Rapping (also known as emceeing,MCing,spitting (bars), or rhyming) refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” (rhythm and rhyme), and “delivery”. Rapping is distinct from spoken word poetry in that it is performed in time to a beat.
Rapping is a primary ingredient in hip hop music and reggae, but the phenomenon predates hip hop culture by centuries. It can also be found in alternative rock such as that of Cake and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Rapping is also used in Kwaito music, a genre that originated in Johannesburg, South Africa and is composed of hip hop elements. Rapping can be delivered over a beat or without accompaniment. Stylistically, rap occupies a gray area among speech, prose, poetry, and song. The use of the word to describe quick speech or repartee long predates the musical form, meaning originally "to hit". The word had been used in British English since the 16th century, and specifically meaning "to say" since the 18th. It was part of the African American dialect of English in the 1960s meaning "to converse", and very soon after that in its present usage as a term denoting the musical style. Today, the terms "rap" and "rapping" are so closely associated with hip hop music that many use the terms interchangeably.
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio personality, television host, author, actor and photographer best known for his radio show which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style. Stern has been exclusive to Sirius XM Radio, a subscription-based satellite radio service, since 2006. The son of a former recording and radio engineer, Stern wished to pursue a career in radio at the age of five. While at Boston University he worked at the campus station WTBU before a brief stint at WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts.
He developed his on-air personality when he landed positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, WCCC in Hartford and WWWW in Detroit. In 1981, he was paired with his current newscaster and co-host Robin Quivers at WWDC in Washington, D.C. Stern then moved to WNBC in New York City in 1982 to host afternoons until his firing in 1985. He re-emerged on WXRK that year, and became one of the most popular radio personalities during his 20-year tenure at the station. Stern's show is the most-fined radio program, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued fines to station licensees for allegedly indecent material that totaled $2.5 million. Stern has won Billboard's Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year award eight times, and is one of the highest-paid figures in radio.
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (born 23 July 1989) is an English film and stage actor who rose to prominence playing the title character in the Harry Potter film series.
Radcliffe made his acting debut at age ten in BBC One's 1999 television movie David Copperfield, followed by his film debut in 2001's The Tailor of Panama. At age eleven he was cast as the title character in the first Harry Potter film, and he starred in the series for ten years until the release of the eighth and final film in July 2011. He also began to branch out to stage acting in 2007, starring in the London and New York productions of the play Equus and in the 2011 Broadway revival of the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. In addition, he starred in 2007's December Boys and the 2012 hit horror film The Woman in Black. He will play beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 2013 indie film Kill Your Darlings.
Radcliffe has contributed to many charities, including Demelza House Children's Hospice and The Trevor Project. He has also made public service announcements for the latter. In 2011, he was awarded the Trevor Project's "Hero Award".
Superreligous nation states split with bilateral neglect
Pride division, dissent and descent
Obstruction and brutality
Destructive vicious traits of our outdated paradigm
Panic and hysteria. All systems down
The cleansing begins
With us deceased
Track marks of our devastation pervade in the wake
Brimming with the wreckage of dominance and greed
Amaurosis at the precipice
Observers to the obliteration hover above
Wormholes spiral in Norwegian night skies
Commencing a global landmass reconfiguration
Coasts obliterated by ocean wide tsunamis
IntraQuakes and Super Volcanos awaken an ecosystem phoenix
Melting empires into molten pools of searing pus
Gushing from freshly peeled metropolis scabs
A fertile amalgam of historic finality
The blood of the earth
Bleeds on the ocean floor
Polluting the fragile sea
The plastic island melts once more
Dismal signals from the dark side of the sun
Sends a ultra violet spike
Spawning extinction on the Mayan night
First the phytoplankton disappeared
Animalian suicide
Evolution's dawn is near
Thrusting every fault line
Upwards towards the sky
An augmented continental consciousness unveils
A self-aware conglomeration of congealing earth
Sealing hybrid cars and oil tankers side by side
Into a time vault of decomposition
Human fossil fuels
Progenitor bone diesel stews
Swallowed far below the neocrust
Drilling exploits of a future race
Remnants of culture dissipate
Our legacy remains in the radio waves
Of vibrational evidence
Undulating to the furthest echoes of space
For celestial beings to perceive
The imminent threats of the deceased
And the victims of their greed
Addicted to gluttony
Advertisements speak
Volumes to their needs
Products soon to sit in landfills for e-ternity
Atmosphere opaque
Billowing clouds showering the earth
With electrocuting rain
Conductive spheres of toxic waste
Malignant wreckage
Balance returns as
Tropical trade winds shift and the newly
Decreased shorelines create a colossal central desert
Decelerating Darwinian momentum
Long enough to recover from damage done
Slowly, micro bacteria evolve to
Feed on the oceans of petroleum
Devoid of plant or animal life
The cosmic serpent still slithering
Finds it's way through