar raps, some twenty years later, of Anthony and Ducky's reunion in the recording studio.
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Somehow, the track interpolates both "My Favourite Things" from The Sound of Music and also interpolates Biggie on its bridge, in which Grande raps for an entire verse.
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The crowd cheers and dances––until she, a white woman, raps the N-word and the collective whiteness of the bar cringes and shrinks back to their seats.
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"I'm thankin' God I ain't still got my old ways / A whole lotta shit done changed since the old days," he raps over Mouse On Tha Track's beat.
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" The song itself revitalizes the laid-back stylings of 90s New York rap while Zé raps "and we gon' probably fuck to that Missy / so pass the dutch.
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"Tweaking off that 2C-B," he raps on the track "Yikes," before later speaking about his experience of dying and then coming back to life after taking DMT.
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"I mean I'm only 25 but I'm 'Motown 25'/Bet I get a statue in my hometown when I die," he raps, boastful but just a touch indignant.
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Produced by E-40's son Issue, a man who raps about iced tea, it was shot by Rob Massey who just sort of turned up one day.
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This is Wayne at his finest: It's implicit that he's going to maximize the thrill of what he is talking about in the way that he raps it.
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She sings in an airy sustain, raps with calm certainty and concocts electronic tracks that flaunt their repetitiveness even as they stack up additional parts in the mix.
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But even though her volume rarely goes above piano, Noname has attitude and depth to spare as she raps over asymmetrical grooves that have a live, unprocessed sound.
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"It's a totally different world, a totally different life," Muzi Raps, whose real name is Mustafa Jaber, said of his friends in West Jerusalem, which is predominantly Jewish.
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Even if they don't submit to the contest, you can use it to help guide students toward creating stronger raps, or even to give them an assignment grade.
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In front of him are a binder, loose sheets of paper and the little nub of a gavel he raps when it is time to declare a break.
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On "Real Friends," one of the strongest tracks on the new album, West raps about swooping in for a family reunion, then wondering why it doesn't feel right.
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He raps in a way that's so engrossing that you become personally invested in the situations he describes, and his bars are intricate and endlessly entertaining to untangle.
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Across the record, vocalist Danny Orlowski barks, raps, and groans lyrics about private traumas, public injustices, and—most frequently—the violence that the world exerts on the vulnerable.
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RUSSONELLO This full-length song from Tierra Whack keeps things minimal, as she sings and raps over a two-bar, two-chord loop, plus or minus a drumbeat.
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When he raps, "So many doubt 'cause I come from the South / but when I open up my mouth, all bullets come out," he's throwing down the gauntlet.
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Over glinting synth keys and swirling atmospherics, Buddy, weary of flimsy industry promises and battling regret, raps and sings at the intersection of rap, R&B, and gospel.
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"I used to watch Priyanka Chopra in movies, now we having girl's night and popping booties," Singh, dressed as her YouTube mom, raps in one of her videos.
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" That last one, with its SoundCloud parody beat, detaches itself when he raps, "4chan on my dick cuz I'm edgy / Sit ya pale ass down, have a Pepsi.
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"Gunplay in my residentials, blood that's evident / You know what niggas charging for a body, shoot a estimate / Rubberband choking the mozzy, we gon' forever grip," Mozzy raps.
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On the narcoleptic Young Nudy collaboration "We Outta Here," he raps: "Your boyfriend a maggot / Prolly is a…" A tired homophobic slur is replaced by a sitcom bleep.
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" KENDRICK LAMAR CALLS OUT WHITE FAN AFTER SHE RAPS N-WORD Last month, a white fan did not skip the N-word while rapping Lamar&aposs 2012 hit "M.
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Sonically, fans can expect more of the same from Quan on his new tracks, a mixture of hard raps and soft croons over stuttering hi-hats and booming kicks.
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The duo barely ever share the same video screen, because their two purposes are very separate: Jay-Z raps about his own accomplishments, and Beyoncé wows with her dancing.
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Lil Chano is known for his gospel-esque raps and steadfast position as an independent artist, but he also has a lot of love for his hometown of Chicago.
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Angelica, who stands center stage as she raps, "I've been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine / So men say that I'm intense or I'm insane," is the rebellious one.
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To further prove his apparent growth, Paul deleted a video in which he raps about "riding your girl with no handlebars," explaining afterward that it no longer represents him.
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"Do it long bro with a back stroke / My hormones jumpin' like a disco" Elliott raps on "Sock It 2 Me" with a bottomless reserve of confidence and charm.
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Now, Wu is a month shy of his debut LP, Antares, and he dives into what he wants his legacy to be on the new installment of Noisey Raps.
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I feel like a lot of the guys who come in here relate to him a lot, relate to the things he talks about, the girls he raps about.
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Also he raps at one point, in what has to be the high-water mark of awkward "won't it be funny to make this character rap" scenes in cinema.
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"So many truths go untold / so much proof that something big is about to unfold," he raps minutes later, jazzy piano and a hazy experimental beat underpinning his words.
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Dee-1 raps about being late on his loans after graduating because he "wasn't making quite enough to pay 'em back," and messing up his credit ("Check my Equifax").
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Whack's discography may not be full of high-energy party songs, but when she raps over dance tracks like Mr. Cheeks' "Lights, Camera, Action!" she certainly finds that energy.
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In this episode of Noisey Raps, we return to his hometown neighborhood in Redlands, California and he shows us where he came from, and where he hopes to go.
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The Raps just barely finished outside the top 10 on defense, with only 0.4 points per 100 possessions separating their No. 11-ranked unit from the No. 10 Cavs.
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In the summer of 2015, Jacksonville, Florida, rapper MobSquad Nard garnered national attention with the release of his song, "Right Ni," a bouncy track where Nard relentlessly raps throughout.
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In the 2006 video, Stephens raps a passionate plea for people to visit his flea market, which he also swears up and down was just like a mini mall.
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Gucci Mane also shows up and raps his guest verse, which doesn't seem to have much to do with the rest of what's going on but hey, it's Guwop.
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Barring Ye's opening verse, the song is more or less the same, except for a random trap outro where Travis raps and moans about lean and various drugs. Yup.
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Produced by Mike WiLL Made-It and Ted Walton, Jay Rock raps double-time over the heavy beat, while Future channels Juicy J's flow in a hilariously high pitch.
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Soon after, under advisement from his older cousin, he purchased a microphone, laptop, and speakers, and began recording raps in his bedroom in his grandmother's side of the duplex.
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He raps about cowboys to city slickers, who consider themselves authentic because they've visited at least three ranches on vacation, and attended at least one rodeo or NASCAR rally.
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As in Mr. Nguyen's other works, everyone speaks in a modern voice and raps — and no one speaks with "an Asian accent," part of his fight against minority stereotypes.
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The loop behind him is a wordless, minor-key chorale; his tone is suspicious and hardheaded: "They don't want the soil, just the oil that's beneath that," Belly raps.
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Young visitors can also listen to raps that are delivered by houses and buildings in Meriem Bennani's video piece "Neighborhood Goggles" and make paper puppets inspired by those structures.
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For about five minutes, much of it aimed directly to the camera, he raps about the futility of the drug game, about the hopelessness that leads to poor decisions.
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"Best boyband since One Direction," raps Kevin Abstract on Brockhampton's SATURATION III track "BOOGIE" (which, as it happens, is more infectious than a particularly virulent strain of the flu).
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To go deeper with writing rhymes and raps in the classroom, explore Flocabulary's Lyric Lab, a tool that provides students with rhyming word suggestions and definitions as they write.
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Every now and then, I used to take a half of one, but I say it in my raps because I might pop one and that's what's going on.
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"I was feeling so psychotic with the whole world excited for me and my idols saying I got it," Mensa raps, a weary young soul with timeworn problems. ♦
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" Snoop Dogg raps in the opening lines of the single from his new album of the same name, that "the president said he wants to make American great again.
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On his 2016 album, "Nat Love," and the more recent EP "Grey," Mr. Collins raps and sings with subtlety and aplomb; these are releases that demand, and reward, attention.
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He's strong on "HOOPTI" when he admits he's not always OK. "Sometimes I break down, break down, break down, old hoopti," he raps, likening himself to an old car.
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Here, Mr. Lucas raps both sides of a racial divide — a right-wing white man tries to make his case to a black man, who then offers his reply.
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"You blow a lot of smoke, scared to move," the vocalist Brendan Yates shout-raps over popping snares and slow-swung bass guitar, which hammer with a blacksmith's touch.
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As for Cardi's feelings -- she's always included her real-life drama in her raps, so she thinks keeping the lyrics in is the only way to keep it real.
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"It's a bet upon an endless," he raps, noting that wherever he goes next, it's bound to give him a better chance than the subjugation he'd experienced back home.
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As far as character transitions go, it's not a bad one, even if it did generally seem to, ahem, blunt his edges when it came to writing blistering raps.
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She raps the whole thing in Slovenian over a minimal beat, and it threatens to break into another big Katy Perry chorus, but drops back into her bars instead.
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She grinded and did everything herself, she's still independent, she set up her own label, her own clothing line with the rappers she raps with, she takes them on shows.
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Or the authority with which he raps, "Before Benihana's it was canned goods / before canned goods it was Similac / I'm from where they send shots then we send 'em back"?
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" There's also a shot at Eric Benet on the album opener, "Killing Jay Z." Hov raps, "You almost went Eric Benet/ Let the baddest girl in the world get away.
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One is a holding pattern; well-crafted Murda Beatz/Metro Boomin/Zaytoven beats with ghostly Quavo vocals and machine-gun raps from Offset and Takeoff, just like the first Culture.
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"Your dad's at the end of his rope/ I'm sliding down a slippery slope/ Anyway, sweetie, I better go, I'm getting sleepy … Love, Dad, s—, I don't know," he raps.
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In his trademark booming voice, Khaled belts out, "Nip, talk to 'em!" before the 33-year-old, dressed in a blue suit, raps into one of the cameras on set.
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Husky, who raps in Russian and whose songs have at times been critical of the government, said his concerts were under pressure because authorities objected to lyrics they found offensive.
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Baltimore's Lor Choc has amassed wide admiration in the local scene for her ability to tap into what's ailing her most and translating it into hearty singing and autobiographical raps.
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Run the Jewels: RTJ3 (Self-Released) "Fear's been law for so long that rage feels like therapy," raps lost angry man El-P as if it just occurred to him.
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