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.
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Examples for "rap "
Examples for "rap "
1 Sports metaphors are often used in rap music; basketball ones in particular.
2 He saw a challenge in the all-female rap crews' path to success.
3 Similar thoughts power Text Me's beautiful blend of rap and blue-eyed soul.
4 That's a rap : is hip-hop entering a new golden age of cinema?
5 And that's the most important thing here: Wayne can no longer rap .
1 The second orifice, spitting and snarling as it continues to take form.
2 Many fine folk were spitting feathers at Saturday's result, writes Killian Doyle.
3 Machine guns were deadly and swept every approach, every house spitting fire.
4 They chewed and talked at the same time, spitting bits of food.
5 On all sides, thousands of guns were spitting steel at the attackers.
1 I remember the name - the power of a good rhyming title!
2 He and his rhyming partners are still rectifying misconceptions about them today.
3 It was really enthralling and the rhyming element really added to it.
4 A Chippendale, perhaps, with rhyming birthday wishes for some hapless unfortunate inside.
5 I think of Candor's rhyming song, which calls us the cruelest faction.
1 Geraldo Rivera shares the emceeing chores with his ABC colleague John Johnson.
2 Did I mention that Patton Oswalt is emceeing the whole thing?
3 To quote Preemo himself: Dynasty brought back the skill of female emceeing while looking beautiful at the same time.
4 And there was Hanna, emceeing last year's Rosewood Day charity fashion show, when she really should've been a model herself.
5 For those who just discovered you on To Pimp a Butterfly, can you share with us what drew you to hip-hop and emceeing ?
1 Sports metaphors are often used in rap music ; basketball ones in particular.
2 Why do you think sporting metaphors are so effective in rap music ?
3 This was the age of video games and rap music , after all.
4 The challenges for rap music in the region may be closer to home.
5 Better known for his rap music , Tumi also writes poetry and spoken word.
1 So come the end of the night, after all those scotches and MCing , I was stoked.
2 When her career took off, Garland stayed in Christchurch, forming The Playboys and MCing in a local nightclub.
3 You can find him most nights at a comedy gig somewhere either MCing , performing, or helping put the chairs out.
4 So the distinction doesn't lie between hip-hop and rap, but between those who are MCing and those who just happen to rap.
5 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.
6 Daley rose to fame after MCing on a track with the controversial group So Solid Crew, some of whose gigs have been marred by violence.
7 Feel incredibly disappointed to be asked to step down from MCing the Green Party campaign launch, apparently at the request of one of their MPs.
8 She rose to fame after MCing on a track with the controversial garage band, So Solid Crew, whose gigs have sometimes been marred by violence.
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