Here are links to 10 top tattoo photos from some of the best rappers and hip-hop artists in the music industry:

1. Rick Ross Tattoos
2. Lil Wayne Tattoos
3. Jim Jones Tattoos
4. Pharell Williams Tattoos
5. The Game Tattoos
6. Rapper Nelly Tattoos
7. LL Cool J Tattoos
8. Rapper Eve Tattoos
9. Busta Rhymes Tattoos
10. 50 Cent Tattoos
11. Rapper Plies Tattoos

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5. Tips for Rappers – The Case Against Rap Dictionaries

He was apparently called ‘Puff’ to reflect his ‘huff and puff’ mood when he got upset.

In 2001, after a weapons and bribery charge, he changed his name from ‘Puff Daddy’ to ‘P.Diddy’. In 2005, he changed it again from ‘P.Diddy’ to just ‘Diddy’.

Unfortunately, he was unable to use the name Diddy in the UK where he is still known as P.Diddy.

For his non-musical interests, such as acting, he uses his real name Sean Combs or ‘Sean John’ for his clothing lines.

His birth name is Sean John Combs.

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Thus, when aspiring rappers talk about getting rap dictionaries to make rhyming a bit “easier”, I naturally balk. A rap dictionary is literally ‘cheating’ in my book. It kills the very soul of the music. It says, “I have no skills or interest in working hard to be a rapper. I just want a quick fix solution that will make me semi-famous”. Such a hack mentality can’t take you very far in the rap game.

Of course, I’m not saying that you need not consult a dictionary at all. A strong vocabulary is, after all, a cornerstone of rap. But for that, I would really recommend a regular dictionary over a rap dictionary. This is for the reason mentioned above, and because rap dictionaries tend to be very genre specific and lack the killer words that can make or break a song.

Most importantly, if you follow the rap dictionary too closely, you will start sounding like the hundreds of other rappers who took the advice of the dictionary. Instead of sounding original and fresh, you will sound like another soldier in an army of rapping clones. Surely you don’t want such a reputation to be associated with you or your art.

The best rhymes involve words that are complicated and are not commonly found in most rap dictionaries. Longer words with more syllables make for great rhymes, but are unfortunately missing in such dictionaries.

Try this out: pick up a dictionary (a regular one) and write down a dozen words you have never even heard before, let alone know the meaning of. Make sure that they are multiple syllable words such as “megalomaniac” or “metamorphosis“. Try to find ryhmes for these words and include them in your song. You will be surprised how the includsion of a few such words can make your song stand out completely.

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Find a Beat to Inspire You. Ever wonder how the pros commencement prose a crack song? 9 era made known of 10 they commence by looking pro beats to inspire them. They are looking pro something with the intention of touches them in way with the intention of inspires and motivates them to enter lyrics to. Everyone has a uncommon taste in composition, so discover a beat with the intention of YOU like and can enter genuinely to. Find something with the intention of instantly grabs you and relates to you. You can discover beats straightforwardly on the internet. Just search Google and Soundclick and you will be guaranteed to discover a beat to enter crack song lyrics to.

Choose a Main Topic. Once you discover a beat with the intention of you aspire to aid, commence thinking of a theme with the intention of goes nicely chicano rap the beat you chose. Remember to point out a theme with the intention of relates chicano rap both YOU and the beat. If you chose a depressing, emotional-sounding beat, at that time pick a theme with the intention of is depressing and emotional and with the intention of you relate chicano rap. If you pick a bash stylishness beat at that time point out a theme with the intention of is significant to the bash vista. Listen to your beat, ask physically could you repeat that? Kind of impression you would like your crack song lyrics to be inflicted with on public, and decide on your foremost theme. Remember with the intention of how you enter crack song lyrics will greatly depend on your theme.

Write Your Hook. A ration of rappers and producers alike discover it preeminent practice to commence a crack song by initially prose the hook. Now with the intention of you be inflicted with your beat and foremost theme selected, you be inflicted with a splendid foundation to commence prose your hook lyrics to.

To explain how to enter crack hooks, I’ve kaput hook-writing down into a hardly any steps with the intention of I be inflicted with found to be very effectual.

Consider these things: Do you aspire the hook to be catchy? Do you aspire it to be deep and emotional? Do you aspire to sing it or crack it made known?

Listen to the hook part of your beat. Vibe chicano rap the beat and start freestyling approximately ideas. Even if your terms aren’t making significance, freestyle to the beat to set up approximately uncommon flows. Experiment and map made known could you repeat that? You like.

Now with the intention of you be inflicted with approximately ideas flowing, commence prose lyrics down. Make a catalog of terms with the intention of you might aspire to incorporate into the hook.

Look by your word catalog as you take note to the beat and commence freestyling approximately extra ideas chicano rap these terms.

Once you occur up chicano rap approximately strong ideas, it could be a skilled perception to quickly confirmation them to think it over which lone sounds the preeminent. Once you’ve resolute, we can move on chicano rap the verses!

Begin Writing the Verses. Now with the intention of the hook is finished, you be inflicted with everything laid made known pro the verses. So how sort out you enter crack song verses?

Start all verse rancid strong in order to develop a connection chicano rap the listener aptly away. A skilled way to sort out this is to commence chicano rap a controversial, funny, bold, or catchy opening line.

Now with the intention of you’ve got the listeners attention, close made known your verses chicano rap content with the intention of is significant to your theme. Rhyme more than solely the continue word in all sentence as you can. Try to aid uncommon tide structures right through as a replacement for of solely sticking to lone the total calculate.

If you are having vex or writer’s check, enter made known a catalog of rhyming terms with the intention of relate to your theme (use a dictionary and thesaurus if necessary) and refer to this catalog to flash ideas.

Just as you ongoing rancid strong, aim the verse lyrics strong too! Make guaranteed you transition into the hook smoothly and close chicano rap a bang!

Practice! Perhaps the generally underrated part of rapping…Practice.

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The San Francisco Examiner has a nice opinion piece today by Gregory Kane about whether hip hop, rap, and black centric movies (Kane chooses Tyler Perry’s “Medea Goes to Jail” as a reference in the article) promote racial stereotypes.

I am not black, so perhaps I am not the best judge of such a dividing issue. But being brown skinned, I can look at racial stereotypes from an outside perspective – from a viewpoint that is neither black, nor white.

I personally find that its only the rare art or artist that can transcend stereotypes. Nearly every movie, song, album, book, has some form of stereotype or the other. You have the dumb college quarterback, the recent immigrant who struggles with English – few artists can resist the temptation to use a stereotype, rather than put in more effort to create a truly unique character.

I am reminded of Robert Downey Jr.’s character in Tropic Thunder. Downey plays Kirk Lazarus – a 5 time Academy Award winning Australian actor, who undergoes a skin darkening procedure to play an African-American character. Downey mocks the use of stereotypes in movies by making his character an over the top racial stereotype.

Watch this video and you will know what I am talking about:

The Tropic Thunder filmmakers have done a tremendous job of deconstructing and mocking the racial stereotypes. Gregory Kane in his article references “Medea Goes to Jail” – a simple, stupid comedy that depends on racial stereotypes for its laughs, and not on innovative dialogue or truly funny situations.

And that, I think is the whole issue: filmmakers, artists, musicians taking the minimum effort route and creating stereotypes instead of putting in the work to make truly memorable characters. When someone uses a stereotype, I attribute that to creative lazyness, and nothing else.

What do you opine, my readers? Does hip hop really, truly promote racial stereotypes?

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Nothing. Absolutely, truly, nothing.

Seriously, check out this pic. Since when did country music start being bling bling? Swift is looking cute as fuck though, so I’ll forgive this trespass on hip hop territory.

(picture courtey: MTV Newsroom)

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Nowadays, you can’t really help but notice how many white people there are in Rap these days (see our post on White People in Rap). Hey man, I’ve got nothing against white folks doing rap. Many of them are pretty darn good  – heck, Eminem is still my favorite rapper.

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There was a time, not too long ago, when all the cool kids played guitar and had a rock band.

They hung out in basements or abandoned warehouses, grew their hair long and (gasp!)  feathered them. If you grew up in the 70s or 80s, you knew at least one kid in your school who had a band or played the guitar and got all the chicks.

In the 80s, this was not considered gay. Really.

Rap, in the 80s, was still emerging from the underground. Its unfortunate that what did emerge from the underground int he late 80s was kiddie rap like MC Hammer.

Can you blame me now when I say 80s rappers sucked?

Then came the 90s with Nirvana and the avalanche of alternative rock it brought along with it. Alternative rock, for all its worth, really gave a huge fillip to hip-hop’s mainstreaming with the emergence of some really awesome rappers (nod to Public Enemy), and some really shitty rock bands (here’s looking at you, Fred Durst). Result: rappers suddenly became the new ‘edgy’ mainstream, while all rockers could sing about was their sad, sad, misfortune at not being able to steal their elder sister’s black mascara.

You had some awesome rappers come out during this time: Jay-Z, Snoop, Nelly (oh, well!), and company. But most importantly, you also had a white rapper who was actually good (no, its not Vanilla Ice).

Prove me if I’m wrong, but Eminem’s arrival really set the stage for the way hip-hop completely exploded rock off the charts. You might hate him but you can’t deny that the guy can make up a mean rhyme. But more importantly, he was plenty controversial and had a style that was more accessible to non-rap listeners (read ‘white people’).

Of course, rap then entered its douchy, money grabbing, oversized gold medallion wearing phase. But rock at this stage was still reeling from the 90s and there was no major single band that could command the kind of attention that rappers like Eminem or Jay-Z could (at least no band not in their 40s). The 2000s also saw rock becoming excessively wimpy with indie-rock and its hippie stepchildren becoming more and more popular. Any competition that could throw rap off its popular perch (no, we won’t consider pop music as a competitor) went along the flower trail.

My point: its amazing to see how cool and mainstream rap has become. You can say that that’s the fate of anything that started underground. But you just can’t help feel that there’s a certain ‘edginess’ lacking in the rappers of today. Clearly, most of them still haven’t gotten over the gold plated Cadillac phase. There was a historic even in black history this year with Obama being elected El Presidente, but it was really disheartening to see any really good politically charged rap songs. I would’ve loved to hear Public Enemy of the 80s come out and sing about Obama. But all that I could get was Will.I.Am and his idiot moniker on a stage.

But hey, all the cool kids still rap!

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