The lyrics to Picasso Baby suggest someone desperate for the art world's approval as he namechecks artists including Jeff Koons and the painter George Condo, rapping out a cultural cringe, a plea for intellectual recognition.
If Tupac is hip-hop's Gandhi, the peeling Bob Marley poster on the wall of a generation of students, Biggie was the single greatest talent hip-hop ever produced: fat, slovenly, proud of eating sardines from a can, rapping about sexual inadequacies, and then – once he'd made it – about the fake adulation that came with wealth and power.
Love Money Party finds Cyrus rapping a series of non-sequitur buzzwords, gibberish loosely connected by a bit of production, driven by the inescapable purpose of Bangerz: a desire to wind people up for commercial, rather than transgressive, ends".
Her short, funny videos range from chats about Justin Bieber and the Twilight Saga, to rapping and giving advice to school kids about the importance of staying true to yourself.
Glover started rapping eight years ago, in an attempt to reclaim a corner of an industry that had decided only one type of expression was allowed, since when he's made a series of mixtapes and downloads before Camp, his first official album.
The dotcom boom brought some, the spurs to Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma" or Rosabeth Moss Kanter's "Evolve!" (accompanied by a CD of the guru herself rapping her message).
Soon afterwards, Mr Kullman, the teacher, begins rapping himself hopping around the room demanding quick-fire answers to questions about the civil war.
A seamstress beats time with a stick like a metronome, rapping knuckles when attention slips.
This truly terrible dance tune featured a video of a man dressed like Uncle Sam rapping couplet gems, such as, "We don't need no bling, because we got the real thing".
The chanting, intermittently rapping crowd had a case.
"I was also inspired by the way their sense of purpose drove their life decisions".At the core of the film is the boys' split from their father: not only do they stop attending family rehearsals, they also make career decisions their father may not always approve of (collaborating with record labels and mainstream artists, incorporating rapping into their brass-and-drums sound).
