Sentence examples for rather than raps from inspiring English sources

Ross says rather than raps, "It's time to take it to the other side, the side you gotta watch A&E cable television for, homie, but we live this shit".

Much of the critical praise has been lavished on the purple prose of Andre 3000's The Love Below, on which he interrogates the concept of romantic love from every conceivable angle and croons rather than raps.

"The Day I Died" is spoken-word rather than rap – an important distinction for Allsopp.

Rather than rap or dubstep, however, his interest ran more to the star chanters — some long dead — of the Koran.

That led him to sing, rather than rap, on his fourth album, 2008's 808s and Heartbreak.

Largely sung – with extensive use of Auto-Tune – rather than rapped, the work is considered something of an aberration in his career.

Kanye West had the show's anticlimactic finale: a new love song in which he made the mistake of singing rather than rapping.

Called Wolves, it's a sombre but turbo-powered pop song with West singing rather than rapping, made with Sia and the Chicago rapper Vic Mensa.

So out goes Gandalf and Stuart Price and in strides one half of Boyz Noise on cowriting duties and Krystal Pepsy aka Azealia Banks who, rather than rapping (that's left to frontman Jake Shears), sings throughout.

Desiigner's freestyle is everything that "Panda" is not: impromptu, eerily subdued, melodically complex, sung gently and in a hushed voice, rather than rapped against a tide of glass-splintering bass.

When Kid Rock sang rather than rapped, the concert dragged, and he sang more as it went on: not just his own incongruously devout "Lonely Road of Faith" but also songs by both Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers and a Detroit rock medley.