Talk:Rap (disambiguation)/Archive 1

message: ...since it seems (as evidenced by editors and visitors to the Wikipedia) that people are confusing the rapping article as the article for hip hop music. --FuriousFreddy 14:45, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Let's keep this as a disambiguation page 

message: ...is a backronym, meaning "someone made it up after the fact". It is not an actualy definition of why "rap music" is called "rap music". Do not add this back into the article. --FuriousFreddy 23:31, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Rhythmic American Poetry" 

message: Presently Wikipedia has the articles Singing, Song, and Rapping, but no article for the product of rapping, that is a rap.  If there is an article with some other name, there should be a link to it here. -Acjelen 02:51, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  No article on the prduct of rapping 

message: Since almost all of the incoming links for this dab refer to rap music (ie: Hip hop music) I propose that this dab be redirected to Hip hop music.
*Propose and Support. --Commander Keane 07:54, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirection proposal 

message: I removed the following entry thinking it was copyvio, but it turned out that the source was over 100 years old so it's probably ok. Anyhow, where does it fit in Wikipedia? Probably not enough for its own article, is there an existing article it can slip into?
:* The rap was a base half-penny, intrinsically worth about half a farthing, issued for the nonce in Ireland in 1721, because small coin was so very scarce at the time. It remains in the English expression "Not worth a rap". There was also a coin in Switzerland called a rappe, worth the seventh of a penny.
--Commander Keane 20:35, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coin info 

message: Pointers from: FuriousFreddy
*"Straight Outta Compton is a 1988 [[rap]] album by NWA" should become "Straight Outta Compton is a 1988 rap album by NWA", NOT "Straight Outta Compton is a 1988 rap album by NWA". (because "rap" is used as a noun defining "a genre of American popular music")
*"Little Calvin Broadas decided he wanted to [[rap]] for a living" should become "Little Calvin Broadas decided he wanted to rap for a living", NOT "Little Calvin Broadas decided he wanted to rap for a living". (because "rap" is used as a verb describing "a technique of delvering rhythmic lyrics over an instrumental track")
*"Like many TLC songs, "Waterfalls" includes a [[rap]] from Left-Eye." should become "Like many TLC songs, "Waterfalls" includes a rap from Left-Eye.", NOT "Like many TLC songs, "Waterfalls" includes a rap from Left-Eye."  (because "rap" is used as a noun describing "a verse of rhythmic lyrics delivered over an instrumental track by a rapper")
*"The station was criticized for playing too much [[rap]]" should become "The station was criticized for playing too much rap", NOT "The station was criticized for playing too much rap". (because "rap" is used as a noun defining "a genre of American popular music")
--Commander Keane 20:48, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Isn't that Calvin Broadus? 惑乱 分からん 13:22, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation pages with links