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Known for rapping through a wide smile and amiable squint, Mr. Findley, 28, said he sold drugs until 2008 and could count at least 20 friends and relatives who had been killed in the streets.
Rapping through a wired-shut jaw over a sample of Chaka Khan's "Through the Fire," he reflects on both his injury and his rise through the music business with sly humor, convulsive pop-culture allusions — one verse mentions Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson (again), Mase, and the M. Night Shyamalan movie "Unbreakable" — and uncommon candor.
Rapping through a wired-shut jaw over a sample of Chaka Khan's "Through the Fire," he reflects on both his injury and his rise through the music business with sly humor, convulsive pop-culture allusions one verse mentions Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson (again), Mase, and the M. Night Shyamalan movie "Unbreakable"—and uncommon candor.
Nor was I the only one to be startled into laughter by the wonderful unlikeliness of the second work, The Lighters' Dancehall Polyphony – which sees its 11 dancers voguing, pirouetting and rapping through the wildly disparate enthusiasms of choreographers Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud.
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Wayne is a rapacious artist who seems to live to gobble up other people's aesthetic territory; you get the sense he would rap through a comb with wax paper on it if he thought it had the potential to sound cool.
The night's most impressive star was Mr. West, who walked through the crowd performing his gospel-rap hit "Jesus Walks," then joined a band to rap through "All Falls Down," then joined Chaka Khan for his car-crash survival anthem, "Through the Wire" -- a tour de force, especially considering all three tracks come from his marvelous debut album, "The College Dropout" (Roc-A-Fella/Island Def Jam).
Last year, YouTube star Rice Boy Liu produced a viral hit in "Rap Song in 11 Different Accents," where he rapped through 11 stereotypes at breakneck pace without breaking his flow.
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Part of what makes this fast-paced piece so amusing is the image of Juwan trying to get to the part of the female anatomy that he's rapping about through all his stuttering stops and starts.
The most noise Biggie made — besides the jokes he constantly cracked — was through rapping.
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