Sentences with phrase «rap at»

I really, really liked the landscape paintings and didn't see them as being ironic or kitsch at all which was the rap at the time.

But I practiced (from about midnight to 2 am) until I could get through my whole rap at a reasonable pace (a little slow actually, but in time with the music).

Due to the recent developments at Toyota, the dealerships are getting a bad rap at no fault of their own.

Eliza, a student at WAYS, says she learned the parts of speech by making them into a rap at her charter school.

Consumption - Allowing students to use technology to ascertain large amounts of knowledge gets a bum rap at times.

I'm not into rap at all.

I sometimes shuddered imagining the sort of advertisements that would be run on this theme, if money and time were no object: «Let's have Oliver Letwin in the foreground spouting gangster rap at 120 words per minute, and in the background we'll have Nicholas Soames and John Redwood break - dancing... yes, perfect!»

Time outs, like most child discipline strategies, get a bad rap at different times.

But his sleek new Lotus has proved to be on the mark, and he showed that the tag was a bum rap at the U.S. Grand Prix West

Neighbors you didn't even know you had are going to come rapping at your door.

Bio: Iggy Azalea (born Amethyst Amelia Kelly in Mullumbimy, New South Wales, in Australia on June 7, 1990) is a recording artist who started rapping at the Rapper Iggy Azalea appears to have had the first of a series of sex tape videos from her younger days leaked to the Web.

Twas a dark and stormy night when the scrawny grey men came rap, rapping at my door.

I'm awakened by a sharp rapping at my window.

Please contact RAPS at 604-275-2036 if you require assistance.

It's the longest palindromic word in English literature and an unmistakable onomatopoeia that takes inalienable form only in a moment we can collectively imagine: a furious rapping at the door.

Not exact matches

All of which is contrary to everything we're trying to accomplish at Rap Genius.

The 25 - year - old marketer - rapper, who also co-founded the live rap battle site rapt.fm, recently asked a large crowd at a tech conference if they'd ever endured serious burnout or depression.

«Park the Benz, just to ride the Wraith,» Quavo raps in Drake's song «Portland,» which peaked at No. 9 on the charts this year.

Check out this viral video of a grandma working at a New York McDonald's who serves up a rap with those fries.

Later, at the 50th Grammy Awards in 2008, West took home three awards, including Best Rap Album.

After getting caught trying to game Google, Rap Genius apologized, but at the same time, tried to deflect blame by saying others do the same:

By comparison, Logan Paul's younger brother has always been considered slightly more polarizing, particularly for his attempts at a rap career and his feud with his neighbors, whose complaints about Jake's antics led to his firing from Disney.

After media mogul Gary Vaynerchuk announced that he was building a «content army» at Vaynerchuk Media, aspiring content creator Dawayne Kirkland this week decided to send in his application as a rap song.

Somewhat ironically, Zechory served as a project manager at Google for two years prior to founding Rap Genius in 2009.

At 3 a.m., I heard a rapping on the window beside my bed.

Step aside, Nicki Minaj, Meek Mill, or whoever had the most recent rap feud — Hyperloop startups are trying their hand at beef.

«We released maybe the first ever SAT rap album and toured the country performing at schools at 8 a.m. in the assembly hall,» says Rappaport, who serves as the company's CEO.

From his Grammy - nominated rap persona, Childish Gambino, to an impressive array of acting roles, Glover has defied expectations at every turn.

While at times GIFS get a bad rap, if used correctly they can punch up your content and differentiate your blog from others.

Rap Genius eventually overcame its troubles with Google, and in February Gilbert offered to lead a $ 40 million investment, valuing the company at several hundred million dollars.

At a party last year, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz and Ashton Kutcher jumped on stage to dance while Nas rapped.

Both of Gilbert's sons, who were with him at the game, had heard of Rap Genius, and Zechory and Gilbert got to chatting about running a company.

Despite his penchant for flowery prose and, at times, odd metaphors in his popular monthly investment outlooks, Gross seems to have taken to the new media communication tool, posting a number of tweets in recent months that have even played into rap mogul - style feuds with well - known academics.

In a scene straight out of HBO's Silicon Valley, Barnard, then SolarCity's chief revenue officer, burst onto the stage in front of Lyndon, Peter, and 1,300 employees (Musk would arrive later) at Hakkasan nightclub, rapping over Nicki Minaj and Drake's hit «Truffle Butter» while surrounded by provocatively dressed dancers.

At times, a particular industry or subset of an industry can get a bad rap, whether deserved or not.

It is the sort of thing we teach our children (or at least the sort of thing we used to be able to teach our children before this age of incivility corrupted our youth with its rock music / hippies / video games / rap music / violent movies / Internet / baggy pants).

The company recently tapped rap producer Metro Boomin in a new ad campaign aimed at recapturing the youth market.

The video and song start off harmless enough, until the 1:19 mark when Duncan gets into a rap battle with a TSA agent and transforms into a potentially offensive hip - hop stereotype to unleash rhymes like On a mission from God; I like to call Him a Friend / I think that people are sick, and He's the med - o - cine, and this mind - expanding verse: Think I'm just a white man with a sheltered life / Nice home, two cars, two kids and a wife / Just look a little closer while you're starin» at me / «Cause sometimes what you get is more than what you see.

This rap song made by some particle physicists at CERN (the European science center where the LHC is) says the same things in a slightly different way....

In 2027, we'll likely be laughing at the auto - tuning and R&B effects of the late teens, just like the rap - rock of the early aughts is mocked today.

Atheists often get a bad rap among Christians, but in my experience, many atheists are atheists simply because they have the courage to ask questions many Christians are afraid to ask, and when Christians hear these questions from atheists, the Christians either condemn the atheist for asking such questions, or gives some answer that is not really an answer at all.

«Free at Last» was a track from dcTalk's days as a Beastie Boys - aping rap outfit, when Michael Tait and Kevin Max mostly seemed to just be sitting around waiting for TobyMac to let them do something.

Just when we are safest, there's a sunset touch, A fancy from a flower - bell, some one's death, A chorus - ending from Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again — The grand Perhaps!

He places rap squarely at the center of a hip - hop culture that reinforces patterns of ignorance and misogyny, and links it to larger cultural forces that debase the popular images of African - American men.

The contention within Christian hip - hop (under the hashtag abbreviation CHH on Twitter) community of how to present Christianity within music can be traced back at least 25 years, to when fans and fellow artists tended to align with either Cross Movement, a group who claimed to «rap the Gospel,» almost exclusively at shows held in churches and on CDs sold in Christian book stores, or Tunnel Rats, an LA crew whose music took plotted a more mainstream course.

Lit that's immeasurable, new intellectual, yeah / I was the Oreo; I was the Oreo comin» up / Told «em, «At least I» ma get my degree,» he raps on the song «Monster,» alluding to his aspirations to break out of the hood.

Lamar is adept at subverting expectations and at this point, the most subversive thing he could do was release a straightforward rap album — which is what DAMN.

An abridged version of the Iliad I read in the fifth grade inspired my one - time attempt at rapping: «War broke out between Greece and Troy» for Troy there was grief but for Greece there was joy.»

If these commands shape our musical litmus test, we ought to arrive at a very different conclusion about the rap albums our culture calls skillful, creative, or popular.

- maybe next time you guys ought to let your friend John pick what «event» he wants to sell the sticks at (EdgeFest would be kinda cool... but then you wouldn't get to hear the Rap about Jesus..