Sentences with phrase «as a rapper who»

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So if you think of Notorious B.I.G. as just another famous rapper who passed away, you should think again.

Even as his counterparts like Atlanta rapper Killer Mike — who has been very vocal about America's racist war on drugs and his own political beliefs — used their celebrity for fundraising, meetings with politicians, and self - penned articles; the rapper usually left politics to the side as he expanded his business and rose to the top of the corporate ladder.

Newsday (New York): Snoop Dogg joins other rappers who found religion Snoop Dogg, now known as Snoop Lion, has changed his name and found religion.

Waithe knew getting the little things right was vital, so she assembled a team of local creatives (including rapper Common, who serves as both an actor and producer) to give The Chi an air of authenticity and level of detail rarely achieved in entertainment.

MTV Sports also includes celebrity guests such as Bo Jackson, golfer John Daly, rapper / underwear hawker Marky Mark and actor Stephen Baldwin, who was featured in a June program racing a motorcycle at 150 mph while attending SuperBike School in California.

Swedish goalkeeper Aron Ekberg, who plays in the lower echelons of Sweden's football pyramid with Byttorps IF, combines his custodian duties with an unlikely career as a rapper, record producer and record label owner.

The rapper Logic and Cara reinforced the anti-suicide message as they put on «1-800-273-8255» — the title a reference to a help line, with the number emblazoned on the T - shirts of dozens of people who had attempted suicide and joined them on stage.

Asked what inspired his song «godMC» track, the rapper revealed that, «it came from me hearing a song... For me as a creative artiste is someone who is fearless and bold, when I disagree with something and I feel a certain way about it and I can address it in music and I did that and I just keep it moving.»

«The reason I'm here right now is not because I come from a political dynasty,» said Blackwell, who formerly performed as a rapper in Syracuse under the name «RayWellz.»

I mean, Eve, who marketed herself as a gangster rapper has been able to have successful relationships with white men... which I think goes to show that black women can be exactly who they are and still attract white men.

The rapper looked giddy as she stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show to spill the beans on who she is Get all your Nicki Minaj news and gossip here!

The rapper looked giddy as she stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show to spill the beans on who she is

The rapper looked giddy as she stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show to spill the beans on who she is Nicki Minaj's dating history is epic.

It was a white cop who saved Lil Wayne's life when he was 12 - years - old that made the rapper say there was «no such thing as racism».

The Trinidad - born star wears it tight and bright and seems at The rapper looked giddy as she stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show to spill the beans on who she is dating, and it's not Drake who called her «the love of

Skylar Grey speaks to XXL about her co-production and co-writing work on Eminem's latest track, Walk on Water, featuring Beyoncé, as the rapper heads into Skylar Grey, a frequent Eminem collaborator, was granted a temporary restraining order against her ex-husband, who she claims threatened her with violence

Full of really great and odd performances, it contains many great actors who usually take on smaller and yet substantial roles such as Peter Sarsgaard as a grave digging kleptomaniac, Ian Holm as Andrew's psychiatrist father, who had put his son into a lithium infused haze, and strangely enough a cameo from rapper Method Man as a bellhop.

With the help of rapper Snoop Dog (as himself), they throw the kickoff party of all time which sets them up as instant BMOC's and finds Mitch in bed with a tasty little coed (Elisha Cuthbert from TV's 24) who will get him into all sorts of trouble later.

The director: Maïwenn (France) The talent: Actress - turned - writer - director Maïwenn Le Besco (who prefers going by her first name, and whom US viewers might remember as the blue - tentacled soprano from «The Fifth Element») takes the lead role herself, starring opposite French rapper - turned - actor Joeystarr.

This heist film with a sensational cast, such as Edward Norton, Seth Green (who, ironically, was Vince and E's nemesis in Entourage) and rapper turned actor Mos Def was both a box office and critical success, doing even better than its theater run with DVD sales.

The result is a taut, unrelenting and frequently hilarious horror - satire that's scored a rare 100 % positive rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, as well as raves from hip - hop luminaries like Chance the Rapper, who recently hosted a private screening of the film in Hollywood.

Created by and starring Donald Glover, Atlanta follows Earn Marks, a young, wandering man in Atlanta, Ga., who used to have a promising future but is now trying to make a name for himself as his rapper cousin's (Brian Tyree Henry) manager.

Our first look at the show finds Dave interviewing rapper Eminem (playing himself), who casually comes out as gay.

Remembering Lil Peep — Spencer Kornhaber eulogizes the rapper, who died at the age of 21, as someone who fused hip - hop, emo, and a magnetic persona and earned legions of fans in a short time.

Stanfield, who showed off his rap chops in the indie drama, will be Calvin Broadus Jr., better known to the wider world as Snoop Dogg, who crosses paths with the rappers during their rise.

The talented rapper - turned - actor achieves no mean feat in fully humanizing a fatally - flawed figure who could've easily come off as a one - dimensional monster instead of a charmer.

It informs N.W.A. as a whole and give people who are unfamiliar with the rapper and entrepreneur his life story.

ABC's upcoming comedy The Mayor is about a rapper who runs for mayor of his city as a way to promote his music career and accidentally ends up winning.

The funny aspect is shown in this exclusive clip from the film, which shows the two characters as they run across a couple would - be rappers and the two teen girls who end up seeming more interested in Cassel than anyone else.

The finished product stars Cress Williams (*) as Black Lightning, and shares some trappings with the other Berlanti shows: a large family presence (including Christine Adams as ex-wife Lynn, and Nafessa Williams and China Anne McClain as daughters Anissa and Jennifer), a cop (Damon Gupton's Inspector Henderson) who's not sure what to make of this superpowered vigilante, a trusty tech support sidekick (James Remar as Peter Gambi, who in the comics is a tailor specializing in making costumes for supervillains), and an archnemesis (Marvin Jones III — aka rapper Krondon — as vicious gangster Tobias Whale).

Johnny Depp stars as L.A.P.D. detective Russell Poole (played by Jimmi Simpson in the USA series), who spent years trying to solve the death of Notorious B.I.G.. Two decades after the murder, Poole teams up with a reporter desperate to save his career (Forest Whitaker) to not only try to solve the mystery behind the rapper's death but also to figure out the truth as to why it never got solved in the first place.

Admiring profile of tough - minded rapper, who has taken up the cause of Tamil resistance in Sri Lanka and suffered a huge backlash as a result

Heavy D, the smooth - talking and cheerful rapper who billed himself as «the overweight lover M.C.,» died in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Roxanne, RoxanneWritten and directed by Michael LarnellThe biopic Roxanne, Roxanne takes viewers through the early life of one of the first female rappers, Roxanne Shanté, who as a teen spit one of the hottest rhymes of the early»80s.

But the movie opts to downplay incidents of plagiarism in favor of featuring appearances by artists who employed such colorful sobriquets as Abstract Rule, Born Allah, Pigeon John, Riddlore, Big Al, Wreckless, Ellay Khule, Medusa, Q., MYKA NYNE, Busdriver, Ganjah K, Big Baby, CVE, Tray - Loc, Cut Chemist, Volume 10, Jyant, Ronda Ross, 2 Mex, Fat Jack,T - Love, Peace, Chali 2NA and F Stl, and perhaps most notably Eve, aka Ava Duvernay, a rapper - turned - filmmaker with a very bright future behind the camera.

The vanity plate honors the late rapper as well as fellow Outlawz rapper Yaki «Prince» Kadafi who died two months after 2Pac.

But it's fair to say that the announcement is likely to stir up some heated debate among the Lotus faithful, many of who are still recovering from the news that «rapper and producer» Swizz Beatz has joined the sportscar maker as vice president of creative design and global marketing.

Also associated with the area is rapper Marshall Bruce Mathers III, who is more commonly known as Eminem.

To all those who believe Ice - T has had a tough time recording Dungeons and Dragons audiobook, given the wide ranging expletives he used to describe the experience, the rapper has now stated he actually enjoyed his stint as the story narrator.

A keen gamer — who incidentally wanted to present the awards last night dressed as Parappa the Rapper — Ross is a controversial figure.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

The man responsible for the soundtrack is the white US rapper Eminem, who - in his artistic delirium consisting of cascades of dirty words - relishes the role of the «bad boy,» calling his own mother a whore and stylizing himself as the victim of women and as a woman - hater: The Birth of Feminism in a spirit of lustful, ironic misrepresentation.

Also in attendance were his son, writer and artist Malik Gaines; artist Edgar Areceneaux — who describes the elder Gaines as a mentor; rapper / comedian Reggie Watts, who was slated for a performance for the evening; CalArts alumni and sculptural artist Liz Glynn... basically, a lot of important LA Art World People.

Michel's style exists in the same space as a number of high - profile African - American artists — writer Paul Beatty, artist Kara Walker, even rapper Kendrick Lamar — who use racial assumptions and issues of identity in open - ended, ambiguous, and non-preachy ways.

However, staged in the Treme Market Branch — a vandalized, abandoned bank building in the Treme neighborhood — Simmons's «Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark» is an interactive sculpture involving live music performances by professionals (such as the rapper Beans, who will inaugurate the work on Oct. 25) and amateurs alike.

There needs to be 250,000 Chance The Rappers» Stoute says, pointing to the fiercely indie hip - hop upstart who won a Grammy as a role model.

Rapper Big Sean introduced him as «a lacrosse goalie, he's member of the drama club and he is a sophomore who survived the attack by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.»