IS There are plenty of awards that French pop star Héloïse Letissier could have won this year: best style, best album, best take on gender fluidity, best Gallic rap bits, best backstory (her alter-ego Christine was reared by drag acts in Soho).
(Though on Monday, she happily rapped bits from Whodini's "Friends" and N.W.A.'s "Gangsta Gangsta").
I, on the other hand, find rap every bit as comprehensible as ancient Mesopotamian.
After asking the crowd to pay respects to the memory of Pimp C, and after rapping a bit of "Undastatement," 2 Chainz left the stage.
The fellow Brooklynite the Notorious B.I.G. also got a nod, with Jay-Z rapping a bit of "Gettin' Money (the Get Money Remix)." One more New Yorker received a tribute during this show: Blue Ivy Carter, the first child of Jay-Z and his wife, Beyoncé, who was born at Lenox Hill Hospital last month.
First, he raps a bit about getting laid.
She sort of rapped a bit and growled a bit and I liked her Farrah Fawcett hair.
But then you say, 'Go ahead and rap a little bit,' and you get a totally different type of brain process in the medial frontal lobe area, rather than dorsolateral, which is kind of critical.
I just hope people don't go throwing themselves out of windows after getting a bad rap from a bit of software.
So they would roust him outside his haberdashery on the Sunset Strip, or arrest him for using foul language, and couldn't even make that two-bit rap stick.
