"I picked up rap records because rappers seemed to me like they ... could be great orators, so I would listen to them, " he says.
As we drove through the Holland Tunnel and began to distance ourselves from the city, I jammed in the first of the compiled rap tapes I'd made, and the boombox sounded superb.
"I listen to rap and fusion music, but mostly rap, and especially Si Simo because he's from this neighborhood, " said a local man.
They accepted me into the partner program, which was good timing, because just after that I published the Skyrim rap video, which completely dwarfed the popularity of anything else I had done before that.
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Ms. PURNELL: Well, I feel that, basically, the rap portion of hip-hop does have a negative impact, but also what I would like to state is that there's positive rap out there however it's not being pushed into mainstream as the negative side of it.
So if I went on to rap about it in Kashmiri, that would be useless.
When it comes to Glover and to misogyny in rap, I have less to say.
Growing up listening to a heavy dose of hip-hop and rap, I naturally idolized my urban heroes.
This has been done so many times by so many people that I am ashamed to manfully rap this dead equine.
"I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now, " the newspaper quoted him as saying.
You know, I've been to rap concerts where there were white rappers and completely white audiences, and they're not rapping about, you know, the kind of traditional hip-hop concerns about what life is like in the African-American community.
"We'll have to plead our case one way or the other, but I think we can beat the rap, " Mr Deeley said.
A., Roxanne Shante, Queen Latifah and others, but when I want to hear a lady rap, my selection to choose from remains pretty slim.
And by the time I reached elementary school in Baltimore, rap hit big time.
Gradually I started to realize, gaming and rap are not that different.
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Deloitte, I think, is getting a bum rap in this lawsuit.
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Ms. YVONNE BYNOE (Author, Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture): I think it's very important.
And unlike my younger siblings, '80s and '90s babies, I do remember the days when radio played fun rap.
And that let me know that I wasn't the only cowboy that like rap music as well as country music.
Nas (Rap Artist): (Singing) I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.
"For ten years I overachieved, " Martin says, responding to his rap on Wall Street as a serial overpromiser.
When I asked Birdman for his predictions in the non-rap categories, he shrugged.
My life would surely be much more amusing if I were living in his fictitious Bacchanalia with a gangsta-rap soundtrack.
Afro-centric rap, gutter rap, jazzy rap and educational rap all in one 60-minute segment, I remember when you had to have skills to be put on as an emcee.
Under the circumstances, even though I was paying for this ride, I felt unable to ask this clearly sensitive man to turn down his deafening rap music.
Now, I'm sure all of you have heard your fair share of critique of rap and hip-hop.
Ms. NELSON: Well, I am of the opinion that it does have a negative influence on the society, but I think people are discounting the positive aspects of people who are trying to use hip-hop - not necessarily rap - as a vehicle for change.
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