rap music
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- noun
- /ræp ˈmjuzɪk/
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rap
- While driving home, I turned on the radio and started listening to rap music.
- hip hop and rap music
- listen to rap music
- rap music videos
And I'll try and cover the goings on in rap music and any beefs that might happen.
- And I'll try and cover the goings on in rap music and any beefs that might happen.
- You want me to teach, you know, kind of poetry is rap music or, you know, the lyrics of rap as poetry.
- As I like to keep up to date on the goings on in the world of rap music.
- Like if I want to, if I want to listen to rap music, I'm going to listen to Kendrick, man.
- We're seeing the beginning of planetary music with rap music and and different kinds of of musical variations.
- And I introduced Nas to him because Ben is a, is a tremendous fan of, of, of, of rap music.
- And I introduced Naz to him because Ben is a is a tremendous fan of of, of of rap music.
- The thing that worked was listening to heavy metal rap music, anything that has a, you know, a adrenaline fueled reaction in normality.
- My brother used to listen to rap music and, and I used to record myself trying to pretend to, to do that.
- And dance music, rap music, like bumping, picking garbage up, having fun.
Examples
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Skip is on the roof with his radio, listening to rap music while his birds circle overhead.
Fiction book (1990) -
Further, they note their successful educational and youth development program that uses rap music videos with adolescent African American males.
Academic text (2007) -
His first experience with rap music was when he was 10 years old.
Academic text (2007) -
The majority of the fans listened to rap music nearly every day.
Academic text (2007) -
I really do enjoy my rap music and I can bust out a few rap songs myself.
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Millions of students listen to rap music, as it contains words and rhythms of their world.
Academic text (2004) -
The insistent beat of the rap music followed me down the stairs and into the night.
Fiction book (1990) -
Given the political charge it generates, rap music has spawned research across the social and health sciences.
Academic text (2007) -
French-Canadian adolescents report that rap music is their favorite musical preference.
Academic text (2007) -
Our study suggests that rap music elicits powerful emotions and significant meanings across ethnic and racial groups.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a style of popular music characterized by rhythmic spoken rhymes' is directly and compositionally derived from 'rap' (a style of rhythmic spoken rhymes) + 'music' (organized sound). This noun–noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistically regular pattern for naming music genres, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Rap music gets its name from rap, a word that meant 'to talk' or a quick 'knock', and from a musical tradition where people spoke rhythmic rhymes over a beat. So rap music means music where rhythmic, rhyming speech is spoken over a musical backing.