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  • Rapping
    Rapping
    Rapping is the rhythmic spoken delivery of rhymes, wordplay, and poetry. Rapping is a primary ingredient in hip hop music, but the phenomenon predates hip hop culture by centuries. Rapping can be delivered over a beat or without accompaniment...

    , 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
    • Hip hop
      Hip hop
      Hip hop as a cultural movement "manifest in B-boying , graffiti writing, DJing and eMCeeing/rapping – is an artistic commitment to seize freedom from oppressive social conditions...

       subculture
    • Hip hop music
      Hip hop music
      Hip hop music is a musical genre which developed alongside hip hop culture, and is commonly based on concepts of loop, rapping, freestyle, DJing, scratching, sampling and beatboxing. The music is used to express concerns of political, social, and personal issues...

    • Crunk
      Crunk
      Crunk is a musical form, either a genre of music itself or a subgenre of hip hop music, that originated from southern hip hop, electro and dancehall in the 1990s. Crunk was created in Memphis, Tennessee, but the most of its development happened in Atlanta, Georgia...

       music


Rapper may refer to:
  • Rapper sword
    Rapper sword
    Rapper sword is a kind of sword dance associated with the North-East of England.-History:The rapper sword tradition was traditionally performed in the mining villages of the Northumberland and Durham coalfield in North East England, especially in Tyneside...

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


RAP may refer to:
  • Eclipse Foundation
    Eclipse Foundation
    The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the open-source Eclipse Projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services...

    's Rich AJAX Platform
    Rich AJAX Platform
    Rich AJAX Platform Project is an open-source software project under the Eclipse Technology Project which aims to enable software developers to build AJAX-enabled rich Internet applications by using the Eclipse development model, plugins and a Java-only API.- External links :***...

    , a software platform for developing Rich Internet Applications
  • the IATA airport code for Rapid City Regional Airport
    Rapid City Regional Airport
    Rapid City Regional Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located eight nautical miles southeast of the central business district of Rapid City, in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States.- Facilities and aircraft :...

  • Rassemblement pour l'alternative progressiste
    Rassemblement pour l'alternative progressiste
    The Rassemblement pour l'alternative progressiste or RAP originated as the Rassemblement pour l'alternative politique, a social movement founded in 1996 as an attempt to unite the progressive and leftist forces in Quebec, Canada...

    , a political party in Quebec
  • Regimental Aid Post
    Regimental Aid Post
    A Regimental Aid Post is the equivalent to the American Battalion Aid Station. In the British Army, Canadian Forces and other Commonwealth militaries, the RAP is a front line military medical establishment incorporated into an infantry battalion or armoured regiment and designed for the immediate...

  • Restricted Area Permit, permitting entry into certain areas of India
    India
    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...

  • Retirement annuity plan
    Retirement annuity plan
    A Retirement Annuity Plan is a UK pension plan designed to build a lump sum for retirement. Part of the lump sum must be used to buy an annuity and part can be taken a tax free lump sum....

    , a type of pension plan in the UK
  • Rocket Assisted Projectile
    Rocket Assisted Projectile
    A Rocket Assisted Projectile is an artillery or cannon round incorporating a rocket motor for independent propulsion. This grants the projectile both greater speed and range than an ordinary shell, which is propelled only by the ballistic force of the gun's exploding charge. Some forms of Rocket...

  • Route Access Protocol, a general protocol for distributing routing information at all levels of the Internet
  • Rule against perpetuities
    Rule against perpetuities
    The rule against perpetuities at common law invalidates certain future interests that may vest beyond the time of perpetuities. In essence, the rule "limit[s] the testator's power to earmark gifts for remote descendants".The perpetuities period under the common law rule is not a fixed term of years...

    , a legal doctrine from the common law of real property
  • Right atrial pressure, a term describing the hydraulic pressure in a chamber of the heart
  • The Recognition and Prevention Program, a research center and clinic at the Zucker Hillside Hospital
    Zucker hillside hospital
    The Zucker Hillside Hospital, previously known as Hillside Hospital, is an in-patient and out-patient psychiatric hospital and clinic in the borough of Queens in New York City. In 1999 Donald and Barbara Zucker contributed a substantial amount of money to Hillside Hospital and the name of the...

    in Glen Oaks, New York decicated to the early detection and prevention of psychosis