“Houston Rap Tapes” followed, a book with a higher percentage of real estate dedicated to words ... pictures you've never seen. He’s written for Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Texas ...

A search for “thug” on Spotify yields over 100 artists with the word in their moniker. Genius (formerly Rap Genius) retrieves 14,660 results for “thug” in lyrics, songs, and artist names.

For instance, the study found that of the rap lyrics used in the dataset (50,000 songs comprising 26 million words from the top 500 charting rappers on Billboard‘s Rap Chart), “Compton” was ...

In 2003, T.I. and other Atlanta rappers created new subgenre of rap: trap music. Twenty years later ... Have you ever thought of the meaning of the word trap? SUMMERS: Have you ever thought ...

It’s insulting to me that somebody who hasn’t been traumatized from this word can tell people it’s OK to play.” What’s more, he notes, there are edited versions of many hip-hop songs ...

Fifty years into hip-hop’s constant evolution, many of today’s rappers don’t write down their lyrics at all. Here’s how they make songs now. transcript “I think a lot of people picture ...

And the Brooklyn crew is among the classic rap acts captured in a new photo exhibit ... recalled to The Post in 2021. “She kept her word!” De La Soul in 1993. COURTESY OF FOTOGRAFISKA ...