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Students cheered as they stacked rubbish bins against the entrance to a school outside Paris, while a speaker thumped out French rap to young people, teachers and parents mingling in the early morning drizzle.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Shakur’s killing came during a fraught time in the rap world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

But bonds got a bad rap after the Federal Reserve quickly raised interest rates in 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The vice president’s words sound good — like a rap on the knuckles of the tech billionaires who can’t stop claiming they’re building doomsday devices.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

I let Aunt Pooh hear some rhymes I wrote, she gets so hype over them that she tells me to rap them for her friends.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

The whole thing is either spoken or rapped or sung.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Dre also rapped a verse—in fact, he originally intended to use the song for his next album, according to “Only God Can Judge Me.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The artist reached out to the crowd as he rapped in Spanish, fans jumping and raising their phones to take pictures and document the moment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

In Zambia, Speed plunged in the Devil's Pool on the very edge of the Mosi-oa-Tunya, or Victoria Falls, and rapped with Zambian hip-hop pioneer Slapdee.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026

After the glasses had been filled, Bull rapped a gavel on the head table for silence.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

Her singing and rapping were as sharp as ever, but the effect wasn’t quite the same without Angelica’s sisters in the background.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 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

Ellis started his career at the age of seven, rapping and making his own music on an Atari computer system.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

Emotionally, Horace wanted to believe, but he knew he had no real evidence that spirits made the rapping sounds.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

In Chandler and Pierre, “Lanterns” has an extraordinary pairing that sustains enough frustration, humor, passion and regret to keep us rapt through the episodes provided for review.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

It is, nonetheless, unforgettable entertainment and season 2 will still render a viewer rapt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Was he too rapt by his proximity to the most powerful man in the world?

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

It's now 24 years since Rhona Martin delivered the Stone of Destiny in Salt Lake City, watched by millions of rapt viewers at dark o'clock in the UK.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

She glanced at Theodora and Luke and found both their faces fallen instinctively into a completely rapt classroom look; high earnestness, she thought; we have moved into another stage of our adventure.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson