His music is celebrated for its gritty narrative style, capturing the essence of street life and the struggle to rise above it. But 50 Cent's influence extends beyond the realm of music. He has successfully ventured into acting, with roles in films like Get Rich or Die Tryin', Righteous ...
This article explores the construction of the notion of resilience through the oral narrative production of the most prominent conscious rappers that emerged in the 1980s in South Africa, namely Prophets of Da City and Black Noise. By means of a corpus approach, our analysis...
Ice-T, a prominent American rapper and actor, rose to fame in the 1980s as an underground rapper. His debut album, "Rhyme Pays," was released in 1987. In 1988, he established Rhyme $yndicate Records and achieved platinum success with his album "Power." Ice-T co-founded the heavy meta...
Rap and hip-hop music started gaining ground in China in the 1980s and it continues to grow. Hip-hop is expected to reach a market of over $700 million by 2024 with an average annual growth of over 25 percent. With an increasing number of women using rap and hip-hop to tell their ...
Saucy Santana has come into hip-hop as an anomaly. He's a gay rapper whose flamboyance and femininity has made him almost as popular as his music. He's been very open about dating men in the public eye as his fame has steadily increased as well. ...
Dive Into Damso's History With Some Unique Deep Cuts - "Fais -moi un vie" - "Exutoire" 2 Booba 945 votes Booba has been a force to be reckoned with in the French rap scene since his early days as a member of the iconic duo Lunatic. Known for his braggadocious lyrics and hard-...
Troy:Nasir Jones is the quintessential hip-hop lyricist. If Rakim set the bar for rappers in the 1980s, Nas reset it in the 1990s with his classic guest verse on Main Source’s “Live at the BBQ” and then withIllmatic, arguably, the greatest rap album of all time. The seco...
Over the last decade, brands have enlisted many of rap's elite to appear in their ads in an attempt to get an edge on the competition—evidence of hip-hop's power as the straw that stirs pop culture as we know it. Take a look at some of the Super Bowl commercials featuring rappers...
the legendary pianist via trap door. Amaro then appears out of nowhere and wows the court with her glass-shattering vocals and liberates all of the Pepsi in the kingdom after sending Elton John through the same trap door he sent the jester. There he meets Flav, who laughs at his new ...
Over the years, teen performers have been responsible for some of rap's biggest hits—almost every major rapper in the '80s, from Run DMC to Rakim, released their first songs as teenagers—as well as some of its greatest controversies. In some cases, age was a convenient marketing gimmick,...