Rap's dirty little secret is that it was invented by white people. The first rap song was the train sequence from "The Music Man" circa 1962. The whole cadence and everything is there, the train wheels taking the place of the drum machine.
the invention of the Model T Ford made the trouble made the people want to get, want to get want to get up and go seven eight nine twenty three miles to the county seat yes, sir yes, sir now who's gonna patronize a two by four kinda store anymore? RR ; ) Gil Lamont wrote: > To what degree does the history of rap predate the mid to late 1970s? > There's also Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" from 1965, which I > never connected as rap until I saw it performed as a rap song
