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Rap opera

Index Rap opera

A rap opera or hip hopera is a musical work in hip hop style with operatic form. [1]

41 relations: A Grand Don't Come for Free, A Night at the Hip Hopera, A Prince Among Thieves, Afrofuturism, Beyoncé, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, Clipping (band), Concept album, Contemporary R&B, Deltron 3030 (album), Drama, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, Hamilton (musical), Hip hop music, Hip-Hopera, In the Heights, Kendrick Lamar, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Logic (musician), Los Angeles Times, Mekhi Phifer, MTV, One-night stand, Onry Ozzborn, Opera, Pasadena Convention Center, Polarity (Norman album), Portmanteau, Prince Paul (producer), R. Kelly, Rhythm and blues, Robert Townsend (actor), Rock opera, Science fiction, Splendor & Misery, Television film, The Incredible True Story, The Kleptones, The Streets, Trapped in the Closet, Volume 10 (rapper).

A Grand Don't Come for Free

A Grand Don't Come for Free is the second studio album from British garage and hip hop act The Streets.

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A Night at the Hip Hopera

A Night at the Hip Hopera is the third album by The Kleptones.

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A Prince Among Thieves

A Prince Among Thieves is the second studio album by hip hop artist Prince Paul.

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Afrofuturism

Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic, philosophy of science, and philosophy of history that explores the developing intersection of African/African Diaspora culture with technology.

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Beyoncé

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and businesswoman.

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Carmen: A Hip Hopera

Carmen: A Hip Hopera is a 2001 musical film produced for television by MTV and directed by Robert Townsend.

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Clipping (band)

Clipping (stylized as clipping.) is an American experimental hip hop group from Los Angeles, California.

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Concept album

A concept album is an album in which its tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually.

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Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B (also known as simply R&B), is a music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.

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Deltron 3030 (album)

Deltron 3030 is the debut album by the hip hop supergroup of the same name.

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Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.

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Good Kid, M.A.A.D City

Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (stylized as good kid, m.A.A.d city) is the second studio album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar.

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Hamilton (musical)

Hamilton: An American Musical is a sung- and rapped-through musical about the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda,Donaldson, Kayleigh (2017).

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Hip-Hopera

Hip-Hopera is the debut studio album by Volume 10.

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In the Heights

In the Heights is a musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes.

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Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda (born January 16, 1980) is an American composer, lyricist, playwright, and actor of Puerto Rican ancestry best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton. He co-wrote the songs for Disney's ''Moana'' soundtrack (2016) and is set to co-star in the upcoming film Mary Poppins Returns. Miranda's awards include a Pulitzer Prize, three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and three Tony Awards. Miranda wrote the music and lyrics for the musical In the Heights, which premiered on Broadway in 2008. For this work, he won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score, the show's cast album won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and the show won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Miranda was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in the show's lead role. Miranda prepared Spanish translations used in the 2009 Broadway production of West Side Story and was co-composer and lyricist for Bring It On: The Musical, which played on Broadway in 2012. His television work includes recurring roles on The Electric Company (2009–2010) and Do No Harm (2013). He hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time in 2016 and earned his first Emmy award nomination for acting. Among other film work, Miranda contributed music and vocals for a scene in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Miranda is most celebrated for writing the book, music and lyrics for Hamilton: An American Musical, which has been acclaimed as a pop culture phenomenon since its Broadway premiere in August 2015. The show earned the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and was nominated for a record-setting 16 Tony Awards, of which it won 11, including Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Book. For his performance in the lead role of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. The ''Hamilton'' cast recording spent ten weeks atop Billboards Top Rap Albums chart in 2015, while The Hamilton Mixtape, an album of covers of songs from the musical, developed by and featuring Miranda, reached number one on the Billboard 200 upon release in December 2016. Miranda has emerged as an influential political activist, particularly in the wake of Hurricane Maria's devastation in Puerto Rico, for which he raised $30 million for the rescue efforts.

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Logic (musician)

Sir Robert Bryson Hall II (born January 22, 1990), known by his stage name Logic, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Mekhi Phifer

Mekhi Phifer (born December 29, 1974) is an American actor.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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One-night stand

A one-night stand is a single sexual encounter in which there is an expectation that there shall be no further relations between the sexual participants.

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Onry Ozzborn

Michael Martinez (born March 25, 1979), better known by his stage name Onry Ozzborn, is a rapper and producer from Farmington, New Mexico, who is currently based in Seattle, Washington.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Pasadena Convention Center

The Pasadena Convention Center is a convention center in Pasadena, California, near Los Angeles, owned by the City of Pasadena.

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Polarity (Norman album)

Polarity is a studio album by American hip hop group Norman, consisting of rappers Onry Ozzborn and Barfly, both members of the Pacific Northwest hip hop collective Oldominion.

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Portmanteau

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words,, p. 644 in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.

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Prince Paul (producer)

Paul Edward Huston, (born April 2, 1967) better known by his stage name Prince Paul, is an American disc jockey, record producer and recording artist from Amityville, New York.

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R. Kelly

Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former professional basketball player.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Robert Townsend (actor)

Robert Townsend (born February 6, 1957) is an American actor, comedian, film director, and writer.

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Rock opera

A rock opera is a collection of rock music songs with lyrics that relate to a common story.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Splendor & Misery

Splendor & Misery is the second studio album by experimental hip hop group Clipping, released on September 9, 2016.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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The Incredible True Story

The Incredible True Story is the second studio album by American rapper Logic.

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The Kleptones

The Kleptones are a one-man English electronic music group fronted by music producer and DJ Eric Kleptone.

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The Streets

The Streets is an English alternative hip hop music group from Birmingham, England, led by the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner.

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Trapped in the Closet

Trapped in the Closet is an opera by American R&B singer R. Kelly, which currently consists of 33 "chapters" released from 2005 to 2012.

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Volume 10 (rapper)

Dino Hawkins, known by his stage name Volume 10, is a rapper from Los Angeles, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rap_opera

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