rap music


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Synonyms for rap music

genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment

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He wrote: 'Sorry for your girl's involvement in the whole thing Ghana Rap Music lives on.'
Speaking to ANI, Rahul Rajkhowa said, aACoeI started protesting through my rap music when I was in JNU, as lot of people were unaware of what was happening inside JNU because it was easy to brand JNU as completely a communist campus.
As change in society emerged, so did the significance of rap music.
class="MsoNormalFather Ogalo also said he uses rap music to persuade young people to shun drugs and instead turn their attention to environmental and social justice issues.
According to the Catholic Herald, Ogallo said the rap music is taking care of the interests of youths in our churches.
Mteezy said he was inspired to sing rap music by many rap artistes locally such as Zeus, Dramaboi, and international rappers such as the late US Rap star Tupac Shakur and Snoop Doggy Dog.
--Barbara Dority, "The War on Rock and Rap Music," SEPT/OCT1990
Rhys Caldon from a broken family says good rap music is about 
a good set of lyrics coupled with a beautiful beat and melody.
Byline: After performing at Evolution Emerging, ABSORB talks to SARAH JEFFERY about rap music
Stevens, 58, was so wound up by loud rap music played "day and night" by fellow inmates he fled his jail, a court heard.
That's the cornerstone of rap music. Every rapper has some braggadocio and some machismo to them.
Between the early 1990s and the mid-2000s rap music and hip hop culture surged in popularity in Cuba.
For the 41-year-old Common, that underscores concerns that the edgy rap music of the generation of rappers that came behind him is not only providing the soundtrack for gangs, but might just be helping to fuel the fire of gang violence.