Rap, of course, rap free style.

The title was taken from the lyrics to a Jefferson Airplane song. The lyrics go, Remember what the dormouse said.

Do you like rap?

I don't care a rap.

BF Juggling's got a bad rap.

The lyrics of the songs could be pretty much understood.

So how do you study rap scientifically?

Marcus Simple. What do you rap about?

So what happens? Rap music is created by the users.

You know, they get a real bad rap in the world.

With this big screen, you can all rap with me. Okay?

The lyrics to the leading track are Ain't no grave can hold my body down.

The MC would improvise lyrics in the same way that the jazz players would improvise melodies.

And I brought a little segment to give you of Duke Brady's Canopy Rap.

In a lot a ways, rap serves the same social function that jazz used to serve.

So I engaged Caution, this rap singer, with a group of young people from inner city Tacoma.

Something deliberate, something secret, and who got the four in the morning bad rap ball rolling anyway?

So I told my lab members that I would rap for TED, and they said, No, you won't.

We had wooden flutists, we had oboists, we had opera singers, we had guitar players, and we had rap singers.

30 years later, rap music is the dominant musical form of popular culture would never have come from the big companies.

And then the students would come into our sound studios, they would make their own rap songs with their own beats.

There's a guy on Twitter that I know, a health IT guy outside Boston, and he wrote the e Patient rap.

So, Bob Dylan, like all folk singers, he copied melodies, he transformed them, he combined them with new lyrics which were frequently their own concoction of previous stuff.

We went out to the forest, I would pick up a branch, Caution would rap on it, and suddenly that branch was really cool.

If you listen to foreign language songs, feel tunes nice, but do not understand the lyrics, then you can not say you like this song, can only say that like the tune.

The implementation of the RAPs takes place through TPNs, each of which focuses on a specific priority area defined in the RAP, with a view to promote best practices.

Natalie Merchant sings from her new album, em Leave Your Sleep. em Lyrics from near forgotten 19th century poetry pair with her unmistakable voice for a performance that brought the TED audience to its feet.

Why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in Stairway to Heaven ? Using video and music, skeptic Michael Shermer shows how we convince ourselves to believe and overlook the facts.

Four real mothers dance in a hay filled barn of cows to a track that includes lyrics like Yes, I milk myself, but you don't see no tail and In case you hadn't noticed these are not udders, they're my boobs.

And so this is what you do you have a free style artist come in and memorize a rap that you write for them, that they've never heard before, and then you have them free style.

A stereo system in the front for mom and dad, and maybe there's a little DVD player in the back for the kids, and the parents don't want to be bothered with that, or their rap music or whatever.

For five years, young Emmanuel Jal fought as a child soldier in the Sudan. Rescued by an aid worker, he's become an international hip hop star and an activist for kids in war zones. In words and lyrics, he tells the story of his amazing life.

I am a cultural omnivore, one whose daily commute is made possible by attachment to an iPod an iPod that contains Wagner and Mozart, pop diva Christina Aguilera, country singer Josh Turner, gangsta rap artist Kirk Franklin, concerti, symphonies and more and more.

Because it was a line from our Chinese parallel Susan Boyle a 50 some year old woman, a vegetable vendor in Shanghai, who loves singing Western opera, but she didn't understand any English or French or Italian, so she managed to fill in the lyrics with vegetable names in Chinese.

But, actually, it's suddenly come to me after years working in the business, that what we create in advertising, which is intangible value you might call it perceived value, you might call it badge value, subjective value, intangible value of some kind gets rather a bad rap.

In Hainan Province, the Cultural Markets Brigade launched an offensive against sales of vulgar songs, MC Hotdog rap recordings and amphetamines, and at the same time linked up with the Southern City News in a joint campaign to clamp down on unhealthy culture, protect minors and clean up the entertainment environment .

Following up on the Asian regional meeting held in 2003 and the Abu Dhabi Initiative for implementation of the priority activities of the Asian RAP in the period 2003 2008, which was adopted at the meeting, a regional consultation meeting took place in March 2005 to consider potential project concepts for submission to the GEF.

LONDON From blaming him for the renewed collapse of the Greek economy to accusing him of illegally plotting Greece s exit from the eurozone, it has become fashionable to disparage Yanis Varoufakis, the country s former finance minister. While I have never met or spoken to him, I believe that he is getting a bad rap (and increasingly so).

Other FBI agents reported seeing prisoners left in shackles for 12 hours or more, again in cold conditions, being subjected to strobe lights and loud rap music for many hours, or being forced to wrap themselves in an Israeli flag. The FBI report noted these incidents with the comment doesn t seem excessive given Department of Defense policy.

But the Italians had no chance in the final against Spain, the best team in the world, none of whose players opened their mouths during the Spanish anthem, Marcha Real which stands to reason, given that the Royal March nbsp has no lyrics. And, besides, the Catalonian players feel uncomfortable with the national anthem, which was much promoted under the late dictator Francisco Franco, who hated Catalan nationalism.