Musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment.
Sports metaphors are often used in rap music; basketball ones in particular.
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He saw a challenge in the all-female rap crews' path to success.
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Similar thoughts power Text Me's beautiful blend of rap and blue-eyed soul.
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That's a rap: is hip-hop entering a new golden age of cinema?
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And that's the most important thing here: Wayne can no longer rap.
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The second orifice, spitting and snarling as it continues to take form.
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Many fine folk were spitting feathers at Saturday's result, writes Killian Doyle.
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Machine guns were deadly and swept every approach, every house spitting fire.
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They chewed and talked at the same time, spitting bits of food.
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On all sides, thousands of guns were spitting steel at the attackers.
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I remember the name - the power of a good rhyming title!
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He and his rhyming partners are still rectifying misconceptions about them today.
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It was really enthralling and the rhyming element really added to it.
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A Chippendale, perhaps, with rhyming birthday wishes for some hapless unfortunate inside.
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I think of Candor's rhyming song, which calls us the cruelest faction.
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So come the end of the night, after all those scotches and MCing, I was stoked.
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When her career took off, Garland stayed in Christchurch, forming The Playboys and MCing in a local nightclub.
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You can find him most nights at a comedy gig somewhere either MCing, performing, or helping put the chairs out.
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So the distinction doesn't lie between hip-hop and rap, but between those who are MCing and those who just happen to rap.
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Grime by its very nature is deliberately amateur-sounding, the original signature just an eight-bar loop with someone MCing over the top of it.
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Sports metaphors are often used in rapmusic; basketball ones in particular.
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Why do you think sporting metaphors are so effective in rapmusic?
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This was the age of video games and rapmusic, after all.
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The challenges for rapmusic in the region may be closer to home.
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Better known for his rapmusic, Tumi also writes poetry and spoken word.
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Geraldo Rivera shares the emceeing chores with his ABC colleague John Johnson.
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Did I mention that Patton Oswalt is emceeing the whole thing?
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To quote Preemo himself: Dynasty brought back the skill of female emceeing while looking beautiful at the same time.
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And there was Hanna, emceeing last year's Rosewood Day charity fashion show, when she really should've been a model herself.
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For those who just discovered you on To Pimp a Butterfly, can you share with us what drew you to hip-hop and emceeing?
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Apple this morning announced that CEO Steve Jobs will be emceeing the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on June 7 in San Francisco.
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It's a nice reminder that there are still some emceeing-ass MCs in the world who care more about being lyrically superior than material possessions.
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King Kapisi travels the country attending speaking engagements and says it's through music, hip hop culture, emceeing and sport that he connects with young people.
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His emceeing abilities is high level. The 13-date Nobody Smiling tour kicked off November 21 and wraps up in New York City on December 10.