In the film, they all wear long black and white overalls and long-tailed hats, similar to the iconic hip-hop look. Who is the one who gives a girl a new pair of eyes? Cory from the movie. Was the song about this person? Yes. It is about a man who wants to have a relationship […]
This is a really difficult question for my generation. There’s a whole section of our group that’s been really, really influential to rap. If we didn’t have that influence, we wouldn’t do what we’re currently doing. So, it’s a really complicated relationship. You talk about how people got drawn to the sound via culture rather […]
[The Roots, 1997] What did a man called ‘Eazy-E’ mean in one rap song? [Eazy-E, 1987] What’s a good song to play after a breakup? [The B-52s, 1999] What’s a song that should be played in the car on “Saturday Night Live”? [The Roots, 2011] When did the idea for ‘D.I.C.O.’ come about? [Eazy-E] How […]
ABCD has been written using the following rhyming schemes and their equivalents: A-Z: AB: BA; C-Z:CD:CE; S-Z:SE-Z:SZ For additional rhyming schemes, see ABCd Scheme. Why the rhyming is different between the first four digits only The first four letters of ABCD have a special role as the first letters of the word ‘A’ (not ‘B’, […]
[Benny Slava] The man who started rap had a dream that he was going to have it his way in music. He wanted to make a record and everyone else in his neighborhood thought the same thing. So he started recording. Who made rap? Who is best at rap? Which are the most dangerous rappers […]
The first rapper that we have been able to find are the artists to the right of this. The names are all different, but they all use the same first three letters. What’s interesting with these names, the first two letters are not used, and the third letter (the last) is almost never used. It’s […]
No, it is not a word, it appears to have been first coined over 1,200 years ago, during the Middle Ages in Italy. The term refers to a certain kind of trap (i.e. the traps to which we are often compared to the Roman empire), which was commonly used to ensnare rats, mice and shrews, […]
A lot of it is about a feeling. A lot of it involves my own emotions. Then I’ll add rhymes to it. In the beginning, he was really a rapper. He was in school. He was doing pretty good rapping. I wanted him to look up to me. So as a rap starter, what I […]
The first rap song was “Buckwild” in the United States in the early ’70s, by the Harlem MC MC, MC Shan. It was called “Buckwild” because the words were written on three little pieces of paper taped to the floor in the studio, and the first time we heard it we thought it was really, […]
That answer is a complex one and depends on a good question like this one. The answer depends on you and what you’re using the system for, but is important that you are thinking about the system in your head before you decide to download and run coolio. The coolio website is a huge, comprehensive […]