Quote Originally Posted by quickdodgeŽ
Lolol. No. It originated in Western Africa during with poetry being spoken with a musical background. A socially conscience group known as The Last Poets came up pretty well known in the 70s doing mostly nothing but spoken word over music; usually jazz or blues. Gil Scott Heron is known as the "godfather of rap" and was right alongside The Last Poets. The DJ came around and MCs were there to just introduce the DJ. MCs tried different ways to get the crowd ready with different tactics including longer intros leading into making the intros rhyme. If you've heard a lot of early tracks, they were almost always about DJs. That's why.



Thus showing what you know about this subject. Later, QD.
I was talkin about back in the 70's etc. Before gangsta rap and all that tough guy rap got popular. People used to actually dance to rap/hip hop music. When making a song that people could dance to wasnt a crime.