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First Lady Michelle Obama is featured in a new rap video about the importance of going to college, even lending her voice to part of the track. "Southside Chicago, we all know, we had to do overtime every night to make it tomorrow," she raps, highlighting her biography. "And everyone could really make their dream true. Hey, kid listenin’ in Michigan that could be you!"

This is awesome. This weather guy raps the day's forecast: Rapping Weatherman

03-04) 15:31 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Thousands of students rallied today at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University and many other schools across the Bay Area and beyond, expressing anger and frustration over the decline in funding for California's beleaguered public education system. The demonstrations were largely peaceful. However, authorities reported that a car windshield was smashed with a pipe at UC Santa Cruz. The driver was unhurt, and no arrests were made. And at UC Davis, nearly 300 protesters tried to enter and block Interstate 80 before 3 p.m., prompting officers to form a human barrier and launch a...

From the White House Correspondence Dinner Karl Rove Raps

Rap legend Ice-T is risking his massive reputation on his latest recruit - middle-aged former beach bum David Hasselhoff. The original gangsta believes he can turn the ex-Baywatch star into hip hop's next big thing. Ice and Hasselhoff, 51, are neighbours in Los Angeles and have struck up a close friendship. The rapper - real name Tracey morrow - told The Sun: "The man is a legend, we are going to show a whole new side of him." "He's gonna come out as Hassle the Hoff." "The Hoff will surprise people with his rap skills and humour." Hasselhoff Has Rapping...

All change as Eminem hailed as new Elvis From Chris Ayres in Los Angeles IT IS one of the most spectacular makeovers in the history of American pop culture. Eminem, the white rapper who once terrorised the country with his violent and scatological lyrics, has been hailed as the next Elvis Presley thanks to his role in the film 8 Mile. Followers of his career have been dumbfounded by the overwhelmingly positive reaction to 8 Mile, which went on general release yesterday. Elvis Mitchell, film critic of The New York Times, said that the rapper’s move into the mainstream was...

I just happened to pass by C-Span while I was flipping through channels, and saw one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Some guy was rapping against going to war in Iraq, LOL!! It went something like "We don't need no war machine, we need money to get our clothes clean"