The word “rap” is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to mean to speak or talk quickly and rhythmically, or as a noun to refer to a form of popular music that originated from African American culture. Example sentence: The rapper effortlessly rapped his way through the song.
Earl Sweatshirt: I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside Moody and introspective rap verses over jittery, self-produced beats on the Odd Future crew member's latest.
It could be anything from Benny Hill comedy music to classical to French rap.
Quite a lot of west-coast American rap has inspired us, not in our own music but more for what we like listening to.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won best new artist and received three awards in the rap field before the show began with best rap album for The Heist and best rap performance and best rap song for Thrift Shop.
At a push, if he really insists, let him recite the midsection rap to All Rise by Blue in its entirety to some graffiti artists, but only because that's the coolest thing in the world.
Hip-hop and rap taught me these things, and it can do the same for these children".
And it is unlikely that the former captain has forgotten Pietersen's memorable put-down in which he wrote that explaining the IPL to Strauss was like describing "gangsta rap to a vicar".
One hopes, on some fundamental level, that somebody actually said out loud: "The thing that's kept black people from voting Republican is not enough gospel versions of white rap".
For every Drake, Nicki Minaj and obligatory rap in the middle of Olly Murs new single, there is an MIA or Tyler, the Creator.
It was as if hip-hop had agreed that jewellery, girls and cars were safe to rap about: the profitable gun-free future became mapped out as one long P Diddy nightmare of fur coats and samples from Police tracks, drifting into the horizon like the video of I'll Be Missing You.
Living in the area that he did, intelligent but brutally ambushed by fate, race, education and history, he had three choices: "I could deal drugs, rob or rap.
