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Originally Posted by Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra
Probably not. However, I think more importantly, Hip Hop couldn't exist without Jazz Beatnik poetry of the 50s, and 60s.
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I don't know the answer regarding R&B but I really don't think a small contingent of 1950s white intellectuals sipping coffee in San Francisco have much to do with the advent of hip-hop at all.
Of course there are obvious parallels in retrospect but no way can the Beats claim responsibility for underprivileged minorities in the South Bronx breakdancing in the streets 20 years later.