rapping
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"We were playing instruments, they were rapping and playing their instruments," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
On a Wednesday in early April, Adams started class with a music video of him rapping on a city street, then revealed he’d made it using Google’s Veo 3 video generator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
But the nonchalance of the sapphic romance portrayed in the video for 2025’s “First Luv,” and the ferocious rapping of “Shagidi” show this is an ambitious band with influence and inventiveness, too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 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 three doctors had attended a séance at the Phelps House and noticed that the rapping sounds seemed to originate closer to Maggie.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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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
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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
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They fell into trances and interpreted rappings just like Kate had done.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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From their ranks at Corinthian Hall, Wednesday night’s audience selected a five-man committee to test Maggie and Leah and decide whether the rappings were a humbug.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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He questioned women who’d heard the rappings, men who’d dug up the basement, and families who’d lived in the house before.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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