urban a cappella

A combination of gospel, hip-hop, funk and rap generes, produced with only the human voice and no instrumental accompaniment.

The vocal band, Three 5 and 6 were the originators of the urban a cappella sound.

by Dr. Dre January 9, 2004

Cappella

The act of singing with only the use of little precusion or no. And minimal usage of any other instrument,and having your voice sound amazing.

Man dat guy is just Cappella. He's dat good.

by ZXC75 January 9, 2010

A cappella

"A capella" definition is wrong. Not usually used by rappers, but rather by people that actually...sing (and sing well) without instrumental accompaniment. Please see

http://www.singers.com/a-cappella.html

...for more enlightenment on what a cappella is.

"Hey guys, let's sing real a cappella, with no instrumental accompaniment. And better yet, let's actually sing and use musical notes in our music and not chant simple rhymes and curse words in a monotone like the music artist b rabbit does in 8 Mile!"

"Sounds great! Wait, b rabbit is a music artist? Since when?"

by Tie Guy February 5, 2009

A cappella

A cappella (italian): like the chapel.

voice music without instrumental accompaniment.

"The band died when they cut the power but Sid just sang a cappella like he never heard them anyway."

by yogipete August 24, 2008

Chappelling

The act of having anything and everything go wrong at the same time. Unfortunate events happening with particularly poor timing. Known sarcastically as, "really killing it right now, guys".

You know you're just Chappelling it up when you go to start a timed quiz on your labtop for pharm and your charging cord lights on fire.

by TheERSlimShady October 12, 2016

cappello

Cappello means “Hat” in Italian.

“I’m wearing a Cappello!”

by Cappello May 18, 2018

Cappelle

If the explanation of the "kapellekes" (or small "chapels") along the Flemish wayside does not give satisfaction, there is still the well known story of saint Martin, the former Roman soldier on his horse, who at the town gate of tours (in France), cut half of his mantle ("cappa") and gave it to a frozen beggar. The Roman soldier would later become the bishop of tours. Martinus already was declared a saint in the Vth century (he is the titular saint of a majority of churches and parishes in Belgium (probably more than 50%) and (the rest of) his "cappa" for a very long time was considered as a relic.

In times of war, the relic went to battle with the soldiers. The persons who had the task and honor to take care of this precious half of a mantle were called "cappelani" (or "chaplains" in English, "chaplains" in French and "kapelanen" in Dutch). They kept the relic in a tent called "capelle" throughout the centuries, the word "capelle" or "cappelle" was synonymous with small buildings where divine services were celebrated.

there is no doubt that the variant of "cappelle", in this case "capelleman" or "Cappelleman", meant the chaplain or supervisor of a chapel, or also subsheperd of sheperd of a subparish or parish. In French, we have then the word "chapelain", in English "chaplin" and in German "kaplan"

by big history book August 12, 2011