posse

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Posse may refer to:

• Posse comitatus (disambiguation page)

Organizations

• Sheriff's posse, or posse comitatus, a sheriff's authority to conscript any male of age
• Posse Foundation, a non-profit leadership scholarship organization
• Jamaican Posse, a coalition of gangs, mostly around New York City
• Spur Posse, a group of high-school boys who competed by sexual conquests
• Indian Posse, an aboriginal street gang in Western Canada

Opera/music theatre

• Posse mit Gesang, 18th/19th century form of German farce accompanied by singing
• Posse, an alternative term for Posse mit Gesang

Popular music

• Startin' Up a Posse, a song by thrash band Anthrax (band)
• 99 Posse, an Italian hip hop/reggae music group that voices progressive political causes
• American Doll Posse, a music album by singer Tori Amos
• Baby G and True Funk Posse
• Da Crime Posse, a popular German music group in the style of Oriental hip-hop
• Hypnotize Camp Posse, a record label related to the Prophet Posse
• Insane Clown Posse, a hip-hop duo from Delray, Detroit, Michigan
• London Posse, an early British hip-hop group
• L.A. Posse, a former American hip hop record production team
• Magyar Posse, a Finnish post-rock band
• My Posse, the only album released by rap group C.I.A.
• Native Tongues Posse, a collective of progressive hip-hop artists in the late 1980s and early 1990s
• N.W.A. and the Posse, an hip-hop album released in 1987, of various tracks by artist Dr. Dre but marketed as being by N.W.A.
• Nuuk Posse, the first and most famous hip hop group from Greenland
• Osdorp Posse, a rap group, one of the first to produce rap music in Dutch language
• Outlaw Posse, a British hip hop group (1990-1992)
• Patty's Posse, a reality TV show featuring the life of TV personality Patty Brard
• Posse cut, a popular form of song in hip hop music that involves successive verses by four or more rappers
• "Posse on Broadway", a rap song first recorded by Sir Mix-a-Lot
• Prophet Posse, a rap record label based in Memphis, Tennessee
• RBL Posse, a 1990s gangsta rap group from California
• Sound Unlimited, an Australian hip-hop group during the 1990s
• Upper Hutt Posse, a progressive music group from New Zealand, since 1985
• Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, an American animated television series
• X Posse, an early British hip-hop artist, later known as Overlord X

Other popular culture

• Posse (1975 film), a western film
• Posse (1993 film), a western film
• Andre the Giant Has a Posse, a street art campaign
• A term MC Hammer used in his popular rap songs and name he called his entourage, friends and band members.
• Party Posse, a fictional boy band in The Simpsons episode "New Kids on the Blecch"
• Dr. Cube's Posse, a character in performances called Kaiju Big Battels by the Studio Kaiji troupe
• Posse (Morning zoo radio), radio program staff who provide interjections and information
• Pirate Poss, a fictional group of children in Space Pirates (TV series)
• Posse (2009 Australian Book by author Kate Welshman) Posse
• Las Vegas Posse, a Canadian Football League team in 1994
• Black Hills Posse, a professional basketball club in Rapid City, South Dakota
• Mean Street Posse, a heel professional wrestling stable
• Cisco's Posse
• The Java Posse, a podcast of news, discussion, and interviews about the Java programming language

Surnames

• Abel Posse, an Argentinian writer
• Arvid Posse, the Prime Minister of Sweden from 1880 to 1883
• Hans Posse
• Knut Posse (died 1500)
• Vladimir Posse, (1864-1940) a Russian socialist journalist and editor

Place names

• Posse, Goiás, a town in the state of Goiás, Brazil

Other uses

• POSSE project, a DARPA funded software security initiative

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