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History Of Rap

In the 50’s it was Rock’n’roll, in the 70’s it was folk music and disco. But in the 80’s it was rap.
Rap evolved from African people in general, and black people who were born in U.S.A.
Rap began in inner city school yards and street corners in the 1970’s. This music style was slowly growing in popularity amoung black teens in New York City, Washington D.C and Philadelphia. As early as 1974, neighbourhood block parties in New York featured early forms of rapping.
But it wasn’t until the commercial success of “Rappers Delight” by the Sugar Hill gang in 1979 that ma...

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