rapping 1 of 3

present participle of rap
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rapping

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verb (2)

present participle of rap

rapping

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verb (3)

present participle of rap

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Recent Examples of rapping
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Collaborators encouraged her to also ditch the jazz singing and try rapping and pop vocals. Katie Bain, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2025 Historically, that intergenerational conversation has come through producers sampling older records, or George Clinton rapping Rakim lyrics — not AI slop. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 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 In the viral video, Breyer is rapping by The Game featuring 50 Cent. Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025 Just hours after the app’s launch on Tuesday, memes created using its AI video-generation technology were already spreading to other social networks—including, for example, a video of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rapping from the inside of a toilet bowl. Billy Perrigo, Time, 2 Oct. 2025 The séance took place on September 25th, when the loss of Raymond must still have been an open wound, and involved the techniques of table-tilting and rapping out letters of the alphabet. Alice Vernon september 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Rapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapping. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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