First rapper

**Janszoon** · 12-08-2010, 07:54 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, 08:36 AM

First white rapper.

~~Dirty~~ · 12-08-2010, 08:39 AM

Denny Blazin Hazen was ONE of the first lyrical MCs to bless the mic.

Phantom Limb · 12-09-2010, 02:24 PM

Wow, I think I've found a new favorite rapper.

Bane of your existence · 12-10-2010, 04:29 PM

There's definitely rapping going on here.

**Janszoon** · 12-10-2010, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Bane of your existence

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, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Dirty

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, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

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, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Bane of your existence

Man, are you serious? This changes everything.

Pants?

Jester · 12-11-2010, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

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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