^ That's because rapping is catchy, it's great for advertisement
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
While checking out a little Louis Jordan earlier today, I stumbled across this track "Beware, Brother, Beware" and it immediately made me think of this thread. This song is from the 1940s and both the vocal style and the subject matter are amazingly hip hop to me. Check it out:
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Sweet, nice find. This is the earliest hip hop I've heard.