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3 unusual facts about Pop-Rap


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Another rapper, Wiz Khalifa's first major label single, "Black and Yellow", had significant commercial success in the United States, peaking at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and also peaking in the top ten of the Canadian singles charts.

In the 1980s, rap artists like Run DMC, Beastie Boys and LL Cool J set up the blueprints and origins of pop-rap as they suddenly broke into the mainstream.

The influences and roots of pop rap trace back to late 1980s hip hop artists such as Run DMC, LL Cool J and Beastie Boys.


A Simple Plan

Simple Plan, a pop punk band formed in 1999 in Montreal, Canada

Ally Burnett

Ally Burnett is an American pop and rock singer/songwriter best known for song placements on MTV shows such as 'Jersey Shore' and her theme song for 'The Seven'.

Banda Uó

Banda Uó is an brazilian band of pop tecnobrega composed by Davi Sabbag, Mateus Carrilho, and Candy Mel started in 2010 on the city of Goiânia.

Battle Scars

When Fiasco was in Australia for Supafest he came to Sebastian's Sydney studio to record the rap.

Boughetto

"Boughetto" is a 2002 rap single from the album Heavy Starch by Ali featuring Murphy Lee about being boughetto.

BZN

BZN started out as a pop-rock band in their native Volendam in 1966, playing early-Bee Gees-like harmony pop.

Cee-lo

Many hip hop artists have referenced the dice game "Cee-Lo" in rap songs ever since the 1990s.

Cherry Boone

Boone came to public attention after the death of her friend, pop singer Karen Carpenter, who died in 1983, from complications arising from anorexia nervosa.

Cinderella's Eyes

Ludovic Hunter-Tilney of the Financial Times found that Roberts had pushed her "mainstream pop background to the limit".

Collège du Léman

Mustafa Sandal, popular Turkish pop music singer, record producer, businessman, and occasional actor.

Dinero

Don Dinero, an American-born Cuban Rap mobster music artist living in Miami, Florida.

Drobe

At launch, the site featured a news feed, POP email checker and a search facility "incorporating AcornSearch.com".

Electric Love Muffin

Electric Love Muffin was a Philadelphia-based hard rocking quartet of the late 1980s that spiked the melodic thrash-pop of The Replacements, Soul Asylum and other indie bands of the period with touches of country/western, classic rock and prog-rock.

For All You've Done

Pop singer and former Australian Idol contestant Paulini Curuenavuli was also at the conference promoting her Number 2 hit single "Angel Eyes" from her forthcoming album One Determined Heart.

Frida Öhrn

She is the singer of Indie-pop band Oh Laura and one of the three singers in the band Cookies 'N' Beans, performing in the Swedish Melodifestivalen (Eurovision Song Contest qualifier) in 2009 with "What If" and in 2013 with "Burning Flags".

Garfield in Paradise

They meet the tribal chief who explains that the villagers learned English "from watching a lot of beach movies", and that the car was originally owned by the Cruiser, a James Dean/Fonzie-styled legend who drove his car into the village in 1957 and introduced the people to the 1950s pop culture.

Greetings from Imrie House

It contains singles "Just the Girl", "Catch Your Wave" and "Say Goodnight" and an iTunes single, "Pop Princess".

Greg Cipes

The song "Rescue" on the band's 2007 debut release Conscious Revolution features teenage pop star Jesse McCartney.

Haiku D'Etat

Haiku D'Etat is a super group rap trio created by drummer and producer Adrian Burley; co-members are Aceyalone and Myka 9 of Freestyle Fellowship and Abstract Rude of Abstract Tribe Unique.

Honey to the B

Honey to the B is the debut album album by pop singer Billie Piper, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music).

Jos mä oisin sun mies

"Jos mä oisin sun mies" is a song by a Finnish pop singer Jontte Valosaari.

Kaire Vilgats

As a backing vocalist, Vilgats often supports different pop acts of Estonia, such as Anne Veski, Ivo Linna or Maarja to name a few.

Katie Stevens

In her performance of "Chain of Fools", DioGuardi told her she had found where she belonged: R&B-pop, but she needed to work on being younger.

Keith Palmer

Maxim Reality (born 1967), stage name of Keith Palmer, British rap musician

Las Supremas de Móstoles

Las Supremas de Móstoles (or The Supremes of Móstoles, in English) is a Spanish pop band made up of three sisters, Susi, Vicky and Luisi (two of them are twins).

Lezlie Deane

In the 1990s she was recruited by producers Peter Rafelson and Michael Lewis to join the dance-pop group Fem2fem, and toured Europe and North America as an opening act for Nine Inch Nails (NIN) and Marilyn Manson.

Macross: Do You Remember Love?

During the latest assault, Valkyrie pilot Hikaru Ichijyo rescues pop idol Lynn Minmay, but are both trapped in a section of the fortress for days.

Miranda Chartrand and Adam Nichols

On November 4, Chartrand and Nichols performed "I've Got Nothing" at a gig at 93 Feet East in London, which was headlined by former pop star Chesney Hawkes.

Molomix

It also includes two new songs "El Carnal de las Estrellas", which is an attack to the Mexican broadcasting company Televisa after its denial to run their music videos, and "Rap, Soda y Bohemia" (their version of "Bohemian Rhapsody"), which was also included on a compilation album titled, "Tributo a Queen" It also includes two videos, listed as songs 11 and 12.

Music of Zimbabwe

Jit is a generic term for electric guitar-driven pop, and includes wildly popular groups like the New Black Eagles and the Four Brothers.

Paula Yates

She first came to prominence in the 1980s, as co-presenter (with Jools Holland) of the Channel 4 pop music programme The Tube.

Peter Rose

Peter DeRose (1900–1953), composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era

Poslednja Igra Leptira

Music and lyrics were witen by Neša Radulović, except for "Dečko, 'ajde o'ladi" ("Chill Out, Boy") for which music was written by Radulović and Sašo Bogojevski. Special guest on this album was Riblja Čorba frontman Bora Đorđević. The biggest hit from the album was "Dečko, 'ajde o'ladi", Radulović's duet with Lidija Asanović, which brought them Oskar popularnosti award for the Pop Band of the Year.

Russell Thompkins, Jr.

From 1971 to 1974, the Stylistics had twelve consecutive U.S. R&B top ten hits and five top ten U.S. pop hits, including "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)", "You Are Everything", "Betcha by Golly, Wow", "Break Up to Make Up", and "You Make Me Feel Brand New".

Ruth Pointer

Continuing as a trio, the group found their biggest success covering tunes of rock, pop and New Wave with singles such as "Fire" (1978), "He's So Shy" (1980), and "Slow Hand" (1981).

S Club Search

S Club Search is a CBBC reality television show that documents the audition process and formation for the pop group S Club Juniors in 2001.

Semplicemente

"Semplicemente" (en: Simply) is a pop song by Italian duo Zero Assoluto, released in 2005.

Serge Noskov

After the graduation, he returned to Syktyvkar, where he wrote the 1st String Quartet, “Psalms” for a choir a'capella on texts of a poem by Victor Savin in Komi language, and the Bible, musical “Ogorod”, numerous songs with lyrics by Komi poets of 19th century, also, a few songs for a pop-group “Aski”.

Snorri

Snorri Snorrason (born 1977), an Icelandic singer who rose to popularity after winning the Icelandic version of Pop Idol,

Teenage Jesus

Album came about when The Emotron played with Chicago Synth-Pop Act The Mystechs, Singer/Label Owner Emil Hyde asked The Emotron if they would like to record and put out a DIY release on his label Death By Karaoke Records.

Tessellation

"Tessellate" - song by the British alternative indie pop quartet Alt-J (∆).

Thai hip hop

In early 1990s Thai hip hop is origins by pop/dance artists include Jetrin Wattanasin in album Jor-Ae-Bor (จ เ-ะ บ), and Touch Na Takuathung in album Touch Thunder (ทัช ธันเดอร์), the album mixed dance-pop with rap, also artists such as Raptor a duo consisting of Louis Scott and Joni Anwar mixed dance-pop with rap, and some success in song "Superhero" (ซูเปอร์ฮีโร่) from album Raptor (แร็พเตอร์).

The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland

The film featured a music score by Patricia Cullen, along with songs by pop musicians John Sebastian and Natalie Cole.

The Meny-X

The Meny-X, also known as Maniacs Records, is a German rap and R&B record label from Pulheim.

This Is Pop Music

This Is Pop Music is the 3rd album by the Norwegian singer/song-writer Espen Lind and the second released under his name.

Tumbi

20 Inch by Master P (featuring Jamaican reggae artist Cutty Ranks and rap artist Kobra Khan) included tumbi played by Toronto, Ontario, Canadian native Shawn Ramta (grandson of the famous Punjabi folk singer, Hazara Singh Ramta).

V-pop

In the 1990s, more and more young artists began to appear in the overseas Vietnamese music industry, Trish Thùy Trang, Nguyễn Hưng, Bằng Kiều, Nguyễn Thắng, Andy Quách, Dương Triệu Vũ, Don Hồ, ...

West Side Boys

The group was influenced to some extent by American rap and gangsta rap music, especially Tupac Shakur, and the "gangsta" culture portrayed therein.

Where Were You Last Night

Where Were You Last Night is a 1989 album released by Swedish pop artist Ankie Bagger.

Zeus B. Held

After writing and producing the groundbreaking album by Gina X Performance “Nice Mover”, (followed by three more Gina X albums), his first UK production credits were with Fashion and Dead or Alive, he produced Pete Wylie's "Sinful" album and an LP by Men Without Hats for Polygram US which yielded a number one in many European countries and a US Top 20 hit with "Pop Goes The World".


see also

African Americans in Atlanta

Producer Fatboi called the Roland TR-808 ("808") synthesizer "central" to Atlanta music's versatility, used for snap, crunk, trap, and pop rap styles.

Macedonian hip hop

Later, another pop-rap artist named Kristijan Gabrovski emerged from Prilep and was nicknamed Risto Bombata after Afrika Bambaataa.

Silent Poets

The Silent Poets collaborate with such electronic / pop / rap music stars as ACO, Port Of Notes, Coldcut, Frederic Galliano, Attica Blues, Yasushi Ide, DJ Vadim, Kid Loco, Towa Tei, Spiritual Vibes, Shakkazombie, Ken Hirai, Ursula Rucker etc.