| For gangster rappers, criminal charges can be a way of gaining credibility on the street, street cred. |
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| Now top rappers began to write edgy lyrics celebrating street warfare or drugs and promiscuity. |
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| What drives a lot of rappers is this kind of ceaseless entrepreneurial spirit. |
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| Conveniently, local rappers don't even have to leave the city to do just that. |
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| Does he mean that Federation Square is hostile, like rappers trash-talk their enemies? |
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| I'm one of three rappers starring in the film Rap Dreams, directed by Kevin Epps. |
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| Abroad, the cultural influence has been vast, from The Beachcombers' Relic, to rappers, bums and crooks the world over. |
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| These chambers sometimes get so hot that the rappers have stripped down to their skivvies to record. |
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| He says rappers at Flow are starting to support each other and to collaborate with artists outside their crew. |
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| Impossible as it is to believe, these are rappers who never mention their own names. |
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| They still had a deal in Japan and put together an album featuring guest singers and rappers while they pondered their next move. |
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| Does anybody else remember the Bone Thugs actually being reasonably good, edgy, topical rappers? |
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| Their heroes are rappers and members of violent gangs such as the Young Americans, the Mafia, the Firm, and Hard Livings. |
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| Old school rappers freestyled about everything, and they rap about different issues. |
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| Some rappers tentatively repeated rehearsed lines, while others effortlessly freestyled. |
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| Public Enemy's Chuck D is constantly calling on rappers to live up to their potential rather than down to expectations. |
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| There's a lot of people out there who are calling themselves rappers but they're not really down. |
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| His son started a music career there and was recognized by other rappers within a West Coast hip-hop strain called hyphy. |
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| He writes about the alternative music scene for an underground magazine, and hangs out with the likes of rappers and punk bands. |
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| Of course it's a joke with a limited shelf-life, but these Welsh rappers were occasionally very funny. |
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| From the chorus to the rappers students gave their all, bringing weeks of hard work to fruition. |
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| Somewhat more successful are the cuts with guest rappers, most notably a few with the woefully under appreciated Jean Grae. |
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| Since American pop culture reveres stardom, rappers often garner more attention and respect than they deserve. |
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| There aren't many rappers who can pull off an everyday wardrobe of tweed, turtle necks and tailored jackets. |
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| Word is Will has been impressed by Australia's flourishing Hip-Hop scene and plans on introducing Antipodean rappers to the rest of the world. |
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| Pick up a newspaper and it's all rappers and rude boys toting guns and tooting coke. |
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| He lambastes overanxious pop rappers, racial tension, and society's preconceptions in a nasal hopscotch speed rap over frantic instrumentals. |
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| The two U.S rappers died after they were both gunned down in separate incidences by gang rivals. |
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| He is upping the ante with a collection of scatological ditties that would make more than a few gangsta rappers blush. |
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| If you listen to most rhymes of rappers they always remind me of the rhymes of Alexander Pope, the English poet. |
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| The worship of money and bling is hardly restricted to rappers and athletes. |
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| There were punkers, teenyboppers, preppies, freaks, neutral crowd, rappers, and more. |
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| Parker also sneered at efforts by other rappers to get young people to vote. |
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| Can anyone point to a rapper or group of rappers that are willing or even capable of doing all of this? |
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| Not all black people are rappers or video hosts, and racism still does exist. |
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| Besides, there aren't many white rappers who can truly be taken seriously. |
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| While gangstas expend their energy promoting fashion labels or flogging sneakers, even the grimiest rappers are positively buffed by Jamaican standards. |
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| That was amply demonstrated during the recent feud between rappers T.I. and Azealia Banks. |
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| A truly original approach might be to portray the second-century b.c. Maccabees speaking like rappers. |
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| Plenty of rappers give lip service to the same things but usually as a means to celebrating overcoming long odds. |
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| Radio Radio burned up the dance floor at the Impérial de Québec as the trio of funky rappers unleashed their electro hip-hop. |
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| In Chicago, you have rappers like Chief Keef posing with guns, and the young kids there emulate that. |
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| All the big men shop here, from reverends to rappers, the Eagles and their rotund coach, a few extra-large Sixers, visiting players and others from the super-wealthy set. |
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| Indeed they are rappers, but above all they have recently affected the world of electronic music in one way or another. |
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| More than 300 breakers and poppers, beat boxers and rappers turned out. |
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| Compared with other rappers, you are often praised for your complex rhyme schemes. |
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| Ask participants to identify the colors, styles and tags used by gangs, rappers, ra vers and preps. |
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| As more rappers caught onto the trend, and rapped about it, the dance shifted to the mainstream. |
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| And its artistic heritage is rich: abstract expressionists, beat writers, rappers, gods of graffiti such as Jean-Michel Basquiat. |
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| Writing on hip hop and rap culture, we must consider Eminem as one of the most important rappers out there. |
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| The black British music scene is dominated by rappers with Ghanaian heritage – Tinchy Stryder, Dizzee Rascal and Sway. |
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| He's one of the most phenomenally skilled rappers in the game today. |
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| With Southern and Midwestern rappers rising to prominence over the past few years, the birthplace of hip-hop has only constituted about a third of rap radio playlists. |
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| I still feel rappers aren't given a chance to say that these are just feelings. |
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| Images of skateboarders and rappers in baggy shorts – cargo shorts even – dominated the media until last year. |
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| The women who are selected in these portraits are female rappers that have contributed to molding hip-hop music in United States and Canada. |
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| Fadi is the art director and manager of Darg Team while Madi is one of the rappers in the same group. |
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| Cantonese, with its individual characters, also forces rappers to adopt a staccato lyricism. |
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| Besides, I was tired with these wack rappers claiming to be this and that. |
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| The pantheon of legendary female rockers and rappers is woefully small. |
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| Just up the street from the breakdancers were the freestyle rappers. |
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| Of the eight rappers that Shaw follows over the course of a year, one winds up dead, one gets a record deal, and the rest end up exactly where they started. |
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| When you're one of the greatest rappers in the world, you're going to be facing some pressure when you're releasing the first solo album of your career. |
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| Like Edgar, he remembers a unique time when American rappers came down and performed at the Primer Festival de Rap Cubano. |
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| First, there is a strong attitudinizing on the part of rappers in France. |
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| Indeed, perhaps this current crop of silver spoon rappers would do well to look to a previous generation of Hollywood rappers. |
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| She knows full well that some rappers sit in relative safety while stoking the violence. |
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| Pac may not be as verbose as other rappers of his time, but his flow is intricate, and complicated to replicate. |
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| In the photographs that accompany the article, the rappers appear virtually indistinguishable from street thugs, with the sullen stare of the unintelligently angry. |
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| And when rappers battle one another with their wits and words, it is similar to the bam-pow! |
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| He was one of the first rappers to rock a polo shirt, and he attends high-end fashion shows. |
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| A surprising number of parochial Brit rappers have emerged in its wake, notably Dizzee Rascal, squawking his stories of knife-waving psychosis and urban blight. |
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| If all these rappers were the gangstas they say they are, let's see them walk into a ghetto and talk about busting caps. |
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| His lyrics demand respect, and his percussive flow and musical genius have definitely earned him the reputation among the top French-language rappers. |
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| It is also the stomping-ground of gangsta rappers, who rhapsodise about killing cops, and gang-bangers, who believe in the death penalty for sartorial errors. |
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| In the Ivory Coast, the rappers dress expensively. |
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| Kanye was the high point by some chalk, taking the anger of Yeezus and ramping it up for the club, and cementing grime as the cloth that credible rappers love to drape themselves in. |
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| The disrespect in question was a suggestion that the judge perform fellatio on him. Fans love rappers partly because they strike such a confrontational pose. |
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| It comes as no surprise to find a new generation of Marseilles rappers preparing to follow in the supergroups' wake, but in recent months a totally unexpected phenomenon has emerged on the local music scene: techno! |
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| It's an old trick and it nearly always sells records... go and ask all the rappers who swear on their records all the time, if it depressed the record sales they would soon stop doing it. |
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| The debate about rap music and video games trundles on, even though the murder rate has tumbled nationwide and many of those frightening rappers have become middle-aged entrepreneurs. |
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| Sinatra's unfortunate flirtations with the Mafia later on — much like the gangsta affectations of many rappers — had more to do with being a wannabe, an idolator, than any actual mob affiliation. |
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| Met De La Soul in New York, nicest rappers I've ever met. |
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| Assassin saw itself virtually put out in front of the underground rappers. |
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| Actually, from now on I only intend working with rappers and slammers. |
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| But there he was in the VIP box at the MTV Europe awards last week, perched above the mere rock stars, tapping his toes as white rappers in baggy trousers and pop divas in skimpy leather strutted their stuff. |
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| The Wu-Tang Clan, fellow American rappers, listed the price of one of their CDs in euros rather than dollars on their official website. Today the euro has lost much of its glamour, gangsta or otherwise. |
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| Soon, thanks to the wonders of the sampler, the Amen break was providing rhythmic heft for rappers, although usually in fairly rudimentary fashion. |
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| At some stage in the nineteenth century, the rigid swords were replaced by flexible rappers. |
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| At the time, Outkast was really rocked-the-fuck-out, and The Strokes were kind of the flyest dudes in the city, more than rappers. |
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| Today will feature the Magick Carnival show on Llwyn Isaf, hula-hooping on Queens Square and puppets and rappers at Eagles Meadow. |
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| Of course no such thing happened, but for a little while there he was sounding like Tipper Gore and C. Delores Tucker, withstanding potshots from rappers and their producers and being made fun of by people of all walks. |
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| A lot of French rappers have refused to grow old behind the mike. |
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| Lil Phat was part of the Trill Entertainment family, which includes rappers Lil Boosie, Webbie, Foxx, Mouse, Lil Trill, KaDe and Shell. |
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| I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers. |
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| As the label's name no doubt implies, these rappers aren't your typical crew, even if they still like to floss and represent their city. |
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| For all of these rappers claiming to live the thug life, there's really no difference. |
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| The rappers appreciated the facilitation of the workshop by the WCYs and decided to support the AMWCY at both local and regional levels through their songs. |
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| Hip-hop singers and rappers have always been masters of the sampling, working on loops or rhythmic sections of older pop songs that become clever support to their texts. |
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| He says FIRK Gang, the crew of classmates from junior college he runs with, counts 16 members, including rappers, videographers and friends. |
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| Here, future song-writers, singers, rappers, DJs, instrumentalists and music producers meet future music managers and marketing experts in the music sector. |
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| The difference is that gangsta rappers often identify themselves as the criminals, and are proud of their unreformability. |
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| In collaboration with the Café St-Louis de Gonzague, numerous slammers, rappers, musicians and poets will, under your very eyes and ears, bring to life the language of the street. |
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| Law Cash Advance Firm reports 50 Cent, Fetty Wap, and The Game are the latest rappers in the news involving legal news. |
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| The rappers, displaying their talents on Tyneside this week, are the latest proponents of the North East tradition of rapper sword dancing. |
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| Farrakhan has long held relationships with famous rappers and hip-hop artists. |
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| White rappers are always difficult to comprehend, difficult to deal with. |
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| Tuffy can't help but bring echoes of rappers like Biggie Smalls to mind. |
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| Word is, everyone from models, rappers and actors including Heidi Klum, Cindy Crawford and Jennifer Aniston are going crazy for Ciroc, the chic new starchless vodka. |
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| He's one of my favourite musicians, lyricists, rappers, of all time. |
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| A lot of these rappers that come in here could break out in a major way if they wasn't so busy slanging and bangin' and acting like a bunch of fooligans. |
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