This time, he beat the likes of Eminem and 50 Cent to win best rap song and best rap album, plus best solo rap performance.
Then again, he also lost twice Sunday when Jay-Z and Kanye West beat him in the best rap song and best rap performance categories.
The win came after victories for Jay-Z and West for best rap song and best rap performance for "... in Paris, " another "Watch the Throne" track.
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.
"I listen to rap and fusion music, but mostly rap, and especially Si Simo because he's from this neighborhood, " said a local man.
"When we first started, people said, straight up, you can't rap in Chinese, Chinese does not work for rap, " Johnston says.
He and Rubin famously discovered a young rap artist named LL Cool J and signed the first major white rap group, the Beastie Boys.
Though Horowitz himself is a noted rap aficionado, he and Andreessen took the plunge because they believe Rap Genius has implications far beyond the hip-hop world, ones that could change the way people interact with information across the entire web.
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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".
However, during that last quarter of the hour, the deejay begins to play either rap, rock or, you know, some sort of dance music, and the dance floor always gets packed during the rap portion of the hour.
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.
The survey asked whether people think that hip-hop and rap are a positive influence on society or a negative influence on society, and majorities of all groups - blacks, whites and Hispanics - agreed that hip-hop has had a bad influence on society, most particularly the rap portion of hip-hop.
Youth participate in peer-mentorship activities and are encouraged to write and rap about their feelings.
Above ground, the fabulously funky Q Brothers will perform their hip hop-rap act Othello: The Remix.
So how many calls and texts does a top-selling, in-demand rap star actually respond to?
Ms. LO: Actually, rap and hip-hop are big also with dance, soul and reggae.
The two members of the rap group Outkast conceived and produced the new film Idlewild.
He also supports corporate venture capital, which he says has gotten a bad rap.
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The rap on converting to server-based has long been that it was big business complicated.
The rap on this master southpaw was that he didn't consistently face top-notch opposition.
The duo had surprising maturity in their rap delivery, though the song was written by Dupri.
The younger of my two brothers, Luke, went to Atlanta to pursue dreams of rap stardom.
The country also produces punk rock, girl groups and rap, each with its own sound.
It's been more than two decades since the south Los Angeles rap crew N.
Reverse mortgages have a bad rap, says Jack Guttentag, a professor emeritus at Wharton.
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The 54-year-old former rap and reality TV star, whose legal name is William Jonathan Drayton Jr.
The presentation included a live jazz band performance and spoken word and rap performances by inmates.
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Brian (Baby) Williams, a 28-year-old rap star from New Orleans, is obsessed with Burberry .
In the 1970s, musicians began mixing flamenco with jazz, rock, blues, rap and other genres.
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