* Sandra and Samantha Lawrence The Wee Papa Girl Rappers were a British female rap duo, who came from Acton & lived in one of the tower blocks next to Acton Police Station, the picture on the back cover of their album was taken out side their block.

Rappers Jay-Z, Kurupt, Sticky Fingaz, Big Pun, DMX, Wyclef Jean and the Wu-Tang Clan replied to the song and Nas, who received the track positively, invited Jackson to travel on a promotional tour for his Nastradamus album.

When she was 18, Ivy Queen moved to San Juan where she met rapper and producer, DJ Negro, who introduced her to a group called The Noise, with whom she wrote and performed her first song " Somos Raperos Pero No Delincuentes " ( We're Rappers, But Not Delinquents ).

Rappers Sergio " AK " Gómez and Francisco " Wikid " Gómez, who make up Akwid, are brothers, originally from Jiquilpan, Michoacán, now live in Los Angeles, California.

MC Frontalot, in collaboration with faux-German electronic musician KOMPRESSOR on the track Rappers We Crush, rhymes " What did I do to deserve this ?/ What was my crime ?/ Was it because I sampled Die Toten Hosen that one time?

Rappers Yas Taalat and Bobby McIntosh, both former members of the rock / rap band Project Wyze, teamed up with onetime DMC World Champion DJ Dopey to form Dead Celebrity Status in 2003.

Rappers 50 Cent and Kanye West have referenced these infamous gloves in their songs.

Rappers including Diddy, Jay-Z and 50 Cent refer to the city in some of their songs as a favorite vacation destination, usually by yacht.

Rappers have sung about Newport in songs, some include Ill Bill ; Max B ; Tupac Shakur ; Notorious B. I. G.

By the beginning of the 1980s, there had been popular hip hop songs like " Rappers Delight " by the Sugarhill Gang and a few major celebrities of the scene, like LL Cool J and Kurtis Blow.

The album was included in Rhapsody's list of " The 10 Best Albums By White Rappers ".

Rappers Andre Nickatina, Ice Cube, 2Pac, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Warren G, Nate Dogg, MC Eiht, Scarface, Wu-Tang Clan, Project Pat, King Tee, DJ Pooh, The Notorious B. I. G., Eric B & Rakim, EPMD, Method Man & Redman, Cypress Hill, RBL Posse, Luniz, and the Geto Boys.

Rappers like J. Nahtz, AZ and Common are known for trying to " save " rap music.

A variety of music genres can be heard and have originated in Kansas City metro area, including: Rock groups Puddle of Mudd, Isaac James, Shooting Star, The Get Up Kids, Shiner, Flee The Seen, The Life and Times, Reggie and the Full Effect, Coalesce, The Casket Lottery, The Gadjits, The Rainmakers, Vedera, The Elders, Blackpool Lights and The Republic Tigers and Rappers Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, Kutt Calhoun, Skatterman & Snug Brim, Mac Lethal, and Solè.

Rappers from the south of France are known to tell the ' cold reality ' of life in France.

Rappers from the 1980s and 90s needed to keep their references to Africa subtle for a few reasons.

Rappers are overwhlemingly of African descent, and in tackling the issue of their invisibility in French society and declaring their origins, they redefine their identity and defy French notions of race and citizenship.

GLS United, formed by three widely known radio moderators, was perhaps the first German hip hop group, releasing the first German-language hip hop song " Rappers Deutsch " in 1980 although they were just a novelty act created for this one song.

Rappers from the French-speaking part ( where the traditional dialects died out in most parts ) and from the Italian-speaking part ( where most people mix dialects and Standard Italian freely ) rap in the standard languages.

The rap scene started in 1981, when Duffy Hooks launched the first West Coast rap label Rappers Rapp Records, inspired by Sugar Hill Records in New York.

1981 would also bring the Rappers Rapp Group, a West Coast version of Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five.

About. com ranked the group's lead MC, Wise Intelligent, # 5 on its list of the 10 Most Underrated Rappers, calling him " one of the most creative MCs of our time.

According to Daz Dillinger, the reason this happened was because Sam Sneed had too many East Coast Rappers in his Lady Heroin music video.

* Rappers such as Big Pun, Ivy Queen, Don Chezina and others also enjoy success.

Club Rappers in Carolina, and club PlayMakers in Puerto Nuevo were the most notable.

In a countdown of the 10 Most Underappreciated Rappers — Most Underrated Rappers of All Time, the editors of About. com listed AZ as # 1 on the list.

Rappers Rapp Group was a hip-hop group, composed of DJ Flash, King MC, Lovin ' C, Mr. Ice, MC Fosty, and Mack-A-Moe. Their first release was " Rappers Rapp Theme ", released through Rappers Rapp Disco Co. in 1982.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

The track featured actor Patrick Allen, who recreated his narration from the Protect and Survive public information films for certain 12-inch mixes ( the original Protect and Survive soundtracks were sampled for the 7-inch mixes ).

Having already collaborated four years earlier, Henny entered 1997 by teaming up with Def P from pioneering Dutch-language rap group Osdorp Posse ( who sampled De Bom on one of their tracks ).

Some sampled the nuts, which made them ill, and they had to be taken to a doctor in town, who, upon seeing one of the nuts, told them that they had eaten poisonous Chinese Tung nuts.

* Bob James, jazz musician who created the instrumental theme song Angela for the sitcom Taxi and has been sampled by numerous hip-hop artists, is a resident of Traverse City.

Many modern rappers would later heavily sample his drumming and incorporate it into their compositions, such as Beastie Boys, who sampled " Moby Dick ," " The Ocean ," and " When the Levee Breaks.

They even sampled McDonald's songbook from time to time, eventually restoring " Takin ' it to the Streets " to the set on a semi-permanent basis with Simmons and new bassist Skylark ( who joined in 1995 ) substituting for McDonald on vocals.

The track has been sampled by groups including the Bloodhound Gang, who also refer to Falco in their 1999 song " Mope ", and by German rapper Fler in " NDW 2005 " from Neue Deutsche Welle.

" Basehead's albums and performances feature live instrumentation, which differentiates the group's sound from that of mainstream hip hop artists who rely solely on sampled instrumentation.

This album also features " The Humpty Dance Awards ", the group's humorous shout-out to the artists who sampled the Humpty Dance prior to 1993.

* The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu ( who later became The KLF ) sampled nearly three minutes of Top of the Pops on their album 1987.

The genre's roots are based both in hip hop acts who sampled heavy metal songs, such as Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, Esham and Run – D. M. C., as well as rock bands who fused heavy metal and hip hop influences, such as 24-7 Spyz and Faith No More.

* Contact sampled individuals and collect data from those who are hard to reach ( or reluctant to respond ).

Based on the children's book series Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus, it draws heavily on the tradition of Sherlock Holmes with a heroic mouse who consciously emulates the detective ; Titus named the main character after actor Basil Rathbone, who is best remembered for playing Holmes in film ( and whose voice, sampled from a 1966 reading of " The Adventure of the Red-Headed League " was the voice of Holmes in this film, 19 years after his death ).

The Korean myths sampled from different regions, clearly demonstrate that there exist many variations describing gods who take essentially identical roles, but appear in different plots.

Arcade game sounds had an influence on synthpop pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra, who sampled Space Invaders sounds in their influential 1978 debut album, particularly the hit song " Computer Game ".

Their intended destinations included Thielsen, which was climbed and sampled by one member who retrieved multiple samples of fulgurite.

More recently, Smith influenced bands such as the Beastie Boys, who sampled the bassline from " Root Down ( and Get It )" from Root Down — and saluted Smith in the lyrics — for their own hit " Root Down ," Medeski, Martin & Wood, and the Hayden-Eckert Ensemble.

Filmi music composed by A. R. Rahman ( who would later win two Academy Awards for the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack ) has frequently been sampled by musicians elsewhere in the world, including the Singaporean artist Kelly Poon, the Uzbek artist Iroda Dilroz, the French rap group La Caution, the American artist Ciara, and the German band Löwenherz, among others.

Currently, there is a documentary in progress called the Roy Ayers Project featuring Ayers and many Hip Hop producers who have sampled his music and other people who have been influenced by him and his music.

* The song has been covered by Chocolate Starfish, The Mountain Goats, David Axelrod, John Barrowman, Liza Minnelli, Jack Klugman and Tony Randall ( as " The Odd Couple "), Chimira, Venice, Jann Arden, Janet Jackson ( who sampled the song in " Son of a Gun ( I Betcha Think This Song Is About You )", with Simon providing featured vocals, Anna Waronker, Faster Pussycat, Romantic Guitar, Dres, Daryll-Ann, Smokie, Foo Fighters, Sally Seltmann, Asaro and Wolcott, Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs and Marilyn Manson ( featuring Johnny Depp ).

" One of the audio sources Lipsett sampled for 21-87 film that had a great influence on Lucas was a conversation between artificial intelligence pioneer Warren S. McCulloch and Roman Kroitor, a cinematographer who went on to develop IMAX.