His 2012 film Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap features a who's who of underground and mainstream rappers.

Gil Scott-Heron, a jazz poet / musician who wrote and released such seminal songs as " The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ", " H2OGate Blues Part 2: We Beg Your Pardon America ," and " Johannesberg ," has been cited as an influence on many rappers.

Old school rap ( 1979 – 1984 ) was " easily identified by its relatively simple raps " according to Allmusic, " the emphasis was not on lyrical technique, but simply on good times ", one notable exception being Melle Mel, who set the way for future rappers through his socio-political content and creative wordplay.

First, explicitly praising Africa would have been offensive to the many immigrants who fled Algeria and other North African countries because of the economic adversity they faced there, and many rappers probably had parents who had done so.

Probably the most famous Italian rappers apart from Articolo 31 are Sottotonoand Otierre from Varese, Neffa from Napoli and Piotta who represents Rome and became famous through an ironic interpretation of the coatto ( The stereotypical Italian boy with an attitude ).

Although he was initially recognized for his musical output, since the early 2000s, Mos Def's screen work has established him as one of only a handful of rappers who has garnered critical acclaim for his acting work.

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.

Hammer was very good friends with Arsenio Hall ( as well as a then-unknown teen named Robert Van Winkle, aka Vanilla Ice, despite later rumors that there was a " beef " between the two rappers which was addressed during the height of both their careers on Hall's show, and who he would later reunite with in a 2009 concert in Salt Lake City, Utah ).

During this period, Thomas appeared in the independent film HavPlenty, and Watkins co-starred in Hype Williams ( who later directed the " No Scrubs " video )' 1998 film Belly with rappers Nas and DMX.

With the help of Eminem and Dr. Dre, who produced his first major commercial successes, Jackson became one of the world's highest selling rappers.

I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it.

Most of the rappers who performed in clubs did not want to record.

Reggaeton is becoming popular in California due to the success of rappers Daddy Yankee, Pitbull and Ruben Blades who have broken across language barriers into mainstream music.

Lil Jon ( who used to produce Miami Bass records ) has a vocal style not too dissimilar from Luke — in any case, they both ( normally ) do not rap and use guest rappers.

Like so many aspiring rappers around the country, they put in calls to executives at record companies, hoping to find someone who would listen.

The genre-crossing Frank Zappa was also from Maryland, as was Tupac Shakur, who was born in Harlem, though he began his career in Baltimore, eventually becoming one of the most famous rappers in hip hop history.

North Florida also has rappers who have achieved success, though not at the rate of South Florida.

Orlando and Tampa have produced many rappers who are not in the mainstream.

During the 2000s Eminem, who is perhaps best known for being one of the few successful white rappers in the music industry, enjoyed a massive commercial success and maintained commercial relevance by attempting to be controversial and subversive.

Unlike previous rappers such as LL Cool J, KRS-One, and Run-D. M. C., who delivered their vocals with high energy, Rakim employed a relaxed, stoic delivery.

Female rappers who write about experiences specific to their lives expand the dominant ideas of rap music and dominant notions of what it means to be an authentic rapper.

In 2002 a new wave of rappers had followed their lead by rapping exclusively in Icelandic: Bæjarins bestu, the freestyle battle champs of Iceland in one unit, Móri, a gangsta rapper who uses Icelandic, Afkvæmi Guðanna ( The Offspring of the Gods ), Bent og 7Berg ( Bent and 7Berg ), Skytturnar ( The Marksmen ), Hæsta Hendin ( The Highest Hand ) and Forgotten Lores.

Eminem was encouraged by others, who noted he sounded similar to rappers Nas and AZ.

Since the late 1990s, custom dog tags have become fashionable amongst musicians ( particularly rappers ), and as a marketing giveaway item.

It should also be noted that a number of East Coast rappers that have been usually identified as African American have parentage from a country that speaks Spanish, usually Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, or Panama.

" Many female hip hop artists have challenged male rappers ' use of the word bitch to refer to women, with Queen Latifah asking in her 1993 song " U. N. I. T. Y.

With the eventual commercial dominance of West Coast gangsta rap, particularly the emergence of the relaxed sounds of G-funk by the early nineties, the East Coast new school / golden age can be said to have ended, with hardcore rappers such as the Wu-Tang Clan and gangsta rappers such as Nas and The Notorious B. I. G coming to dominate the East Coast scene.

And finally, rising conservative Islamism in North Africa would have prevented rappers from being able to imitate their behavior in their native land.

" The components of their music are mostly influenced by the American rappers, but they also have their own style such as having their culture's tune in the beat.

Other important crews and rappers include Bologna's Camelz in Effect with their unforgettable early hit " Slega la Lega ", Sangue Misto with their 1994 album SMX, the political crew 99 Posse whose music have influences from world music to trip hop.

Lyrical themes throughout the history of East Coast hip hop have ranged from lyrical consciousness by such artists as Public Enemy and A Tribe Called Quest to mafioso rap themes by rappers such as Raekwon and Kool G Rap.

They dress similarly to American rappers that they have seen on television.

Some of his creations other rappers have been using for the last 30 years such as " throw ya hands in the air and wave ' em like you just don't care.

" Russell Potter wrote that while hardcore rap has been associated with a " monolithic ' gangsta ' outlook " by the popular press, hardcore rappers have " laid claim to a wide variety of ground ".

This was extremely visible in the year 2010, when there was a beef between Peja with Gandi Ganda, Borixon, Liroy and some lesser known rappers from Poznan and Kielce ( both in western Poland ) and Tede with Eldo, Włodi and Pelson from Molesta and also some lesser known rappers which have chosen this side in the beef ( all four major rappers on this side of the beef were from Warsaw, which is in eastern Poland ).

It is known to have signed many popular West Coast hip hop artists such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, 2Pac, MC Hammer, Nate Dogg and the rap group Tha Dogg Pound consisting of rappers Kurupt and Daz Dillinger also Lisa " Left Eye " Lopes of TLC although most if not all departed from the label after its demise following the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996.

A number of rappers, such as Ice Cube, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Lloyd Banks, and Nas have put him in their lists of favorite rappers.

The killers of both rappers have still yet to be found.

There are have been a number of successful American musicians of Pakistani origin ; they include Nadia Ali, rappers Bohemia and Mr. Capone-E, Junoon member Salman Ahmad, the Qaiyum brothers ( MCs GQ and JAQ ), as well as Explosions in the Sky guitarist Munaf Rayani.

Maal's fusions continued into the next decade, with his Firin ' in Fouta ( 1994 ) album, which used ragga, salsa and Breton harp music to create a popular sound that launched the careers of Positive Black Soul, a group of rappers, and also led to the formation of the Afro-Celt Sound System.

* The number of the French department Seine-Saint-Denis, and as such used by many French gangsta rappers and those emulating their speech.

" We thought turntables were for playing records until rappers began to use them as instruments, and we thought airplanes were for carrying passengers until terrorists realized they could be used as missiles ," Baxter has said.

Cartel is not defined to these three groups but intends to expand as a community … and … in time as an idea .” He used the German media to promote a cultural identity, in an effort to identify these rappers as Turks and the group ’ s rhymes in the Turkish language aimed at developing an ethnically defined minority.

Like many other Turkish rap groups, Cartel also acknowledges it ’ s ‘ authentic ’ Turkish folk music connections in the form of a lyrics structure which was used by the mythical Turkish minstrels ( halk ozani ) By doing so, the rappers also contextualize themselves both in their ‘ own authentic ’ culture and in the global youth culture.

It is related to the rapper sword dance of Northumbria, but the character is fundamentally different as it uses rigid metal or wooden swords, rather than the flexible spring steel rappers used by its northern relation.

Beginning in the 1980s, many brands of malt liquor began to aggressively target this market and used popular actors ( such as Billy Dee Williams ) or rappers in their advertisements ; Ice Cube, for instance, appeared in radio advertisements for St. Ides.

Many rappers use Helsinki slang words, general slang and Finnish dialects are used too by some artists.

Many early rappers used English language.

This time Finnish rappers used a style which was much closer to American hip hop music.

The lyrics were allegedly used on " Respect " and other tracks from the rappers ' collaboration album Like Father, Like Son and Birdman's 5 * Stunna.

Swedish rappers had before that time almost always used English.

The lyrics were allegedly used on " Respect " and other tracks from the rappers ' collaboration album Like Father, Like Son and Birdman's 5 * Stunna.

He explained that Shakur was initially fueled by his anger against Biggie and used this adrenaline, which he described as " superhuman ", to attack the other East Coast rappers.

Humpty introduces the appearance theme with the opening line, " I'm about to ruin the image and the style that you're used to ," a protest against the uniformity among successful rappers of the time.

This collection of golden era burners by luminaries such as Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap and lesser known rappers like Black, Rock and Ron was credited by some as sparking a renewed interest in " fast rap " and influencing eBay auctions for the records used on the tape.

However, towards the end of the eighties and the start of the nineties, the posse cut began to be used as an " All-Stars " device to bring together rappers who had respect for each other's skills on the microphone, or a way to unite various well-known and respected artists to deliver an important message.