It was released on March 27, 2001 for Rap-A-Lot Records and Noo Trybe Records and featured production from Leroy "Precise" Edwards, Mr. Lee and J. Prince.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Bambu, a Filipino American Hip-Hop emcee and former member of rap group Native Guns
When Fiasco was in Australia for Supafest he came to Sebastian's Sydney studio to record the rap.
Knight was born in Richmond, California, and attended Eastern Washington University from 1992 to 1993 on a basketball scholarship, but dropped out to pursue a career in rap music in the Bay Area with Master P's West Coast Bad Boy Clique.
"Boughetto" is a 2002 rap single from the album Heavy Starch by Ali featuring Murphy Lee about being boughetto.
The movie primarily parodies the rap group N.W.A among other gangsta rap aspects, and contains short segments featuring celebrities and musicians such as Halle Berry, Eazy-E, the Butthole Surfers, Ice-T, Ice Cube, Flavor Flav, and Shaquille O'Neal.
Many hip hop artists have referenced the dice game "Cee-Lo" in rap songs ever since the 1990s.
Many pegged her as a rapper but she called herself a "hip hop per." Despite this, she and another traditionalist group Advanced Chemistry insisted that rap and hip-hop are inseparable.
They joined the local rap group Terror Squad, and Link performed on the track "Tell Me What You Want" from the group's self-titled debut album.
Don Dinero, an American-born Cuban Rap mobster music artist living in Miami, Florida.
"Dirt Road Anthem" is the title of a country rap song written by American artists Colt Ford and Brantley Gilbert (who also wrote Aldean's hit "My Kinda Party"), each of whom recorded his own version of the song.
It opens with Missy Elliott performing her rap while doing her infamous slide-dance move on a pavement outside of a barbershop.
The municipality is named after Enrique B. Magalona, former Senator of the Philippines and the grandfather of the late Filipino rap icon Francis Magalona.
As a district court judge, Lynch presided over the perjury trial of rap artist Lil' Kim in 2005.
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.
Hand on the Torch was the debut album for the jazz-rap group Us3.
The Irish girl group Buffalo G released a rap cover version of the song in 2000, reaching the top 20 in both the Irish and UK charts.
TK Records ceased operating by 1981, and Stone went into partnership with Morris Levy of Roulette Records to form the Sunnyview label, issuing records by funk and rap artists such as Newcleus.
"It'a a Summer Thang" is the title of a Rap/R&B single by M-Doc featuring Chantay Savage, and Stevio from the 1995 album "M. Doc Wit Stevio: C'mon Getcha Groove On".
"Je l'aime à mourir" was performed as a medley with the following: Kad Merad (endormie version), Jean-Jacques Goldman, Michael Jones (jazz), Gérard Jugnot (Japanese version), Mimie Mathy (hard rock version), Patrick Fiori (opera version), Jean-Baptiste Maunier (rap version) and finally Francis Cabrel, Kad Merad, Pascal Obispo and Public (original version).
In 2011, Jump Shot Media partnered up with rappers Paul Wall, Mistah F.A.B., and Hopsin to release a mobile battle rap game, Battle Rap Stars.
Maxim Reality (born 1967), stage name of Keith Palmer, British rap musician
"Pilotes Automatiques," their French rap remix of the Tamil song "Ottagathai Kattiko" from the Tamil film Gentleman composed by A. R. Rahman was a huge underground success in France .
Soundtrack of the first film released with Lena acting, "La Mala" a biographic film about the famous Cuban singer La Lupe, Lena released this soundtrack and movie in 2009 witch contains 9 song covers of La Lupe witch one of them featuring with Yotuel from the Cuban rap group Orishas, 3 original songs written by Lena and a cover of the famous jazz song Fever in Spanish and featuring of the reggaeton singer Tito El Bambino
Multiple musical genres were represented, including rock, rap, reggae, afrobeat, metal, folk, java and what the headline band Les Hurlements d'Léo calls "caravaning".
"Lit-hop" is also the title of a 2006 solo album by the Canadian rap artist Baba Brinkman.
The Ministère AMER (Action, Musique Et Rap) is a French hip hop group from Sarcelles, consisting of the rappers Passi and Stomy Bugsy (both of whom are also major solo artists in the French hip hop scene), DJ Ghetch, and the producer/manager Kenzy.
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.
In February 2013, Red Tempa featured in CBBC's The Dare Devil as himself teaching a family from Derby how to rap and win prizes.
Growing up in Brookline, he went to Brookline High School, where he took trumpet lessons and was exposed to rap by a friend of from the projects.
OutRage! have also made complaints against what they allege to be the anti-gay lyrics of certain dancehall stars such as Buju Banton, Elephant Man, Sizzla, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man, Vybz Kartel, Baby Cham, Spragga Benz, and Capleton, and rap stars such as Busta Rhymes and Eminem.
"Patiently Waiting" sparked additional fame in 2012 when, Slaughterhouse, sampled the line, Eminem rapped "Juggernauts of this rap shit", on their song "Juggernauts" part of their mixtape On the House.
Rais Lebled (Head of State) is a political rap song, released in December 2010 by Tunisian rapper El Général, which has been referred to internationally as the "anthem of the Jasmine Revolution".
RapCity, a similar yet unrelated program shown on MuchMusic in Canada, sometimes spelled Rap City
The music video for "Real Muthaphukkin G's" was shot in Compton, California and starts with a scene picturing lowriders and then Eazy-E comes to rap his verse, when he says "all of the sudden Dr. Dre is the G thang; but on his old album-covers he was a she-thang", a picture of Dr. Dre from the World Class Wreckin' Cru days shows up on the screen where he is wearing mascara and lipstick.
Reversed Image’s releases for 2009 include Love Kills (May 5) by THIS IS A SHAKEDOWN! and Will Rap Over Hard Rock For Food (August 11) by Chuck Mosley.
However, the first hip hop album was released only in 1995 by R.A.C.L.A. and was called Rap-Sodia efectului defectului (Defect Effect Rap-sody).
The Rusty Ps is a three time WAMI award winner for the Best Hip-Hop/Rap category, in the years 2000, 2001 and 2006.
Saari has often been labelled as the "King of Finnish Soul", but he has also worked with pop, rock and rap musicians such as Anna Puu, Elastinen, Jonna Tervomaa and Cheek.
Run's House, a reality television series featuring Joseph Simmons (co-founder of rap group Run-D.M.C.)
Notable performers include: Jinx (Croatia), Talco (Italy), Skarface (France), Peter and the Test Tube Babies and The Adicts (UK) and Ringišpil and Atheist Rap from Novi Sad.
It's crazy, because when I talk about people from a whole other rap era, I don't know if people understand how much that meant to me, just coming up around legends like Kool G Rap and Eric B and Large Professor and people like Akinyele who was around in the early stages that I met through Large Professor from a rap group named Main Source that most cats today never even heard of.
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 Meny-X, also known as Maniacs Records, is a German rap and R&B record label from Pulheim.
Toni L is one of the three artists comprising the famous German rap group Advanced Chemistry formed in 1987.
He was an active member of the first Faroese rap band MC-Hár, which plays rap and rock music in Faroese language.
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).
The group was influenced to some extent by American rap and gangsta rap music, especially Tupac Shakur, and the "gangsta" culture portrayed therein.
The original soundtrack was produced by Frank Fitzpatrick and released on Hip Hop Connect, an independent label and production company specializing in socially conscious rap, Hip Hop and film soundtracks.