rapping
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He started rapping as a hobby when he was 10 and was making beats on his computer at 13.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
But we weren’t thinking about making hip-hop beats and rapping 30 years later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Shakur’s rapping is casually virtuosic, suave even as he tosses off boasts, taunts and threats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Ellis started his career at the age of seven, rapping and making his own music on an Atari computer system.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
The Plain Dealer eagerly anticipated Leah’s arrival: “There are to be rapping times in Cleveland this week.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Its experimentalist score by Iannis Xenakis, full of echoing rappings, tappings and pluckings, inspired Balanchine to equally experimental lengths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
In Lily Dale, centre for spiritualists, he spent the most fantastic day in his life going to seances, listening to spirit rappings, interviewing mediums.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many of them have persecuted clergymen, as in the case of Methodism's founder, John Wesley, who was an interested observer of knockings, rappings and agitated warming pans at Epworth Rectory in 1716-17.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lemuel followed the rappings to find their source.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
He said to someone the other day: “If Mrs. Kane says that she can make these rappings without the aid of the spirits, she lies.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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