San Diego artist Lil Rob opened doors for Chicano Rap by receiving mainstream attention for his singles " Summer Nights ", and " Bring Out the Freak in You ".

By the 2000s, Rap and Hip Hop had reached their commercial peaks, and the genre continued to dominate the music scene of the decade The best-selling artist of the decade was the American rapper Eminem, who sold 32 million albums, followed by The Beatles ( who split in 1970 but have stayed extremely popular since ).

* Rap / rock artist Kid Rock, who hails from nearby Romeo, MI, began his professional stage career as a DJ / rapper in Mt.

* B. G., the Prince of Rap, Bernard Greene, American rapper and dance music artist

A number of Laotian-American musicians have achieved some renown, such as the members of the Royal Lao Orchestra in Tennessee, the traditional singer Khamvong Insixiengmai of Fresno, California ; R & B, Rap, & Hip Hop artist ERANETIK of California ; hip-hop artist Khan-X of Iowa ; Supasang of California ; Gumby aka Pryce of Minneapolis ; Bird of Minneapolis ; Supamon of Providence, LaoZBoyZ of Detroit, Lao Crimino Boys of California ; and St .- 509 aka Steven T of Tri-Cities, Washington.

Rap artist Sean " P Diddy " Combs led " Vote or Die ", a not-for-profit organization, arose the 2004 elections that was geared to draw more youthful voters into the polls.

It was also the first Rap album to be released by a South African artist < cite >.

In 1958, his song “ Born Too Late ” was number one on the Billboard charts, and in 1999 the quadruple platinum Hard Knock Life ( Ghetto Anthem ) by artist Jay-Z ( which sampled " It's The Hard Knock Life " from Annie ) was the winner of a Grammy for Best Rap Album of the year & the Billboard R & B Album of the Year.

Rap music in Finnish language made its first breakthrough in 1990 when groups Raptori and Pääkköset and artist Nikke T got their records to Finnish charts.

The British artist DJ Rap produced a UK ' Ardkore single in 1992 by the name of " Divine Rhythm " which heavily sampled the intro and vocal from Mr. Mister's single " Kyrie ".

* Rap artist Method Man references Astral Plane in the song ' Bring the Pain '.

* Complex ( artist ), an American Rap artist

Rap artist Akon has sampled " I'd Be So Happy " and Japanese rock stars Theatre Brook perform One Fine Morning in their stage show.

According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented to artists for " a newly recorded Rap / Sung collaborative performance by artists who do not normally perform together ", and the " collaborative artist ( s ) should be recognized as a featured artist ( s )".

* MCU ( artist ), Japanese HipHop / Rap artist, formerly member of Kick the Can Crew ; currently working as solo artist

The Cold Crush Brother Punk Rock Rap was so widely popular that at the time a new a up coming Hip Hop artist sample the phrase, " Oh My God!

* The Rap artist Canibus refers to betatrons in his song " Levitibus ".

Notable contributors include recording artist Killer Mike, Charlamagne the god, DJ Wally Sparks ( known heavily for his successful mixtapes ), Wendy Day ( founder of Rap Coalition, contributor for other publications such as Murder Dog as well ), and Rohit loomba.

Jackson is the only artist to having nominations spanning the Dance, Pop, Rap, Rock, and R & B categories.

* Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations by the Detective Who Solved Both Cases, Greg Kading, One Time Publishing, 2011.

Kunstler's other notable clients include: Salvador Agron, H. Rap Brown, Lenny Bruce, Stokely Carmichael, the Catonsville Nine, Angela Davis, Larry Davis, Gregory Lee Johnson, Martin Luther King, Gary McGivern, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Assata Shakur, Lemuel Smith, Morton Sobell, Wayne Williams, and Michael X.

According to the article " Globalization and Gangster Rap: Hip Hop in the Post-Apartheid City ", their 1993 song " Understand Where I'm Coming From " was a " lament about poverty and social dislocation in the ghetto, questioning the wisdom of patriotism in a class stratified society ," as can be inferred from the opening of the song: " Why should I fight for a country's glory / When it ignores me?

They were featured in the 1984 breakdance movie Beat Street, performing the song " Xmas Rap " with Doug E. Fresh but disbanded shortly afterwards.

The group landed a distribution contract with Caroline Distribution in 2004, and SouthernUnderground was the first project re-released after inking the deal with Will Rap For Food being re-released shortly thereafter in 2005.

He survived his car blowing up, catching on fire due to the powerful magnifying effect of his glasses, a hallucinating Montgomery Burns drilling into his brain, capital punishment ( in a local jail ) after Homer eats his last meal, left inside a fluoroscope for possibly an entire weekend, being buried alive, being left forgotten and alive in a purgatory and being engulfed by an " anti-escape bubble " that was attempting to catch Marge ( a parody of a similar device from the ' 60s show The Prisoner ), and he also was run over by Homer in The Parent Rap, after the whole family promised they would not commit any crimes for a whole year.

In 1970, the notorious H. Rap Brown, a member of the Black Panthers, was charged with instigating a riot after a rally in Cambridge ; a change in venue brought his trial to Bel Air.

Only a few days after his release from prison, Langham was interviewed by celebrity psychologist Dr Pamela Connolly ( née Stephenson ), with whom he had worked on Not the Nine O ' Clock News, for her UK television series Shrink Rap where he discussed being abused as an eight-year-old child, the events that led up to his conviction and the subsequent trial.

Shortly after this, Kool G Rap appeared on the Juice Crew's classic posse cut ' The Symphony ' before they released their debut album, Road to the Riches in 1989.

Rap hit Cuba approximately quarter century ago but it was not imported to Cuba until 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union.

* Rap Pages-7 ( out of 10 )-" B-Real spits out lyric after lyric lambasting critics, ex-homies and anyone else not down with his familia .… Some of the record might sound familiar, but, hey, that's the Cypress sound.

Timmy wishes for kids to be the ruling class in the world, and after an interlude in which the Pixies delight at their plan's progress (" We're Pixies " or " The Pixie Rap "), Timmy reflects on life as President while Cosmo and Wanda complain that they are stuck with the chores (" Ten and in Charge ").

Five years later in late 2000, after having parted ways with the Beasties prior to their album Hello Nasty in 1998, Hurricane released his second album, Don't Sleep, which found him much more conceptually collected and with a broad scope of guest artists, including Kool G Rap, Xzibit, Scott Weiland, Public Enemy, Rah Digga, Talib Kweli, among others.

Wilson has been a sought after vocalist and contributor / collaborator to dozens of songs in the Hip-Hop, Rap, and R & B communities.

Spoonie G released a single called Spoonin Rap with the record label Sound of New York, after his relationship broke down with the label he got a deal with Enjoy records which was owned by his uncle Bobby Robinson.

Rap / Hip Hop was often used in the regional movies as fillers in between songs and off late has started to become main stream songs.

His first rap album since 1999, Gangsta Rap, was released on October 31, 2006.

On October 20, 2006, Ice-T's Rap School aired and was a reality television show on VH1.

According to the book The History of Rap Music by Cookie Lommel, " Stephney thought it was time to mesh the hard-hitting style of Run DMC with politics that addressed black youth.

Huston was also featured in a feat with super group Deltron 3030 on their self titled album for the song The Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza.

Kool Moe Dee states that Biggie introduced a newer flow which “ dominated from 1994 to 2002 ”, and also says that Method Man was “ one of the emcees from the early to mid -’ 90s that ushered in the era of flow ... Rakim invented it, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, and Kool G Rap expanded it, but Biggie and Method Man made flow the single most important aspect of an emcee ’ s game ”.

The release of King of Rock in 1985 saw the group furthering their rap-rock fusion on songs like " Can You Rock It Like This " and the title track ; while " Roots, Rap, Reggae " was one of the first rap / dancehall hybrids.

Rap rock fusion proved to be influential among rock artists, with ' 80s bands like Faith No More, Anthrax ( whose collaboration with Public Enemy on " Bring the Noise " was directly influenced by " Walk This Way ") and the Red Hot Chili Peppers adding elements of rap to alternative rock and heavy metal.

The Royal Norwegian Navy's HNoMS Rap — the name meaning ' fast '— was ordered from Thornycroft, England in 1873, but was not equipped with self-propelled torpedoes until 1879.

Furtado was also featured in " Breathe " from Swollen Members " Monsters in the Closet " release ; the video for " Breathe ," directed by Spawn creator Todd MacFarlane, won the 2003 Western Canadian Music Awards Outstanding Video and MuchVIBE Best Rap Video.

Baron Cohen has stated that BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood was an influence on the development of his character – Westwood hosts Radio 1's Rap Show and speaks in a faux Multicultural London English and Hip-Hop dialect.

Swass, his debut album, was released in 1988, with two other singles: " Square-Dance Rap " and a hip hop cover of the Black Sabbath song " Iron Man " backed by the band Metal Church.

Its single " Baby Got Back " was a number-one hit that went double platinum and won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance.

Immortal Technique explains how party content played a big part in old school hip hop, in the book How to Rap: " hip-hop was born in an era of social turmoil ... in the same way that slaves used to sing songs on a plantation ... that's the party songs that we used to have ".

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (; born October 4, 1943, as Hubert Gerold Brown ), also known as H. Rap Brown, was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, and during a short-lived ( six months ) alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party, he served as their Minister of Justice.

* DJ Rap ( Charissa Saverio ) grew up in Walthamstow and lived there until recently, was born in Singapore.

The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, in 1999.

The intro cut scene of the game is a music video that features a full-length song with vocals, entitled the " DK Rap " which was written by Kirkhope and was performed by George Andreas and Chris Sutherland.

A remixed version of the " DK Rap " was in Super Smash Bros. Melee as part of the Kongo Jungle stage, in which the word " hell " was replaced with " heck ".