Holder told reporters, "If this bill becomes law, people like John Gotti, who beat the rap at his first trials, and John Hinckley and John DeLorean, who were also acquitted, could wind up with big taxpayer checks".
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Here Negredo creates its albums, as well as letting local kids try their hands at recording rap songs.
To compile the Cash Kings list, which charts pretax earnings for all living artists whose work is primarily classified as hip-hop or rap, we looked at income from touring, record sales, publishing, films, merchandise sales, endorsements and other ventures.
Their angry - if interestingly anti-materialistic - rap stems from their frustration at attempting to break into the music industry in Africa.
Diddy, the hard-partying rap entrepreneur, who owns at least two Bentleys.
The performances of the 25 finalists were as diverse as ever with emotional ballads, mock opera, classic pop and a half-hearted attempt at some hybrid-rap.
John Ewbank's music, which starts gently and at one point bursts into rap, was labelled "overproduced" by one critic who condemned the rap segment as "dreadful".
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He won best rap album for "Tha Carter III" at the 2008 Grammy awards and took home three more Grammys the next year.
He won best rap album for "Tha Carter III" at the 2008 Grammy awards, and took home three more Grammys the following year.
Reverse mortgages have a bad rap, says Jack Guttentag, a professor emeritus at Wharton.
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"The rap stars like to pull up and just look at you, " says Milliner, typically nonplussed.
"It definitely sank in when Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne were tweeting at me, " she said of the rap stars.
"No one is better at brand extensions than Puffy Combs, the rap star, " says Robert La Franco, author of the Combs profile on page 180.
When 50 signed to Interscope, it was with the backing of both Dr. Dre and Eminem, who were at that time the most influential musicians in rap music. (Having once been the future themselves, they thought they could predict it.) "Wanksta, " from the No Mercy, No Fear mixtape, ended up on the 8 Mile soundtrack, and 50 was off to the races.
Chris Kelly, one half of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross, has died in an Atlanta hospital at the age of 34.
He also sees endorsements as an opportunity not only to help fund tours and album parties (and host an award ceremony for his top fans at the celebration, during which he presented awards to Rap Genius and others), but to personally hold major companies accountable for their practices.
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Concerns were raised following a double shooting at an after-show party held there by the controversial rap collective So Solid Crew.
The rap on the most accurate earnings estimators is that they tend to be Excel jockeys, more adept at spreadsheets than market-timing heroics.
The 31-year-old also defended the rap by Dizzee Rascal which appears towards the end of the new version, saying it was aimed at a younger audience.
Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo who made "Jump" one of the decade's most memorable songs, died in Atlanta at age 34.
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