History Main / HashtagRap

* Big Sean's part on Calvin Harris's "Feels":

** And it's not the first time Justin has done hashtag rap in a guest verse. As noted in [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/justin-timberlakes-littleheard-attempt-at-hashtag,103518/ this article]], he did it in {{FreeSol}}'s "Role Model" in 2011, including a reference to his controversial 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show:

* BigSean's "Supa Dupa" is littered with these, one of the most memorable being:

The inventorship of the technique is disputed but [[OlderThanTheyThink goes back to the early 90s, at least]] - debate over who created it spawned a mild beef between Music/KanyeWest, Music/BigSean, Music/LilWayne, Music/{{Drake}} and Music/{{Ludacris}} in TheNewTens, all of whom claimed it was theirs. Kanye, undisputedly the TropeNamer, claimed to have invented the technique in 2007 in his song "Barry Bonds": "''And here’s another hit -- Barry Bonds''", and Big Sean claimed he was the first to do it in his 2009 song "Supa Dupa" - though he did at least credit Drake, Music/LilWayne (who claimed he invented the style in 2005) and Ye for popularising the technique via their posse cut "Forever" [[note]]which also featured Music/{{Eminem}}, who did not use hashtag rap in his verse[[/note]]. In 2011, Drake accused Ludacris of stealing his style - Luda responded with the mixtape skit "History Lesson" in which he played examples of hashtag raps used by Kanye in 2007, Cam'Ron in 2003, Method Man in 1998, Music/TheNotoriousBIG in 1997, Q-Tip in 1991... and finally Ludacris, also in 1991, acidly concluding "''I must have stole that shit from myself''".

Since it comes at the end of a line, this trope is handy for creating rhymes, and their unconnected nature allows them to be squeezed into just a few syllables without ruining the rhythm. They are also a common vehicle for a ShoutOut, since (just as with a simile) you can use anything at all that can be compared to the preceding line. In many cases ("Gorilla", "Holy Grail", "Barry Bonds", "Jackie Chan") they're also used as a TitleDrop.

Various punctuation is used to represent the pause before the "punchline," including commas, colons, and semicolons. On this page we use dashes.

-->You'll be [[PrimalChestPound banging on my chest]], bang bang -- gorilla!