Imran:
blues, improv jazz (though the music is a bit too complicated for something that a person can do on the corner or the step), a form of jamaican poetry reading to a steady rhythm, etc. are all pre-cursors to rap... rap is just the present version of it... maybe rap's sucessor will be more famous but the same basic progression from bards to blues to rap has lasted for centuries.
blues, improv jazz (though the music is a bit too complicated for something that a person can do on the corner or the step), a form of jamaican poetry reading to a steady rhythm, etc. are all pre-cursors to rap... rap is just the present version of it... maybe rap's sucessor will be more famous but the same basic progression from bards to blues to rap has lasted for centuries.
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