Question: Are Thurston Moore and Pharrell Williams both rappers?

Context articles: Contrast (Conor Maynard album)
Sexify
Trees Outside the Academy
Pharrell Williams
BET Awards 2014
Fast Speaking Music
Passion, Pain &amp; Demon Slayin'
My Name Is My Name
Thurston Moore
Ecstatic Peace Library

Contrast is the debut studio album by English pop singer Conor Maynard.
 It was released on 30 July 2012 in the United Kingdom through Parlophone and across Europe between August and October.
 "Contrast" mainly includes production from The Invisible Men, who produced seven of the fourteen songs available on the album, along with production from Pharrell Williams, Stargate, Benny Blanco, Midi Mafia, Crada, Lucas Secon, Quiz & Larossi, and Eagle Eye, among others, and features guest appearances from American recording artists Ne-Yo and Pharrell Williams, as well as British record artist Rita Ora.
"Sexify" is a song recorded by American singer Leah LaBelle, which was released on May 1, 2012, as part of the sampler album "Pharrell Williams and Jermaine Dupri Present Leah LaBelle" (2012).
 Written and produced by Pharrell Williams, it was the first song that LaBelle recorded with Williams as part of a joint record deal with Epic Records, So So Def Recordings, and I Am Other.
 It is an R&B song that features throwback elements to 1990s music.
 In its lyrics inspired by headlines from the women's fashion magazine "Cosmopolitan", LaBelle instructs a woman on how to draw and keep the attention of a man.
Trees Outside the Academy is the second solo studio album by American musician Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
 It was released on 18 September 2007 and was Moore's first solo album since 1995's "Psychic Hearts".
 It was released on Moore's own label, Ecstatic Peace!
.
 It was recorded with Sonic Youth's drummer Steve Shelley and violinist Samara Lubelski.
Pharrell Lanscilo Williams ( ; born April 5, 1973), sometimes known as simply Pharrell, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and film producer.
The 2014 BET Awards were held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles, California on June 29, 2014.
 Chris Rock was unveiled as the host for the upcoming BET Awards on May 14 during the network's 106 & Park music video countdown show.
 Beyoncé lead the nominations with 6, followed by Jay-Z with 5.
 Drake, Pharrell Williams and August Alsina were tied for 4.
 Beyoncé was the big winner of the night winning 3 BET Awards, while Nicki Minaj, Drake, August Alsina and Pharrell Williams with 2.
Fast Speaking Music is a label founded by poet Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye, in New York City.
 Releases by Fast Speaking Music have prominently featured jazz, the literary, and performance art.
 Its recordings have been made featuring poets, musicians, and interdisciplinary artists such as Anne Waldman, Amiri Baraka, Clark Coolidge, Meredith Monk, Akilah Oliver, Thurston Moore, Thomas Sayers Ellis, and many others.
 Variously associated with contemporary poetry, Conceptual Poetics and Conceptual Art, the Beat Generation, New York School, Black Arts Movement, New American Poetry, Nuyorican Poetry, Abstraction, Dematerialized Art, rock & roll, jazz, and experimental music and cinema, artists in the Fast Speaking Music catalog have roots that stretch across a broad spectrum of disciplines and art practices ranging from letters to music, dance, film and visual arts.
 Musicians featured on the label include Daniel Carter, Ha-Yang Kim, Devin Brahja Waldman, Max Davies, and Thurston Moore.
Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin' is the sixth studio album by American rapper Kid Cudi.
 The album was released on December 16, 2016, by Wicked Awesome Records and Republic Records.
 It succeeds Cudi's alternative rock album "Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven" (2015).
 The album features guest appearances from André "3000" Benjamin, Pharrell Williams, Travis Scott and Willow Smith.
 The production on the album was handled by Cudi himself, alongside Plain Pat, Mike Dean, Dot da Genius, Anthony Kilhoffer, Mike Will Made It and Pharrell Williams, among others.
My Name Is My Name is the debut studio album by American hip hop recording artist Pusha T.
 It was released on October 8, 2013, by GOOD Music and Def Jam Recordings.
 While leading up to the album's announcement, Pusha T released the mixtape "Fear of God" and the EP "" during 2011, along with collaborating on the GOOD Music's compilation album "Cruel Summer" (released in 2012).
 In 2013, he also released another mixtape "Wrath of Caine".
 The album's production was handled primarily by Kanye West, along with several producers, including Pharrell Williams, The-Dream, Hudson Mohawke, Sebastian Sartor, Don Cannon, Swizz Beatz, Rico Beats, Mano and Nottz, It also features guest appearances from Rick Ross, Young Jeezy, 2 Chainz, Big Sean, Future, Pharrell Williams, Chris Brown and Kendrick Lamar, among others.
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth.
 He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace!
 record label.
 Moore was ranked 34th in "Rolling Stone"' s 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
 In May 2012, "Spin" published a staff-selected top 100 ranking Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together on number 1.
Ecstatic Peace Libraryis a British publishing company founded by Thurston Moore and visual book editor Eva Prinz in 2010.
 The name is derived from Ecstatic Peace!
, a music label run by Thurston Moore.
 The company publishes mainly poetry, but also a collection of books about the early Norwegian black metal scene, experimental jazz from the 70s and other niche subjects.