Lyrical

The term lyrical may mean:

Professor Lyrical (rapper)

Professor Lyrical is a Hip hop artist from Lowell, Massachusetts, who also teaches college. His 2005 album iNFiNiTi won for album of the year in the M.I.C. Hip Hop awards in Boston.

He is a full-time Lecturer at Northeastern University, and has been an adjunct professor at several other schools part-time in Massachusetts, primarily in the areas of Math and entertainment (including a Hip Hop course at Lasell College, entertainment courses at Bay State College, and math courses at New England Arts Institute). His latest (8/2013) album, Put Em All To Shame is both an album and a book and they appear together as "The World's First Albook." The book is entitled Put Em All To Shame (The Curriculum)].

He speaks and performs regularly at many different venues, but primarily at colleges and universities. He received a BS and an MS (Mathematics) from UMass-Lowell. Lyrical is a doctoral candidate at Northeastern. In the early and mid 1990s he competed in several invitation only freestyle battles, such as the Battle for World Supremacy in NYC and the Universal Zulu Nation East Coast Finals; he went on to win many more in the years to follow. He is part of the Mass Industry Committee, which also created 617Live TV. Lyrical has filled in for fellow Boston rapper Akrobatik on JAM'N 94.5 to perform the daily "SPORTS RAP UP" (part of the highly rated Morning Show) on occasion when Akrobatik has been unavailable. He has appeared on many different radio segments, television shows, news programs and even movies.

Delano

Delano or DeLano may refer to:

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Delanoë

Delanoë is a Francophone surname derived from "de la noue" meaning "from the mud", and may refer to:

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Delano, California

Delano (/dəˈleɪnoʊ/ də-LAY-noh) is a city in Kern County, California, United States. Delano is located 31 miles (50 km) north-northwest of Bakersfield at an elevation of 315 feet (96 m). The population was 53,819 in 2011, up from 38,824 in 2000. It is Kern County's second largest city after Bakersfield.

Agriculture is Delano's major industry. The area is particularly well known as a center for the growing of table grapes. Delano is also home to two California state prisons, North Kern State Prison and Kern Valley State Prison. The Voice of America once operated its largest, most powerful shortwave broadcast facility outside Delano at 35°45′15″N 119°17′7″W / 35.75417°N 119.28528°W / 35.75417; -119.28528. However, the Voice of America ceased broadcasts in October 2007, citing a changing political mission, reduced budgets, and changes in technology.

Delano's two school districts currently operate eight elementary schools, three middle schools, three comprehensive high schools and two alternative high schools. The city has its own police department and contracts with the Kern County Fire Department for fire services, EMS services are privately provided by local company, Delano Ambulance Service.