Rappers signature sounds

Today I wanna to talk about rappers signature sound, y’all know that almost every rapper has a special word, sentence or sound that makes him authentic and distinguish him from the others, so I made a list of my favorite sounds of rappers, I checked on the net before doing so and I realized that there isn't really a clear list summarizing these sounds + u can't hear them which is not interesting, so I think I’m gonna be the first to do this (click on each link to hear the sound)

Snoop Dogg: ouhhh weee !!!

snoop sometimes speaks in a high level tone to impersonate pimps and macs, I think the voice is inspired from bootsy callins, an old school funk artist who always speaks like that and which snoop usually collaborates with especially when it comes to instruments, snoop likes to rap on old school funk melodies mixed with hip hop beats, he also likes to spell out words like D.O.G.G, L.B.C (long beach city), D.P.G (dog pound gang. He is also famous for creating his own slang by adding "izzle" or "ezy" in the end of each sentence like ''for shizzle my nizzle'' (for sure my nigga). He also uses the word sticky yicki icki for weed

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Xzibit: shsh…shsh..shsh / ahaaa ahaaa (this particular sound is used in the beginning of the song ''ghetto bird'' by ice cube, apparently it is frequently used by gangs in the west coast area to signal the arrival of police)

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Lil Wayne – Ah ummm / young mullah baaaby / wizzy F baby:
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Lil Jon – Yeahhhh / What / Let’s go / BME click / Okay:
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E40 – uuuuuuh:

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Master P – uhhhhh:

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DMX: grrrrr / ough ough :

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Ice Cube: yiyeahi yiyeahi / brrrrrrr / west siiide

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50 cent : GGGG unit

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Method man: Meth likes to say the work ''TICAL'' a lot which means marijuana from the Native American tribe

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Busta Rhymes: woo hahhhh

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Timbaland: fikkki fikkki (imitating a scratching sound)

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Hip Hop & Money

Today I wanna talk about MOOOOONEY in Hip Hop!!!! Who are the real pioneers???? Who is the biggest money makers? Who has the biggest empire?... I'm sure some of y'all saw MTV cribs at least once or twice, these rappers are really living their life to the fullest with all the money they have... So since Hip Hop nowadays is all about that (money, fame, show off, who's better...) how about we let you know who really is the baller and who's the big mouth XD

Of course the more you sell records the more you get money (logic) but there are those you don't really hear about!!! They are not famous as rappers but mostly as business man because the secret is not in the music, no matter how talented you are... It's in the label baby.

I made a quick research on Hip Hop record labels and was shocked to find sooo many!! But of course some make much more money than others so I'm gonna give you the two biggest influence in the Hip Hop world that I know, they are not only in the music industry but in many other fields, they are the pride of the Afro-American community, the reason behind success, the real deals, the hot shots (if you decided to be a rapper, you should definitely be in touch with these ghosts XD):

Damon Dash with Roc-A-Fella Records, Dash’s businesses include America Magazine, Armadale Vodka, Dash Management, PRO-KEDS, Team Roc, Tiret Watches, the Rachel Roy Clothing Line, the New York nightclub The Plumm... Dash's fortune is estimated at 200 Million $.

Russell Simmons with Def Jam Records, his fortune is estimated at 325 Million $ Simmons is in numerous projects including, Def Poetry Jam, Def Comedy Jam, Phat Farm clothing company, a movie production house, a magazine, and an advertising agency.

I must say that these numbers are quite old (2006), I'm sure it's much more by now BUT I didn't mention those rappers who has it all XD, successful as rappers AND producers, managers, actors, models.... so I'm about to give you the richest rappers of 2010 PLUS their labels (haters you can start hating XD):

10 - Kanye West and GOOD Music

9 - Pharrell Williams and star trek

8 - Timbaland and Mosley Music Group

7 - Snoop Dogg and Doggy Style Records

6 - Ludacris and Disturbing tha Peace

5 - Dr. Dre and Aftermath Entertainment

4 - Lil Wayne and young money Entertainment

3 - Akon and Konvict Muzik

2 - Diddy and Bad Boy Records

1 - Jay-Z and Roc Nation

I wonder why 50 cent is not in that list with his g g g g uuuuunit lool I guess the competition was too hard this time, next time 50 XD

So who's gonna be number 1 this year??? I personally would say Lil Wayne, because I have a feeling that all the new rappers are more and more young thus they have a tendency to go and sign under Young Money Entertainment XD, young mulah baaaaaby !!!!

Rappers names

I'm sure a lot of people asked before why is it that every rapper has a nickname and sometimes really weird ones??? I personally never knew, I always said that the names come from the streets and it's generally what are you known for so it kind of makes it cool I guess, but what happens if they just called you by your real name? XD... so I think there is another reason behind it "MARKETING" XD.

What would you think if 50 Cent showed up in the beginning with his real name "Curtis James" XD? Would he be as successful as he is now? Probably, but the name "50 Cent" looks like it has a deep story behind it (I heard a lot of versions of that story but I’m not gonna talk about it :p), it's a "cool" name for a rapper, so I guess it help at least a little bit.

How would you sell records if you had a real fag name? Like... Calvin Broadus XD guess who's that?...... Snoop puahaha the gangsta dogg's name is Calvin, get out of here!! Or Christopher Wallace, guess who this guy is? He can be everything but a Christopher XD, guess his mama wanted him to be a lawyer or a doctor XD: Notorious Big!!! Thank god he was known as Biggy or else he wouldn’t make it even if he is a great rapper.

I'm gonna give u a short list of the most unexpected names of famous rappers in my POV:

Hakeem Seriki..................Chamillionaire

Alvin Joyner......................Xzibit

Faheem Najm...................T-Pain

Kaseem Dean...................Swizz Beatz

Tramar Dillard..................Fol rida

There are of course some rappers carrying their real name, and I do respect that a lot, it makes them real and authentic like Tupas Shakur, Kanye West.....

Some have a diminutive of their name, like Lil Jon from Johnathan, Nas form Nasir, Lil Wayne from Dwayne....

And what if you are famous for a real bad thing? XD like what if they called you “fat ass”? Or “dick head”? XD I guess you just have to carry that with you in the Hip Hop game XD or else you gonna have to fake it till you make it XD, let me give you some I know:

Ol' Dirty Basterd

Too Short

Dirt Bag

Ice Cube

Method Man

Ghostface Killah

I'm sure there are more, I really would like to know the story behind each weird name XD.

I will finish by giving you this cool website to create your own rap name for fun, enjoy!!! myrapname.com XD

Advertising in video clips...

I just noticed this new pink liquor bottle (called Nuvo), it's in EVERY video clip I see, generally you just see a second of it but in this one, they invested a lot I guess lol, you see it many times, zoomed and long enough to read the name. Plus I saw this black girl in the video who has a sexy tattoo in her arm but I think it's a fake one because you can tell that she puts her arm next to mike Posner's face on purpose to look sexy.

I don't believe tattooed artists anymore once I discovered that 50 Cent never had that huge tattoo in his back, I saw his late movie called "Before I Self Destruct" and there is a zoomed scene where he's doing a girl in a shower, you can clearly see his back with not a drop of an ink. It was all for the fame....