rap
Example Sentences
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Retail shareholders sometimes get a bad rap on Wall Street for being perceived as “weak hands,” as some might call them.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
“Normally there’d be a current charting trap or rap song, but there’s something about that song that I think makes you recalibrate how you’re looking at the scene in general.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
A raucous posse rap, it uses Sakura's alter-ego as a vehicle for scurrilous rumours about the band.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
Drake turns the frigid, isolated mansion rap that’s become his trademark toward relitigating the last half-decade of petty squabbles and minor slights.
From Salon • May 21, 2026
When rap was born, the early rap stars were not rapping about gangsta life, but “My Adidas” and good times in the ’hood in tunes like “Rapper’s Delight.”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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