Finally, in 2001, she gave me six rap and hip-hop CDs and made me promise to listen to them.
Clearly, country music is extremely popular in the United States. Unlike pop, rock and rap, however, country music has a very limited appeal to foreign listeners.
"I am troubled sometimes by the misogyny and materialism of a lot of rap lyrics," Obama remarked. "But I think the genius of the art form has shifted the culture and helped to de-segregate music."
FACIAL reconstructive surgery gets a bad rap.
There have been cultural claims too, with calls to blame African-American rap music from broadcast.
She said it was an easy sell, given that Snoop Dogg had been one of the first rap musicians to license works for ring tones and voice tones.
The billion dollar success of plastic pop, clumsy metal and predictable, playa style rap has left little to rave about, and caused parents to shake their heads in disgust, stupefied at the bland or even bad taste of their very own kids.
The flap over rap is not making life any easier for him.
The initial XML messages had the rap of being too big but new schema design rules have resulted in more modest message sizes.
At the time, I didn't really understand the rap culture.
Finnish youth, like their U.S. counterparts, also waste hours online. They dye their hair, love sarcasm and listen to rap and heavy metal.
I like lots of different styles - rock, rap, whatever.
Have you heard some of the lyrics of some of the rap music, some of the original violent songs that have been sung about killing people and about other violence directed to them?
Since rap music, he adds, "those taboos have been removed and that, to me, makes her that much more impressive. She doesn't have that easy ticket to notoriety."
Black holes suffer a bad rap.
If you rap it with your knuckle you hear the thwack of gypsum rather than the ring of cold metal.
A single rap on the door snapped Tom from his reverie. Frank Davis immediately let himself in.
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