Rap Music

  

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Rap Music

Definition: Rap Music

Rap Music

Noun

1. 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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Rap Music

Synonym: rap (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Rap Music

English words defined with "rap music": break dance, break dancingrap. (references)

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Modern Usage: Rap Music

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Play some rap music. (The Last Boy Scout; writing credit: Shane Black.)

Lyrics

I like rap music, wear hip hop clothes ("Free Your Mind"; performing artist: En Vogue)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Rap Music

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bring the Noise: A Guide to Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture (reference)

  • One Nation Under a Groove: Rap Music and Its Roots (reference)

  • Rap Music and Street Consciousness (Music in American Life) (reference)

  • Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity (reference)

  • The History of Rap Music (African American Achievers) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rap Music

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

rap music

4,403

rap music video

201

new rap music

172

rap music lyrics

150

listen to rap music

120

history rap music

112

rap music.com

90

free rap music

89

rap music download

79

rap music downloads

74
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Rap Music

Language Translations for "rap music"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

apray usicmay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

музыка рэп. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Rap Music

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-p-r-s-u"

-2 letters: amicus, campus, capris, carpus, cramps, crimps, crumps, primas, primus, purism, racism, sacrum, scampi, scrimp, umiacs.

-3 letters: amirs, arcus, arums, aspic, auric, auris, campi, camps, carpi, carps, cramp, crams, craps, crimp, crisp, crump, curia, mairs, marcs, micas, micra, muras, musca, music, pairs, paris, picas, pimas, prams, praus, prima, prims, prism, pumas, puris, ramps, ramus, rumps, scamp, scarp, scaup, scaur, scram, scrap, scrim, scrip, scrum, simar, sirup, spica, sumac, supra, umiac.

-4 letters: aims, airs, amir, amis, amps, amus, arcs, arms, arum, asci, camp, cams, caps, carp, cars, cram, crap, cris, crus, cups, curs, cusp, imps, macs, mair, maps, marc, mars, mica, mirs, mura, pacs, pair, pams, pars, pias, pica, pics, pima, pram, prau, prim, puma, puri, purs, rami, ramp, rams, raps, rasp, rias, rims, rips, rump, rums, samp, sari, scam, scar, scum, scup, sima, simp, spam, spar, spic, spur, sump, sura, umps, upas, uric, ursa.

-5 letters: aim, air, ais, ami, amp, amu, arc, arm, ars, asp, cam, cap, car, cis, cum, cup, cur, imp, ism, mac, map, mar, mas, mir, mis, mus, pac, pam, par, pas, pia, pic, pis, piu, psi, pur, pus, ram, rap, ras, ria, rim, rip, rum, sac, sap, sau, sic, sim, sip, sir, spa, sri, sum, sup, ump, ups.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-p-r-s-u"
 

+2 letters: manuscript, practicums.

 

+3 letters: intercampus, manuscripts, pancratiums, parameciums, procambiums, supremacies, supremacist.

 

+4 letters: archesporium, epicureanism, microcapsule, supremacists.

 

+5 letters: alphanumerics, ceruloplasmin, churchmanship, compurgations, epicureanisms, microcapsules, multispectral, paramountcies, particularism, pococurantism, posttraumatic, protactiniums, republicanism, supercriminal, superromantic, unimportances.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Rap Music


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 61 70      4D 75 73 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100001 01110000 00100000 01001101 01110101 01110011 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#112 &#32 &#77 &#117 &#115 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0061 0070      004D 0075 0073 0069 0063

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52678224787857569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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