Was Muhammad Ali the first rapper?
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"Float like a butterfly/ Sting like a bee/ Your hands can't hit/ What your eyes can't see."
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Rapper Snoop Dogg scored his first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart Thursday with "Drop It Like It's Hot," which had spent four weeks in the runner-up spot.
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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga had been compared to a young Muhammad Ali only because of an uncanny likeness to the boxing great.
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Sport: World No 1 developed his skills as a teeanger  against backdrop of racism at his first club.
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Muhammad Ali used to recite poems before his fights that brashly predicted victory against his ring opponents, but boxing's poet laureate had to overcome dyslexia as a child to learn how to read and write.
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LOS ANGELES  - Sacha Baron Cohen, the  British comedian best known for his TV persona as  rapper-interviewer Ali G, may have found a new character to add  to his collection of slightly whacked eccentrics.
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When Nas and Jay-Z set aside their  feud and joined forces last October, it was a great moment for  hip-hop, but an even greater moment for Nas. Having been  Columbia's staple rap artist for more than a decade, the  acclaimed yet commercially unreliable MC seemed poised to reap  the benefits of Def Jam's hip-hop savvy.
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Growing up in East New York, Brooklyn, Russell Jones, who became famous as the rapper Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard, spent his summers working whatever odd jobs he could line up.
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The first word uttered on Nasir Jones' new double album, "Street's Disciple," is "peace." On this, his seventh studio album, Nas has become the mature voice of the hip-hop generation. While Jay Z's lyrical exploits are fading to black and P. Diddy is still partying, Nas is giving his version of today's reality. The 19-year-old that emerged in 1993, like Young Arthur pulling Excalibur from the stone, is now the cornerstone of the new social consciousness fighting to emerge in hip-hop circa 2005.
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U.S. rap stars Sean "Diddy" Combs and Snoop Dogg, once bitter rivals in a notorious feud between east and west coast hip-hop in the 1990s, said on Friday they had buried the hatchet once and for all.
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SANTA MONICA, CA Thursday Nov.18.2004 /netmusiccountdown.com/ -- An arrest warrant has been issued for the rapper Young Buck in connection to a fight that broke out at Monday night&#39;s Vibe Awards show.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif.  - One man was stabbed and  rapper Dr. Dre was punched in the nose during a melee at the  second annual Vibe Awards for hip-hop stars at a hangar at  Santa Monica Airport on Monday night, police said.
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Russell T. Jones, the rap artist known as O.D.B., was a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan and made a large imprint on rap music in the 1990's.
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MIAMI (Billboard) - He achieved crossover success long  before the music business coined that phrase.
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Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&amp;B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, died Thursday at 83, his spokesman said.
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10.25.04 - WBC Heavyweight Champion Vitali Klitschko will make his first title defense against the man who most recently knocked out Mike Tyson, Danny Williams, on Saturday, December 11, 2004, at the Mandalay Bay Resort &amp; Casino in Las Vegas, Nev.
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Q: As a long-time fan of Nat King Cole I recently attended Actors' Summit's production of a show centered on many of his hit recordings. It was mentioned during this program that he was the first African-American to have his own network show.