How to Use rap in a Sentence

rap

1 of 2 noun

• A lot of this new rap is too slow for me.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 25 Sep. 2025
• Drug store shampoos get a bad rap.
  — Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 18 June 2026
• Sometimes wheat gets a bad rap.
  — Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2026
• Hip-hop and rap is a spoken word art.
  — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
• Why aren't new rap stars rising?
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
• Rappelling gets a bad, well, rap.
  — Maya Silver, Outside, 29 Sep. 2025
• Haroian said the romance genre can get a bad rap.
  — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 18 Sep. 2025
• By and large, rap, hip-hop is a spoken-word art.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
• And of all the pressures and stuff that comes with this rap s—.
  — Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• New Yorkers give it such a bad rap.
  — Kathleen Rellihan, Outside, 22 Oct. 2025
• The Housewives seem to get a bad rap in the game.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2026
• No rap songs were close enough to the threshold to be able to make that jump.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
• My first rap song was a comedy rap song.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
• This was their first exposure to live rap.
  — Fab 5 Freddy, Vanity Fair, 2 Mar. 2026
• Gift certificates have a bad rap as the ‘easy way out’.
  — Madeleine Bokan Thares, Glamour, 25 Aug. 2025
• The new rap game that’s happening right now.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2025
• Gangster rap and all its variants have flown way too close to the sun.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
• In just 50 years, rap has transformed the way the world speaks.
  — Elena Bergeron, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Regardless, the guides had a bad rap.
  — Joelle Renstrom august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
• Zoey is the adorable, cute maknae who has the most seamless rap flow.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2025
• In two years, gangster rap would explode.
  — Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 31 Oct. 2025
• In this short, standalone video, the actor shows off his rap skills.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2024
• In metaphor, vinegar tends to get a bad, or at least a vulgar, rap.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Dave became the first two-time winner of hip hop/grime/rap act.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2026
• There’s room for everyone in rap!
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
• What was your entrance into rap?
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
• The this-is-how-they-get-down-in-my-city rap song doesn’t ever get played out.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 9 Jan. 2026
• The exhibition hall booms to the sound of pop and rap artists.
  — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2026
• Pleated pants often get a bad rap for looking bulky.
  — Alison Syrett Cleary, InStyle, 18 Jan. 2026
• No wonder lawyers have such a bad rap and deservedly so!
  — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 20 May 2026

rap

2 of 2 verb

• Too many of them don’t rap with soul, heart, or lyrical depth.
  — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 24 Sep. 2025
• Then Chico would start rapping over it, too.
  — Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
• Ben Kingsley could have rapped for us at the very least.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2026
• The other was to move from rapping to singing.
  — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2025
• And so this is the first time … rapping in our regalia.
  — Jack Cooksey, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
• Does that mean Scott will rap in The Odyssey?
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 May 2026
• Camille rapped her wedding rings on the tabletop.
  — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
• Camille rapped her fingers against the table.
  — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
• But his favorite thing was rapping.
  — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2025
• But there are still perceived limits to what a woman can rap about.
  — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2021
• The technique and the hip-hop genre evolved in a way that beats were no longer made just to rap over them.
  — Artur Galocha, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
• The two stars rapped their verses while showing off their best assets.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2023
• England have rapped Stokes on the knuckles.
  — Nasser Hussain, New York Times, 23 June 2026
• But best of all was the awesome theme song sung—and rapped— by Symoné herself!
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 10 July 2023
• Anuel, however, flipped the track on its head, rapping his own bars in their place.
  — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025
• What’s not so fine is when footage of him rapping at his latest fête leaks online, some say.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2023
• Smith tried to make the role his own, rapping in new versions of the movie's most famous songs.
  — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
• When the beat drops to this iconic mixtape hit, grab your girls and prepare to rap your heart out.
  — Gene Hunter, Essence, 14 June 2022
• In the song, Bey proceeds to lean into rapping as much as singing.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
• This video is the second one that proves his vocals extend to rapping as well as singing.
  — Vulture, 10 Apr. 2023
• Both artists rap about the challenges faced coming up in the industry.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
• The video was the first time millions of people saw someone rapping on-screen.
  — Fab 5 Freddy, Vanity Fair, 2 Mar. 2026
• The song features Eminem rapping over a rave-style beat while the crowd went wild.
  — Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The thought of rapping to crowds 25 years later never crossed his mind.
  — Gerrick Kennedy, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
• Like, a Martian could’ve came down here talking s—t or rapping over a beat.
  — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025
• In fact, Breyer sings or raps online every day.
  — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
• What was that like having three of the dopest female emcees at the time rapping on your beat?
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 Oct. 2025
• While rapping shirtless, Morant briefly brandished a firearm with his left hand.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
• The first half is earnest, almost singing, followed by rapping after the beat switch.
  — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Jan. 2026
• But Shota’s already set his head back on the desk, rapping his knuckles along with the rain.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023