rap music

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Meaning

genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

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Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. Kurt Cobain

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone. George Harrison

I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies. Dylan Moran

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping. Nina Simone

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. Eminem

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. Eminem

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