Two months later in December, Bossip published a new "award" for most annoying celebrity of 2006 with R&B/Pop singer and actress Beyoncé Knowles as 1st position, Actor Taye Diggs at 10th position and rapper Kanye West with an honorable mention.
Derek Boland (15 January 1965 – 15 November 2009), better known by his stage name Derek B, was a British rapper.
In 1983, the television adverts employed a "Green Cross Code" rap based on the hit "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash.
That can be attested by such songs as Üg sons or Gar utas, as some of the singing is rapped and there is some use of turntables.
Darren Kandler, better known by his Stage name Klashnekoff (pronounced K-Lash-Nek-Off) or Ricochet Klashnekoff, is a Jamaican-English Rapper from Stoke Newington, London.
The only videos without original compositions are the two music videos, Home Sweet Home by Norwegian Rapper Sirius, and Sogno ad Occhi Aperti by Italian Cellist Giovanni Sollima.
Later he and his friends DJ Krii and Elvi formed their own hiphop crew "Ritmiņš", in which Akuraters played an Mc role.
Phillip Martin III (born January 10, 1968), also known by the stage name Nino, is an African-American rapper, producer, director, screenwriter, film editor, entrepreneur and music distributor.
Strong Arm Steady, often referred to as SAS, is a rap/hip hop group in California's underground hip hop scene.
A few years later, the station was sold to Willis Broadcasting who changed the calls to WMYK and instituted a hard-core rap & hip hop format as 92.1 Kiss.
August 1 – Chuck D, American rapper, composer, actor, author, radio personality and producer
In dispute was the use by rap artist Luther Campbell (then using the alias "Luke Skyywalker") and his band 2 Live Crew of a substantial amount of the Roy Orbison hit song "Oh, Pretty Woman" in a parody.
Bethancourt later went back to New Mexico and enlisted the help of fellow musicians, Zach Condon (Beirut), Heather Trost (A Hawk and a Hacksaw), Hari Ziznewski (Rap), Stefanie Lamm, Rosina Roibal, Hilary Bethancourt, and Naila Dixon to help with his later musical compositions.
Many Austrian hip hop artists use their mothertongue Upper German dialects when rapping – while some do so to stay "real", others deliberately distinguish themselves from the German rap scene by doing so.
Break Machine was the name of a 1980s American rap act, fronted by Keith Rodgers and produced by Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo; the team behind the Village People.
Around age 17, he got serious about rapping and would go around the Los Angeles and Orange County area participating in rap battles under the name "Lil Ramone".
He agrees reluctantly after finding out that Randy is indeed his son (and with a little help from KREM DJ E. Jay Hill, who plays a tape of Randy rapping "Daddy Come Find Me" after Dan Man gives it to him).
Cool Calm Pete is a Korean American rapper and producer with a sometimes hypnotically slow, lazy-sounding rapping style.
Wyclef Jean a Haitian-American rapper, singer and member of the trio the Fugees, was born in Croix-des-Bouquets, where he lived until he was nine years old.
During the summer of 2012, Dimal teamed up with Maltese singer-songwriter Lyndsay Pace to release their song "Let's Make It Happen", which blends Dimal’s rapping skills and Lyndsay’s melodic vocals.
He briefly attended Arizona State University before leaving his studies to focus on a career in rapping.
His inspiration to begin rapping was sparked by listening to Kris Kross, Kilo Ali, and the Dungeon Family while he was younger.
In the mid-80s while rapping in small venues and after a record deal went sour, Hammer borrowed $20,000 each from former Oakland A's players Mike Davis and Dwayne Murphy to start a record label business called Bust It Productions.
He is represented by Kanye West rapping against Scrooge in the third season of Epic Rap Battles of History.
He is portrayed by Nice Peter in a usual black robe and an skeleton head in the Christmas 2013 Epic Rap Battle of History rapping against Scrooge.
Apart from her solo work, she has collaborated with West Coast MCs such as Aceyalone, E-40, Zion-I, Mac Mall, and those involved in the Hieroglyphics Crew, Detroit based vocalist Dwele as well as Clyde Carson and Mos Def on the track “Different.”
In 1987, "All You Need Is Love," a song by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, included Bill Drummond rapping "With this killer virus who needs war? Immanentize the eschaton, I said shag shag shag some more!"
Goring later worked and toured as a background singer with female rapper Monie Love on her 1991 Monie Love Tour.
Keith Thornton (born 19 October 1966), better known by his stage name Kool Keith, is an American rapper from The Bronx, New York.
Dreux Pierre Frédéric (born November 26, 1985), known as Lil' Fizz, is an American rapper and actor.
The majority of the album is instrumental, but a few selections feature him rapping together with his Oxnard crew C.D.P., which also included his brother Oh No.
The genre gained popularity in the late nineties as acts like Hip Hop Pantsula and Bafitlhile started rapping in Setswana, resulting in an increased followship from the local population.
Notkea Rotta is a Finnish rap group consisting of members Notkea Rotta, Rautaperse (Komisario Jyrkkä), Rohtori Laine and Meno-Anu.
"Obećana Riječ" (English: Promised Word) is a song by Bosnian rapper Edo Maajka, which details the life of Alan, an ex-soldier, who became an hitman after the war in Bosnia.
The band was fronted by Egyptian-Indian singer Kyra Pharao (Claudia Banerjee) (born 17 January 1971) and the American rapper Deon Blue (born 20 January 1970).
Christopher Lee Schamber, better known by his stage name Savage Sun, is an American rapper from Stockton, California.
Scars & Memories is the fourth full-length album by Manhattan, New York rapper MF Grimm, released in 2005 (see 2005 in music) via his own Day by Day Entertainment label.
Shabazz the Disciple or Scientific Shabazz, is a rapper from the Red Hook Houses of Red Hook, Brooklyn.
The style of music has made him a significant presence within the underground rap community, and he has achieved recognition beyond the scene for rapping "Battlecry", the theme song of the hip-hop-influenced chanbara anime Samurai Champloo, produced by Japanese jazz rap DJ Nujabes.
1 is the third collaboration album released between American rappers MF DOOM and MF Grimm, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music) on Grimm's own Day By Day Entertainment label.
The title based on the rap duo Westberlin Maskulin composed of Kool Savas and Taktloss, who were the first hip hop artists, who had performed German battle rap.
In 1992, Johnson found out that his song "Different Strokes" had been sampled by number of rappers including Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Kool G Rap, Hammer, and the Geto Boys.
The Cold Crush Brothers became involved in one of hip hop's most historic moments when Joey Robinson, son of Sugar Hill Records founder Sylvia Robinson, happened to hear part-time club bouncer and former manager of Cold Crush brothers member Grandmaster Caz Big Bank Hank rapping to a tape of Cold Crush Brothers while working at a pizzeria in New Jersey.
Trini joined rapper Bryce "Luvah" Wilson (who made his debut on Mantronix's previous album, 1990's This Should Move Ya), and founding member, DJ Kurtis Mantronik.
In August 2013, producers discovered that Fountain had appeared in numerous videos on YouTube as his alter-ego "The Phantom", rapping about raping a girl and committing acts of extreme violence.
The name ToneLoc was short for "Tone Locator" and was a word play on the name of the rap artist known as Tone Lōc.
Tracy Atkins, known by her stage name Traylude, is a British emcee who worked with now London-based DJs-producers Kurtis Mantronik (1998 album I Sing the Body Electro) and the Beat Buchaz (1999 single/EP "One Time, Feels Fine").
The song shows the use of Pro Tools ability to create voice masking and voice doubling, with the fact that DMX does his vocals on the microphone, and then does them over the top of his previous audio track, to create a hazed, mellow sound, much like that of someone rapping with a 40 a Day voice.