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Perhaps you could add to this debate:
We we hittin' teh whiskey pretty hard at a party one night & had a rather long & intense debate on what the first rap song was. There was a couple of small time rap producers there who were busting out their phones to research it, but in the end, nobody could dispute my findingz.
Recorded December 1978
It's a good idea but if we consider that anything to do with rap, then Johnny Cash's Boy Named Sue was a decade earlier. And if we consider any kind of spoken rhyme to music, then blue singers have been doing it since the early 20th century. Playwrites and bards have been speaking in rhyme to music for centuries, preachers have been rapping & dropping knowledge for centuries, tribes & ancient gatherings of people have been chanting over drums for millenia.
There really is no specific begining to rap, it wasn't a new idea, it was just a concoction that was finally perfected on King Tim III and then Rappers Delight. Personally I see Gil Scott Heron, James Brown and The Last Poets (all of whom rapped on record in one form or another before those songs) as the ultimate begining of hip hop; Rap is too ambiguous to find origins on.
I could listen to this every day







