On a side note - personally, I find the terms 'rap singer' and 'rap music' to be almost (but not quite) oxymoronic. Rap, to me, is not singing or music. The better quality stuff (the minority) can certainly be seen as a performance art, perhaps even poetry. But I can't really reconcile it as music as such. I say 'not quite' because there is a relationship of sorts between rap and music, which is pretty hard to define. I guess that probably deserves a thread of its own