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Rapping
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Musical delivery involving rhythmic speech
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Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular". It is usually performed over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The components of rap include "content" (what is being said, e.g., lyrics),...

Instance of
Music genre
Art movement
Subclass of
Hip hop music
Different from
Hip hop music
Facet of
Spoken language
Country of origin
United States
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