rapping
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Shakur’s rapping is casually virtuosic, suave even as he tosses off boasts, taunts and threats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"We were playing instruments, they were rapping and playing their instruments," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Lindo starts rapping on the wood table separating us and doesn’t stop until I ask if he’s a man given to superstition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
"I'm getting up and doing a wee bit of rapping, so I am," he told BBC News NI.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
In fact, I may put it on my future resume as a skill, alongside rapping and laying edges.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
In Lily Dale, centre for spiritualists, he spent the most fantastic day in his life going to seances, listening to spirit rappings, interviewing mediums.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many of them have persecuted clergymen, as in the case of Methodism's founder, John Wesley, who was an interested observer of knockings, rappings and agitated warming pans at Epworth Rectory in 1716-17.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole foot, in fact, can be made to give rappings by the use only of muscles below the knee.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Lemuel followed the rappings to find their source.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
In reality, Maggie and Kate Fox were fourteen and eleven when the rappings began, certainly old enough to know the difference between right and wrong.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
