Circa 1977 in the Bronx, NY and specifically by DJ Kool Herc. Back then, hip-hop was essentially a block party movement, and absorbed aspects from disco and electro and was based around continuous loops of music with scratches from turntables.
Kurtis Blow was rap's first solo superstar and helped to usher in hip-hop's poriminence which eventually manifested in the mid-late 80s and continued it's ascendency.
Gil Scott Heron is known as the godfather of hip-hop as he mixed political spoken word with jazz and funk music, which proved highly influential on the more political and conscious aspect of hip-hop:
To the misinformed ***** below me who has nothing better to do with her waste of a life than badmouth what she doesn't understand, tell me this isn't music:
Music is expression, and hip-hop at it's best exemplifies this. Music emphasizes rhythm, and the best hip-hop artists acknowledge this lyrically and musically. Please take your negative self somewhere else, preferably at the top of your nearest highrise.
Rap music started in the mid to late 70s by DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaata, and Grandmaster Flash. Some of the biggest stars back then was Grandmaster Caz (who wrote for Big Hank of the Sugar Hill Gang), Lovebug Starski, Spoonie Gee, The Sequence (the first female rap group, NOT Salt N Pepa), Cold Crush Brothers, Kurtis Blow, Treacherous Three, and The Funky 4 + 1.
Late 70's. Early 80's. First popular rappers were Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash. Also, first answerer is an idiot and doesn't know what good rap music is. Or personal opinion.
Depends exactly how you define "rap". Lou Reed was doing semi-spoken lyrics with the Velvet Underground back in the 1960s. But the roots go back *centuries* to African tribal music.,
OK_the truth is RAP is the Culture of Africank which gained much popularity in MID-90's i.e : 1970's which was invented in NEWYORK after that due to musical channels like MTV // V and soon channel it gained much popularity
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If you trace it back far enough, r&b, blues and roots music, ie. Leadbelly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCS0w9RLDfA
Circa 1977 in the Bronx, NY and specifically by DJ Kool Herc. Back then, hip-hop was essentially a block party movement, and absorbed aspects from disco and electro and was based around continuous loops of music with scratches from turntables.
Kurtis Blow was rap's first solo superstar and helped to usher in hip-hop's poriminence which eventually manifested in the mid-late 80s and continued it's ascendency.
Gil Scott Heron is known as the godfather of hip-hop as he mixed political spoken word with jazz and funk music, which proved highly influential on the more political and conscious aspect of hip-hop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qoalKUt0mo
To the misinformed ***** below me who has nothing better to do with her waste of a life than badmouth what she doesn't understand, tell me this isn't music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERQzl4xDpXk
Blondie did not start rap music, that's ignorant.
Music is expression, and hip-hop at it's best exemplifies this. Music emphasizes rhythm, and the best hip-hop artists acknowledge this lyrically and musically. Please take your negative self somewhere else, preferably at the top of your nearest highrise.
Whoever thumbed me down, get your mind right.
Rap music started in the mid to late 70s by DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaata, and Grandmaster Flash. Some of the biggest stars back then was Grandmaster Caz (who wrote for Big Hank of the Sugar Hill Gang), Lovebug Starski, Spoonie Gee, The Sequence (the first female rap group, NOT Salt N Pepa), Cold Crush Brothers, Kurtis Blow, Treacherous Three, and The Funky 4 + 1.
Late 70's. Early 80's. First popular rappers were Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash. Also, first answerer is an idiot and doesn't know what good rap music is. Or personal opinion.
Depends exactly how you define "rap". Lou Reed was doing semi-spoken lyrics with the Velvet Underground back in the 1960s. But the roots go back *centuries* to African tribal music.,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapping
OK_the truth is RAP is the Culture of Africank which gained much popularity in MID-90's i.e : 1970's which was invented in NEWYORK after that due to musical channels like MTV // V and soon channel it gained much popularity
it really became prevelant in the days of NWA the 90s produced the best rappers in my opinion
With Blondie believe it or not.
Personally, I believe rap isn't music.
And that "the day the music died" the day rap began.
back in the day when i was young im not a kid anymore but sometimes i sit and wish i was a kid again