rap

Example Sentences

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“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

Rubio, by contrast, had free-styled his picks of who got to ask questions, and even dropped in some classic rap lyrics.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

He said it was so he could rap to Puerto Rican and Dominican girls, but I knew it was 'cause he loved listening to Mama speak it.

From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson