RAP

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Rap may refer to:

  • Rapping, performance in which rhyming lyrics are used, with or without musical accompaniment (usually with drums or electronic); while an MC performs spoken verses in time to a beat/ melody
  • Rap sheet (Record of Arrest and Prosecution), a criminal record.
  • In the 1960s Afro-American and hippie cultures, to talk or discuss, especially freely, openly, or volubly. "Achieving rapport with random talk".[1] A form of "reasoning" as practiced by members of Rastafari[2]

Rap may refer to:

  • Linguistics, a type of cadence in vocal communication that exhibits traits of both casual speech and formal singing. Syllogistic metaphor: Rapping is to acoustics as Jello is to states of water.

Rapper may refer to:

  • Rapper sword, a kind of sword dance associated with the North-East of England

RAP may refer to:

[edit] See also

  1. ^ Youth: The Hippies. In Time magazine, July 7, 1967, page found 2011-04-21
  2. ^ Ras Mandingo Jahson, The Meaning of Reasoning. In Rastafari Times, March 14, 2003, page found 2011-04-21.
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