Sentence examples for rap gig from inspiring English sources

He buys the occasional rap album (his last was 50 Cent's, released well over a year ago), but he has never been to a rap gig, nor does he seem to know all that much about the musics from which rap sprang: blues, funk, rock'n'roll.

As with most rap gigs, the reliance here on the recorded instrumental makes for shoddy sound.

It doesn't seem politic to ask the police whether they habitually patrol rap gigs wearing black SWAT-style jumpsuits and armed with machine guns.

Promoters and venues balked at hosting rap gigs, citing increased insurance costs and worries that violence would erupt.

While this is Elba's first album, he has released three EPs and staged several one-off rap and DJ gigs.

Still, the band don't seem too fazed, and although it is disappointing not to be able to appreciate B-Real's unique nasal rapping properly, during the gig's best moments – such as "Insane in the Brain" and "Pigs" – the crowd is more than happy to step in whenever the sound is found wanting.

I even rapped at our first gig.

A photographer found himself acting as an unlikely hip-hop chauffeur after driving rap legends Public Enemy to a gig in Sheffield in the back of his Ford Focus.

And with that bit of luck, her hard work began to pay off and she began getting booked for gigs: "I played rap, R&B, hip hop, even a little dancehall.

You're not just singing to your Dove bar anymore, you're not just spitting with your friends -- you need veritable gigs where you rap battle -- or at least showcase your rhymes to people who have yet been graced by your innovative beats.

Twenty-two minutes long and a dizzying 36 months in the making, "Snorks" follows the renowned British actress Charlotte Rampling on a mission to accomplish interspecies exchange and culminates in an underwater gig, via hydrophone, by the experimental rap trio Antipop Consortium.