At its core is a simple yet profound question from the Sesame Street star: “Elmo likes soft. Could that win?” The ad opens with Elmo counting clouds, his signature curiosity on full display.

With his alter ego, Slim Shady, he revolutionized rap with his complex rhyme schemes, controversial lyrics, and unmatched technical skills, making him the best-selling hip-hop artist of all time.

Indeed, here below are three songs that explain rap in the 1980s. After rap music’s salad days in the late 1970s and into the first few months of 1980, it was Run-DMC who pushed the style further.

CORONATION Street star Jack P Shepherd has told how a US rap star Snoop Dogg sent the cast a surprise video to celebrate the soap's 50th anniversary. Snoop, real name Calvin Broadus Jr ...

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In just a couple of days in a street rap mecca like the Motor City ... and Doughboyz Cashout, to have a song that’s known in the state like “Sweet Caroline” is to Big Ten graduates.

Released on Valentine’s Day, Some Sexy Songs 4 U mixes rap and R&B in a patented Drake style across 21 tracks and 74 minutes, although the album dips into guitar-strummed pop on Die Trying ...

He begins the rap with, “Drake elimination ... In his record-breaking song, Not Like Us, the 37-year-old accuses the Hotline Bling crooner of being a paedophile. Fans unimpressed by Drake's ...

I’m starting to lose that – but that’s different to the lyrics from James [Dean Bradfield, frontman] on the album; his three songs have more of a sense of optimism to them.” “The only ...

a rap beef, I'm tryna get the party lit." Elsewhere in the song, Drake thanks those who have been loyal to him. "I appreciate the fans rocking with me/ This is really just a small token," he raps ...

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