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Bebop
Bebop, also called bop or rebop, is a 1940s American jazz style built on fast tempos, complex chord progressions, and harmonic improvisation, developed at Harlem's Minton's Playhouse by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Kenny Clarke, and ancestral to cool jazz and hard bop.
Bebop and Rocksteady
Bebop and Rocksteady are the mutant warthog and rhinoceros henchmen of Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, created for the 1987 cartoon via Playmates Toys, later reimagined in the 2012 series, IDW comics, and Out of the Shadows.
Bebop scale
Bebop scale: any seven-note jazz scale with one chromatic passing tone added, making eight notes so chord tones land on downbeats in eighth-note runs. Main forms are bebop dominant (Mixolydian plus major 7th), bebop major, and bebop minor; codified by David Baker and Barry Harris.
Bebot
"Bebot" is a 2005 all-Tagalog Black Eyed Peas song from Monkey Business, written and performed by apl.de.ap with will.i.am, sampling Asin; Filipino slang for "hot chick", it became a Filipino American anthem and a 2026 TikTok trend.
Bebu Silvetti
Bebu Silvetti, born Juan Fernando Silvetti Adorno and known on record as Silvetti, was an Argentine-born, Mexican-naturalized pianist, composer, arranger, and producer behind the 1977 hit "Spring Rain".
Bec Hewitt
Bec Hewitt, born Rebecca June Cartwright (1983, Sydney), is a retired Australian actress and singer who played Hayley Smith Lawson on Home and Away 1998-2005, won a 2005 Silver Logie and the first Australian Dancing with the Stars, and married tennis player Lleyton Hewitt in 2005. A distinct namesake is a barbershop vocal coach.
Because a White Man'll Never Do It
Because a White Man'll Never Do It is a 1973 book of polemic, poetry, and reportage by Kevin Gilbert, Aboriginal Australian writer and founder of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.
Because I could not stop for Death
Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for Death" (F479/J712), written c. 1862, published as "The Chariot" in 1890, a six-stanza common-meter ride with personified Death toward Eternity, its fourth stanza restored by Johnson in 1955.
Because I Love You (music)
Because I Love You (사랑하기 때문에) is the only studio album by South Korean singer-songwriter Yoo Jae-ha, released in 1987 and regarded as a landmark of Korean pop music.
Because I Said So (film)
Because I Said So is a 2007 American romantic comedy directed by Michael Lehmann, starring Diane Keaton as an overbearing mother and Mandy Moore as her daughter Milly.
Because It's The First Time (처음이라서)
Because It's The First Time (처음이라서, My First Time) is an 8-episode 2015 OnStyle youth romance drama starring SHINee's Minho and Park So-dam, written by Jung Hyun-jung, directed by Lee Jung-hyo, later followed by the Netflix series My First First Love.
Because Music
Because Music is a French independent record label founded in Paris by Emmanuel de Buretel in 2004, home to Christine and the Queens, Metronomy, and Justice.
Because of Winn-Dixie (film)
Because of Winn-Dixie is a 2005 American family drama film directed by Wayne Wang. It follows a lonely girl in Florida who adopts a stray dog.
Because of You (Kelly Clarkson song)
"Because of You" is a 2005 Kelly Clarkson pop rock ballad from Breakaway, written at 16 about her parents' divorce, peaking at No. 7 in the US and UK.
Because of You I Shine (music)
"Because of You, I Shine" is the 2023 debut digital single of BUS, a twelve-member Thai boy group formed through 789 SURVIVAL, which won two TOTY Music Awards.
Because the Internet
Because the Internet is Childish Gambino's (Donald Glover's) second studio album, released December 10, 2013 on Glassnote; a 19-track transmedia project with a 72-page screenplay and the short film Clapping for the Wrong Reasons, recorded at Chris Bosh's mansion.
Because the Night
"Because the Night" is a 1977 rock song co-written by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith, released March 1978 on Easter; it hit No. 13 US and No. 5 UK, Smith's biggest hit, later covered by 10,000 Maniacs.
Because This Is My First Life (이번 생은 처음이라)
Because This Is My First Life (이번 생은 처음이라) is a 2017 tvN 16-episode Monday-Tuesday romance drama by writer Yoon Nan-jung and director Park Joon-hwa, starring Lee Min-ki and Jung So-min as a house-poor homeowner and homeless screenwriter in a contract marriage, which peaked at 6.8% ratings.
Because You Loved Me
"Because You Loved Me": Diane Warren ballad written for her father, recorded by Céline Dion, produced by David Foster, theme of Up Close & Personal; six weeks at Billboard number one, 1997 Grammy winner.
Becca
Becca, born Rebecca Acheampong, is a Ghanaian Afropop singer and actress from Kumasi who broke through in 2007 with "You Lied To Me" and returned in 2024 after a hiatus.
Becca Kufrin
Becca Kufrin (Rebecca Jill Kufrin), born 1990 in Prior Lake, Minnesota, is a reality TV personality: Bachelor season 22 winner dumped by Arie Luyendyk Jr., Bachelorette season 14 lead who chose Garrett Yrigoyen, later married to Thomas Jacobs.
Becca Tobin
Becca Tobin (Rebecca Grace Tobin, born 1986), American actress from Marietta, Georgia; played Kitty Wilde on Glee 2012-2015; co-hosts LadyGang podcast; later starred in Disney+ Turner & Hooch.
Becher industrial typologies
Becher industrial typologies are grids of precisely composed black-and-white photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher, made from 1959 for five decades, comparing water towers, blast furnaces, and other industrial structures.
Becherovka
Becherovka is a Czech herbal liqueur from Karlovy Vary, 38% ABV, made since 1807 from a secret recipe of about 20 herbs and spices; known for the Beton cocktail and KV14 offshoot.
Beck
Beck (Beck Hansen, born Bek David Campbell, 1970, Los Angeles) is an American genre-shifting singer and multi-instrumentalist; 'Loser' (1994), Odelay, Sea Change, and the Album-of-the-Year Grammy for Morning Phase.
Beck (manga)
Beck (ベック, Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad) is Harold Sakuishi's 1999–2008 shōnen band manga in Monthly Shōnen Magazine, 34 volumes, 15 million copies, 2002 Kodansha Manga Award, with a 2004 Madhouse anime and 2010 live-action film.
Beck (Swedish TV series)
Beck is a Swedish crime drama series on TV4 since June 27, 1997, starring Peter Haber as detective Martin Beck, based on Sjöwall and Wahlöö's novels, running as feature-length films (Beck 1 to Beck 54).
Beck Bennett
Beck Bennett (born 1984) is an American comedian and actor, an SNL cast member 2013-2021, star of AT&T's 'It's Not Complicated' ads, Good Neighbor co-founder, and Steve Lombard in Superman (2025).
Beck discography
The Beck discography spans 15 studio albums from 1993's Golden Feelings to Ride Lonesome (2026), moving between anti-folk, funk, and electronic pop, with three Grammy-winning albums.
Becker (TV series)
Becker (TV series): CBS American sitcom (1998–2004, 129 episodes, six seasons), created by Dave Hackel, starring Ted Danson as grumpy Bronx doctor John Becker, with Hattie Winston, Terry Farrell, and Nancy Travis.