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The Teflon Don has ceded some spotlight to Waka Flocka but is still one of rap's biggest names of 2010.

The Click Track 2010 Howard Homecoming Draft! Click Track 2010

Basically, forget the haters, put out a new mixtape every couple weeks and establish yourself as one of rap's most bizarre and promising young stars.

Nightlife Agenda Fritz Hahn 2010

As scholars of poetry, they naturally believe that reading is a more dignified form of apprehension than listening--DuBois is the editor of a book called Close Reading: The Reader--and the premise of this anthology is that MCs are essentially writers: "This is not, after all, a collection of lyrics from rap's greatest hits, but rather a collection of rap's best poetry."

Is Rap Poetry? The Poetry Foundation 2011

Getty Images Born Mohandas Dewese, he's remembered for his crisp style and also for cementing one of rap's enduring traditions: the beef.

...And You Don't Stop John Jurgensen 2011

How Ya Like Me Now Does rap's suspended adolescence keep it from serious consideration?

The Poetry Foundation: Is Rap Poetry? The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

As scholars of poetry, they naturally believe that reading is a more dignified form of apprehension than listening--DuBois is the editor of a book called Close Reading: The Reader--and the premise of this anthology is that MCs are essentially writers: "This is not, after all, a collection of lyrics from rap's greatest hits, but rather a collection of rap's best poetry."

Is Rap Poetry? The Poetry Foundation 2011

In the space of about three years, Drake has made an unlikely vault into the top of rap's leaderboard.

A Rapper Who Also Sings John Jurgensen 2011

Staggeringly, her appearance at the American Music Awards last November featured the Fiat centre-stage, before she simulated sex with rap's Pitbull.

The Hard Sell: Fiat 500 TwinAir 2012

How Ya Like Me Now Does rap's suspended adolescence keep it from serious consideration?

Is Rap Poetry? The Poetry Foundation 2011

How Ya Like Me Now Does rap's suspended adolescence keep it from serious consideration?

Is Rap Poetry? The Poetry Foundation 2011