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  Rapping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rappers often showcase their skills by competing in freestyle battles in which they ridicule their opponents with improvised rhymes.
Rappers use double entendres, alliteration, and all other forms of wordplay that are also found in classical poetry.
The current record for fastest rapper is held by MC Ricky Brown, who rapped 723 syllables in 51.27 seconds (14.1 syllables per second) on his track "No Clue" at BandG Studios on January 15, 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rapper   (3722 words)

  
 Sister Souljah moment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clinton's Sister Souljah moment, whether born of political calculation or not, was consonant with his larger strategy to move the Democratic Party to a more centrist stance on many issues.
Clinton went on to win the presidency, and the term Sister Souljah moment subsequently entered the political lexicon.
In October 1999, Texas Governor George W. Bush, a candidate for the 2000 Republican nomination for the presidency speaking before the conservative Manhattan Institute, said, "Too often, on social issues, my party has painted an image of America slouching toward Gomorrah," quoting the title of a book by conservative jurist Robert Bork.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sister_Souljah_moment   (371 words)

  
 CD Baby: MR. LEXICON: Foreign Policy
Lexicon across the seas, and the group began their long journey to The United States.
Lexicon is releasing their debut full-length album Foreign Policy on December 14th.
Rappers who actually sound a little different than every other rapper out there are a rarity these days, and DJ Iced Grille has a fresh and eclectic approach to his beats, sampling the most unlikely of sources with profound effect.
www.cdbaby.com /mrlexicon2   (692 words)

  
 In the World with Hiphop and Heidegger | Arts | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
The position of the rapper, the star of hiphop, is always "within-the-world." The rapper never sings in the third person, or looks at the world from a distance, objectively, but is always inside looking out.
Indeed, at their best, rappers stand in the world of the hiphop song and say to us, "This is my philosophy," as KRS-One famously put it.
Another philosophical expression rappers have at their disposal is "I'm feeling you." This expression has many uses.
www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=5164   (799 words)

  
 Lexicon - Band page with free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Lexicon is one of 2 emcees in the hip hop group, Sinistah Circle.
Brought up in an innercity environment, Lexicon is driven by his political flare to make changes in his community.
It works out well because a Lexicon is a list words with meaning and my main objective as a lyricist is to put out words with meaning behind them.
www.soundclick.com /bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=161229   (478 words)

  
 clevescene.com | News | What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
Rappers always rap about their drug-addicted, welfare-dependent mothers on the struggle.
Brains was the prototypical "hip-pop" rapper before rap was mainlined into white culture.
He was the dapper rapper with a sexy, nonthreatening message, just rapping for the honeys.
www.clevescene.com /Issues/2003-04-09/feature_full.html   (3534 words)

  
 MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | McDonald's takes the rap
While some rappers may be more than happy to name-check Bentley, Gucci and the fine range of weaponry made by Heckler & Koch in exchange for a discount on an armour-plated limousine, some shiny new bling and a fully loaded semi-automatic, they're not so keen to endorse greasy fried food from a white multinational corporation.
They forgot that it's not cool for a rapper, whose career depends on "keeping it real" to sell his soul to a white multinational corporation.
Even if it is their preferred breakfast, lunch and dinner of choice (and I'm reliably informed that the average US rapper keeps it real by maintaining a strict fast-food diet - particularly in the case of the late, great and self-evidently fat Notorious BIG).
media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,14173,1585246,00.html   (612 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/lexicon
Lexicon, along with producers Chris Lee and C-Minus, have captured that euphoric Friday night vibe that rewards those who toil through the workweek, longing for the youthful exuberance that this setting provides.
Mixing their broad range of influences from the Beastie Boys to The Strokes to A Tribe Called Quest to The Police, brothers Gideon and Nick Black flawlessly flow their way through the rich music, resulting in wildly entertaining slice of life songs that are relatable to anyone.
Known around LA for their extraordinarily energetic live shows and a genre-bending sound as sprawling as the city that shaped it, Lexicon supplies the soundtrack to life as it races by.
www.myspace.com /lexicon   (1277 words)

  
 MUSIC - Comcast.net
Rapper 50 Cent, front, performs with rapper The...
According to the documentary, Kelvin Darnell Martin was born July 24, 1964 in the Bronx and was raised by his paternal grandmother.
In the documentary, when asked what he'd say to his namesake if given the chance, the rapper stares into the camera and says, "You'll never be forgotten.
www.comcast.net /music/index.jsp?cat=MUSIC&fn=/2005/03/17/84038.html   (821 words)

  
 sfweekly.com | News | BeatBox
Lexicon -- Iced Grille, Tex Binder, and Ron Pipes III -- would appear to be the latest entry into the conscious rap scene.
Lexicon live show is endlessly engaging and draws from the unfermented (and at times self-destructive) energy of the Stooges.
That they're appearing on a new single with Common (the conscious rapper who shills for Coca-Cola) and Kanye West (aka your mother's favorite rapper) signals that the times may be changing.
www.sfweekly.com /issues/2005-02-09/beatbox.html   (419 words)

  
 KLUDGE MAGAZINE - C-Minus, Bobo, Lexicon, Swamp: West Hollywood, CA - Concert Review
On stage, hip hop underground sensation Lexicon comes to celebrate as well, playing a set for C-Minus who listens attentively while bowing his head up and down to the beats of Lexicon's DJ Cheapshot.
Lexicon also gracefully and skillfully plays a snippet from an Alkaholics' classic, showing their love for hip hop and impressing the crowd with their well done cover.
Watch out as this sensational duo, and their talented DJ continue to spread the word that Lexicon is here to stay, and here at Kludge, we break the news that they are the dopest of the underground, and you need to check them out.
www.kludgemagazine.com /concert.php?id=106   (723 words)

  
 Music as Movies | Music | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
The group doesn't announce to the world exactly where it is "straight outta," or revisit and represent the tough 'hoods where the rhymes were cultivated by "the strength of street knowledge," as NWA once put it.
For example, no one could make a song about the marvels of the Wonderbra except MC Solaar (Paradisiaque, 1997) because, one, he is a rapper, and, two, he comes from Paris, the city of high fashion.
Seattle rappers have often mentioned the rain and the area code (206), but no one has really made a beat that translates into Microsoft.
www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=9090   (771 words)

  
 B-Legit MP3 Downloads - B-Legit Music Downloads - B-Legit Music Videos
Veteran West Coast gangsta rapper MC Eiht dedicated much of his life to rap, beginning his seminal career with Compton's Most Wanted (CMW) while only a teenager.
Following the dissolution of Low Profile, a late-'80s West Coast MC/DJ partnership between WC and DJ Aladdin, the rapper formed WC and the Maad Circle and released a pair of albums, Ain't a Damn Thang Changed (1991) and Curb Servin' (1995).
Oakland rapper Dru Down debuted in 1994 with Explicit Game, scoring a hit with the single "Mack of the Year"; the record also served as a launching pad for his Bay Area cronies the Luniz.
www.mp3.com /b-legit/artists/28995/similar.html   (570 words)

  
 New York marathon has annual Indian contingent
So there is a special place in the city's lexicon of urban legends for the city marathon, which takes place every
This year the rapper and impresario P. Diddy (the artist formerly known as Puff Daddy) announced he would run to raise money for a children's charity.
The race is designed in such a way that it spans each of the city's five boroughs.
www.rediff.com /sports/2003/oct/31jeet.htm   (764 words)

  
 Modern Fix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
It’s a strong album from two rappers who are largely free from pretense and unabashedly admit their love for the art form--see "Charismatic Rapper," a nostalgic look back at their formative days as hip-hop marks.
Other highlights include the smash "Nikehead," Nick Fury’s shoe fetish confessional, and "The Official," which features Ryu of SOB, and is a banger based around jerky vocal cadences.
Lexicon's unofficial third member DJ Cheapshot holds it down on the production end, providing beats for ten of the album’s thirteen tracks, and even rapping for extra credit on the hilarious track, "Last Night My DJ Stole My Girl." Lexicon’s approach is often light-hearted, but their skills are real.
www.modernfix.com /hhreviews/cdlexicon.htm   (192 words)

  
 beer and rap: Mr Lexicon
Lexicon is "the foreign rap sensation" from some unknown country where everyone rocks mustaches that may or may not be made of real facial hair.
It's hard to actually figure out what country they are from because their accents sound like some strange forgotten eastern block shit.
I kind of just brush it off because I'm suspect of anyone I just meet on the street, much less a video store, that says they are a rapper.
beerandrap.com /2005/02/mr-lexicon.htm   (616 words)

  
 A lexicon of teen speak (10 Jun 2005)
A lexicon of teen speak (10 Jun 2005)
Society is more geared than ever to young people, but their slang - and the speed at which it changes - can be a mystery to those old enough to vote.
The main influences seem to be Creole patois and rapper slang.
www.usabilityviews.com /uv010036.html   (126 words)

  
 BV Soul & Spirit: Testimony- Testimony: B.G. - AOL Black Voices
If you know nothing else about New Orleans rapper B.G., know that he gave the English lexicon the term, "Bling Bling," the title of his 1999 hit song which was officially added to the Oxford English dictionary in 2003.
After a lengthy battle with heroin addiction, the 25-year-old says he's been sober for about two-and-a-half years (though he was just arrested on Dec. 23 for marijuana and gun possession) and mentions that a record deal with G-Unit South is "in the air," having left Cash Money Records.
New Orleans Rapper B.G. "But while we talking about faith and overcoming and being tested, this hurricane that my city and state and region went through, it couldn't have got no realer than that.
blackvoices.aol.com /black_lifestyle/soul_spirit_headlines_features/testimony/_a/testimony-bg/20051227171909990001   (509 words)

  
 BIOGRAPHY
The band already had a frontman and trading lead vocals with a rapper would put a completely different spin on things.
The result was a succession of high energy shows, which won over almost everyone who saw the band.
Producer Glenn Ballard fell in love with the band and recruited them for his forthcoming "Clubland" movie, building a complete scene around a performance of their song "Check" at Billboard Live, which will also be featured on the upcoming Java/Capitol soundtrack album.
www.zebrahead.org /bio.html   (1169 words)

  
 All About the Bling-Bling
Now the Oxford English Dictionary is about to officially induct it into the lexicon.
The hip-hop expression bling-bling, or sometimes just bling, has been popping up everywhere - television, radio, and newspapers - spoken and written by folks who are several steps removed from pop culture's cutting edge.
Coined in 1999 in a same-named song by a New Orleans rapper named B.G., bling-bling applies to big showy jewelry - the kind typified by razzle-dazzle designer Chris Aire that gets Lil' Kim's heart racing, sets off alarms at airports, and goes bling when it collides with other bling (hence the name).
www.homestead.com /hiphopx/blingbling.html   (858 words)

  
 Sleeveless T-shirt a contender for lexicon status as 'wife beater'
What's mysterious is how such a potentially offensive phrase managed to slip into the fashion lexicon so easily.
Mark-Evan Blackman, chairman of the menswear design department at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, remembers hearing "wife beater" used when he was growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s.
Rapper Eve sings about how good she looks in her "wife beater with a bangin' tan." And in the final scene of "8 Mile," Eminem mocks rival rapper Papa Doc for wearing one of the shirts, calling him "Snoop Dogg in a bra."
www.post-gazette.com /lifestyle/20021210wifebeaters1210p3.asp   (962 words)

  
 village voice > music > by Simon Reynolds
As for the nastiness, you only have to look at garage's current lexicon of superlatives— "gutter," "stinking," "disgusting," "thugsy"—to see where it's coming from.
In U.K. garage, they function as MC tools, designed to both enable and test the rapper, the most extreme riddims as buckwild challenging to ride as a mechanical bull.
Like its precursors dancehall and hip-hop, garage rap is capitalist competition at its most honestly brutal, a free market governed only by the fickleness of popular desire, a/k/a, the massive.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0306/reynolds.php   (1115 words)

  
 E! Online - Music - E-40 "My Ghetto Report Card"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
E-40 might be the only rapper whose albums deserve to come with a glossary.
And of course, he did so before anyone knew what the hell he was talking about--though the last one has yet to catch on.
Executive produced by his new label boss, Lil Jon, the disc is all about the "hyphy"--the West Coast's answer to "crunk." Tracks like "I'm da Man" and "Tell Me When to Go" make the two genres seem one and the same, built around booming Miami bass, futuristic electronic flourishes and enormous party-time choruses.
www.eonline.com /Reviews/Facts/Music/RevID/0,1107,3667,00.html   (242 words)

  
 Ludacris takes the high road with O'Reilly - MUSIC - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Halou make music that is earthy and airy, organic and dreamy, songs that surround you then suddenly take wing and fly away.
In one song, he called O’Reilly a “faggot,” a relatively mild “diss” in the hip-hop lexicon.
The beverages giant quickly dropped the spot, but it ended up donating $3 million to urban charities in the face of a threatened hip-hop boycott.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6720460   (600 words)

  
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Slick lexicon is hip hop's Magna Carta, establishing the rights of its disciples to speak loudly but privately, to tell America about herself in a language that leaves her puzzled.
www.stanford.edu /~rickford/L73/SS.Ch5.SingersToasters.rtf   (4034 words)

  
 Lexicon :: It's the L!! :: Spy Tech Records
Lexicon already made noise earlier this year with the underground sensation "Nikehead" - a dedication to every hip-hip head's addiction to their kicks.
Thanks to a tight beat by DJ Cheapshot along with a picture perfect Nas sample, this hilarious and worshipful ode to the leather on your feet was a huge smash.
If there is any stumbling block for Lexicon, it'll be whether heads are going to check for the humerous and well constructed raps of these brothers - these WHITE brothers.
www.rapreviews.com /archive/2001_08_itsthel.html   (684 words)

  
 MUSIC LEGENDS
He's also one of a series of rock stars who famously died young; he was 27 when he suffocated after ingesting wine and sleeping pills in 1970.
Born in jail to a former member of the Black Panther gang, rapper Tupac Shakur forged a prolific career in both music and cinema - releasing five albums and starring in five films before he was murdered in 1996, aged just 25.
During their brief but phenomenal period of fame, The Doors defined a sound which was a true melting-pot of influences - from psychedelic and avant garde rock, to improvised jazz with spoken word vocals - all thoroughly steeped in Morrison's colourful literacy and mysticism.
numberonestars.com /musiclegends   (784 words)

  
 Lexicon Issue 006 - UK Runnings
Well in the ever constant struggle for home-grown hip hop to get the recognition it deserves, we find yet more quality produced gems coming from all over the UK bubbling underneath in the underground.
Kicking off with all things good, London rapper B Sharp is about to unleash a three tracker well worth checking.
Female rapper PARIZ ONE drops 'No Long Ting' real soon; she's down with the Darkness Records crew who are also putting out XCONS and RNDP.
www.lexiconmag.co.uk /issue006/ukrunnings.php   (638 words)

  
 Billboard Album Sales - The Crusade.net Messageboards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The latest album from incarcerated South Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel, The B.Coming, finished at #3 with an impressive first-week showing, scoring close to 131,000 scans.
Now, along with contributing the catchphrase "Git-R-Done" to the American lexicon, the Dirty South funnyman can add first-week sales of more than 92,000 to his list of accomplishments.
First-week sales of the Game's West Coast Resurrection, an album of the rapper's older material, fell just short of the 18,000 mark to finish at #53.
www.thecrusade.net /forums/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=9779   (692 words)

  
 CD Baby: LEX DOE: The Lexicon
Within two weeks the hype for The Lexicon was real.
Lex is currently promoting his debut release "THE LEXICON" as well as preparing for the release of the debut video "Takin' A Fall" and Lex is currently shooting his second video "He Say, She Say" which is featured on his sophmore release "Hunts Point Intersections" coming early 2006.
Let me be the first in the west to say "You are officially my favorite rapper!" I hate most emcees from the east coast but you are amazing!!!
cdbaby.com /cd/lexdoe   (1284 words)

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