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Going roughly from the river to the lake, the 17th Ward includes the Carrollton Riverbend area, Upper or West Carrollton with the noted Oak Street commercial area, the Leonidas neighborhood, Palmer Park at Carrollton and Claiborne, Northwest Carrollton, Hollygrove and Dixon neighborhoods (known for producing a number of rap music artists, such as Lil Wayne, Mack Maine, Fiend, and DJ Hollygrove.
Burley later commented that "parts of the opening ceremony were overtly political, like showing CND signs", and in reference to Dizzee Rascal's live performance of "Bonkers" Burley questioned why there was, in his view, a "huge, disproportionate focus on rap music when it is a small part of multiculturalism".
Many of the ads featured Dan Cortese as Dan the Whopper Man, while others included featured clips from rap music artists Kid 'n Play's film House Party.
In mid-1993, Samazan released a rap music single under the "pseudonym" B-Man Samazan on the Westside Records label called "One of a Kind", and filmed a music video for the song with Kellie Hoggart from Teen Queens (and later of Hi-5 fame).
Cheetah Records was started in Orlando, Florida by Tom Reich in 1988 and distributed music belonging primarily to the rap music subgenera Miami Bass.
He began his career as a rap music-video director, until he sold his first script, "Black Ocean" (co-written with former partner Paul Scheuring) to Oliver Stone in 1993, launching his screen-writing career.
"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.
These include George Michael in "Fastlove" (which samples the song near the end), Will Smith in his 1997 hit, "Men in Black" from the film of the same name, the French rapper MC Solaar on Les Temps Changent from his funk-inspired Paradisiaque album, and also by hip hop artists The Beatnuts in "Give Me Tha Ass" from the Stone Crazy LP.
The song's Moog synthesizer solos have become a staple part in hip hop sampling history, being sampled by artists such as MC Breed, Too $hort, Dr. Dre, Xzibit, Game, and countless other rap/hip hop artists.
In the opening verse, Lupe first acknowledges his own hypocritical tendencies during his younger years, and even more so the over-bearing presence of hypocrisy in the modern rap scene.
"King Heroin" was another of Brown's stabs of socially conscious music, along the lines of such previous efforts as "Don't Be a Drop-Out" and "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud." His narrative style on this song is also considered to be a forerunner of rap music.
Kodigo Norte (a satiric misspelling of the Spanish phrase "codigo norte", or "northern code") is a Rap music group formed in 2004 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
She was owned by Jack L. Finley at age two and into the early phases of her three-year-old campaign before being purchased by rap music star MC Hammer and raced under his Oaktown Stable banner.
However, they were not selected to go to the main contest (losing out to rap group Love City Groove) and the single stalled at Number 55 in the UK Singles Chart.
The Malaysian hip hop scene started in 1990s with rap groups such as KRU, 4U2C and NICO, but their so-called "Rap music" wasn't accepted by the mainstream community and so they had to changed to a more pop-ish sound.
In the 1980s it became common with funk artists such as Prince (e.g. "U Got The Look", "I Would Die 4 U"), and eventually came to be epitomized in the rap and hip-hop genres, with both song titles and artists' names (e.g. Ludacris, Phanatik, Timbaland, Xzibit, Gorillaz) using the form.
The Meny-X, also known as Maniacs Records, is a German rap and R&B record label from Pulheim.
The hit 1990s song The Power by rap group Snap! is featured extensively in the movie's soundtrack.
Trapz of Poetic Poison is the first release by the Canadian Hip-Hop/Rap band Project Wyze.
WEGL 91 is a traditional "college radio" station in that the station's programming consists of an eclectic mix of genres including, but not limited to: Rock, Hip-Hop, Pop, Blues, Jazz, Country & Bluegrass, Soul, Dance & Techno, R&B, Reggae, World Music, Oldies, and Gospel.
The group was influenced to some extent by American rap and gangsta rap music, especially Tupac Shakur, and the "gangsta" culture portrayed therein.
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.
Success followed, although not immediately, and after his family moved to the nearby suburb of Vallejo, California in 1991; B-12 broke into rap music shortly thereafter.
The members of the rap music group 2 Live Crew—Luke, Fresh Kid Ice, Mr. Mixx and Brother Marquis—composed a song called "Pretty Woman," a parody based on Roy Orbison's rock ballad, "Oh, Pretty Woman."
Perhaps because of the presence of the American Forces Network which broadcast rap music to US service members stationed in Europe, youth in Kirchheim emulated the music forming their own rap groups and taking up graffiti art.
From June 2004 until May 2007, Dangerously hosted The Pavement, a weekly hip hop show on CKDU 88.1 FM that was handed down to him from Buck 65 and Skratch Bastid, and has guest lectured at Saint Mary's University on the topic of gender issues in rap music and popular culture.
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.
We have taken the liberty of changing 'hoe' to 'ho,' a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps 'You doin' ho activities with ho tendencies.
The game spawned two sequels: Mojib-Ribbon, which focused around rap music and calligraphy, and Vib-Ripple, which was similar to Vib-Ribbon but instead used digital images loaded into the game to generate the levels.