rapping
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Newer listeners to Wolf’s alt-rock sound might be surprised to hear that in these early years, Wolf was singing, and occasionally rapping, over Billie Eilish-era bedroom pop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
He’s like a cringeworthy successor to Poochie, the rapping dog “with an attitude” developed at the behest of pathetically uncool network-television executives in an old episode of “The Simpsons.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Even megastar Bruno Mars joins in on the fun, gamely rapping the cowbell on “Never Wanna Lose You.”
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 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
The Plain Dealer eagerly anticipated Leah’s arrival: “There are to be rapping times in Cleveland this week.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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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
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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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His opinion was clear; he called the rappings “atrocious.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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This time, before she vanished into the darkness, a spirit message was transmitted, “I am here to bid you greeting. The rappings shall still go on.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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