The first real rap group was The Sugar Gang with their single "Rappers" Delight" in 1979. This song was a major influence on many rappers of a later time. The next breakthrough song was "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five. ... This "Gangster Rap" is what many rap styles are based off of today. ... In 1988, the group, Public Enemy had released the song "It Takes a Nation of Millions to hold us Back" and N.W.A came out with the song "Straight Outta Compton" that introduced Ice Cube and Dr. ...

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The first real rap group was The Sugar Gang with their single "Rappers" Delight" in 1979. This song was a major influence on many rappers of a later time. The next breakthrough song was "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five. ... This "Gangster Rap" is what many rap styles are based off of today. ... In 1988, the group, Public Enemy had released the song "It Takes a Nation of Millions to hold us Back" and N.W.A came out with the song "Straight Outta Compton" that introduced Ice Cube and Dr. ...

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Rap is exactly the opposite. ... In 1979, rap had its first hit single with the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight." ... Along with rap come many sub-types of rap. ... Varying in many different styles, country songs are now about love, heartbreak, good times, friends, fishing, and other situations common people can relate too. ... Rap derived in the inner city. ...

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It is not only rap music trying to be censored it is in all types of music. ... Some radio stations announced they would not air songs with the word's "bitch" and "ho" to refer to women. ... A person or a child is going to hear them regardless of any song with profanity in them. ... I think a child has a better chance of hearing profanity in there own home or school then by hearing it in a song. ... You may remember when hard-core rapper Ice-T wrote the song cop killer. ...

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The state song is "I Love New York." ... Some famous people that live or lived in New York are actress and comedian Rosie O" Donnell who hosts the Kids Choice Awards and has her own show "The Rosie O" Donnell Show", Rhythm and Blues singer and actress Aaliyah who was in "Romeo Must Die" and "Queen Of The Damned" she has five albums she died in 2000 and was born in 1987, Jennifer Lopez actress and singer "The Wedding Planner"& "Maid In Manhattan" and has her own clothing label, Tyra Banks is a model and actress she was in "Life Size" and "Coyote Ugly", rapper and actor Sean John Combs a.k.a. ....

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Others talk of its roots in African rhythms, Spanish lyrics, Cuban street bands, Caribbean song and dance styles and Latin American jazz. ... Salsa is a very vivid kind of music, there are people who specialize on the classic style of salsa, and others, such as groups like Proyecto Uno, create new sounds like salsa rap or techno merengue. ... It can be quite slow, or very fast, and the rhythm can change within the same song. ...

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