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Janszoon 12-08-2010 06:54 AM
I think the reality of the answer to this question is there is no first. Rapping, like most things in music, is something that evolved its way into being, not something that sprang into existence fully formed.

James 12-08-2010 07:36 AM
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xhyihk9EYF...%27+Rodney.jpg
First white rapper.

Dirty 12-08-2010 07:39 AM
Denny Blazin Hazen was ONE of the first lyrical MCs to bless the mic.

Phantom Limb 12-09-2010 01:24 PM
Wow, I think I've found a new favorite rapper.

Bane of your existence 12-10-2010 03:29 PM
There's definitely rapping going on here.

Janszoon 12-10-2010 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Bane of your existence (Post 968273)
There's definitely rapping going on here.
That song is by New Edition not The Jackson 5. And it's from 1983, four years after the first hit rap single was put out by The Sugarhill Gang.

Violent & Funky 12-10-2010 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Dirty (Post 966957)
Denny Blazin Hazen was ONE of the first lyrical MCs to bless the mic.
Great Kent State sweatshirt...

Bane of your existence 12-10-2010 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 968315)
That song is by New Edition not The Jackson 5. And it's from 1983, four years after the first hit rap single was put out by The Sugarhill Gang.
Man, are you serious? This changes everything.

Janszoon 12-10-2010 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Bane of your existence (Post 968345)
Man, are you serious? This changes everything.
Pants?

Jester 12-11-2010 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 966728)
I doubt it. I'm sure you could find examples of beat poets, jazz singers and blues singers doing similar things earlier if you looked into it a bit.
Yeah, I was talking about Subterranean Homesick Blues. It's Dylan raging at the establishment with rapidfire delivery and a relatively intricate rhyming scheme. That's hip hop as fuck.

If you can find me something pre-dating Subterranean Homesick Blues that's as hip hop in delivery and aesthetic as Dylan's track, then I'll change my idea of what the world's first rap song was.


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