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• n  someone who performs rap music
• n  a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door

• No rapper ever made multi-syllabic rhymes ("Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis When I was dead broke man I couldn't picture this") sound as smooth.
• Early on, West knew he wanted to be a rapper; at 13 he made an amateur recording about green eggs and ham.
• He is a record producer, entertainment mogul, writer, arranger, designer, actor, singer and three-time Grammy Awardwinning rapper.

• knocker
• doorknocker

News & Articles

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• Rapper arrested at airport with marijuana, 'purple drank'
  Rapper 2 Chainz was arrested at LAX airport this week after officials found marijuana and a bottle of “purple drank” in his checked bag, according to The Los Angeles Times. The paper reports the 35-year-old rapper was removed from a departing flight and arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance. Transportation Security Administration agents told officers they found marijuana ...
  June 13, 2013 - The Oklahoman
• Tunisian rapper in court to hear sentence for insulting police
  TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian rapper who was sentenced to two years in jail in absentia in March for insulting the police was handed the same punishment on Thursday after he surrendered to the authorities. The ruling, which critics called another blow to free speech in Tunisia, came a day after three European feminists were jailed for four months for staging a topless demonstration in the capital ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Tunisia Rapper Gets 2 Years Prison for Police Song
  Tunisian rapper sentenced to 2 years in prison for song calling police dogs        
  June 13, 2013 - ABC News

Quotes

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• Joe Dolce in Sydney Morning Herald
  Dolce says there have been about 70 "international cover versions" of Shaddap You Face "by artists as diverse as Lou Monte, Manuel of Fawlty Towers - and even rapper KRS-One. The Canberra Celtic Pipe Band does a brilliant highland fling...
• Sean Combs in Los Angeles Times
  I think this role will definitely be a revelation to people,said Combs, known to most as Diddy, as he leaned into a couch backstage at the Greek Theatre last month. "People have this perception of me - which is my fault - of maybe a rapper...
• Willie Herenton in MarketWatch
  No other rapper or entertainer is as committed to the community as Master P and I am proud of him,said Mayor Herenton. "Master P changed his life and took the negativity out of his music but stayed true to the hood."